CountZero313
New York, I Love You features an array of directing and acting talent who seem set on proving the adage that too many cooks spoil the broth. Apparently the filmmakers had two days to shoot and a week to edit. Also, they had to limit their screen time to eight minutes. By the quality of the writing I am guessing they only had half that time to write the scripts. Some stories go after slice of life, some surprise endings, some a fleeting moment of human connection in the unforgiving city. In such a collage you expect hit-and-miss at best, but what we get here is miss and miss-by-a-mile. Ethan Hawke and Bradley Cooper are given embarrassingly trite lines, and it is a crying shame to see Julie Christie embroiled in this mess. Eli Wallach takes a walk with his wife and they bicker. This segment, like many others, begs only one question: so what? Anyway, why do we need a movie that is a homage to NYC? There are hundreds of movies that already function as love letters to NYC. And in real life, this kind of love letter leads only to acrimonious separation. "After all these years, you still don't understand me," sighed New York... *slams door*Actually, for all the smoking that goes on, I suspect this is really a love letter to Big Tobacco.Two stars for two stories - the pickpocket face-off with Andy Garcia at the beginning, and the Robin Wright Penn/ Chris Cooper segment. Partly because they kind of worked, but mostly because they were so much less annoying and meaningless than the other stories.
juneebuggy
I liked this about as much as Paris, Je T'aime, which is to say not so much. The attraction of course is the all-star cast involved, its a regular omnibus of talent in a series of ten artsy, disjointed short stories about love and relationships in New York.It's a mixed bag; some good, some boring, some make you think and some are just plain bizarre but none of them are really long enough to matter. This collection didn't leave its mark on me and if there was a bigger message meant to be conveyed, I didn't get it. Mostly it was a waste of time. I guess a couple stories did stand out; Natalie Portman as a Hasidic Jew fantasizing about her East Indian diamond broker, Anton Yelchin's prom date story was good, weird, silly. Um yeah, a big waste of talent. 7/15/14
ilania_a
I expected more. With such good actors, good directors, marvellous photography and a fascinating location
it could have been a real masterpiece. The first time I clicked into this film, it was the middle of it, and I saw the part about the opera singer who checks into a beautiful hotel...and now after I have seen the movie in its entirety, I still do not understand the handicapped young bellboy in this story somehow this story is not concluded here, and remains an enigma. There is another story that is quite vague with Orlando Bloom.The other short stories of people living in New York City: a story about pickpockets; a tale of a beautiful young Hasidic bride; a writer describes his sexual fantasies quite vividly; an artist is taken by a beautiful Asian young lady; a composer has to read a great novel but can't do it himself; two women connect through camera images; a dancer tenderly attends to a little girl in Central Park, then gives one of the most beautiful dances seen on screen; two people enjoy a cigarette outside a restaurant desiring to add change and flavour to their lives; an old couple takes a walk through New York traffic all the way to the beach on their anniversary; a teenager goes to prom with a beautiful girl in a wheelchair; a retired opera singer wishes to have violets and gets them. This movie proves that there can be too much of a good thing. There were other films entwining the lives of different people in the same city or around theworld, this one takes the cake in trying to stuff it all into one stocking. A chopping is required. That is why I did not give it the 9 points it should have been given if only for some good directing and impressive performances throughout the film.
M MALIK
i mean it i picked this up at the DVD store it was in Bradley coopers 5 in one DVD collection.its got a huge cast & many directors & teams worked on it.and scarlet directed a scene which they cut it .many stories with different themes they each tell & explain it to the viewer but the minus point begins rising when the screen play changes its game as the stories are hanging in between each director with a story try too hard to mention & give something but fails.and as soon as i begin watching this i saw Maggie q she player a hooker not just saying because i am a fan of her but she really did good action flicks so thought she would do similar.also irfan khan a greatest actor who has to go through this crap,he deserved better other then these two all actors including Natalie port-man cant act and give excitement to audience.overall this film tried to fall in creative art genre with love,sadness & emotions same old style with many directors touch why?only to gain a cult status & some critics might dig it.well i am disappointed in it.for once tell me what did they tell about new york that world don't know something thats not written on internet about it.damn these people.i am not against character meeting then going away but in this case the characters were more like some c grade cartoonMy Rating is 2/10 a good idea not gone bad it was never good it was awful from the start.please don't try hard to show intelligence because all in this end will be left a product built by info.my point is take inspiration its not bad but use your brain don't copy paste even the exact idea i mean if you are giving me a coconut cookie yes give me but put some new stuff into it not just effort.i hope you folks get what i am trying to say
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