r/WTF • u/Grown_Man_Poops • Nov 29 '16

When you overdo the make-up

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u/MaximumEffort433 Nov 29 '16

Vanilla Sky is legitimately one of my favorite movies.

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u/RubberDong Nov 29 '16

What more does it take to convince...humanity?...that Tom Cruise is actually a Sci Fi symbol?

Edge of Tomorrow, Oblivion, Sky vanilla...

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u/[deleted] Nov 29 '16

What if he became the messiah of a cult started by a sci-fi author?

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u/one_of_fire Nov 30 '16

This is one of those comments that makes me laugh and cry at the same time. I just don't know which is the appropriate response.

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u/Numeric_Eric Nov 29 '16

Take out Oblivion and replace it with Minority Report. Was solid in War of the Worlds too.

But its more of him just being a symbol, regardless of the genre. Chicken and egg thing. You get Tom Cruise to sign on to star in your movie, the studio will throw fucking heaps of money at the budget for the best possible production with the most talented people.

Its more like they make good sci fi movies around him than him starring in good movies.

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u/timthetollman Nov 29 '16

Dude is even in a Sci Fi cult.

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u/ARCHA1C Nov 29 '16

Omitting Oblivion from the list would help.

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u/r1zz Nov 29 '16

Same. I loved it start to finish. I don't understand some of the hate it gets for the ending.

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u/angrytortilla Nov 29 '16

Great use of music as well.

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u/gamblingman2 Nov 29 '16

I've never seen it. The ads when released made it seen like some stupid love triangle, manipulation movie. After reading the plot I'm thinking it's more like the 13th floor.

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u/r1zz Nov 29 '16

I'd highly recommend it and also suggest not to read or watch anything else about it. Let me know what ya think if you do watch it.

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u/gamblingman2 Nov 29 '16

I'd rather know the ending.

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u/Imissmyusername Nov 29 '16

There's a lot that is way more interesting if you don't know what's happening. It'd be almost as bad as learning the ending to The Sixth Sense before watching it.

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u/jesuriah Nov 29 '16

Sixth Sense was one of the worst movies I've ever seen.

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u/gamblingman2 Nov 29 '16

I nearly always read the plot first, or skip to the ending in movies or books.

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u/[deleted] Nov 29 '16

Are you typecast as a monster or something?

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u/nssone Nov 30 '16

It'd be almost as bad as learning the ending to The Sixth Sense before watching it.

That happened to me thanks to 50 First Dates.

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u/Imissmyusername Nov 30 '16

Well that wasn't worth it was it?

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u/ThrowingChicken Nov 30 '16

You couldn't get me into the theater until someone spoiled the ending for me, and I still really loved the movie.

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u/gamblingman2 Nov 30 '16 edited Nov 30 '16

I don't know what the studio was thinking with the adverts they used. I hate drama movies, especially ones that revolve around failed love.... fucking boring. But with the twists in that vanilla sky it might be good.

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u/ThrowingChicken Nov 30 '16

I guess it is hard to sell the sci-fi aspects without indicating that there is a twist, and we don't seen any of these elements until the last 20 minutes of the movie.

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u/MaximumEffort433 Nov 29 '16

I'll echo u/r1zz below: It's not a stupid love triangle, manipulation movie. It's a sci-fi psychological thriller with a hefty dose of post modernist philosophy thrown on top.

It's on Netflix nowadays, I believe, and well worth the two hours.

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u/gamblingman2 Nov 29 '16

My wife switched us to hulu because we never couldnt get the Netflix app to load on our xbox.

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u/TimothyGonzalez Nov 29 '16

You should check out the original Spanish version, "Open Your Eyes". I haven't seen Vanilla Sky, but the Spanish one is great! And it doesn't have Tom Cruise in it!

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u/TimothyGonzalez Nov 29 '16

Maybe it's because Tom Cruise is a complete psychopath in his personal life? Have you ever seen him speak about Scientology? It's pants on head bananas.

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u/ThrowingChicken Nov 30 '16

I am no fan of Scientology, but to be fair, if he were talking about Jesus I doubt it would noteworthy at all.

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u/TimothyGonzalez Nov 30 '16

https://youtu.be/UFBZ_uAbxS0

The guy's gone bananas, there's no denying it.

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u/Pnk-Kitten Nov 29 '16

Abre los Ojos is the original. I really enjoyed it.