Vanilla Sky

Vanilla Sky is one of Marie's all time favorite flicks, so we watched it last night. It's been years since I've seen it.

It was really good. Still is. It's got a Ferrari 250GTO and a 67 Mustang in it. What's not to love? Plus, Crowe uses Vanilla Sky to make quite a few allusions to Jules et Jim and Breathless. It's all good, nerdy shit. Incredibly detail oriented. You can get lost down a rabbit hole if you really want to analyze it. Marie said the Director's Commentary is very illuminating. I choose to take the film at face value, though. When Tech Support does his exposition at the end...I'm just going with that. I don't care to read anything else into it.

Good soundtrack. Great editing. Great cinematography. Even though Tom Cruise is an Scientologist idiot, he's a great actor. Truth. Jason Lee is always funny. Penelope Cruze is...well, she's Penelope Cruze so that's a reason in and of itself to see the movie again.

There's a cameo by Steven Spielberg. I just found that amusing for some reason.

Vanilla Sky holds up and it's worth another viewing if you haven't seen it in a few years. Great movie to finish the year off with.

Now for a little car porn...