X-Message-Number: 18226 From: Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2001 11:22:55 EST Subject: Re: Vanilla Sky was a terrible movie. --part1_123.92a9b33.295a01df_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit A few days ago, my wife and I unfortunately decided to see Vanilla Sky. Excluding the first 10 minutes with Cameron Diaz and the last 10 minutes with the cryonics episode, the remaining 1 hour and 20 minutes was a huge waste of time. During the screening, several people actually walked out. I wanted to, as it was the most boring, tedious film I've seen in a long time. However, being a member of this group, I wanted to see how everything tied in with life-extension-cryonics-etc. In discussing the movie a few days later with several couples who saw the film, it was virtually unanimous that it was the 'worst movie they had seen in a long time'. What was doubly unfortunate is that because of the tedium of the film, when the tie-in at the end with cryonics was explained, they were all too exhausted to much care or be interested in the subject. (We're talking about graduate school-educated, 40+ year professionals here, by the way). If the film was 20 minutes long, I am sure that the viewing population would have been 500% more enthused about the prospects of cryonics (as well as in Diaz). The best analogy I can think of to explain the lack of focus, and psychological exhaustion in viewing this film is running a 10K marathon, and then, exhausted, your wife or girlfriend wants to make love. All YOU want is that 32 oz bottle of water to rehydrate! Ed Reifman --part1_123.92a9b33.295a01df_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=18226