Aug 25 2008'New York, I Love You' Trailer Tries to Sell Idea of Affection Towards Popular City
Here's the trailer to New York, I Love You (the thematic sequel to Paris, je t'aime), the upcoming film in which 13 directors pretend there aren't already a lot of movies proclaiming love for New York and make some of their own. Who are these directors? All your favorites. Rush Hour director Brett Ratner? Got him. Natalie Portman the Director? She's there. Natalie Portman's Other Boleyn Girl co-star, Scarlett Johansson the Director? Yup. Plus, it stars everyone, and is going to make Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon ridiculously easy from now on.
Reader Comments
1. Jerod Cykoski - August 25, 2008 3:57 PM
LAST.
2. RedBird - August 25, 2008 4:27 PM
Yay for Mika!
Other than that, everything about this indicates this will be a sad, sad copy of Paris, Je T'aime. The nice thing about that Paris was that the stories were cute and well-done and not one of them had people randomly professing their love for the city of Paris (except maybe the last one by Alexander Payne).
I have yet to go to NYC and hear someone who lives there just say, without prompting or question, and with insane pleasure, "God, I love this city." But, in movies, people do this all the time. It's stupid.
3. Nick - August 25, 2008 4:37 PM
Other than the ridiculous amounts of celebrities in it, the trailer didn't look remotely interesting. I see this sucking, actually. Especially since none of the directors are good, or at least none stand out to me as such.
4. zach - August 25, 2008 5:04 PM
new york is whory. as in it takes alot of money to even start thinking of loving it.
5. Elmo - August 25, 2008 6:45 PM
looks like a great pms and chocolate- covered food movie, like Love Actually
6. rohit - August 25, 2008 10:20 PM
haha i like how two articles later it's ok for us to make a retarded copy of a foreign film.
7. rick - August 25, 2008 10:27 PM
i live in new york, and am pretty sure i say " god, i fucking hate this city" at least 4 times a day.
so i see this movie blowing. big time.
but, shunji iwai is pretty cool.
8. Andre - August 26, 2008 10:35 AM
Here here Rick. Born and bred in NYC. I wonder if anyone that worked on this film has ever been above 125th Street? Unless you've got a ton of dough, this city is an ridiculously expensive shithole.
Don't get me wrong, there are things I love about it (open all night, great food, don't have to drive, ethnic diversity), but for the most part I can't wait to get the hell out of here. Over the years it's become any-mall USA, filled with doughy white people from where ever the hell, spending their money at Starbucks and The Olive Garden. Even the artsy neighborhoods are a joke with stock brokers creeping around the LES like roaches in khaki. GAG
Oh yeah and the movie looks like a hot, hairy turd
9. Ben - August 26, 2008 11:39 AM
1234! Well if nothing else goes right for this movie, they picked a great song for the trailer at least :D
10. leujin - August 26, 2008 1:08 PM
For me this raises only one question: Why does Hayden Christiansen keep being cast in anything?