Brian63
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Recently I saw Vanilla Sky with Tom Cruise. Cameron Crowe directed, who also had directed Jerry Maguire, Almost Famous, Titanic, and Avatar. Some of those I had seen and were great, others I had not seen but were very popular. But I went into Vanilla Sky with high expectations. It seemed somewhat about a man trying to find his purpose in life, especially after some physical tragedy, and partly involving a murder mystery angle as well. It also had some nice romance. Only in the ~10 minutes do they reveal what has been really going on the entire time, and it is something you never in the world would have thought of guessing. It was not an entertaining conclusion in the slightest either, just a big "Are you fucking kidding me?" letdown. Avoid that movie.
Fight Club on the other hand was a great one. I thought it would be a mediocre flick about an underground fight club, but it turned out to be soooooo much more than that. It makes you rethink about how the things we own end up owning us instead, how people can find out how to unleash their true selves, what an unstable society looks like, etc. When it is revealed the narrator had actually invented the personality of Tyler Durden, that was simply stunning. It was one of those movies that everybody in the world should see, even if they end up disliking it (same as the unfunny comedy "Idiocracy" which instead was a horror flick that is becoming reality).
Recently I saw Vanilla Sky with Tom Cruise. Cameron Crowe directed, who also had directed Jerry Maguire, Almost Famous, Titanic, and Avatar. Some of those I had seen and were great, others I had not seen but were very popular. But I went into Vanilla Sky with high expectations. It seemed somewhat about a man trying to find his purpose in life, especially after some physical tragedy, and partly involving a murder mystery angle as well. It also had some nice romance. Only in the ~10 minutes do they reveal what has been really going on the entire time, and it is something you never in the world would have thought of guessing. It was not an entertaining conclusion in the slightest either, just a big "Are you fucking kidding me?" letdown. Avoid that movie.
Fight Club on the other hand was a great one. I thought it would be a mediocre flick about an underground fight club, but it turned out to be soooooo much more than that. It makes you rethink about how the things we own end up owning us instead, how people can find out how to unleash their true selves, what an unstable society looks like, etc. When it is revealed the narrator had actually invented the personality of Tyler Durden, that was simply stunning. It was one of those movies that everybody in the world should see, even if they end up disliking it (same as the unfunny comedy "Idiocracy" which instead was a horror flick that is becoming reality).