Ebert's open letter to Bill O'Reilly was EPIC. 
The great Roger Ebert KILLS Sex and the City 2
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Ebert's open letter to Bill O'Reilly was EPIC.
That's all kinds of awesome.
My friend's wife dragged him to see this.
He told me:
"This movie is like if you took Absolutely Fabulous, but sucked out all of the sarcasm, acting ability and good writing. What we are left with are four unlikeable shallow women with no redeeming qualities. Except unlike AbFab, we are somehow supposed to like these people, take them somewhat seriously and care what happens in their pathetic meaningless lives"
He told me:
"This movie is like if you took Absolutely Fabulous, but sucked out all of the sarcasm, acting ability and good writing. What we are left with are four unlikeable shallow women with no redeeming qualities. Except unlike AbFab, we are somehow supposed to like these people, take them somewhat seriously and care what happens in their pathetic meaningless lives"
I was never a big fan of this series, no big surprise as I'm a man and while it was on I was a 20-something male and not a middle-aged woman with my biological clock causing my cooch to itch for cock. But it had a good cast and, well, I wasn't likely the target demo anyway.
It seems to me that this movie's problem was taking the women out of "the city" and their natural environment and setting and sending them for a "day at the spa" in India where they act and dress in complete contrast to the values and ideals of the area. I also think it'd be hard for most middle-aged women, who the series and movie mostly appealed to, could likely connect with these characters.
I mean, of all the viewers this movie and series had how many of them do you think just suddenly drop everything and take a trip half-way around the world for wacky adventures?
(And, yeah, I'm aware of why and how they're in the ME in the movie, but it still doesn't make a great amount of sense.)
From my POV it seems they took some of the charm and setting out of the franchise by putting the women in a completely" foreign (in terms of the franchise, not location) setting which can be good, sometimes, but they had nothing to do with it.
It seems to me that this movie's problem was taking the women out of "the city" and their natural environment and setting and sending them for a "day at the spa" in India where they act and dress in complete contrast to the values and ideals of the area. I also think it'd be hard for most middle-aged women, who the series and movie mostly appealed to, could likely connect with these characters.
I mean, of all the viewers this movie and series had how many of them do you think just suddenly drop everything and take a trip half-way around the world for wacky adventures?
(And, yeah, I'm aware of why and how they're in the ME in the movie, but it still doesn't make a great amount of sense.)
From my POV it seems they took some of the charm and setting out of the franchise by putting the women in a completely" foreign (in terms of the franchise, not location) setting which can be good, sometimes, but they had nothing to do with it.
Yeah, I know what you mean. The problem is, all the movies she's in suck. I used to have the same problem with Sandra Bullock. I really want to watch movies she's in so that I can ogle her, but she only ever stars in crap.
As a teen, I watched a lot of Sandra Bullock movies, but once my movie taste became the least bit sophisticated, I just couldn't subject myself to that anymore. No eye candy is worth wasting life on terrible movies when there are so many great ones out there to be discovered.
Sandra Bullock is another crush I have but, yeah, most of her movies -while I'm sure they are good- aren't my type of movies. They're more the type of movies for, well, they're chick-flicks. SB looked good in Speed, The Net, in the Miss Congeniality movies and although her character was an annoying twit (a product of the society she lived in) I liked her in Demolition Man too.
I've yet to see The Blind Side but I heard it's really good, she's really good in it (she won an Oscar, afterall) and she looks good in it too.
Kristin Davis has a certain "something" about her, but evertime I watch(ed) even a little bit of "Sex in the City" I could feel my penis retracting more into me to become a vagina.
I've yet to see The Blind Side but I heard it's really good, she's really good in it (she won an Oscar, afterall) and she looks good in it too.
Kristin Davis has a certain "something" about her, but evertime I watch(ed) even a little bit of "Sex in the City" I could feel my penis retracting more into me to become a vagina.
This:
Sometimes too much information is just too much information.
Mark Kermode compares Sex and the City 2 with 2001: A Space Odyssey, among other things, in this week's rant
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daOfhAGGuo8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGsOxC2T6U8
That was pure epicness in YouTube formI've never heard of this dude before but I'll be keeping an eye out for more rants
So, I read the review from The Stranger that he mentioned. Hi-larious:
Oh, hell yeah. Which is, of course, why she never had a nude scene during the run of the show. *shakes fist*
Dusty Ayres
Commodore
'Ebert' is like any other film critic out there-nobody has to pay attention to him if they don't want to. He is not God. If you like this movie, by all means, go and see it. Me, I just happen to agree with the guy this one time, that's all.