So I’m watching Sex and the City2, and all I can think is what heinous cunts all these women are. I’m only 45 minutes in, and I want all these women to die. Has is always been this awful?!?
Oh god yes, the show is unwatchable.
The TV series was fun - despite what people here on the board will chime in to say.
The first movie was, well, more of the TV show - so if you liked the series you would have liked the movie. Plus, it made enough money to finance Sex and the City II.
Now, I will admit that second film sucked…really badly…really, really badly. Big time suckeroo.
But again, either you were a fan or you weren’t. Series and first film were fun if you were a fan, but they really should apologize publicly for that sequel. However, it is not the only sequel of late that sucked…and I am looking at you Hangover II.
I have never liked books or movies where the characters spend an inordinate amount of time chatting over lunch.
There don’t have to be lots of car chases and shooting, but spare me all the lunch scenes.
How about dinner?
Series was fun. First movie was ok. Second movie sucked.
The simple answer is yes. The movie, the characters, the plot lines… All sucked.
I will say this, though. I recently went back to the first season with my wife and was surprised ad how good the show was compared to where it ended up. And it went south VERY quickly.
But the first season gave it the push it needed to get the next season approved. And it was making enough money for HBO to keep it alive. But the truth is, my wife, who was one of the biggest fans of the show and dragged me to both movies agreed that the show sucked big hairy ape testicles at the end. And the second movie was of such a level of suckatude that even the diehards had to admit that piece of crap was a whore-like Hollywood money grab.
3 ugly women (one of which was a real life dyke and had the Seinfeld Man-hands), and one semi-attractive prude wasp are getting more cock than your average NYC woman… Especially women that claimed they were looking for long term relationships (with the exception of Samantha, who to her credit was a self-proclaimed whore.). Everyone of the women were whores. As a male viewer, I didn’t mind that so much, except that’s not how they were portraying themselves. The other thing that killed it was their ages. They looked like dried out old hags. It just didn’t play well. In my opinion, after season 1, they should have flushed it.
One of the most over-rated shows in the last 25 years. My prediction is that, just like the stars, this show will age badly. SJP is NOT an attractive woman. Even a blind guy would give her the thumbs down if he felt her face.
For those of you who liked the concept of young women in NYC, HBO is trying a new show called GIRLS (I think), which follows 4 20-somethings making their way after college. I haven’t seen much of it, but it looks like it might have potential.
Whew. Sorry. I must have wanted to vent about SATC for a while. (how embarrassing)
My wife was into the show. It was certainly passable by soap opera standards and equally disposable.
Watcha taling about Willis?
I missed the series when it debut’ed, arrived,but i came around 5 or more years later I have seen all seasons since then. It’s great, funn dialogue, a few episdes seem to get bogged down with cliches, but not many. still makes me laugh. Never seen the movies…
Agree with Stink Fish Pot. It was over-rated. I watched the first two seasons and then gave up, I just didn’t see the point.
And yes, SJP is stinking ugly.
Hey. At least in the first movie we got to see full frontal from Gilles Marini… Not a total waste of time…
I was a fan of some of the writing, early on–but like Seinfeld, it’s hard to relate to completely awful human beings as characters. The writing started to stink, the cast got way too old to even be dolled up enough so as to be fuckable, and the movies were simply cash-grabs. HBO was smart enough to market the hell out of it and The Sopranos when they both came out on DVD.
I was forced to watch the first movie and it was embarrassingly bad. From what I heard, the 2nd was 10x worse.
I agree that it will only age poorly.
I liked the series at the time but it doesn’t seem to be ageing well. The first movie was just a big movie sized episode (actually kind of like a couple of episodes smushed together) and wasn’t bad. The second movie was unwatchable.
The TV show was wonderful. The characters changed and developed over the years and the plots became more serious. There was usually a theme to each half-hour episode and it was played out in at least three of the four main character’s eyes. I’ve seen every single episode and I know whereof I speak. I don’t know what age the viewer needs to be to appreciate the series. Having lived through those times might help. But the series didn’t run for many seasons and win many awards because it was crap.
The first movie was just okay-- nothing special, not as good as the TV series.
The second movie was an abomination, a travesty, a capital crime. It was embarrassing, insulting to the history of the series, and every copy (including digital copies) should be destroyed and the remains buried deep under the ocean.
I have seen most of the tv episodes thanks to my now ex-wife who was a fan. Those four characters were just useless, awful, shallow, horrible people with the possible exception of Miranda who occasionally showed some glimmers of humanity.
A review of a television show that doesn’t talk about the writing, directing, plotting, acting, and dialogue and focuses instead on the actors’ level of attractiveness and sexual orientation tells me more about the reviewer more than it does about the thing being reviewed.
That said, it wasn’t a great show and it has aged really poorly. It was very much a product of it’s time - and that time was late-90s NY. When it showed up on TV, the top 10 shows were “Seinfeld,” “ER,” “Veronica’s Closet,” “Friends,” “Touched by an angel,” “Monday Night Football,” “Union Square,” “60 minutes,” “CBS Sunday Night Movies,” and “Home Improvement.” Sex and the City wasn’t really like anything popular on TV at the time, it had a very different style and point of view and fit very well into HBO’s “It’s not TV, it’s HBO” brand.
The first two seasons are kind of interesting and kind of good, the writing is good, not great but good. And they lucked out with the casting - the actresses have great chemistry with each other, fit their roles really well, and did a better job than the material. As the show went on, it went downhill and just became a mess.
I don’t know if it’s an age thing or a personality thing, but I never liked it - the women portrayed by that show bear no resemblance to me or my friends so I found the related cultural buzz (Are you a Miranda? Tee hee hee!) annoying and vaguely offensive.
I quite liked it. It was sometimes hilarious, sometimes poignant. Had plenty of bad episodes but also lots of good ones. Seeing it lately it feels like it has dated a lot. The first film was pretty awful and I didn’t bother with the second one at all.
I don’t understand this pov. Why would you WANT to watch a TV show about people who are like you and your friends? 
That’s one reason why I don’t watch reality shows. I want scripted dialogue, situations different from my ordinary life, and… well, acting.
I’m surprised a couple of posters have said they liked the first season. I thought Sex and the City was awful in the first season and didn’t hit it’s stride until about halfway into the second. All of that talking into the camera - awkward.
Later on I thought they did a good job on some issues and had some clever plot lines. Samantha having breast cancer was interesting, and I loved that Charlotte the princess fell for a barbarian like Harry.