Gothamist: Video of the Day: New York, I Love You

Think twice

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:25:50 -0500

God I hope Mira Nair put some real Desis in there.

Pull My Finger

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:29:00 -0500

this is such crap

NannyState

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 20:06:45 -0500

It's terrifying to think of the audiences watching this flick in a multiplex outside of Omaha.

js4041

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:30:56 -0500

i feel like this should be called "manhattan, i love you." they probably figured that there are simply too many areas of the 'outer boroughs' to cover, that they wouldn't even bother trying. besides, anyone unfamiliar with nyc won't know better anyway. which is truly unfortunate, because i imagine the people who really do know and love this city are not going to be amused by the cute disney-fication of their city (see: fake garbage on e 4th st), and instead of leaving the theatres with a united, reinforced love of new york, they are more likely going to be reminded of the ways in which nyc is 'bringing them down' (going with the LCD thing). I guess the studios decided that the disgust of the city that the movie is about will be GREATLY outweighed by how much the rest of the country is going to eat this sh*t up. oh well, parisians probably hate paris, je t'aime, even with its attempts to show the 'underbelly' of their city.

jibbly

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:36:15 -0500

Agreed with 6 and 7. Paris Je t'aime had some very unique minority POVs, but this NYC version has one asian woman in it, and - surprise, surprise - she's seduced by a white guy. NYC has enough "love letter" films. Even our crack/hooker/HIV/race-riots eras are glorified. Can't someone make Chicago or Boston look trendy in a film so that wannabe hipsters and fashionistas crowd up their sidewalks?

Ph

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:27:41 -0500

Anthology/vignette type things can be great, I point to Night on Earth as an example. I hate to say it, and I didn't want to be the first to say it, but Yakatori is correct and I'll go one step farther than history: It should be titled "I love transplanted white New York". Slap me with the schlocky spoon.

historyisaweapon

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:23:11 -0500

Yakatori beat me to the punch, but it is so true that it bears repeating. It's like the producers decided against their original title: "I love white new york." White people and asian women (sexually available for white men). I saw a single black kid dancing in the wheelchair scene, but I don't know anyone who'll bother to see the rest of this barf.

yakatori

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:13:16 -0500

Wow, not a black person in sight.

Jen Chung

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:44:15 -0500

I don't know if movie audiences are that into anthologies of short films. Movies with big ensemble casts, sometimes.

nice job

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:25:53 -0500

ugh, everything about this is cloying

Ph

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:21:56 -0500

I'm trying to figure out why this doesn't interest me at all.

malphigian

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:20:56 -0500

fixed link

malphigian

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:19:06 -0500

Missed a perfectly good opportunity to use an LCD Soundsystem song (typically random unofficial youtube video).