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Vanilla Sky [RATING WITHELD]
USA: Cameron Crowe, 2001 Glossier and more superficially accessible than the original Abre Los Ojos, Vanilla Sky has to rank as one of the most pointless remakes I have ever seen. Transposing the script virtually word for word (how the Writers' Guild awarded Cameron Crowe credit for the screenplay beats me) and even going so far as to feature Penélope Cruz in exactly the same role (and, my god, how much better of an actor is she in Spanish?), everyone seems to have gone to great lengths to make exactly the same film as before, only with prettier faces and more licensed music. If this was an original film it could probably be considered a pretty good one - and don't get me wrong, it was shot and acted extremely well - but why watch this one when the original, only four years older than it, is already out there? Because of the fact that this film is a virtual carbon copy of Abre Los Ojos, I don't feel that it would be fair to assign it a rating. I mean, come on, if you're going to remake a movie, at least do it for a reason other than to avoid actually coming up with your own script, and to make obvious elements that the makers of the original film assumed the audience would be smart enough to work out for themselves. IMDB reference
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Movies
Welcome to the movie checklist!
This section is an archive listing every movie I've seen from January 1 2005 onwards. Films I have already seen are included and will be marked with a (*), but probably won't be reviewed except under special circumstances. I will be including a rating for each film (in stars, out of 5), and hope to be able to include a brief 1-2 paragraph review of each film, although due to time constraints that won't always be possible.
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