Excellent but underrated film
... View MoreIt is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review
... View MoreThe film may be flawed, but its message is not.
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... View MoreCONTAINS SPOILERSI just watched this again on late night TV and again the questions were popping into my head after the first time I saw it. Having been a SATC fan of the series - there was a belief this movie would bring about the questions all of us had wondered when the series finished. Did the producers answer them? Apart from cashing in on the franchise some 4 years down the track, this was the opportunity to see if our favourite characters could " live happily ever after". Samantha: She was by far my favourite, ballsy, no nonsense and not afraid to be a woman, even when the writers gave her cancer to beat, she hit it head long in the guts and then unthinkably found "love". It was the typical "fish out of water " routine, but suited Sam's character, they seemed to get that right as she plummets head long into guilt and not feeling comfortable with the whole idea. The movie gave us the right direction for the character.Miranda: I always wanted to punch her in the face during the series, we were given some insight into her background via her mother dying and it then gave the clue that she had huge self esteem issues, not always relying on the fact that she was allowed to be happy. This was taken a step further when Steve cheated on her in the movie and the inevitable happened. You couldn't condone Steve, but you always had to feel sorry for the guy as he valiantly sidestepped a very angry woman who could not love herself. In the movie she learnt the most valuable of lessons, it was completed. Charlotte: The little princess and during the series she learnt that not everything has to be perfection, aka her husband to be happy in life. In the movie, she seemed to be a caricature of herself and it was unsettling as if she was just a prop to be dragged out when they needed a bit of comedic relief. Sadly, the only thing they could drag up to complete her already perfect existence was a baby of her own... her character was completed wasted by the producers.Carrie: I always loathed her character, because even though we understood she had abandonment issues via her father, the only clue we were given during the series, she NEVER learnt anything. All the others evolved, Carrie did not and sadly when it came to the movie she again had no clue about anyone else but herself, it was ME ME ME and to heck with everyone else. Bringing in her secretary to teach her about love and forgiveness, just never sat right through that movie, when the women she had surrounded herself with for 20 years seemingly gave her no clue. Watch the movie to wrap up your curiosity but don't ask it to be anything else but light fluffy entertainment. The producers had ample opportunity to bring something special to the screens and let all the fans of the series down.
... View MoreCarrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) is still unmarried to Mr. Big (Chris Noth). After 3 books and 3 years, they are searching for the perfect apartment. Charlotte (Kristin Davis) is happily married to Harry Goldenblatt (Evan Handler) with an adopted Chinese girl. Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) has settled in Brooklyn with Steve (David Eigenberg) and their son Brady. Samantha (Kim Cattrall) is in L.A. with Smith Jerrod (Jason Lewis) who is now a superstar. The gang reunites often to spend time together. Carrie is concerned about selling her place to move in together and they agree to get married. However the wedding gets out of hand when Vogue's Enid Frick (Candice Bergen) wants to make Carrie 'The Last Single Girl'.I didn't watch the TV show and this is not aiming for me as an audience. I do like the women's chemistry and their friendship. Carrie and Mr. Big's struggles provide a bare backbone to this movie. It's still perfectly watchable for non-fans but it's probably much more compelling for true fans. The girl talk is fun... sometimes. The drama is light glossy for the most part punctuated by big reversals. For me, this is a 6 but that's just for me.
... View MoreOn the next season of Sex and the City (1998-2004), Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) is about to marry Mr. Big (Chris Noth) but is jilted at the wedding. Samantha (Kim Cattrall), Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) and Charlotte (Kristin Davis) take her on the honeymoon she should have had in Mexico, then she rebuilds her life. Meanwhile Samantha gets used to the challenges of relationship life, Cynthia's bo cheats on her and puts their marriage in jeopardy and Charlotte gets pregnant! Guest starring Academy Award winner Jennifer Hudson and Academy Award nominee Candice Bergen.Yes it reads like the back of a Season 7 DVD packet back because Sex and the City (2008) is just that, another season of the highly celebrated HBO TV Show masquerading as a movie. That in itself, would probably be enough to entice its primary audience and to you I say kudos. Read no further, go enjoy yourselves are they gone? Ugh. If I may be honest, I liked the four episodes of the show I watched. While I am far from the primary demographic here, I found it kind of refreshing that a show taking place in upscale New York City circa 1998 could conjure up such interesting if vapid characters. That and before Game of Thrones (2011-Present) and The L Word (2004-2009), it was a premium cable show not afraid to show some skin. Plus is it possible for a straight man to find Mario Cantone hilarious? You're darn right! But come on! Was this movie really necessary? The only fathomable reason for this useless, listless piece of chintzy trash to exist is to give anthropologists an ironic before picture of the 2008 financial meltdown. Four aging (but still fabulous, fabulous I say!) women walking around in designer clothes complaining about their dreary upper-crust life, blissfully unaware of the possible hurdles they will have to face in a few months time. If this were real New York, ground zero for the Great Recession, Carrie would be selling her Dolce Gabana pumps for a hot meal. Miranda would be divorced because finances are a bigger reason for divorce rates than fidelity and Charlotte would be on food stamps. So much for happy endings where people find sweet, sweet, love in the big city.This movie attempts to be about love but it really isn't about love at all. If it were it wouldn't have been nearly as episodic or emotionally unaffecting. No this movie is a blatant attempt to cash in on the franchise; calmly stroking the back of those still holding on to Carrie's heyday adventures as if they can live vicariously through the popular author and her sisterhood of traveling mini skirts. Oh, it would be so nice to be able to pay for two different upscale apartments in Manhattan and still have enough cash to hire a token black assistant but as the credits role did you really get any value from this movie? Anything other than the feeling of déjà vu and amnesia I got while watching Sex and the City? I really do feel as if I have forgotten this before.The movie ends in probably the best way it could have. The four girls walking into an exclusive looking club wearing top-line dresses. They sit and enjoy the eldest of the four's 50th birthday with a small cake and martinis as younger women pass by. While the sentimental and the already converted might see this scene as a blissful farewell/passing of the torch, I see it differently. While the ladies toast to the next 50 years, one thought screamed in my head repeatedly "You're old!"http://theyservepopcorninhell.blogspot.com
... View MoreEvery time I watch the Sex and the City movie (which is quite often, really), I finish up with the same question: Why is everyone so mad at Miranda for leaving Steve?Steve cheated on her. To me, that's the biggest betrayal possible besides, I dunno, him hurting her kid physically somehow. I don't get why her friends are always trying to get her to go back to him, to consider forgiving him, etcetera. I mean, they should know that it might be possible in future for her to forgive him...but why the pressure to do it quickly?At one point, Charlotte asks Miranda: "Are you sure you can't give him another chance?" and then somebody (perhaps Miranda?) says, "What about Carrie? Do you think she should forgive Big?" and Charlotte exclaims, "NO! Of course not!" because, um, Big left her at the altar. Yeah, that was bad, but was it as bad as cheating on her with another woman?I'm not saying that one should never forgive something like that. I'm just saying that I think these ladies have some weird priorities. And I think it's weird that Miranda's friends would encourage her to put up with being so horribly disrespected, but never entertain the thought that Carrie could forgive Big for the public humiliation of jilting her. I guess at least Steve didn't humiliate Miranda in public, right?I just don't get it, and perhaps I never will.BUT...I still love this movie...way, way more than I love the second one (i.e. I don't love that at all).
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