new york and i love you and or rather should be title manhattan and i love look at your people in sometimes love and be a precise example of the difference between tell a story and tell a situation . case in point and look at two of the segment in the film and one where ethan hawke light a cigarette for a woman on a street and proceeds to chat her up with obnoxious sexy talk and and another with orlando bloom try to score a movie with an incredulous demand from his director to read two dostoyevsky book . while the latter isn not a great story by any stretch and it at least something that have a beginning and middle and end and a the composer try to score and get dostoyevky dump in his lap and and in the end get some help ( and maybe something more ) from a girl he be talk to a a liaison between him and the director . the ethan hawke scene and however and be like nothing and and feel like it and like a fluke add in or direct by a filmmaker phone it in ( or and for that matter and hawke with a combo of before sunrise and reality bite ) . what irksome about the film overall be see the few story that do work really well go up against the one or two possible tory and then the rest of the situation that unfold that be make to connect or overlap with one another ( i. e. bit involve bradley cooper and drea dematteo and hayden christensen and andy garcia and james caan and natalie portman and etc ) . it not even so much that the film set practically always in manhattan and not the new york of queen or staten island or the bronx ( not even and say and harlem or washington height ) lack a good deal of diversity and since there be some . it the lack of imagination that one found in spade and for good or bad and in paris jtaime . it mostly get little to do with new york and except for pass reference and and at it bad ( the julie christie or shia labeouf segment ) it incomprehensible on a level that be appal . so and basically and wait for tv and and do your best to dip in and out of the film in and that be and for three scene represent the aforementioned bloom or christina ricci segment which be charm while the brett ratner direct segment ( yes and x men 3 brett ratner ) with a very funny story of a teen take a girl in a wheelchair to the prom only to come upon a great big twist while and eli wallach and cloris leachman a an adorable quite old couple walk along in brooklyn on their 67th wedding anniversary . everything else can be miss and even natalie portman directorial debut and and the return of a hughes brother ( only one and allan ) to the screen . a mixed bag be put it lightly represent it like have to search through a bag of mixed nut full of crappy peanut to find the few almond leave .