Just got back from Sex and the City midnight showing...- Page 4
Just got back from Sex and the City midnight showing...
misschung
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/18/07
#75spoiler
Posted: 6/1/08 at 2:35pm
"The effect, unintentional but not dismissible, is a kind of "Mammy, what would I ever do without you?" superiority."
Mizz Scarlet!
jrb, your comment about the herd of queens just made my day, thank you
The morning star always gets wonderful bright the minute before it has to go --doesn't it?
Updated On: 6/1/08 at 02:35 PM
#76spoiler
Posted: 6/1/08 at 5:32pm
I have only seen a few episodes of the series, but I knew the basic characters and some of the stories. However, it was with some relcutance that I went to see the movie last night. With that said, I enjoyed it.
My one complaint, which may stem from not being a fan of the show, was that, in the self-contained film, I did not want Carrie and Big to end up together. I also thought his "I need to know it's you and me" excuse for ditching her at the altar was pretty lame.
I did have fun watching everyone in line. Heterosexual women dressed to the nines with their nest friends, gay men with cosmos in hand, and henpecked husbands/boyfriends dragged kicking and screaming!
"I am open, and I am willing,
For to be hopeless would seem so strange.
It dishonors those who go before us,
So lift me up to the light of change."
Holly Near
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#77spoiler
Posted: 6/1/08 at 6:30pm
. I also thought his "I need to know it's you and me" excuse for ditching her at the altar was pretty lame.
I agree with that. It seemed out of character for him period, within the context of the show or the movie. But, c'est la vie. I was more shocked by that thrift shop suit Carrie bought to originally wear to her wedding. THAT seemed out of character!
I did a lot of thinking about the whole Hudson as Mammy thing, and sometimes I really do think you're damned if you and damned if you don't. If there wasn't a black character, they'd get railed for it. For having the character be her assistant (an assistant who received a thousand dollar bag from her boss), there are the inevitable cries of stereotypes. I dunno, unless I remember incorrectly, wasn't Hudson the only female character apart from the main four that had some semblance of an actual, developed role? But whatever, if I was out for blood where this movie was concerned, I guess I could see it.
#78spoiler
Posted: 6/1/08 at 6:35pm
There's this phenomenon in Hollywood films/TV series that some scholars refer to as "the magical black friend." The SEX & THE CITY film just fell for the trap too, but I think it's sort of better than the overt whiteness that was implied in the series.
Plus, Hudson truly made the most out of the role, she was pretty good in the role which surprised me since I was kind of worried that her turn in DREAMGIRLS was a sort of one-time thing.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
#79spoiler
Posted: 6/1/08 at 6:39pmI was surprised at the number of African-American women that were at the movie last night. Several groups of friends at our showing, the one before, the two after ...
"I am open, and I am willing,
For to be hopeless would seem so strange.
It dishonors those who go before us,
So lift me up to the light of change."
Holly Near
blueroses
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/18/04
#84spoiler
Posted: 6/1/08 at 10:41pm
Re: The Louis Vuitton. $1,000? Try $5,400!
http://www.bagjournal.com/handbag-brands/louis-vuitton-handbags/2008/louis-vuitton-firebird-purse.html
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#86spoiler
Posted: 6/2/08 at 10:51am
Apropos of nothing... I saw it at 8pm on a Saturday night in Chicago. The theater was packed and to my amazement, it may have been the best behaved audience I've ever seen. One guy was making some noise early on but he had about ten people shush him and that was the only incident. Nary a cell phone was heard, no chit chat, no nothing.
And - this just happened and I think it's hilarious - I was just chatting with someone at work about the movie, and this big straight dude from our facilities department came walking by and asked what we were talking about and we told him the SATC movie. He immediately shushed us, saying he didn't want to hear anything, because he was going with his wife tonight and didn't want it spoiled. He then said it was his favorite show of all time and that he owns all dvds. I told him that I thought that the straight male SATC fan was a myth!
Updated On: 6/2/08 at 10:51 AM
robbiej
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#87spoiler
Posted: 6/2/08 at 11:04am
Saw it yesterday at 4pm in Chelsea and I agree, Phyl, it was the best behaved audience I've been with in a long time. And it was amazingly diverse. Every ethnic, sexual and age group. It was delightful.
Best moment...during the moment when Carrie says 'Home alone on New Year's Eve with a Cup 'o Noodles' a woman right behind me said, 'That's right!' It wasn't that loud...and I don't think it was conscious on her part. It was practically Pavolvian and it brought the house down.
No...not a 'great' film. But it was everything I wanted. It made me laugh...it brought a tear. And the last moment about the Cosmos was utterly perfect. And Samantha leaving Smith was the righting of a story arc that I thought didn't always ring true.
Brava to all involved!
"I'm so looking forward to a time when all the Reagan Democrats are dead."
robbiej
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#93spoiler
Posted: 6/2/08 at 1:59pmI only wish our audience had been so well-behaved. I had a group of girls drunk on cosmos (of course) sitting next to me. They chatted in full voice throughout 75% of the film. Everyone tried shushing them, but they were too drunk to notice the shushing was for them. THey just continued talking to each other without even bothering to turn their heads towards each other. It was maddening.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
#95spoiler
Posted: 6/2/08 at 2:15pm
Kristin Davis is my least favorite of those four actresses, but she had two of the most honest moments in the movie: when she looks at Big after Carrie beats him with the bouquet and Charlotte snarls "No," and when she tells Carrie that she is pregnant.
As for Dante, well, um, "pornolicious" just about covers it.
"I am open, and I am willing,
For to be hopeless would seem so strange.
It dishonors those who go before us,
So lift me up to the light of change."
Holly Near
Parks
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/5/04
#96spoiler
Posted: 6/2/08 at 2:21pm
Thought this was kind of interesting.
Clip of the street scene being filmed.
"If it walks like a Parks, if it wobbles like a Parks, then it's definitely fat and nobody loves it." --MA
#97spoiler
Posted: 6/2/08 at 2:26pmI watched it on Saturday. Actually, a friend dragged me to it, kicking and screaming. Never seen the show, so I didn't know what to expect and admittedly wasn't looking forward to it. But I enjoyed it very much. It was actually fun observing the audience. They were really into it. My favorite was when Steve confessed his infidelity to Miranda and there was this big collective gasp.
Salve, Regina, Mater misericordiae
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia
EVIE
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/12/04
#99spoiler
Posted: 6/2/08 at 3:05pmMy friends and I saw it on Saturday and it was packed. The audience was very well behaved thankfully. We cheered and clapped when it started and we cheered and clapped when it ended! We laughed, we cried, we loved it. There were some points in the movie that I didn't like or enjoy, but overall, I truly truly enjoyed it.
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