I'm bloggin' now.
i'm a blogger now. woo-hoo.
i decided five or six days ago to start blogging and wrote my first post but it took me few days to get around to finding a place to post it. read on:
Title: Yeah, I have a forum review the movies I watch now.
Vanilla Sky (2001), written for the screen and directed by Cameron Crowe, based on Abre los Ojos, directed by Alejandro Amenábar, written by Amenábar and Mateo Gil. I saw Abre los Ojos about a year before I finally saw Vanilla Sky, and I think I would have liked it more if I hadn’t. Many films with a twist ending play better upon the second viewing; however, I don’t think this is one. There are way too many pop culture references, well-know songs, and allusions to other films in Vanilla Sky. Since a lot of this film is a dream, it would stand to reason that there would be these references (I had a dream I was flatmates with John Cheever a few weeks ago.) but as good as Radiohead, U2, and R.E.M. are, in this film they are distractions. Perhaps it’s that many of the references are fully explained, like the cover of reenactment of The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan's cover photo. Would I have gotten that the two of them walking down the street was a reference to that album cover if they had not later returned to the shot and morphed into the cover? No. What did I learn from this shot? Cameron Crowe likes The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, which just distracts me from the couple he’s trying to tell me about. As if the distracting music in the film weren’t enough, on Crowe’s commentary track he is accompanied by his wife Nancy Wilson (of Heart) on guitar. There is also a phone call to Tom Cruise.
i decided five or six days ago to start blogging and wrote my first post but it took me few days to get around to finding a place to post it. read on:
Title: Yeah, I have a forum review the movies I watch now.
Vanilla Sky (2001), written for the screen and directed by Cameron Crowe, based on Abre los Ojos, directed by Alejandro Amenábar, written by Amenábar and Mateo Gil. I saw Abre los Ojos about a year before I finally saw Vanilla Sky, and I think I would have liked it more if I hadn’t. Many films with a twist ending play better upon the second viewing; however, I don’t think this is one. There are way too many pop culture references, well-know songs, and allusions to other films in Vanilla Sky. Since a lot of this film is a dream, it would stand to reason that there would be these references (I had a dream I was flatmates with John Cheever a few weeks ago.) but as good as Radiohead, U2, and R.E.M. are, in this film they are distractions. Perhaps it’s that many of the references are fully explained, like the cover of reenactment of The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan's cover photo. Would I have gotten that the two of them walking down the street was a reference to that album cover if they had not later returned to the shot and morphed into the cover? No. What did I learn from this shot? Cameron Crowe likes The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, which just distracts me from the couple he’s trying to tell me about. As if the distracting music in the film weren’t enough, on Crowe’s commentary track he is accompanied by his wife Nancy Wilson (of Heart) on guitar. There is also a phone call to Tom Cruise.
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