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Reviews
Oleanna (1994)
The Jazz Singer was the first "talkie." Oleanna is the MOST "talky."
What garbage! Two characters, neither of whom is very likable, arguing with utter pretention for 90 minutes. What's most interesting, relatively speaking, is how the woman keeps haranguing the professor about the hyper-intellectual words he uses, but she gets more pretentious with her vocabulary every scene.
This may have been a good play -- I doubt it, but maybe -- but it definitely does not translate to the big screen.
Vanilla Sky (2001)
A mess of a movie! (mild spoiler)
I'm a big Cameron Crowe fan, but this is truly awful. The story takes several turns, but as it nears the end, it seems as if it took so many turns because Crowe couldn't figure out how to end it. It turns into a bad Sci-Fi movie without much warning.
It's as if he put together a great cast (Cameron Diaz is the best Cameron in this movie), but didn't know what to do with them, and didn't want to make the movies we've come to expect from him, like Jerry Maguire, Fast Times (screenplay), and the brilliant Almost Famous.
Change for change sakes doesn't work here, in just a hideous mistake of a movie.