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Vanilla Sky - 3/10/2005 9:46:29 PM

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- 6/2/2006 11:32:08 AM

jemima

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top film everyone should watch it (except dumb blondes!) the ending is ace and hunky tom cruise is in it! mmmmmmmmm

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- 14/3/2006 4:04:21 PM

Naweed_1

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Slightly better than the original, with good cast and great soundtrack, Kurt Russell and Tilda Swinton shine in their small roles.

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Vanilla that leaves a bad taste in the mouth - 12/4/2006 1:37:03 AM

BarryNorman

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There are far too many films that think they're cleverer than they actually are. Vanilla Sky is one of them. Not one to chip in or splash out for.

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- 18/10/2006 12:07:59 PM

djimi42

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One of the most pretentious and fantastically terrible films ever created. Despite a young gifted cast and intelligent director with an interesting premise, this has to be one of the biggest disapointments in movie history. Empire again your rating surprises me - another Alexander/A.I/Jeepers Creepers mistake in my opinion.

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Great! - 14/6/2007 11:46:48 PM

cerebusboy

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Brilliant bold and memorable, . A great movie.

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Great! - 14/6/2007 11:46:48 PM

cerebusboy

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Brilliant bold and memorable, . A great movie.

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- 16/6/2007 9:57:30 PM

Ben Gardner

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A teenager's bedroom - at best

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- 16/6/2007 9:57:30 PM

Ben Gardner

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A teenager's bedroom - at best

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The ending ruined it - 27/8/2007 12:19:38 PM

Q.T

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From: London, England

Whilst the first couple of hours or so were very interesting, suspenseful etc, the last twenty minutes and the 'reveal' completely spoiled the film, turning into pretentious, 'The Fountain' terriroty. If they sorted out the ending then this would be a brilliant film.

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Theres a car crash in it, and that is a fitting descrip... - 6/2/2008 10:34:01 AM

MyPOV

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For all the talent involved, this is pretty woeful. It looks really dated now, and the sci fi description is just silly. In fact the whole thing is silly, especially the GCSE English plot twist at the end. It was all just a dream, what a cop out and big dog's cock of a cliche.

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Classic - 17/2/2009 11:54:14 AM

Caster

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An under-rated modern classic

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RE: Classic - 17/8/2011 8:12:14 PM

cerebusboy

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Truly, the use of "pretentious" to damn anything that differs from boilerplate a-z is one of the curses of our age. And the teenager's bedroom point above is far closer to a pseudo-clever crappy construct than anything in the film (teenagers tend to be prone to solipsism, no? the film is about, in part, conscience and consequences)

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RE: Classic - 17/8/2011 8:24:01 PM

nutteronabus

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Didn't we all agree that it was a poor rip off of the vastly superior Abre los Ojos around 2003?

I thought so.

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RE: Classic - 17/8/2011 8:38:01 PM

cerebusboy

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quote:

ORIGINAL: nutteronabus

Didn't we all agree that it was a poor rip off of the vastly superior Abre los Ojos around 2003?

I thought so.

lol! Is that an ex cathedra or Royal 'we'? count me out. Rip-off is a strange word to use for an official remake (man, maybe Amenabar should try contacting Watchdog? You'd think Penelope Cruz would have given him a heads-up)

And, no offense, but me checking out the Empire review and thread for a film I'm currently watching is a lot less weird than you pouncing minutes after my comment, especially when you hadn't even commented on this thread before....

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