Friday Night Movie

by Rebecca Thorman on August 275 Comments

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Ryan and I are easily entertained, so movie critics we are not. However, it’s rare that he will admit to liking chick flicks (even though he will chuckle and hold me tight at all the right parts). But we both really enjoyed New York, I Love You.

I wasn’t expecting much (I guess it’s based off of Paris, Je T’aime which is supposedly fantastic), and we watched it last Friday night in. I loved the vignettes by different filmmakers, and felt like I had gotten a glimpse into each character’s life, kind of like how you imagine a person’s life in the moments they walk by you on the street.

http://ryanstephensmarketing.com/blog/ Ryan Stephens

I’m a fan of vignettes, but I want them to add up to the sum of their parts. I’m not certain these did.
http://cranialgunk.com/blog Vincent

Part of the reason I love NYC is it is a city of “love stories” – not so much “lovers” as they say Paris is. There is a difference. Woody Allen’s Annie Hall – though very dated now – continues to be one of my favorite NYC love stories. I often refer to it as my “relationship bible” which probably explains why my relationships are laughable. ;-)
http://bizrelationships.wordpress.com/ Jamie Farrell

Thanks. We’ll rent this weekend.
http://twitter.com/makarlin Melissa Karlin

Oh, you should definitely rent Paris, Je T’aime. It was fantastic.
http://modite.com/blog Rebecca Thorman

@ Ryan – No, they didn’t, but I liked that. If they did, it would be more of a Love Actually type of movie, and that’s been done :)

@ Vincent – Ha, interesting. Definitely a difference – thanks for the comment and great post!

@ Jamie – Hope you like it!

@ Melissa – it’s in the Netflix queue for sure!