#Vanilla sky movie

Simply put, they don’t make them like this anymore. I also knew that it was a science-fiction film, even if, as I watched it, I struggled to understand how it fell into that genre before I arrived at the final act. I knew it was a film that maintained something of an odd reputation over the years, and that Crowe infamously freaked it with the track list. But I never really knew what Vanilla Sky was about (what a treat for me, then, to finally witness at the ripe old age of 27).

#Vanilla sky movie

The movie has certainly held a weird, nagging little niche in my mind since around middle or high school that image of a wistful Tom Cruise staring off into the distance flanked on all sides by a picturesque, Mac screensaver background, his eyes following me as I downloaded songs from the soundtrack off of Limewire.

I feel like it’s possible that everyone is born implanted with a loose cognizance of Vanilla Sky, because it feels like I have been aware of the film for most of my life. Everything changed for me after watching Vanilla Sky, a movie that, ironically, was adapted from a Spanish film that played at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival. I had mostly been doing rewatches of films that I loved, or first watches that were either flat-out bad or not quite exhilarating. My viewing of the film came during a dire time in my life, early in February when I was still feeling jaded by the year’s recent Sundance output. Last year marked the 20th anniversary of Cameron Crowe’s seminal film, Vanilla Sky, a film I watched and then rewatched for the first time this month.