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Sex & The City: Estrogen Fest 2008!!!
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My ex got me into watching HBO's Sex & The City years ago and at first I thought it was gay but the drama, humor, wit and the familiar characters drew me in quickly. I have a friend who is like Carrie Bradshaw, approaching 40, picky and still single because of it.
Saw the film with the gf yesterday as I owe her for taking her to Indiana Jones and Speed Racer. I swear the theater was filled with women and there was from my count about 5 or so guys, including me. It was enjoyable, stayed true to the series, and tied everything up with a neat little knot.
Anybody else see it?
DISCUSS!!!
Saw the film with the gf yesterday as I owe her for taking her to Indiana Jones and Speed Racer. I swear the theater was filled with women and there was from my count about 5 or so guys, including me. It was enjoyable, stayed true to the series, and tied everything up with a neat little knot.
Anybody else see it?
DISCUSS!!!
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AND I WANTED MORE CHAROLETTE! And Anthony and Stanford seemed to have gotten shafted a bit as well.
Anyways, I felt extra bad for Steve as well and even as a guy I saw a lot of my life in the male characters. A mix of Big and Steve if you will, sad... The show is full of glam but it really portrays people in a real light with true faults and such.
I don't really mind this thread not being so popular, because the idiots on imdb.com keep making threads about this show/movie ruining woman kind. Ugh, women like sex, that's all there is to it.
When I went, three teenage guys went together to see the flick. One of them said his sister made him watch some of the series and if he could he'd make Samantha is wife because she was a freak. Don't feel the need for a domineering girlfriend, see it yourself.
should I see it?
It wasn't gay. I think the gay characters got supremely shafted storyline wise.
Should you see it though? Hell yes. I plan to see it again tomorrow with my sister and again with my boyfriend.
I'll probably watch this eventually, maybe at dvd rental prices
It seems silly that anyone should miss something they are interested in because the 17-year-old selling the ticket might judge them.
Yeah, you're missing the "Sex" and getting the "and the City". Or hell, just the "and the" not even "City".
I think that will be my first purchase when I get a job, all six seasons of "Sex and the City". My parents have the seasons, but some of the discs have gone missing since we've moved several times over.
And from what I heard, the reaction in theatres are very similar too.
Shocking, really. Despite it's 'forward thinking' I always hated how it portrayed its gay characters.
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I loved Anthony and Stanford (Anthony more so) and wouldn't change them, but I would think they'd have meatier story lines. Sometimes the episodes lead me to believe that they were going to be integrated more and more into the story, but they weren't.
Having said that, my wife and I have been having a good debate on Miranda and Steve. spoilered just in case
But she claims she totally didn't see it that way.
So far, I think I've chalked it up to guys vs girls point of view.
Thoughts?
Fortunately, the posters at imdb.com need not despair, for they are not alone. They have noble allies like the one discussed here...
I'm not a fan, have only watched a barebone few episodes (won't be seeing the movie), and even though the series may be, by all means, flawed, it does seem to attract a lot of unwarranted denigration.
I'm sure it stands on its own as a good show, but it will never overcome the disappointment of a thirteen year old boy with a boner.
It's your Citizen Kane!
(Ask your boy).
Anyway, I really enjoyed it. I suppose I can see where people feel it was just a really long episode, but what exactly were they expecting? I was looking for an opportunity to catch back up with some old friends and see how they were doing, not be witness to some sweeping epic. SATC doesn't do sweeping epics.
Character wise, I found Carrie much more relatable, likable and adult this go round. There were times in the final season of the show that I thought she needed to grow up and stop being such an asshole. I was seriously happy for Charlotte. I know some have said that she didn't get much story, but I think she did ok. The stuff she got was quality. Miranda disappointed me. I guess I could see where she was coming from, but I hated that she took forever to take responsibility from her side in all of that. I totally saw where Samantha was coming from, and I'm glad that she left Smith as he was now. Back at the series end, they made sense. But not a few years later.
I don't really want to talk about Anthony and Stanford. They were obviously tossed in there because fans were expecting them, but where was the continuity?
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Parody of a different show.
I believe Miranda got laid the least in the entire series...
- Steve wasn't the cheating type in the series. Miranda has known Steve for about ...hmm..8 or 9 years? Married to him for the last four, and Steve is a pretty decent human being.
- This is more of a question but uh...six months of no sex...do people cheat if they go six months without sex?!
