Sex and the City review...
Jul. 7th, 2008 08:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bananacosmicgirlI just watched the "Sex and the City" movie (because I'm really late about watching it, and it didn't open here until late June).
I can't say that I loved it, nor can I say that I hated it. There were parts that I thought were hilarious, but on the whole, I found it a blah movie. I have never really watched the show - I've seen a couple of episodes here and there, but not much - so I can't say whether it stayed true to the series or not, but I assume that the series wasn't so overflowing with sugar.
In the end, Carrie gets married to Mr. Big, Miranda gets back the husband who cheated on her, Charlotte has two kids with her husband, and Samantha is on her own again and much happier that way (unlike the other three girls, who seem miserable on their own throughout the movie). Even the help Carrie got gets back with the "love of her life", who broke her heart before the movie started, and they got married.
Everything is so neat and so tidy, and so sugary it makes my teeth ache. Seeing how it's an American movie, I knew going into it that there was no other way for it to end, but it still made me go *headdesk*.
And that brings me to a part of the problem. The movie is 148 minutes long, which equals two and a half hours. It just shouldn't be. Half-way through it, when the wedding's been botched (as we all knew it would be), and a bunch of other stuff has happened, I'm just sitting there, thinking, Okay, when are we getting out of here? because it's just drawn out and the angst is spread so thick, but it doesn't feel real - 'cause everyone knows that we're just waiting for them to tie things up. I had the same problem with Star Wars III - I knew what was going to happpen (Anakin was gonna go swim in the lava, Padmé was gonna have her twins, Obi was gonna fight Anakin, and so on and so on) and it just made for a really dull movie. Sure, most romantic comedies are a wait for them to get together, but there's usually some struggle that feels real, and here - nothing. I never felt that Carrie was fine on her own, but neither did I get the feeling that she really missed her. Perhaps a bad script, or perhaps bad acting; I'm not sure, but it was nothing either way.
To mention the fashion for a brief moment - bleh. I adored the clothes in "The Devil Wears Prada", but the clothes in this movie were mostly awful. I would've said it was because the ladies in this movie are older and therefore the fashion is too, but my mom (with whom I watched the movie and who's just a few years older than the ladies in the movie) thought the same thing. Some of the shoes were really nice, though ^^
Through it all, Samantha was my favorite - she had most of the hilarious oneliners.
All in all, a movie filled to the brim with clichés and a happy ending so sweet and husband-filled, I would never have guessed this show was about four women standing on their own in NY. But perhaps it wasn't (after all, I never really watched it).
I can't say that I loved it, nor can I say that I hated it. There were parts that I thought were hilarious, but on the whole, I found it a blah movie. I have never really watched the show - I've seen a couple of episodes here and there, but not much - so I can't say whether it stayed true to the series or not, but I assume that the series wasn't so overflowing with sugar.
In the end, Carrie gets married to Mr. Big, Miranda gets back the husband who cheated on her, Charlotte has two kids with her husband, and Samantha is on her own again and much happier that way (unlike the other three girls, who seem miserable on their own throughout the movie). Even the help Carrie got gets back with the "love of her life", who broke her heart before the movie started, and they got married.
Everything is so neat and so tidy, and so sugary it makes my teeth ache. Seeing how it's an American movie, I knew going into it that there was no other way for it to end, but it still made me go *headdesk*.
And that brings me to a part of the problem. The movie is 148 minutes long, which equals two and a half hours. It just shouldn't be. Half-way through it, when the wedding's been botched (as we all knew it would be), and a bunch of other stuff has happened, I'm just sitting there, thinking, Okay, when are we getting out of here? because it's just drawn out and the angst is spread so thick, but it doesn't feel real - 'cause everyone knows that we're just waiting for them to tie things up. I had the same problem with Star Wars III - I knew what was going to happpen (Anakin was gonna go swim in the lava, Padmé was gonna have her twins, Obi was gonna fight Anakin, and so on and so on) and it just made for a really dull movie. Sure, most romantic comedies are a wait for them to get together, but there's usually some struggle that feels real, and here - nothing. I never felt that Carrie was fine on her own, but neither did I get the feeling that she really missed her. Perhaps a bad script, or perhaps bad acting; I'm not sure, but it was nothing either way.
To mention the fashion for a brief moment - bleh. I adored the clothes in "The Devil Wears Prada", but the clothes in this movie were mostly awful. I would've said it was because the ladies in this movie are older and therefore the fashion is too, but my mom (with whom I watched the movie and who's just a few years older than the ladies in the movie) thought the same thing. Some of the shoes were really nice, though ^^
Through it all, Samantha was my favorite - she had most of the hilarious oneliners.
All in all, a movie filled to the brim with clichés and a happy ending so sweet and husband-filled, I would never have guessed this show was about four women standing on their own in NY. But perhaps it wasn't (after all, I never really watched it).
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Date: 2008-07-07 08:28 pm (UTC)Carrie had one outfit with high knee socks which was so awful, I nearly shrieked aloud. The one thing that struck me quite odd was when the girls were talking about the frequency of their at-home sex (using 'coloring' as a metaphor), and Carrie wouldn't answer directly. Now...why not?
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Date: 2008-07-07 08:36 pm (UTC)And I have no idea why she refused to answer. Perhaps she and Big didn't have sex (they probably had chemistry in the series, but in the movie, so not). And yes, the whole thing was satisfying, but not love.
*g* about your husband :) There were like three guys and a hundred women in the theatre when we saw it today ^^