February 12, 2007
NYC's 100 ________ Movies
Just in time for Valentine's Day, The Daily News has created, what they call, a list of NYC's 100 Most Romantic Movies. Movies that capture what it is like to "live and love here". One problem: the list needs to be edited.
It appears they have just listed every movie they could think of that took place in New York and somehow involved love (or lust). For example: Coyote Ugly should not be on a list of New York City's most romantic movies just because it contains a scene in which two people make out...on a roof...in New York. And Miracle on 34th Street? Yeah, that's a Christmas movie before anything else. The Cruise? The only romance there is between speed and the city.
Along their lines of thinking, we'd like to submit the following films for next years list: Just My Luck, Gangs of New York, Birth (Nicole Kidman + 10 year old boy that she thinks is her husband), New York Minute, Jason Takes Manhattan.
Movies that could have taken the place of, say, Two Weeks Notice, in the current list: The Way We Were, Sidewalks of New York, Unfaithful, The Royal Tenenbaums, 13 Going on 30, Last Days of Disco, Igby Goes Down, 200 Cigarettes, Vanilla Sky...
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taxi driver!! thats a love story if i've ever seen one
What, no "Joe vs. the Volcano" with its colorized lower Manhattan skyline from the Staten Island Ferry? Or how about "China Girl," the Chinatown vs. Little Italy version of Romeo & Juliet?
The Royal Tenenbaums was set in a sort of generic city, but filmed in NYC.
the warriors, anybody? anybody?
little manhattan should be on the list.
Muppets take Manhattan belongs in the top 10.
"Hi-Life" with a superb ensemble cast.