May 30th is finally around the corner!!!
[Edited 6/7/08 8:53am]

The wait is over!

After the brilliant move to premiere a film with "New York as a 5th character" in London, the London Times has the 1st review. Verdict? It's a 2 hour, 20 minute piece of shit.

http://entertainment.time...mment=true

Mars23 said:

The London review will not burst my bubble, I am still happily waiting my turn to see it. Sucks or not, I will just be happy seeing the characters again, especially, "Stanford."

matthewgrant said:

co-

Can't wait to see it

& can I just say I hate, hate, HATE the way they constantly refer to Cynthia Nixon last in every interview/publication/billing I know she's widely seen as the least attractive one (she's cute in my opinion, why does EVERYONE have to be insanely gorgeous??) but her character is 10 times more interesting than the Charlotte character (consistently!). Just once I'd like to see her billed higher than Kristen Davis. I understand Kim Catrall getting second billing, but that third spot should shuffle a bit

POOK said:

CalhounSq said:

I also think she is attractive, and a great actress. She is not the typical beauty but hell, either is Carrie.

can't wait to see this movie.....i just hope it's as good as the show was or better, i don't want to be let down.

PaisleyPark5083 said:

EXACTLY!! They love to push her to the back, it irritates me. She's a much better actress than they (seem to) give her credit for

3 more days people!!!
and in honor of that..one of my favorite clips: The Urban shoe myth, Manolo Blahnik Mary Janes-

Watching Sarah Jessica Horseface's ugly mug on the big screen is a fate worse than death - I'll pass on that sh!t.

Are there any straight men looking forward to this movie? My friends made me watch one episode of the TV series and I thought it was godawful.

If the fans like it then I guess that's cool.

uPtoWnNY said:

Now, what was the point of posting this??? Too bad you didn't pass on this thread.

I think Cynthia Nixon has officially become the sexiest of them!

PaisleyPark5083 said:

This episode was on last night. I CANNOT watch the syndicated version of the show. The editing and clean dialogue makes no sense. They cut the ENTIRE part about her being "drunk at Vogue." Too bad, that was some funny shit.

NDRU said:

She's definitely the most talented. She acted her ass off as Eleanor Roosevelt in Warm Springs.

CalhounSq said:

The less cutesy one will always get last billing. Kim Catrall only gets second billing because her character is notorious and controversial otherwise she'd be last or second last too.

Charlotte's friggin' annoying.

Still, I can't wait to see it, I miss the show so much.

PaisleyPark5083 said:

Those MaryJane's are so fuckin hot

I think I'm going to a matinee on Friday but I'm trying to hold off & see it w/ a friend on Saturday night

SCNDLS said:

i just watched her on an episode of law and order 5 mins ago-she had multiple personalities-she did good!

I am getting the soundtrack, if only for the song in the trailor...

sextonseven said:

I'm not really a fan of it either. Thought it was so cheesy and totally not realistic at all.

I'll watch it if I can't find anything else on, but I don't search it out.

I'm undecided as to whether I wanna check out the movie or not.

Here's another entertaining review. Obviously not from a fan, but if any straight guy thinks they can survive, this should make it clear for them.


Massawyrm Has SEX AND THE CITY And Leaves It Bleeding And Crying On The Mattress!!

Hola all. Massawyrm here.

Two and a half hours. Process that for a moment. Two and one half hours. Not 90 minutes. Not two hours. Two and a half hours. Now, with that firmly in mind, process this. Imagine, if you will, a Rob Schneider movie, a Ben Stiller movie and an Adam Sandler movie teaming up and slipping Rohypnol to the BRATZ movie, pulling a train on her sorry, barely legal ass, then leaving the unfortunate spawn of that unholy union in the LA sun for 40 years until it rotted and leathered to the point that it was attractive only to gay men and other women. That’s the Sex and the City movie.

TWO AND A HALF HOURS.

Look, before you start with the chorus of “That movie wasn’t for you” remember this: I enjoy a good chick flick. But this wasn’t good; not by any stretch of the imagination. This was a dick and fart joke movie for women. Make no mistake, the humor in this is as crass and base as anything the boys’ movies have to offer. Someone shits themselves. There’s a close up of some forty-year-old pubic hair poking out of both sides of a swimsuit. A four year old utters the word SEX to the amusement and shock of all present in the room. A Dog repeatedly humps pillows. Sound familiar? I spent a goodly portion of this film wondering when the Farrelly Brothers had decided to cut their balls off and develop a fondness for Prada.

Two and a half god damned hours.

Look, at its root, this thing is a comedy. And no comedy, no matter how funny, can truly sustain its vibe for two and a half hours, especially when it is gunning for laughs this low in the gutter. Add to that the fact that it is extraordinarily light on plot to begin with and you might understand why I was beginning to crave the cold taste of steel from the barrel of a colt about 45 minutes in. It isn’t so much a movie as it is a string of television episodes woven together. Every problem has an easy solution. Worse yet, those problems really aren’t actually problems. On the contrary, Sex and the City has set out to blaze an entirely new trail. One that leads toward the creation of the Anti-RomCom.

