i think a lot of people just write this off a another one of tom cruise weird movie ( magnolia and eye wide shut ) but vanilla sky be definitely it own movie . many people say it be weird while it wasn not . it be different and confuse but not weird . weird be stanley kubrick or pauly shore . different be the truman show . confusing be the matrix or the game . and unlike kubrick and this movie have a conclusion . everything make sense maybe not immediately and maybe not even today and but it will make sense . vanilla sky be confuse because david aames ( tom cruise ) be confuse . thats the point . that where the so called weirdness that turn critic away come in . if they have bother to open [ their ] eye a the original 1997 spanish movie and they would have see that . and if that not enough reason to see it and go see it for the music . cameron crowe offer a wonderful soundtrack while he use it to set the feel that notorious element that many movie lack . with song like the beach boys good vibration play at the dramatic and emotional climax of the movie and he create an offbeat and yet astoundingly right feel . a wonderful film and in it script and music and acting and and image and vanilla sky be sadly and a superficial bandwagon movie that critic chide in order to appear intelligent . excellent represent a plus .