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May 27, 2010 at 4:00 am
I Watched 146 Minutes of Sex and the City 2 and All I Got Was This Religious Fundamentalism
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Craig Blankenhorn
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"Start reading Filmdrunk, retard. We were calling that BS movie "Indiana Jones and His Kingdom of Werther's Originals" long before you thought up this ridiculous post, asshat."
I think you lost credibility when you called me a retard. I'm saying that the guise of hating this movie under the veil of feminism is in my opinion very anti-feminist. A well-drawn character like Carrie can have flaws like materialism and being a self-obsessed. Male characters, such as Indiana Jones or Sam from Transformers, rarely seem to be criticized for similar flaws. Whereas a movie like 007 is the prototypical alpha-male extreme of having fast cars and lots of women and tons of really awesome guns, SATC is the polar opposite where the women really like shoes and clothes and jewelry to a heightened extent. 007 rarely gets criticized, at least not with the hate and vitriol that seems to be reserved only for SATC, for this extremism. The clothes and accessories are just that, accessories, to a story about women who date, have sex, have kids, have jobs, and lives. Becoming mired in the gloss of the film seems to be preventing people, including the above critic, from reviewing it fairly.
And P.S. For some reason I feel I have to state that I am gay. Like crazy, hardcore gay. So gay I left my body when Liza sang Single Ladies so I'm not saying any of this to "get poon" as a commentor suggested.
http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/dear-…
Sums up the majority of the comments here. Awesome review though. Seems to be pissing off all the right people.
TF2 review by Lindy West: http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/dear-…
The same level of hate and vitriol? No. Judo-chopping nerds with their own bubbling, oblivious enthusiasm for violence, sexism, and racist stereotypes? YES.
GMAN
there was something about the vapid shallow materialistic series that was ok as escapism once in a while
i didn't see the first movie -- all reports said it was merely bad
i just might see the 2nd movie when it comes out on dvd: it sounds ***epic*** bad
xo,
gabrielle penabaz
Just sayin'....off to play with my Bratz dolls now.
Why am I not surprised at this, - sex and the city was OK as a show, if you wanted something mindless to watch while you paid bills/cleaned/did homework you had been procrastinating all week. The first movie was complete crap. I'm not surprised the second movie is crappier
Because the gloss is all there is to it.
However, if you'd still like to sew up all your holes, good for you! With an attitude like that, I'm guessing they don't get much use anyway.
Cheers all!
Also, for someone that aims to make an argument for feminism, to use the phrase "rape it to death" in such a callous way undermines the whole premise of your editorial.
Hopefully you'll have more fun with your vibrator tonight.
To restate in a different way: In my travels I realized the mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, women, men... across the world they are fundamentally the same. Indeed there are scoundrels everywhere. In the same light, just because women wear veils or robes does not mean they don't still like to dress up under the cover. And of course among the women, there are a lot of ridiculously wealthy and extreme women among them, just like those from this show.
This is the ultimate ANTI-feminist & anti-progressive movie.
Culturally ignorant and ethnocentric, Sex and the City basically conveys that all that matters in life for a woman is material possessions and getting fucked.
Is there any other message conveyed by SATC other than get money and get fucked and be ignorant? After all that is a woman's only true purpose in this world, right?
Disgusting.
Thank you, Sex and the City, for not contributing to humanity or society in any productive or progressive way.
This is the ultimate ANTI-feminist & anti-progressive movie.
Culturally ignorant and ethnocentric, Sex and the City basically conveys that all that matters in life for a woman is material possessions and getting fucked.
Is there any other message conveyed by SATC other than get money and get fucked and be ignorant? After all that is a woman's only true purpose in this world, right?
Disgusting.
Thank you, Sex and the City, for not contributing to humanity or society in any productive or progressive way.
"The reason why you were so disappointed by the movie is cause you were expecting something that it never purported to do in the first place."
Sorry for us normal human beings hoping for a decent plot with engaging and believable characters. Hope you know you've just basically equated yourself to that of the fans of such classics like Transformers 2. I shudder for you, Anita, shudder.
As your one and only uncle (and one who once changed your diapers in total disgust) I find your final words quite hilarious. "Muslim women: Under those craaaaaaay-zy robes, they're just as vapid and obsessed with physical beauty and meaningless material concerns as us! Feminism! Fuck yeah!If this is what modern womanhood means, then just fucking veil me and sew up all my holes. Good night." I love your writing soooo much!!! Keep up the great humor! I will pass this on to Kelsey, Annika and Kaari!
I could NOT have put it better myself!
I don't understand how this franchise has ever been as successful as it is.
There were probably so many product placement deals locked in to the thing that it would be impossible for it not to be some 145-minute luxury goods infomercial. I'm sure Abu Dhabi bankrolled half the movie to get the play it received in there.
But seriously, were any of you commenters expecting any more? How are you trying to expect Hollywood to produce anything other than the reflections of our solipsistic American society? They got bills to pay! Hollywood could give a ufck about making you less of a numb-skulled consumptive drone than you already are.
