Ever wonder how thrilled your wives are to go with you to yet another movie with a mostly male cast, lots of explosions, a couple of twenty-year old naked women and the latest techno equipment? Yawn!
We get one little movie of our own and now listen to all the pitiful complaints!
I was there for the 12:30 showing. Third row from the front. Worth it just for the clothes. (I can’t believe I just typed that. Project Runway has ruined me.)
DTC, Sex and the City wasn’t written for you. Lots of guys lliked it, but that was coincidental. It wasn’t meant to be great drama. It would only appeal to girlie people or people who want to observe girlie people.
My brief critical review:
Disjointed, strained in parts. At most I would give it two and a half stars. But I still loved it. They were back!
I watched the whole series on DVD when I was overseas without much else to do for a couple weeks. Perfectly okay series, IMO. I hated SJP’s stupid narration though. Actually, I kinda hated her character all around. What a bitch, always torpedoing every good relationship she got.
I’ll add the movie to my Netflix queue, but have no interest whatsoever in leaving my house to see it. The show’s done! The DVD’s even had different endings so you could pick the one you’re happy with.
Name me one, just ONE 2008 summer blockbuster that matches your description,
Or 2007 or 2006, for that matter.
Gadgets and explosions, yes. But naked women? Not any more! Not in years. Hollywood wants PG-13 ratings for their action pictures.
And so, Lady Soul goes and sees this one with her pals, and I go see Techno-Tit Explosion Terminator Transformer Apocalypse Normandy 9000 with mine. Everyone wins!
Although she did make me watch half of the original series with her. That show could destroy a thousand Feminist Studies degrees.
What does gender have to do with it? Bad writing is bad writing. I hope you’re not insulting half the population by suggesting that shallow, self-obsessed, not overly bright characters appeal specifically to women.
The New York Times creamed it. The movie was only made because SJP shoved it up everyone’s ass. Kim Catrall practically had to be dragged into it, apparently. The NYT said that it barely resembled the series, other than they all wear stupid clothes and whine a lot, and that what was good in small doses is painful in movie format.
Like others, I tried to watch the series, but just couldn’t stand all the whiny self-absorption of the characters, and really couldn’t stand looking at ol’ horseface for more than a minute at a time.
I watched most of the series, but I found it impossible to care about any of the characters, other than Steve and Aiden. Never did see the last 2 or 3 episodes, and I don’t intend to see the movie. If it shows up on cable, I might watch, if I’m bored…
It opens in Bangkok next weekend. The wife and I did not see the entire series but were fans of the shows we saw. DVDs. I think we saw maybe half the series. Maybe two-thirds. Saw the final season. So we’ll watch it and are looking forward to it. From the trailers, they’re all looking pretty old.
We saw our first episode in Cambodia. The one where they go to Atlantic City and have to return home in a bus, because Carrie blew the money at roulette. We thought that looked good. Then it turned out someone we knew had some of the seasons on DVD, and he let us watch those.
You know the opening montage of New York City? I always found it poignant that it prominently included the World Trade Center pre-9/11, and then they took that out afterward.
I agree wholeheartedly as much as I hated SinC, The Soprano’s seem to have depth and were humanized in a whiny Joisy way. Maybe it is an East Coast Thing. I kept waiting for one of them to get some nasty disease or a beat down by some random loon they boinked . Anything but another outfit,shoes and whining about their problems.
These women were four polar opposites: Uptight ( the red haired chick), the slut-cougar ( kim cattral) , Virginal ( dark haired girl) and The Girl Next Door with a Horse Face and Horrible taste in Clothing ( SJP.)
I watched a couple of times and all I could think is There is NO WAY these women would be BFF in real life. Whores hang out with Whores. Nuerotics hang out with other nuerotics…etc.
I don’t get it.
I’d give anything to have Al Swearingen to go after each and everyone of the chicks from Sex in the City.
We went to see it yesterday and liked it - of course, we also like the television series, so it was like watching an entire season in one seating. We were amazed at how many people were in the theater…it was the largest crowd we have seen in a long time. Granted, most were groups of four women sitting together - we were practically the only guys in the theater, other than a few boyfriends who had obviously been dragged along.
My one question for those who saw it:
There has been all this talk of “someone dies” in the movie. Uh, unless I blinked somewhere, nobody died…or did I blink?
I’ve never seen this show nor do I desire too. I’m as far from it’s target audience as you’ll get. But I have never understood the vitriol it provokes. It’s a fantasy for chicks. It’s silly but does it really merit that much rage?