Okay I am obviously not and never was the target audience for this show/franchise. So my not liking it is a big so-what. But it’s sufficiently annoying, and the specific question I’m weighing in on is sufficiently puzzling to me, that I don’t feel too age-ist or look-ist joining this guy in saying: Really?
Okay, so those are a particularly horrifying set of photos. I don’t dispute anyone’s right to make, watch, or like this movie. I don’t dispute anyone’s right to be older, or less than what I find entirely attractive.
The question about which I’m genuinely curious is the one he raises: do the moviemakers/audience really find plausible plots in which these women are the object of desire by attractive, successful young men? And specific to those “flashback” pictures – without knowing what moronic subplot the “flashback” refers to – are they literally meant to be plausible and desirable portrayals of what the characters looked like in their 20s? Or has it just moved into complete fantasy-land/willing suspension of any disbelief/surrealism, like doing Othello with an all-monkey cast? I can get in on the joke, if so – I guess.
I obviously just don’t get it, and that’s fine – but – really?
These are still photos of the shooting of a scene that will, undoubtedly, be processed by Lola FX. This is the software that has been used to make Brad Pitt both older and younger for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and has been responsible for making both Madonna and Kylie visually acceptable to yet another generation of fans.
I only know this because my girlfriend is a big fan of the show / film.
All the characters in the show with the exception of Samantha (Kim Catrall) are married to age-appropiate men. As of the end of the last film, Samantha had just turned 50 and she is about 10 years older than the other girls (approximately their ages IRL).
Really after the first couple seasons, the women don’t seem to sleep around as much as the show’s title would imply. But “Long-Term On-Again/Off-Again Relationships And the City” just doens’t have the same ring to it.
The flashbacks to younger days will get heavy CGI, as gaffa noted. I fully expect them to be much younger, thinner, and cuter on screen. These are still photos w/o processing, though I wonder why they were released.
The real life question would be can women that age attract successful, good looking men their own age. Most of the time, good looking rich 50 yo men are chasing (and catching) 30 yo women. But this is wish fulfillment for the target audience.
No, it’s not. As has already been stated, 3 of the 4 characters on the show are married. They will not be chasing men at all, with the possible exception of Samantha. Please, in your eagerness to slag off the the franchise, do not completely make things up.
I believe Sarah Jessica Parker has ruined her looks with cigarettes, bad hair, bad makeup, and awful clothes. She’s not actually that old. Compare to Diane Lane, born the same year. A 30 year old would be lucky to get her.
Lord knows there have been plenty of TV shows where the cast age, but their lifestyle and appearance on the show doesn’t. Friends was like this, they all had these 20 something wardrobes and hairstyles, but by the end, it was a very sad thing.
Yeah, I wrote the script. :rolleyes: From what I understand, much of it is in flashbacks, so we would see man chasing in those parts. I strongly doubt we’ll see anyone but Samantha playing the field in the current events part of the movie. But by all means, insult 40 year old women by saying that the SATC women are too ugly to hook up and that we’re all just living out wish fulfillment by watching these hags score hot men in the movie, even though that’s very, very likely not going to be the story line.
What is it about this franchise that brings out such nastiness in men? I don’t get it.
Most of us are much nicer about our hate of SATC, but it really boils down to two points:
The show is just bad. Bad dialogue, bad plotlines, annoying characters, annoying actors playing those characters, etc, etc, etc.
Some women’s ridiculous devotion to the show, i.e…
No, you and your friends are not just like Sarah Jessica Parker and the others. You don’t live in New York. You’ve all been married since college. And you all don’t have wacky adventures in the dating scene. Oh, and please get off our backs for thinking of the brunette “innocent one” as the hot one. We didn’t write her character that way and we can’t help it that the other three run the gamut from mildly attractive (Cynthia Nixon) to hag (Kim Catrall) with footface in the middle.
Movies are supposed to star aging, craggy former action heroes–playing action roles! With romantic interest supplied by nubiles young enough to be their granddaughters. Oh, no,* that’s* not wish fulfillment!
I was never a great fan of Sex & The City–because I don’t usually have premium cable. (I watch quite enough TV as it is.) But I could get the attraction–they were witty, satirical fantasies about life in the big city, with a heavy emphasis on fashion. Kind of like Absolutely Fabulous–except a bit more realistic & a lot less funny.
If the franchise bothers guys, tough. They don’t have to watch the movies. If they’re bitching about aging cuties–what about Chris Noth? Everybody ages, but some of us age better than others. (I still keep my eye out for very early episodes of Law & Order.)
So don’t watch it. End of story. It’s not mandatory viewing for anyone, AFAIK. Why make a point of entering every thread about SATC or SJP and being all shitty about it? I’m not saying you do this, but it happens every single time the show or its star are mentioned, and I don’t get the vitriol. You don’t like it. Fine. Other people do. Live and let live, right?
It’s not more ridiculous than some guys’ devotion to sports, or video games, and I bet very few women come in and shit on your football or gamer threads in a similar fashion.
Are you really so put upon by this show? My god, who do you associate with that you are so tormented by SATC? Choose better women friends if this is happening to you. Otherwise, I have to say you’re likely exaggerating, or you’re entering threads you should just avoid if they bother you this much.
Relax, I was just trying to explain the reasons why guys dislike it. I don’t watch it, but I do think hardcore SATC fans are a bit weirder about it than big sports or video game fans. It’s just a different vibe that has been commented on to me by various female sports or game fans as well.
And yes, I was exaggerating, but only a little. Especially about women’s reactions to finding out guys find the brunette one attractive. Some of them (note I said some, as I did in my first post) seem to take it as a personal affront to their femaleness that men find her attractive as opposed to one of the more “empowered” characters.
