I wasn’t interested in seeing the movie, but my boss arranged an afternoon seminar on Thursday, attendance mandatory. We were all not enthused about a seminar, to say the least.
Turned out a limo picked us up at the office, we had a champagne toast to all our hard work, toured the city by stretch limo, having delicious snacks and cosmopolitans, then went to see the movie as a group.
It was a really good time. I enjoyed the movie far more than I’d expected to; exposure to pop culture meant I knew enough of the series storyline that I could follow the movie. I thought Parker’s clothes for the most part were ugly, though.
I will remember Dante’s scenes for the rest of my life.
Good thing you didn’t see them in Bangkok, because those were heavily Vaselined. Of course, I can’t say I feel like I missed that much myself, but I hate any sort of censorship.
I’m female, but I HATE this show. My mother and my sister are huge fans. They’re going to see the movie tomorrow, and they’re constantly watching episodes on DVD. I’m in the next room, and have to turn up my music to full volume-even with headphones-just to drown it out.
Hell, the other day, I was watching Beavis and Butthead Do America, and I found THAT more intellectually stimulating than this show.
(And if I want to see Chris Noth, I’ll watch “Law & Order” reruns, thankyouverymuch. Gah, he really traded down.)
I haven’t seen the movie, and luckily, I won’t have to. Unfortunately, I saw quite a few episodes of the TV show because my wife loved it. Today, she saw the movie with her cousin.
Now, since I haven’t seen the movie, I admit, it’s possible that there were extenuating circumstances shown that I’m unaware of. But…
The summary I heard was that Samantha (Kim Cattrall) dumps the guy who nursed her through her cancer, mainly because she was lusting after a neighbor she kept seeing naked. She left him with “I love you, but I love me more” speech.
And the women who saw this movie all thought that was great!
I can’t help wondering, if we reversed the genders, if a MAN left a woman who’d nursed him through cancer because he really wanted to nail some female model he’s been ogling, is there ANY woman ANYWHERE who wouldn’t deem him the scum of the Earth???
I know, I know, this is fiction, it’s a fantasy. But I think you get my meaning. A man does that in a movie? “He’s a turd,” say the women. A woman does it? “You, GO, girl,” say the ladies.
My mom was looking for something fun for “us girls” to do this weekend (her, me and her two sisters) and she chose for us to go see this movie.
I am not a girly-girl, not into fashion in the least bit (I die a little inside when I have to pay over $25 for jeans) and find SJP’s face and skinniness really hard to look at.
I’ve seen a handful of episodes. I don’t know if I’ve seen one all the way through. Not sure how much my mom or aunts have seen…none were “Fans” of the show.
Anyway, I actually liked the movie. Maybe it’s because I expected it to suck, I don’t know. Perhaps it was because I’d seen enough of the show to get the gist but not enough of the show to hate it. Maybe it was because I don’t know any rabid fans. No idea.
It wasn’t hilarious or touching or clever, really. Just a decent movie to see on a Saturday afternoon.
I still find SJP’s face and skinniness hard to look at, though. And sitting next to my mom during those sex scenes did make me want to crawl under my seat. But I got over it.
It wasn’t quite that. She didn’t boink her neighbor even though she had ample opportunity. Instead, she took the lusting for her neighbor as another clue that she wasn’t happy being with just one man - or at least with a man who does not have the time to cater to her every whim.
So, instead of denying herself or going behind his back to get her ego (and other things) stroked, she left him. She did consider the fact that he’d helped nurse her through chemo as a “staying point” but staying with him meant changing and/or hurting him and that wasn’t what she wanted to do because she did love him.
The story was not “Chemo -> hot neighbor sex -> goodbye” it was “Chemo -> working hard for Dude’s career (as thanks?) -> Dude’s career getting in the way of her getting what she wanted sexually -> being so far gone that she considers boinking the neighbor but does not do it -> revelation that she is not happy and will not make Dude happy -> goodbye.”
This is not even a little bit better. Change the genders and you still do not have a sympathetic character. Staying with him would “change him?” What kind of self-serving, bullshit rationalization is that? And who gives a fuck what “she wants sexually?”
