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Post by David Hunter on May 16, 2008 17:25:19 GMT
I know they had Liz Smith playing Samantha on the Graham Norton show, but obviously Sarah Jessica Parker had read her book before choosing her premiere outfit.
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2008 19:35:43 GMT
I laughed, I did a few little cries, I cheered, but mainly I got a sore bum. It's very long, if it weren't for my love of the series, I wouldn't have stayed for a film that long. Carrie and Big, emotional but predictable, in fact most of the things in the film were predictable. It seemed to me that this film is meant to be one of many, it basically undid many of the storylines of the series and then either finished them off differently or regressed the characters back to where they were before. Samantha breaking up with Smith by saying exactly what she said to Richard "I love you, but I love me more." seemed forced and unnatural, although her throwing the naked sushi was awesome.
At the wedding rehearsal dinner there was so many characters from the series, but they didn't speak! Bitzy Von Mufflink was there, but she didn't utter a word, there wasn't a sign of Marcus and instead Anthony and Stanford seemed to be together. Charlotte was ace, and her comic timing was impeccable.
When Steve and Miranda met on the bridge I was nearly in full blown weeping, but I held myself together, and the same when Carrie ran to big in the penthouse. In fact the entire film had me teetering on the edge of being an emotional wreck, and even now just thinking about it is making me tear up.
Also- LA neighbour man and his HUGE penis, erm wow.
Time has not been kind to most of the cast, although Miranda is the only one who looks as if she hasn't aged a day.
Overall, whilst it was a very emotionally powerful film, it lacked the sharpness and the finesse of the series. It had so much to say, and yet too much time in which to say it. It may have worked better as a slower paced two parter, or a faster paced single with less storylines. Jennifer Hudson was seemingly shoved in there to sort Carrie out, when in all honesty, she wasn't needed. Harry was underused but Carries new apartment was AMAZING. The books, not so much.
In fact I know exactly what the film lacked- a focus. For six seasons we had Carrie talking over because of her column, the column was the thing that binded everything together, without it, it turns into a badly done homage to itself.
All that said, it was the best film that I'd seen in a long time, and I look forward to watching it on my comfy sofa, in wintertime, under a duvet, and being free and able to weep until I have dried up, that's how this film should be watched.
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Post by gravedigger on May 28, 2008 19:50:16 GMT
Just saw it (dressed as Carrie Bradshaw, that is just how miserably inadequate as human beings my friends and I are) and there is absolutely nothing in it that doesn't feature in the trailer.
It was like shoe porn, mixed with New York porn, mixed with a sprinkling of actual porn. And then there was a scene where Charlotte shat herself.
On top of that, I felt guilty eating popcorn, a staple of any cinema go-ers diet, when they called Kim Cattrall fat. They're intimidating their audience of podgy thirty something women who wish they were fashion writers (and the women who will be that in eleven years time).
As I watched the four leads eating their fifth brunch of the movie, I couldn't help but think, "cupcakes my arse, SJP hasn't seen sugar since Dolce met Gabbana!"
The diet, as they say, starts to-fucking-morrow.
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Post by jetsetwilly on May 28, 2008 19:53:10 GMT
How do you dress as Carrie Bradshaw? Do you just blindfold yourself and put on the first four things you pick up?
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Post by gravedigger on May 28, 2008 19:54:26 GMT
You end up looking woefully like Alexa Chung. And startle old men on buses. And small children.
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Post by raven on May 28, 2008 22:43:48 GMT
I had read a spoiler that Samantha got married at the end and Carrie ended up single. I thought that would of been better and more unexpected. You can be far more repetitive on a TV series than a movie. I just don't see what they could do next.
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Post by Deleted on May 29, 2008 11:51:14 GMT
Some minor niggles for me, now that I've finally slept, the cupboard(!) where Louise put the fan letters, was a different cupboard that Carrie took them out from, and they missed Berger from the list of lovers, Berger who lasted longer than the geriatric Russian, but because he didn't take her to Paris, he was ignored.
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Post by jerriblank on May 30, 2008 9:03:10 GMT
While the plot is a tad shaky at points (would the girls REALLY hug Big at the end after everything that has gone on in the movie and before it?!), it still remains head and shoulders above any other rom com in the cinema.
Samantha really is one of the best characters ever created in TV and deserves to have her own spin-off movie on the back of this
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Post by pauliepoos on May 30, 2008 17:10:37 GMT
I saw it last night (I'd say the audience was 90% female) and it was like catching up with old friends. I loved it. Miranda was always my favourite but there was a real sadness to her even before the split - and she looked a lot older compared to the rest of them, but then I suppose that's a part of her character. She wouldn't have botox or a chemical peel and the actress certainly wouldn't. Brady was adorable and looked like the baby from the series.
Samantha was fantastic as ever, and I didn't want her to split with Smith, but I can see why she ended it. The idea that she'd developed a gut was hysterical although if they'd given her a prosthetic tummy it could have worked. LOVED the scene with the fur protesters, although I'd like to think they wouldn't have worn fur in the first place.
Charlotte was my favourite - she got a round of applause in the cinema for the "I curse the day you were born" line with Big, and her facial expressions when she was rushing for the toilet were fantastic. And the scene after the aborted wedding when she got Carrie back in the car, and then tottered around the the other side was both dramatic and funny. She was always the blandest of the characters but her sweetness and optimism was more endearing and less whiny this time around. I also got very excited by the reappearance of Elizabeth Taylor.