- Miranda was always mean to Steve, and Steve has been mean to Miranda. Miranda though, as far as I could tell was the one who changed the most out of the relationship so I think people will feel bad for her more because she really had been trying and when she's trying to have it all she probably thought she was doing an ok job. The time they were having sex and Miranda said "Can we hurry it up?" was probably the only time they talked about their issues seriously. Then he cheated. Little more warning would have worked.
GOD YES. Carrie, oh man...sometimes, no quite often I hated the fact that the show revolved around her so much (I like Sarah Jessica Parker, but she could share the lime light a little more with the other ladies). I wanted to punch Carrie into submission sometimes. When I was younger I really liked her and all of my friends would be like "Ohhh, you're so Carrie!" I really fucking hope not. I found her much less annoying in the movie than in the show.
In season 6 I thought she was getting better, but then she slipped back into her old ways. I'm glad they made he redeemable. Though
But she had her asshole licked!! That was a funny episode, especially Charlotte's reaction.
Oh yeah, Charlotte is my favorite but I think she'd be the one I couldn't date in real life. Too much with baby craziness!!
I'm sure if I went to see this movie, I would probably enjoy it. I'm sure the whole thing has a lot of good moments in it and that overall I would enjoy myself.
I'm not going to watch this movie, but its for the same reason I don't watch One Tree Hill or The OC or Gossip Girl, etc. Not because it's a chick flick
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Is this thread serious?
gossip girl is enjoyable because it is completely ridiculous, not because it is 'serious rich people business'
Please tell me that you don't write of Cruel Intentions for the same reason.
Words fail me atm for why I like Cruel Intentions and not Sex and the City..etc.
Though if I were attempt to describe the difference I would say that maybe it's because Cruel Intentions isn't quite so introspective? But as I write this, I ponder if saying that is just a fancy way of saying that I find Sarah Jessica Parker's narration annoying
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Rich People problems are far more entertaining than poor people ones. Poor people all have the same problems, oh we can't pay the bills, oh we're in debt, oh our son is in prison for car jacking and our dad beats us.
Rich people are fucked up man. Do crazy shit. much more entertaining.
Why wouldn't it be serious?
It was pretty funny, but I considered Charlotte brave for having tossed her husband's salad.
I don't watch "One Tree Hill" or "The OC" but I do watch "Gossip Girl" and only because it's so...outrageous that I couldn't help but watch.
I wouldn't consider the women from "Sex and the City" to be...rich, I guess. They did talk about financial issues in one episode, but for the most part, half the women worked really hard and for a long time for their money (Miranda and Samantha), Charlotte lived in an average apartment before marrying her ex-husband and got the Park Avenue apartment in a divorce settlement and having her new husband, a lawyer, move in with her (I don't think he had a place at the time) and Carrie...ok Carrie was ALWAYS in debt during the series, and while they didn't talk about her financial situation that much, Carrie continued to work in the movie and had a couple of books under her belt to support herself financially. She got $25,000 in a book advance (from France!) in season six, so I assume she was making a lot of money with the subsequent follow ups to her original book "Sex and the City".
Income was also the reason why Steve and Miranda broke up the first time during the series. Steve couldn't handle that Miranda made more then him, a bartender.
The point I'm trying to make (I think) is that the issues the girls faced with are not "Omg, I just realized my Prada dress has a wrinkle! I don't even know how to iron!" but they deal with things that EVERYONE deals with at one time or another and their income is hardly brought up (but when you consider their jobs lawyer and public relations it explains how they make their money). Most of the problems center around love, and if you don't believe that everyone deals with those problems, I suggest you check out H/A. All of those problems over there you can find on Sex and the City but from women's perspectives, who work and often put themselves into debt to get certain things (...like Carrie does). Also in the movie Carrie explains that writing about her friends often allowed her to eat, showing she at some point was in dire financial situations.
So much truth right there. If you aren't reading Jacob's recaps of Gossip Girl at Television Without Pity (he also does BSG which are equally awesome), you are missing out.
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Also, first and last season OC was comparable to Gossip Girl. Same people made the show, after all. Until Blair Waldorf I didn't think I could
Also, re: SATC - A lot of people make a big deal about how the show was all about sex, and how these women were sluts (I'm looking at you, Lauren Hutton), but really they spent most of their time looking for love, and none of them had that many sexual encounters outside of the confines of a relationship save for Samantha.