a better version than the original

Rating: 10/10 (28 February 2005)

to start i have to say that vanilla sky is one of my favourite movies. I saw this before the original movie and after i saw "open your eyes" i liked vanilla sky even more the reason is that for vanilla sky they took the good idea and made it better, to my mind perfect. "open your eyes" seemed incomplete to me, in "vanilla sky" the story is because of everything being good more touching, more intensive. first the acting is much better. OK, penelope was in "open your eyes", too, but i think of tom cruise, cameron diaz and especially Jason lee and kurt russel. in addition to the acting the whole scenery is appreciable: the opening scene or the poster of the vanilla-colored sky... you can feel that this movie got a bigger budget. at least the soundtrack is beautiful, one of the best in my opinion. "vanilla sky" owes "open your eyes" many parts of a good story: the rising action to the climax changes the movie from a love story to an exciting thriller, which ending touches every time, especially because of the fantastic music of sigur ros and the beautiful vanilla sky, which is to my mind well chosen. the painting by monet is my favourite after first seeing the movie. I've seen vanilla sky now for about 15 or 20 times and its still so f***ing goof and the OST is still in my car radio. 10 out of 10, a perfect movie