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Well now, work and play as it is, i've been too harried to put up a post, but here comes another!

Vanilla sky is a Tom Cruise movie of a genre near and dear to my heart: Weird thinky movie. I rate this movie Good/ Great.

In this movie, like with others of its kind, not is all as it seems. Tom Cruise is a millionare/ billionare playboy, running the magazine "Bikini" between hitting on women, sleeping til late in the day and doing whatever pops into his head to do that day.

Penelope Cruz, Jason Lee, and Cameron Diaz are main characters in this film, who are, as follows: Sofia, the love interest of Tom Cruise and Jason Lee; Brian Shelby, the best friend of Tom Cruise, and a long suffering friend he is, as David Aames (Tom Cruise) consistantly steals away any woman he is interested in; Julie Gianni, an extremely troubled girl who, to David, is a (in far cruder words) "bed friend", and in her mind, is a devout lover, and someone who should marry him.

Other famous actors play large and small parts in the film, populating the screen with well known faces, and lending their expertise and skill to the rendering of a spectacular film.

All is going well in David Aames' world, till Julie Gianni decides that if she cannot have him, nobody can, and coerces him into her car which she then proceeds to drive off a bridge into a stone retaining wall.

Julie is killed, and David is maimed, scarred, and disfigured, which causes him a great deal of pain due to his vanity. He is offered a "facial prosthetic" by his plastic surgeons, which is a plastic/elastic/rubber copy of his face before the "accident". David, furious, demands that they fix his face by inventing surgeries, but will keep the prosthetic for halloween.

The story is told to us by a Tom Cruise who is masked and in a prison jumpsuit, talking to a court appointed psychaitrist. David Aames is accused of murdering Sofia Serrano, but he denies it strenuously, claiming that she is still alive, and that the board of directors at his magazine have set him up. The story is the story of his memories, told almost episodically, as the psychaiatrist probes for information, trying to get all the facts, and to see what, if anything, David has blocked from his memory.

The story only gets weirder, more exciting, and just darn fun from here on, but as this is a "wierd thinky movie" any more explanation would be plain ol spoilers, so go watch it!

I leave you with a thought: Who was the true enemy, the MAIN enemy in Final Fantasy VII? Sephiroth, or Jenova?

For those of you unfamiliar with FFVII, a quote: "I killed a man with a TRIDENT!"

Tommy