This is one of the things I despised about the TV show and about chick flicks in general. Woman are routinely portrayed as sympathetic, or even heroic, for doing things that would be sleazy or villainous if a man did it. “She left him because she loved him?” GMAFB :rolleyes:
Christ, she actually said that? Jesus. Even if she wanted to break up, couldn’t she have found a more diplomatic, caring way? No, one shouldn’t have to stay with someone who supported them through a rough time, but yeesh, that’s NOT the way to go about it.
Oh, and I for one LOVE fashion and such-but I’ll be damned if I’m going to act like these twits about it.
Hmm…I’m not sure what all the vitriol is about here. I am clearly not making a very good case. I saw the movie and the scene astro is all worked up about was about 4 minutes of 2.5 hours so I can’t really defend it any further.
I must just be dense because I absolutely cannot see myself being upset about the scene, gender roles reversed or not. So I’ll just back out of this uproar quietly…
Woman nurses a guy through cancer. Guy then dumps her because one woman isn’t enough for him and his sexual gratification is the most important thing in life to him. He actually has the balls to say he’s dumping her “because he loves her.” You think women would be cheering that guy?
Like I said, when it comes to this genre, women cheating (or being tempted to cheat) is always portrayed as sympathetic, and always the fault of her husband.
For the record, I also found that scene (yes, I saw it) horrifying. They undid the marginal emotional growth of 3 out of 4 of the characters in the movie by throwing in all the contrived drama. Samantha was the worst. I don’t understand cheering on at that scene, either.
Someone owning up to the fact that they’re a big fucking asshole sans depth isn’t cause for celebration. It’s just sad and pathetic. And the most you can give them is that they didn’t betray someone’s trust before reaching that conclusion.
Oh yeah, another thing about the Samantha character. She had the gall to throw a big hissyfit because her boyfriend bought her a ring he knew she loved. Apparently she wanted to buy it herself. So it ruined the ring for her. Or something.
It made sense to me, the way you described it. People do marry because they think they owe something to their spouse. There’s gratitude and there’s gratitude. You don’t marry to reward somebody. And you don’t stay married to reward somebody.
Samantha is selfish, but she knows she’s selfish. Why inflict that on somebody you care about?
It’s kinda sad though. She’s missing out, and I think she knows it.
Ugh. I’ve never seen the show but the description of that character completely ruins my own name for me.
Hate me if you will for snarking about a show I’ve seen approximately five minutes of (and that through channel surfing), but it sounds like highlighting everything I don’t like about my gender.
Self indulgence? Check.
Astonishingly gross materialism? Check.
Transcendental levels of selfishness? Check.
The treatment of vicious manipulation as a virtue? Checkity check.
Just goes to show the gender’s not homogenous, I guess. I’m going to go watch another trailer for Hellboy 2.
I gave it some more thought and realize that the reverse gender roles are depicted right in the movie.
Miranda works too much. She doesn’t have sex with her husband, Steve, much. She thinks everything is ok because they (the two of them, him and her) didn’t discuss the lack of sex. Steve has sex with another woman, confesses, Miranda freaks out and they split. The other three girls are all “you made the wrong decision, Miranda! Don’t be such a bitch!”
Smith works too much. He doesn’t have sex with Samantha much. He thinks everything is ok because they didn’t discuss the lack of sex. Samantha nearly has sex with another guy. But instead of doing that, she decided she wants to leave Smith. They have a breakup sans screaming. Samantha is happy. Smith may or may not be happy…the movie ends.
So, how are these two scenarios from the same movie different? They both started off the same and ended up differently. The man cheated and was to be forgiven, the woman did not cheat and left an unhappy relationship instead and…heartless bitch?
That’s not a parallel example. In order for it to be parallel, Smantha’s husband woulkd have been the one who contemplated leaving. Dumping a person who nursed you through cancer because you want to be a whore is not something to be hailed as heroic.
So Samantha is probably not someone I would get involved with myself. But I still liked watching that character, and you have to admit the character stayed in character.