Now, that’s not to say that if you hate RomComs this might in any way appeal to you. No. You know how in a romantic comedy, the big second act kicker somehow involves one of the characters screwing up, then realizing how they screwed up only to seek out and win back the love of the person they screwed up with? Yeah. It’s kind of the plot of almost every single one of those fucking things. And, yeah. It’s also kinda why we love them. Well, in Sex and the City we see the movie from the other point of view. The guys still manage to fuck things up – but rather than watching them realize that and try to make amends – we instead watch the bitter, heartbroken women swim in an endless sea of self pity for TWO AND A HALF FUCKING HOURS while, somewhere offscreen, those male characters are trying to make amends, only to find their apologies rebuffed. You see, in Sex and the City it isn’t about the big, romantic solution. It’s about women getting over their shit, realizing how they fucked up and then saying “Okay, I’ll take you back now.” And while I’ll admit that there’s more truth to these solutions than most people would like to admit, they do not make for entertaining stories.

In fact, it only seems to reinforce what I never liked about Sex and the City to begin with. They’re not flirty and single because it’s so hard to find a good man. It’s because they’re all completely self-obsessed, neurotic, high maintenance divas. And I found each and every one of them thoroughly unlikable. There’s a workaholic neglectful wife who commits the sin of all marital sins – uttering the phrase “Would you please finish.” There’s the oversexed nymphomaniac who is in a long-term relationship with the perfect guy, but is getting bored because she wants to bang other people. Oh, and no one’s ever mentioned the swinger lifestyle to her, despite her living in LA. And being in the movie business. Then there’s the girl who used to be the most neurotic of them all, but now has the perfect life. Married, kids and utterly nothing to do in this movie. Then there’s our glib narrator, the woman who makes a living writing about the adventures of the other three. And while the narration might have worked as a tool to string together stories in an episodic format in the show, her incessant droning will make you want to but your shoe through the screen time and again.

FOR TWO AND A HALF MIND NUMBING HOURS.

But I just couldn’t get over how much this shared in common with BRATZ: the Movie. Montage after montage after montage with each and every problem finding a solution by the fabulously dressed four getting together, squee-ing in a pitch that will deafen dogs and neuter most of the males in the audience, and realizing that friendship will get you through any bout of rampant self-absorption. Oh, so this is what happens when you leave Bratz dolls in the sun too long. I’m not gonna get on the consumerism trip. Not here. Not with the crowd that will drop a grand on a mint condition Revenge of the Jedi poster and consider it an investment in the future. A COOL investment in the future. Come on, I’ve been to a sci-fi convention. And once you’ve stood in the dealer room and pondered dropping $45 on the Battlestar Galactica Boardgame you had when you were five years old, you can’t really fault a woman for getting excited about a $600 pair of purple fuzzy pumps that look like they should come with their own stripper pole. I mean, who the fuck am I to judge? But Christ in a bucket people, did we need so many montages of them doing it? For two and a…you get the picture.

I will say this - the movie did take me back. 8 Years in fact. May, 1999. The screen goes black and words fade in. A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. The crowd loses its fucking mind. Then they watch Episode I: The Phantom Menace. Outside, after the movie, while several people bitch about the utter crappiness of the film, others embarrassingly say “Come ooooon. I Liiiiiked it.” Then they accused the detractors of not being fans. They didn’t get it. The movie didn’t suck, you just weren’t the right audience for it. Well, instead of A long time ago…, it was a piano tinkle. The familiar opening of the television series. I’ve read a number of flabbergasted critics try to explain the crowd reactions as devotional or bordering on the religious. But that’s only because they’ve never had a Trekee try to explain to them the redeeming qualities of Star Trek: Insurrection. Once you’ve been down that road, you can see exactly what this is.

Will the fans love it? Yeah, probably. This is an event film and yeah, I can totally get that. But it ain’t for anyone else. I pity any man who walks into this with his girl thinking he is in for just the usual hour and a half ass pounding only to discover that instead he’s entered a two and a half hour oubliette from which there is no escape. Ladies, you want to get your man to do something wholly unpleasant like spending a day with your mother or cleaning the rain gutters? Offer this as an alternative. He’ll do it. Trust me, he’ll do it.

CalhounSq said:

Her character's evolution on the show was one of the best things about it. From pushing Steve off after the one night thing, walking out of denial, all the way to having the baby and then taking care of Steve's mom...

CarrieMpls said:

Of the times I've seen the show, she's actually the one I relate to the most.

Mars23 said:

I don't normally take pleasure in raining on other people's parades, but that review was awesome.

sextonseven said:

I don't post it to rain on the parade as it were. I don't think it is possible if people really love the show, they will probably enjoy the movie. I posted it as a precautionary measure for anyone that might go into this unsuspecting.

I could see 100 bad reviews of The Dark Knight, I'll still see it and find things I like.