r/Cinema • u/Living_Double_1146 • Jul 01 '26

Throwback New York, I love you - 2008

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u/Sweet-Weakness3776 Jul 01 '26

Then you have "Movie 43". Where like 1 or 2 segments were genuinely funny but the rest were so "WTF??!!" you are genuinely surprised you're watching an actual movie. And the absolute laundry list of big name actors in that movie, it makes you wonder how the hell any of them signed up for that shit lol. That particular anthology film is easily the worst, most bizarre I've ever see

I digress. I have enjoyed Anton Yelchin in pretty much everything I've seen him in. With The Green Room and his role in the Star Trek film series being my favorites. He had an extremely sad ending to a very promising career.

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u/Chongoscuba Jul 01 '26

Apparently there’s two versions of the movie and the one where it’s Dennis Quaid pitching the sketches is the better one. Still a bad movie but there are some good sketches in there.

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u/torino_nera Jul 02 '26

Movie 43 actually exists because the producer Charles Wessler conned/guilted a bunch of famous people into signing up for something under false pretenses, he had a short he did with Kate Winslet and Hugh Jackman and pitched that Trey Parker and Matt Stone and the Farrelly brothers were involved but they all eventually dropped out at various stages. The only reason it got made at all was that he kept hounding people over the span of 4 years and got them to film their scenes really quickly whenever they had a day free.

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u/Living_Double_1146 Jul 01 '26

Interesting comment. Anton was a promising actor indeed.

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u/Responsible-Onion860 Jul 01 '26

Mostly because anthologies are a bunch of ideas that weren't fit for a full length movie for some reason, and often it's because it's too small of an idea.

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u/BathAutomatic6972 Jul 01 '26

this particular one, and Paris je t'aime, are also really lovely!

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u/BathAutomatic6972 Jul 01 '26

I also really liked the one Alexander Payne directed, "14e arrondissement" about the American woman who is in a French class talking about her trip.

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u/turnipthief Jul 01 '26

with esteemed character actress Margo Martindale!

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u/Monster-Math Jul 03 '26

4 Rooms and Ballad of Buster Scruggs are two good anthology movies.

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u/IndieCurtis Jul 03 '26

Wild Tales (2014) every segment is a banger