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"Sex and the City" Not BBS-worthy?

Sadly, I've seen the show because it was "big"... I don't think I'm gonna rush out to watch the movie though.
Still, goes to show that the female population of TBBS has disappeared. :lol:
 
^Or that they're just too intelligent to be brainwashed by a film with one hundred and forty instances of product placement.

Vanity Fair compiled a list of products placed, some multiple times.
 
My ex-girlfriend had the box set cause I got it for her for Christmas. For which I was rewarded a number of times but anyway. I'd guess I've seen 2/3 of the episodes. Not a bad show but not very deep or enlightning either. Not sure why it was held up as a feminist icon by some outlets. The women are still women but I guess compared to the overly stylized gay men they seem quite strong. They never come across as very enlightened, quite the opposite actually they are very shallow.
I may Netflix it even out of curiosity one day down the road since I'm familiar enough with it.

Really though freaking out over a squirrel gets me every time.
 
I'd rather stick hot knitting needles through my eyes than see that movie. The moronic TV series was bad enough. Although, to be fair, I only saw a handful of episodes. I kept thinking the show would get better. It didn't.

SATC has also spawned hellish hordes of bus tours that invade Greenwich Village's small streets so tourists can take pictures of a stoop and clog foot traffic as they line up for hours outside the Magnolia Bakery.

And get off my lawn.
 
Captain Craig said:
Not a bad show but not very deep or enlightening either. Not sure why it was held up as a feminist icon by some outlets. The women are still women but I guess compared to the overly stylized gay men they seem quite strong.
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Why did you just capitulate to her demand and buy her that set? You should have bought her a Star Trek box set instead, or some other box set from a sci-fi series; at least a sci-fi show has better female characters than Carrie Bradshaw & Co. (usually.)

They never come across as very enlightened, quite the opposite actually they are very shallow.
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I can't believe that nobody has figured out that this crappy show and these crappy characters are basically a rip off of the 1936 play and the 1939 film The Women. The situations and characters worked in the late 1930's milieu seen in the play and the movie; as seen on Sex & The City, they ring false to a generation of people raised to believe that women can do anything that they want to do other than shop and wear great clothes. Of course, that hasn't stopped Hollywood from doing a modern update.
 
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Captain Craig said:
Not a bad show but not very deep or enlightening either. Not sure why it was held up as a feminist icon by some outlets. The women are still women but I guess compared to the overly stylized gay men they seem quite strong.
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Why did you just capitulate to her demand and buy her that set? You should have bought her a Star Trek box set instead, or some other box set from a sci-fi series; at least a sci-fi show has better female characters than Carrie Bradshaw & Co. (usually.)
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Capitulate. Come now my man don't jump to conclusions got to get her what she likes. She is ok with sci-fi, aka Trek and Firefly specifically, but fantasy is more her thing. I had gotten her Buffy s1 and the 90s Dark Shadows set for her birthday so I did get her some genre stuff.
 
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at least a sci-fi show has better female characters than Carrie Bradshaw & Co. (usually.)
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President Laura Roslin, Lt. Colonel (Doctor) Samantha Carter, Doctor Elizabeth Weir, Captain Kathryn Janeway, Special Agent (Doctor) Dana Scully, Captain Kara Thrace, Special Agent (Doctor, again) Diana Skouris, Colonel Kira Nerys, Buffy Summers, Teyla Emmagan and about a billion others.

My personal favourite example is C.J. Cregg. She liked nice shoes and pretty dresses and had a few male admirers, too.
 
I saw it on opening night. I felt sorry for the few men there who were dragged by their SOs though. It was an event to be shared with your gal pals. My girl gang and I dressed up, saw the film and then drank some cosmos - all in good fun. :)
 
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I saw it on opening night. I felt sorry for the few men there who were dragged by their SOs though. It was an event to be shared with your gal pals. My girl gang and I dressed up, saw the film and then drank some cosmos - all in good fun. :)
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As long as the men got to do that aforementioned thing that their SO previously thought was perverted in exchange then that's one thing.

Otherwise, I'd imagine that most of them fell asleep or played count the product placement to keep themselves entertained.
 
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kimc said:
I saw it on opening night. I felt sorry for the few men there who were dragged by their SOs though. It was an event to be shared with your gal pals. My girl gang and I dressed up, saw the film and then drank some cosmos - all in good fun. :)
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As long as the men got to do that aforementioned thing that their SO previously thought was perverted in exchange then that's one thing.

Otherwise, I'd imagine that most of them fell asleep or played count the product placement to keep themselves entertained.
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But part of the fun of an evening with your girl gang is getting intoxicated then jumping your man afterwards. ;)
 
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But part of the fun of an evening with your girl gang is getting intoxicated then jumping your man afterwards. ;)
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I don't know about other people, but it's dangerous to try the kind of perverted things I'd want to do when either participant is drunk. We have rules about that sort of thing, safe, sane and consensual and all. :lol:
 
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I'm not sure what the female population is here on this board, but I suspect most of the women who do post here tend to be interested in sci-fi things in general, and are not as likely to be as interested in this movie. At least that's the case for me! I also seem to be missing the female gene that supposed to compel me to buy a crazy amount of shoes and outfits. :p In fact I positively loathe shopping for shoes and the few pair I have I'll wear until they're about to fall to pieces before I'm reluctantly trudge to the store and to find new ones.
 
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I adored the show for what it was....fun and fluffy. I went to the movie opening night....no, I didn't dress up. I didn't go out for cosmos (sadly). I went with a couple of friends and enjoyed the movie for what it was...fun and fluffy.
 
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I'm not sure what the female population is here on this board, but I suspect most of the women who do post here tend to be interested in sci-fi things in general, and are not as likely to be as interested in this movie. At least that's the case for me! I also seem to be missing the female gene that supposed to compel me to buy a crazy amount of shoes and outfits. :p In fact I positively loathe shopping for shoes and the few pair I have I'll wear until they're about to fall to pieces before I'm reluctantly trudge to the store and to find new ones.
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's funny. I mean, I'm the kind of girl who chucks out shoes to make extra closet space for comic books, but when I went to see Indiana Jones and SatC this weekend, I enjoyed SatC about fifty times more than Indy. I only watched the show sporadically, but I thought that the film did it justice, and that it was head and shoulders above 90% of the shite marketed to women, in that at least it actually attempted to engage with the questions of what's healthy for women in relationships instead of the usual tripe.

I've always had mixed feelings about SatC. On one hand, some of the happily ever afters and superficialities got my hackles up. On the other hand, it did give women a vocabulary to talk about sex, and permission to do so openly in a way that I think was beneficial.

(Off topic - while I've been typing this post, I've been getting more and more annoyed by that Heromachine Pin-Up ad to the right of the post box. Is there anyway I can make that not be there while I type? I hate it. It's horrible.)
 
I've heard some good things about the movie from people who are normally disdainful about those types of movies, so I'll likely rent it when it comes out on DVD out of curiosity. Though the more I hear about what happened in the movie the less I feel like doing that. I tried watching the TV series but got bored with it and annoyed with the characters after awhile, so I eventually gave it up. I just don't think the humor appeals to me over all.
 
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