Visual Stimulation
Just finished “New York, I love you” a movie similar to ” Paris, je t’aime”
Biggest difference? NYILY was crap. 2 decent sections out of the whole things. in Paris it was the opposite maybe 2 were crap but comparably the good two in NY were mediocre and nothing in Paris came close to being as bad as in NY.
In Paris, they shot each short film based on sections of the city, they told you what section it was and that was all, the stories were clean and precise and some worked well others not but it was all subjective. I have a totally different view of Paris now that I’ve seen that movie. I have things I want to see that aren’t the usual touristy locations, but there are those as well. There were nice blends between the sections so it didn’t look like a big clip show and it was smooth and even.
In NY there were no sections, there were no markers as to where they were, the only place you know of for sure is Central Park. Everything had the same feel/look to it save a small few sections. It was impossible to really know what was going on and there were far more goofy/weird than there should have been.
That being said my two favorites were Brett Ratner’s (yeah the guy who did the Rush Hour movies…) cute tale of a High Schoolers (Anton Yelchin) Prom date after being dumped by his super hot girlfriend (played by Blake Lively). James Caan was the pharmacist who offers up his beautiful daughter to be the substitute date. I won’t ruin it for you but I’ll say it was adorable and funny completely different pace then the rest which Paris did well.
The second one I loved was written and directed by Natalie Portman. She acted in one segment earlier on but it fell short, could have been great but it wasn’t all there.
Natalie did an amazing job. It reminded me of my favorite section in Paris. They are both about two people having a conversation and you don’t know the whole truth till the end. The Paris one was much better but considering NY it’ll do.
The best of all starred Shia LaBeouf… Don’t get me wrong I adore him but this is the guy that people are totally blowing off because of Transformers (not his best move but you know who he is now) so forgive me for saying “Dude the best acting was done by Shia Fucking LaBeouf, you know the Transformers kid? the one you keep making fun of? Yeah. Luckily I know he’s talented but it’s pretty fucking sad that he’s the best of all. Granted the story was good, I’m not 100% sure what all was going on in it… But I think that was the point. I’ll give it 3 stars on Netflix because I didn’t hate it but, meh, makes me sad, even if I knew it wasn’t going to be great. Oh the Bradley Cooper/Drea de Matteo interaction was good, not as pulled together as it could have been but it was an in between scene and not a full section like the others.
Anyway, See Paris, Je t’aime and I promise you, Nike Nolte will seem like a totally different person to you… I Promise.
