The movie was average.
theycallmezulu: BUT THE SHOES WERE FANTASTIC.
Average? Are you sure?
Why Sex and the City 2 Is A Science Fiction Movie
When viewed as a rom-com, Sex and the City 2 is terrible and crappy and a horrific inversion of everything the show once was. But when viewed as a science fiction film, SATC2 is subversive, stylish and chilling. Like The Island from Lost, we may never know The City’s true identity — Is it a VR computer program? A malevolent interdimensional god? Satan? — but we do know the following:
1.) The City can control time.
2.) The City can control their personalities.
3.) Nothing exists outside of The City.
4.) The City keeps tabs on Carrie via shoes.
Did I mention that just the fact of seeing a Sex and the City 2 review on the TMT homepage is funny to me to begin with? Also, it’s my doing, and thereby funnier?
All that’s to say it’s up today.
“As for Carrie: Sarah Jessica Parker is now 45 years old, and, frankly, I cannot stomach another moment of the simpering, mincing, hair-tossing, eyelash-batting little-girl shtick she’s been pulling ever since she emerged, with considerably more verve and charm, as a high-colonic Malibu Barbie opposite Steve Martin in L.A. Story. It goes without saying that Carrie has been assigned the movie’s big-ticket issue: What to do with marriage once the newlywed bliss is over, especially if you don’t want children? That’s a very good question, but one that’s promptly dumbed down with bogus dilemmas, trumped-up crises, and much ancillary footwear chatter. Once the happy pair has feathered their cozy little nest, a cavernous pad with the requisite ballroom-size closet, it turns out that Big is a homebody who’s had it, poor boy, with the fancy restaurants and glam gallery openings, and wants nothing more than to cuddle up with Carrie and the flat-screen television.”
David Cho and Neel Shah Discuss the Ladies
- Neel: I feel like every time a female friend of mine is asked that question, she answers "Carrie."
- David: Is there a bigger disparity than the perceptions of how attractive Carrie is by women and by men?
- David: I mean, she is nothing close to attractive.
- David: But I have very vivid memories of girls from college arguing over how "beautiful she was".
- Neel: Agreed.
- Neel: In general, women are TERRIBLE at gauging the attractiveness of other women.
- David: Like "cute" girls that they set you up with?
- David: Although Facebook has mitigated a lot of those issues.
- Neel: I don't know how many times a female friend of mine has been like, "Oh, I really want to set you up with X, she is SO HOT."
- Neel: And then you see a pic, and it's like, "Whaaa?"
- David: You know what though?
- David: The digital equivalent of a girl's recommendation on another girl's attractiveness is the Macbook Photobooth picture.
- David: Does anyone ever look unattractive in those?
- David: If you see a girl who you've never seen IRL in a Macbook Photobooth picture, NEVER TRUST IT.
- Neel: YES.
- Neel: I think maybe it's because girls like to pride themselves on having "attractive" friends, and so they lose perspective on whether or not they're actually "objectively physically attractive" if they like them as people?
- [http: //www.theawl.com/2010/05/a-sex-and-the-city-2-review-by-two-actual-straight-men]
“The tagline for the new movie about Carrie Bradshaw & Co. states that we should “Carrie on.” The publicity department almost got it right, but the spelling’s off. It needs to be “Carrion” because nothing says putrefying, rotten and vile quite like this sequel.”
“Neel: Look, I’m not saying that a popcorn chick flick like this has to actually “say” anything about anything of even remote significance. But this movie was about what, exactly?
Neel: These four women go to Abu Dhabi.
Neel: Stay in $22k-a-night suites.
Neel: Have their own sexy Arab butlers.
Neel: Drive around in white Maybachs.
Neel: And then flip out when something goes wrong and then they all of a sudden maybe have to fly back to New York IN COACH?
Neel: Come on.”
A ‘Sex And The City 2’ Review By Two Actual Straight Men - The Awl
Sounds like a great film to release in the midst of a massive recession.
(via shorterexcerpts)
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