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Abre los Ojos is better.


Abre los Ojos is an excellent masterpiece.

Vanilla Sky is just a piece of crap.

Period.

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You are right! I saw OLO first and did some of the post ad work on VS and it is *beep*

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Abre los Ojos is better. Mon Oct 24 2011 04:30
Vanilla Sky is better! Fri Oct 14 2011 16:31

Oh the irony.

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All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for enough good men to do nothing.

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I don't think this counts as irony

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Agreed

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I totally agree.

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cejotaerrepe^

Second, third, and fourth that!


I wrote more than one post over on the 'Vanilla Sky' message board quite awhile back about why I feel this way, so won't repeat all that here.

'Open Your Eyes' / 'Abre los Ojos' IS a masterpiece, and in 'V.S.' all the trying to act like a younger version of himself by Tom C. because he simply was TOO old to play the part of the young, immature rich boy who found his first love (analogous to an aging person trying to fit himself into an old pair of pants 3 sizes too small) and the distracting overuse of song after song after song in the soundtrack(almost as if Cameron C. was himself parodying his own masterpiece: 'Almost Famous') just lessens any chance of quality comparison between the two.

Sorry, but it really is like comparing a work of fine art to a paint-by-numbers craft project.

I didn't think an American remake could pull it off anyway, but I expected SO much more from Cameron C.

Wonder what went wrong?



"I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than..a rude remark or a vulgar action" Blanche DuBois

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I was pretty excited when Vanilla Sky came out, after having seen this, and sorely disappointed.
"I'm Sofia!!" after no prompting, just wink, audience, I'm a different person but I'm instantly insisting I'm the other girl.
And Teeeeeccchhhhhhh Suppppooorrrrrrrtttttttt!

(cringe)

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Vanilla Sky is not a bad movie, but is way inferior than Abre Los Ojos!

Prostitute: What the *beep* are you doing?
Johnny: I'm gonna kill a bunch of people.

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I liked this one more although probably enjoyed parts of Vanilla Sky.

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True!

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