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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by Wheelz[/i] [br]Yes, I'm a heterosexual male and I'm starting the [i]Sex and the City 2[/i] thread. What of it?? I freely admit that I watched and actually liked the series. I saw the first movie with my wife and kind of enjoyed it; not the greatest film ever, but I didn't mind watching it at all. But this second film was bloated and self-indulgent, bordering on self-parody. I guess I should have known what I was getting into when the film began with Liza Minnelli officiating at a gay wedding! Things settled down a bit after that, though, and they set up a couple of plotlines that looked like they could turn out to be interesting, so I had some hope for it. But then they went to Abu Dhabi and the whole thing suddenly ran off the rails. During the "I Am Woman" karaoke number, my wife leaned over to me and whispered, "I owe you for this." See, if they really wanted to say something about the way women are treated in some parts of the world, and make a statement about female empowerment, there was every opportunity to do so in a way that would feel real and even poignant. But by the time Samantha, after being [i]repeatedly[/i] advised to respect the culture and refusing to do so, gets arrested for groping a guy in public, and ends up in the middle of the market square screaming and swearing and flipping off the local males, and [i]then[/i] the girls get rescued by a pack of Arab women wearing cutting-edge designer fashions under their burqas... the whole thing had become a cartoon. Samantha, in particular, is now a ludicrous caricature of her former self. Carrie and Big's story was OK, I guess, though the stuff with Aiden seemed forced. And I never really liked Big and still don't. Miranda's and Charlotte's stories had the most potential and felt the most real, and were both given weak, tacked-on resolutions: Miranda had quit her job because of an asshole chauvinist boss, but then longed for something more than being a stay-at-home mom. But now it's OK! She got a better job and now she's happy! Yay! Charlotte is worried that Harry may be cheating on her with the Hot Nanny. And Kristin Davis played the insecurity and uncertainty, and the challenges of motherhood, quite well. And in the end, we know that Harry wasn't cheating. Why? Because she realizes he loves her and is a good and faithful husband? Nah. It's because Hot Nanny is a lesbian! Ha Ha! Lesbians are funny, and men are stupid. Despite the money to be had, the creators of SATC would be well-advised to realize that the story arcs of these characters are complete, and they should leave well enough alone. Sadly, though, I predict [i]Sex and the City 3 [/i]coming to a theater near you in Summer 2012. [/quote]    -  HTML is OFF | Forum Code is ON   Check here to include your profile signature.