Let’s hope those ancient Mayans were right about that date … 
About the local women The thing were the local women were all wereing designer western clothes underneath their abayas is an actual thing. Alot of (wealthy) women in the Middle-East do in fact dress to the nines underneath their veils. Yes, there’s great variation depending on their wealth. One my HS teachers’s first job after college was teaching English in Saudi Arabia. She worked in a girls’ school and did alot of private tutoring to women at home. She was very surprised at how the women were constantly trying to out dress eachother.
Yeah it means that, curiously it seems to be a more common phrase in the US than here anymore.
Ahh. I totally thought it was some kind of really half assed Erin Brokovitch ref.
It opened in Thailand a week and a half ago. We went to see it on Saturday. I actually wanted to see it more than the wife did, but we both enjoyed the series and the first film.
We both agree: SATC 2 was just plain embarrassing to watch. Mostly not funny. The “girls” look old and tired … even Charlotte! :eek: And I would have thought Liza Minelli had enough money to go to a good plastic surgeon.
We’ve started rewatching the first season of SATC on DVD. It reminds us of how fresh the show was in the beginning, and how their looks back then fit in with the sex theme.
I do have a suggestion for any SATC 3: Use new, younger actresses to portray them first meeting in the 1980s. A prequel. There was a bit of that at the beginning of the latest film, but they looked like old ladies made up as young girls.
I loved the series and was borderline appalled by the first film. It’s not just that it felt so incoherent and thrown-together – the characters acted in completely inorganic ways. Steve in the series would never have cheated on Miranda. Big have done a huge amount of growing in the series and would never have had a panic attack on the verge of his wedding and by the way, Carrie, the man caught you on the street minutes later! What the hell is wrong with having a serious talk with him in the limo, getting to the bottom of what’s going on, and starting the ceremony half an hour later? Idiot. That she could let herself get so swept up in the wedding details that she lost touch with what was going on with him and that he couldn’t communicate his feeling clearly to her proved to me that they weren’t ready to get married at all. I liked Samantha’s arc, although the bit about her gaining weight seemed like a mean jab from the screenwriters, and Charlotte’s arc seemed right for her, as well.
I decided not to see the second film unless I heard outstanding things about it. So, looks like I have the gift of an extra two and a half hours! I wonder what I’ll do with it.
So your solution to the problem is to make the whole franchise even more shallow and cliched by dumping the middle-aged women and replacing them with some hot, vapid twenty-somethings?
Nice one!
The only way this could possibly work is if they did a sort of Godfather II edit, interspersing the “how they met” story with something happening in the present day.
But to make that work, they absolutely must rein these characters back in to something remotely resembling relatable people. True, they’ve always been exaggerated archetypes (by design), but they were at least somewhat grounded in reality, until this movie.
I honestly don’t know why I feel so strongly about this – I guess I grew closer to the girls than I realized from years of watching them on TV – but it actually bothers me that the characterizations have gone so far astray. If anything, I want the next film to be smaller.
I just rewatched season 1 via Netflix and was amazed at how slutty Charlotte seems compared to her later self and early Samanatha looks down right chaste compared to what she’s become.
I thought it was a piece of crap and you should NOT see it if you liked the series because it’s depressing how far it’s moved away from the groundbreaking, witty, consistently entertaining tv show that it was.
3 of these women are married and two of them are having conversations about how hard it is being a mom with full time help. So tedious. They’re all disgustingly rich. I miss broke Carrie!
None of the characters had decent storylines. Seriously. Charlotte’s would have been lame for a 30 minute TV episode.
Sam was endangering her career, her own business. She’s a stupid parody of herself.
Watching Indian workers grovel at the feet of rich white Westerners is depressing and it makes me uncomfortable that they work all day and all night.
The gay wedding…Standford and Anthony, are you kidding me? And I know the film was all “oh btw these two are best buds now” but that doesn’t mean they explained HOW it happened.
The first movie was amazing compared to this. They made use of Cynthia Nixon’s acting skills, they were in New York City, the main supporting character had half a point…
ETA: Project Rungay’s review was great. I’m interested in criticism coming from those who liked the TV show and don’t dismiss the whole franchise as worthless.
No, I don’t think so. Other characters that have become part of the public lexicon have been revisited in their earlier years and/or portrayed by new actors. I think it would make a nice period piece. (Geez, I’m saying “period piece” while referring to the 1980s. That makes me feel old. :()