Posted by cmpltkaos at oti-ca11-08.rasserver.net on May 26, 2002 at 00:51:36:
In Reply to: My problem with Vanilla Sky... posted by Jasper Beck on May 25, 2002 at 22:18:20:
: I also feel that Jason Lee should've played the Tom Cruise role.
Cruise was perfectly cast in that role. Tom Cruise is good looking enough for the complete disfigurement of his face to have the impact it did on his character. His character was a vain playboy who had his whole world taken away from him when his looks were shattered. He went off the deep end, and it took real growth of character for him to pull it together to do what he had to do to save his company. It was that effort that made it believable that he'd choose to go back to the real world at the end of the movie. I don't think Jason Lee could have pulled that off.