I promise you, not even die-hard SATC fans are going in that theater expecting 'The Killing Fields.' People usually go to the movies to escape reality. Get over yourselves.
Is anyone else suddenly judging their friends that asked them to go see 'a matinee of SATC2!??!!'
You say that as if you're speaking of two distinct concepts.
Why can't a woman be strong, & smart, & independent -- and have some fun on her own terms too? Must we all lose our sense of humor? Spare me a world where we cannot laugh at ourselves & the ironies of life.
Oh, and btw-Muslim women DO wear outrageously expensive lingerie & clothing under their burkas. Strange, but true.
Never saw the series, didn't see the first movie, don't really care.
I did love the review.
As to the comments mentioning that rich Middle Eastern women often dress lavishly under their abayas, I think you miss the point. A cultural* garment is not the be all and end all of oppression, the message in the film was essentially "look these women are all liberated deep down because they have stupidly impractical wardrobes too".
Very very few women in Islamic countries where face & full body covering is the norm (and there's plenty of Islamic nations where this isn't the case) feel that their clothing is their biggest (or even a relevant) issue.
SATC took the Laura Bush approach to Middle Eastern feminism - as long as you can wear what you want it's all "mission accomplished". It's offensive, ignorant and dismissive.
On Samantha, I didn't read anywhere in this piece that the reviewer had an issue with a middle aged woman HAVING sex, just that the character of Samantha (like ALL of SATC) is so pathetically one dimensional. ALL she does is fuck, once again we have a portrayal of a woman who's only interest is men (albeit in a different guise to the version where we all want to get married and have babies)
If any of the characters showed ANY interest in ANYTHING, EVER, than shopping and men it might not have sparked such a brilliantly vitriolic review.
*in a correction to a comment above - Women's (and men's) robes in the Gulf States are cultural NOT religious - abaya's & niqabs - as distinct from the burqa - were around LONG before not only Mohammed but Moses as well. They were eminently sensible in a hot desert climate
I've never ventured near any part of the franchise and would never do so as I simply don't get it.
I would just like to appeal to the defenders that describe it as escapist fun for women with a 'sense of humour'. Please speak for yourselves.
Crap like this obviouls appeals to only a certain breed of women of which I and so many others are not part of.
I like my escapist fun, I watch some chickflicks and I have good sense of humour (enough to appreciate this piece of witty writing) but I have a bottom line and SATC is way below that line.
I know we live in age when commonsense is no longer common but we have the right to call crap crap and you have the right to admit you like crap without claiming we have no sense of humour.
Re the review: Damn right, I say!
And so much fun to read...
No one complains about the hundreds of films where MEN have criminally expensive lifestyle. Ocean's Eleven for example (greedy men in designer suits tiring to steal money). Brad Pitts 'character' laughs about buying another hotel.
Double Standard Alert
No one complains about the hundreds of films where MEN have criminally expensive lifestyle. Ocean's Eleven for example (greedy men in designer suits tiring to steal money). Brad Pitts 'character' laughs about buying another hotel.
Double Standard Alert
The rest though... yeah.
Thank you to the writers and the actors for putting their careers on the line to create this piece of art to illuminate the issue for all to be aware.
Godspeed, SATC2, may SATC3 cover some other worldly woe. We cannot wait in my family for the next episode of where SATC goes next!
Where's the Nobel committee on this? If an Inconvenient Truth wins one, I cant fathom how they could ignore a serious work like this.
I guess fantasy is not in this woman's expansive "mind"
Her idea of a fun movie is probably watching grass grow
Let me say that at first I personally thought the first few seasons were great..... use of irony, hilarious, frank, no holds barred comedy about four 30-something women celebrating being single, childless and enjoying their careers and sex-lives as equals to men in a mans world...
HOWEVER....
it quickly and seamlessly turned into the Carrie show, which now featured four thirty-something women consumed by ridiculously and outrageously expensive clothes, lifestyles and who's lives were now INCOMPLETE unless they found 'the one' and conforming to the 2.4 children/white picket fence scenario except on 5th Avenue.
Well guess what, not every woman is white, wealthy, straight, married and maternal.....
What started off as fairly intelligent and diverse writing and very entertaining satirical comedy has completely turned into marshmallow,
diamond encrusted, cocktails and essentially a warped view of what sex, relationships and social status means to the majority of people who have a brain!
p.s. i am a gay man, and agree with Lindy that the gay mafia who write and produce this show have effectively given Sarah Jessica Whatever the fuck her name is, a platform to live out their drag queen fantasies because we all know if Sex and the city would have been four gay guys, it would have never been the success it has been.
So Miss Lindy West, you are my new hero and look forward to reading more of your work :-)
I call you a moron, and your friends are morons as well.
PS: The only thing more insulting and demeaning than T&A fests like Transformers are entitlementfests like SATC2. You're a materialistic, shallow, clown of a person.
This movie is "feminist" like the War in Iraq was "humanitarian".
Honestly, it made me want to wage a holy fucking jihad against the west. Or at least the oxygen thieves who make this shit.
This is consumerist, materialist and SEXIST tripe. This is pushing people further under the boot by making them aspire to be this morally vacuous.