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(Warning, if you do not want to know what happens in this film, do not read this blog.)

 

 

 

So I saw sex in the city the movie this weekend. My sister had a spare ticket, and no one to go with that would want to watch this movie. I saw a few episodes late at night when there is nothing better on, and it was ok. I don’t think it was the greatest show on earth, but it wasn’t totally bad. Just something I wouldn’t pick above wrestling or U.F.C. So I agreed to go with her, mostly because I wanted to hang out with her and get out of the house for a bit. I also wanted to see it to give a man’s opinion about the film. I tend to notice that Dorothy and Lisa B. tend to knock every film that I like (“Rambo”, “Rocky Balboa”) and really praise any and nearly all chick flicks like “The Devil’s Wears Prauda”. But I feel they tend to care more about what the characters are wearing then the actual story of the movie. Plus I’m not a fan of the show, but I don’t hate it either. So I think I’m pretty neutral in deciding if it’s good or not, and if it’s accessible to non fans of the show. I haven’t seen every episode, but enough to get a feel of each character.

 

 

 

Well in the first 5 minutes of the film I already knew what was going to happen in the entire film. The typical plot of nearly every romantic/comedy movie, guy loves girl, they are due to wed, they breakup (the cause of the break up was because the husband to be ended up getting last minute jitters) of course at the end of the movie they end up together, in what seems to be a very rushed happily ever after end. I mean they break up in the beginning of the film, and you see him for like 20 min’s at the end when they make up, have sex and get married.

 

 Side plots are pretty stale. Samantha isn’t happy living in California away from her friends, and putting her needs aside for her man, and his career. At the end of the film she discovers that she is too in love with herself to put her needs in second, and needs a man that will put her needs first. Just shows how shallow she is, and always been in the show. Plus she totally wants to bang the neighbor that is constantly screwing a different chick every day. It drives her nuts. so much that she gains 15 pounds by over eating to help comfort her for the lack of sex, and trying to stay faithful to her man.

 

 Then you have meranda, who is angry at her husband for cheating on her. So of course she makes a big fuss over it and doesn’t want to forgive him at all even though he explains that it was just once, and it meant nothing to him. He just needed sex. Meranda has been so “busy” with working, and being a mother that she hasn’t had sex with him in over 6 months, and when they did have sex, she was rushing him to finish. Of course I’m just wondering, how does she find time to have lunches with her friends, party nearly every night with her friends, and spends days and hours just helping her friend Carrie move out of her apartment and decide what to keep and throw away from her closet as they make a game out it and get drunk? Plus she has a nanny to take care of the child which she never let’s her have much of a break while she’s working even though she’s an old lady. Plus she is able to leave to Mexico all of a sudden to just chill with her friends for like a week. I’m just wondering, she said she doesn’t have anytime, but couldn’t she just stay in a day or two just to make time for her husband instead of spend so much time with her friends? She got what she deserved for being a bad wife. Of course the film doesn’t mention any of this and mostly puts it that it was his fault.

 

 Then you have what’s her name that I would consider the lame one. After years of not being able to get pregnant she does and has a baby. She’s totally happy with her life, and really nothing bad happens to her other then crapping her pants. That’s all that happens with her.

 

Then you have Carrie’s story which is the main plot. So she and her boyfriend decide to get married after moving in together. her friends advise her that it would be better to be married and have some legal entitlement to the apartment they just moved into if she and her boyfriend were to break up and because they were both ready to get married. Of course what was planned to be a simple marriage ended up being a huge circus. Carrie is so wrapped up in the whole wedding that she doesn’t seem to care about her fiancée feelings towards the wedding which causes them to become distant. Then meranda after having a fight with her husband tells Carrie’s fiancée that he’s crazy for getting married, and that getting married ruins everything. So that pushes him to have even more doubts and leaves Carrie at the alter. But after thinking about it, he decides to go through with it, and heads to the alter. Midway there he confronts his bride to be, and try’s to explain that he’s sorry for having doubts and midway though is apology he’s whacked in the head with flowers by his angry bride to be. Then her friends get out of the car all enraged looking much like a street gang. The lame one gets all crazed and make a big fuss screaming out “nooo!” like a total bit*h.  Carrie being the drama queen that she is depressed for the rest of the film. Not eating, and just sleeps for days. she is even fed by her friends like "i'm too weak to put up a spoon". OMG, what a drama queen. I say 2 weeks of being unhappy is more then enough time to get over it. But wow she takes over 6 months.

 

 

 

So what did I think of the movie? Well I thought it was predictable. Way too much product placement. The cloths were ugly as f**k. . I mean the first scene you see Carrie wearing a dress with a giant ugly tacky flower on it that is way huge. I would be embarrassed if I was a girl wearing their cloths. Just yuck. All the characters are total drama queens, and shallow. I mean all they do is drink, party, have sex, and dwell on drama. I just don’t know how people can relate to them. It seems that they have an unlimited account since they are buying 500 dollar shoes every other day. I don’t remember seeing any of them work at all for the whole movie. I also notice that the girls all aged a lot, and their wasn’t enough sex in the movie. The only ones shown somewhat nudes are the ones you wouldn’t really want to see naked. Plus Sarah Jessica parker looks pretty bad in the film, she aged a lot. One scene she just looks like a zombie. You can totally tell that they airbrushed her face during the wedding dress montage. Anyways, it had a few moments of being funny, but far and in-between. I felt that most of the funny things weren’t supposed to be funny at all, but I have a twisted sense of humor. Like Carrie reaction to being dumped. I was laughing pretty hard when everyone should be shedding tears. I think they tried way too hard to get you all crying. It didn’t work for me, and believe me I cry during films. Who isn’t able to shed a tear when you see Simba’s dad dies in the Lion King? I think the film wasn’t edgy. What used to be edgy when the show was on HBO isn’t anymore and they didn’t push the envelope as much as they could have. I think the only reason the movie was made was because they fans of the show wanted to see the big wedding that the show didn’t deliver. I also don’t think the characters grow much in the movie. It seems like they are going backwards then forwards. I also noticed that all of their boyfriends/husbands are really ugly too. It’s like wow, why did they pick these guys. The only one that got a decent looking guy was the oldest of the group. Very odd. I also felt that the male characters were way too stiff and lacked any human emotions. i mean it looked like they were slaves or servents. they would do everything that their girlfriends/wife asked of them without any hesistation at all, and yet they are still not good enough. what kind of crap is that? So I guess if you want to watch a movie where they male bash through out the entire film, make men seem like mindless zombies, show granny porn, and is pretty much a 2 hour run way show then watch this film. I’ll give this movie 3 out of 5 stars. It had its moments, they made it easy for non fans to understand who everyone is and what their back story is, but at the end I think its best left to wait for DVD as a rental.