May 29, 2008
More Disappointed by Sex
The Sex and the City movie is causing more trouble today, officially making it as controversial as "a Taliban recruitment video," at least according to Jeffrey Wells's scathing review.
Following the premiere's overbooking incident, both New Line Cinema and Radio City Music Hall are pointing the finger of blame at each other. With thousands of ticket-holders turned away, The NY Post wants to know who's got the blood, sweat and tears of Sex fanatics on their hands.
"The movie studio gave out way more promotional tickets than could fit in the orchestra," said one insider. "Radio City managers told the New Line people, 'You can solve this by opening up the mezzanines, which have 2,700 more seats - but they wouldn't do it."Meanwhile, no one even liked the movie anyway, not even the #1 Fan who paid $19,000 to see it. Ella Sherman ended up getting into the premiere after landing herself on the pages of The Post, only to turn around and say, "I could've written that movie and done a better job. It was like one person wrote the first half and it was Sex and the City and another person wrote the second and it was The Bold and the Beautiful." Zing? The happy ending is that she gets her money refunded; she wasn't the only one to foolishly throw down thousands, however.However, a New Line source countered, "It was Radio City Music Hall making that decision. They took control of the fan line. They turned the fans away."
The Daily News reports on two Canadian women, Jen Ferguson and Devon Cross, who got their designer garb wet as they waited hopelessly in the rain outside the premiere, grasping their golden tickets. The twosome('s parents) spent $16,000 on their 5-day trip from British Columbia and "had to lean on umbrellas to ease the pain in their feet" when the heels and the line became too much for their soles. Upbeat, and apparently unaffected by wasting their parent's money, they say they'll just see the movie when they get back home.
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If you're disappointed by sex then your partner is doing it wrong.
YES! Made that joke before someone else.
Who's the ugly person in the photo? Is this a preview for the next Ugly Betty movie?
Suckers. There's no movie in the word so good that I'd pay $20 to watch, never mind thousands.
Has Sex and the City turned into a modern-day Star Trek? Will fans pay outrageous amounts of money, dress in laughable clothing and travel miles to see their "heroes" in person? Stories about the film interest me about as little as the film itself.
Yawn.
I love that the cultural touchstone of many contemporary women is a tv show about a bunch of dried up skanks.
As a native New Yorker I might live in the other NYC people never talk about. The sad fact is most people who live in NYC don't live the Sex in the City life. But its good to see people will gladly pay thousands of dollars just to see a fing movie thats more fiction than fact. The best is the woman from Singapore who felt the movie was not all the great after she spent a few grand to come to NYC to see it.
Those chicks in the Daily News article really pissed me off. They spent $16,000 of their PARENTS' money for five days in NYC -- grow up already! And then when they couldn't get into the movie they spent more of their parents' money going out to dinner. Fuck them.
And that one says she's harnessing her inner Carrie Bradshaw. WHY? Carrie was a lonely, broke, underemployed, insecure moron who spent all her money on shoes and alcohol to drown her sorrows. Though it is appropriate to "harness" her because she has a face like a horse!
Someone give the nice horsie an apple.
I can't believe the dream of many women is to be old and ugly and date and have sex with old and ugly guys with money and drink cosmopolitans while discussing having sex with old and ugly rich guys. Cause that's basically what sex and the city is about, that and spending a lot of money on bad fashion choices.
Will someone please tell me the ending so I don't have to pay the $12 just to see how the series should have ended . . .
I have a friend who calls this show "You have no chance at sex living in NYC with Money Grabbing Whores like this and should just hire escorts rather than go clubbing"
"As a native New Yorker I might live in the other NYC people never talk about. The sad fact is most people who live in NYC don't live the Sex in the City life."
Actually, I do. I'd say the show is dead on, loser.
(Nahah, just kidding. Kind of an obvious point, though, dontyathink?)
"so I don't have to pay the $12 just to see how the series should have ended . . ."
I'll tell you how the series should have ended:
- Miranda comes out as a lesbian after all (flashbacks to that episode with the lesbian date), gets joint custody of her child, but then her co-op board, which is full of rotten bigots, schemes to evict her. Mortally offended, she takes a new job as an entertainment lawyer in LA and has a replacement child.
- Charlotte realizes she is a worthless ninny and sticks her head in the oven.
- Carrie writes another book about these harrowing experiences, it gets turned into a movie, and she becomes a vaguely important show-biz broad like her namesake Carrie Fisher.
- Samantha just forgets about all of them, is shown in the last scene bumping into Carrie and then remarking "we used to be close friends, actually. I'm [name of character in movie-within-movie]!"
$16,000 to see the premiere. That's half of my salary. Besides, for $16,000 one can perhaps spend a month or two in NYC and try to live the fantasy, the lives of those characters (the two Canadians are more beautiful than any of the 4 characters in SATC). Spend your money more wisely. Try not to get instant gratification (then again the movie tanks), so there is no gratification there at all.
I watched one episode partially and it was enough for me. Since then have been avoiding SATC at all costs - it is pure garbage of a TV show.
When they anounced the movie I was surprised as to what it could be about, provided the series was that bad (IMHO) and pointless. So I am not very surprised so many ppl like the movie and pay more than $10 to see it.
We Americans are getting dumber, and movies like this help speed up the dumbization (remember, I watched half an episode, it was not without an effect) process.
I think making a movie that centers around the sexual aspect of lives of 40-50+ year old women is pure idiocy unless it is a medical study or some perverted porn.
haha..sex lives of 40-50+ year old women?
wouldn't they be going through menopause around that time?
"The Daily News reports on two Canadian women, Jen Ferguson and Devon Cross, who got their designer garb wet as they waited hopelessly in the rain outside the premiere, grasping their golden tickets."
That's the only way two Canuckian hags could ever hope to get wet.
Actually the two Canadians were a lot hotter than the cast of that movie about four menopausal broads who will never get a stiff one again.
Snoopy - that's Dee Snyder himself, of Twisted Sister fame.
That stupid show is responsible for turning NYC women into even worse harridans they had already been.
Ok, "hittable hottie hags from Canuckistan". They are, on inspection, quite un-SATC.
That hag in the picture looks like a witch from a horror movie.
She has the huge, hooked nose, and even a growth on her chin.
Look at those wrinkles, and the bags under the eyes.
And that's with makeup. Imagine waking up to that in your bed in the morning?
Scary. Who would fuck that and not end up traumatized?
^No shit. Jessica Fucking Whatever looks like an 80 yr old Firestone Tire heiress.