I found Jennifer Hudson quite clunky - I kept thinking "she's the one with Oscar?" - and was quite disappointed that Stanford and Antony were seemingly a couple at the end, a bit of a cop out for the gays.
And Carrie. Oh Carrie. In parts absolutely beautiful and radiant, in parts hideous and ugly, depending on the clothes, SJP managed to do a fantastic job, although the styling was like a colour blind manic depressive had been left in charge. For the final scene in the closet, her face was whiter than Marie Antoinette. Carrie was very well written, and was both huggable and slappable. She has her critics, but SJP is a very, very good actress.
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Post by Mike on Jun 2, 2008 21:37:52 GMT
I enjoyed it a lot more than I expected to - OK, it was a bit long, but there were more than enough funny moments to make it worthwhile. I don't think I've ever seen a cinema audience so responsive - every two minutes there was a cry of 'oh my God, those shoes' or something to that effect. When Carrie got ditched at the altar, a woman two seats away from me was actually in floods of tears. Her friend kept telling her to 'get a grip'. Which was..interesting. And, since this never gets old: uncutvideo.aol.com/videos/b1e23435bbf4467133322d2a896ff2f8
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Post by jerriblank on Jun 3, 2008 11:54:06 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2008 17:23:20 GMT
That is terrible. Did she even watch the film? Did she have a sub-editor with eyes? It's horrendously written and she is making me boil with rage. She should be shot fired.
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Post by LoveMusic on Jun 3, 2008 22:22:24 GMT
I really loved the movie, I didn't cry but the bridge bit made my chest go tight
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Post by oldstreet on Jun 7, 2008 0:01:54 GMT
I watched the film last night. It was very good, although I think Charlotte could have had an independent storyline.
I'm not sure if I like that Miranda forgave Steve, and Carrie and Big...hmm...
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Post by Deleted on Jun 7, 2008 2:06:31 GMT
I watched the film last night. It was very good, although I think Charlotte could have had an independent storyline. I'm not sure if I like that Miranda forgave Steve, and Carrie and Big...hmm... Like having a baby?
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Post by oldstreet on Jun 7, 2008 12:18:03 GMT
I watched the film last night. It was very good, although I think Charlotte could have had an independent storyline. I'm not sure if I like that Miranda forgave Steve, and Carrie and Big...hmm... Like having a baby? Charlotte's having a baby was not even a 'real' independent storyline to me. It was more like an afterthought and 'something' for her to do storyline wise, but how many independent scenes did she have that were not revolved around Carrie? The birth scenes even were focused on Carrie and Big's drama.
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Post by Lisa on Jun 22, 2008 12:21:54 GMT
I really, really liked this, but somehow was still left feeling a bit let down afterwards: I'm not a feminist at all, but it really riled me that to get Big to marry her she had to have the exact wedding he wanted. I know he invited the girls after as a surprise, but I don't see that as a compromise at all. Maybe I would say different if it happened to me, but I don't think I could ever, ever, take back a man who'd jilted me so publicly. I'm sorry, but their marriage will be miserable because he will always have to get his own way. Then what with Miranda taking Steve back, and Samantha and her sushi, I really felt like the film was just the men getting it all their own way and doing whatever they wanted. I love Steve and Miranda together, but I thought it was lame that Carrie was so judgemental about Miranda leaving Steve - I'm sure it will be a different story when Big cheats on her when she's had his baby.
How did Big get such a big closet out of bugger all space?
And finally, Carrie better had go to Louise's wedding, although I sense that she probably won't.
As I said, I did really, really like it, and there was so much anticipation that it was never going to be perfect, but somehow I was left feeling a bit flat.
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Post by audrey notwhatsheusedtobe on Jun 30, 2008 10:32:08 GMT
I waited for a while to see this because I get really uptight about people making noise in the cinema and when the film first came out, my local one was handing out booze and encoraging a hen party atmosphere, which would have turned me into a serial killer on the spot. I did enjoy it, as has been said above, it was like catching up with old friends. It did get a bit boring in the middle though and Jennifer Hudson was something of a non-event. I did come very close to blubbing too, especially when... Miranda and Shteve met on the bridge, Charlotte was pregnant - LOVED her maternity outfits- and Samantha dumped Smith. There was FAR too much Shteve-nudity. Ew!
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Post by raven on Jul 11, 2008 21:26:54 GMT
They should have left Carrie single at the end of the movie. It makes the sequel so much easier to setup. They could have introduced a new love interest into the movie and then the following movie could follow their relationship.
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Post by SweatShop on Jul 12, 2008 22:48:26 GMT
I honestly have no idea what the second movie could have as a plot. They've really covered all the ground they could in the first one. The only things I can think of are completely stupid plots like Carrie trying for a baby or something like that. And then again, what about the rest of the girls?
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Post by Mike on Jul 13, 2008 21:24:36 GMT
They should have left Carrie single at the end of the movie. It makes the sequel so much easier to setup. I don't know how controversial this view is, but I always thought Big was a selfish twat and that she should have ended up with Aidan. You have to wonder what self-respecting woman would tolerate being dumped on so many times by the same man. I always thought the main point of the film (apart from the obvious) was to tie up loose ends. They did that. Where can a sequel possibly go?
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Post by SweatShop on Jul 13, 2008 23:04:22 GMT
Exactly.
And rewatching the main series on Paramount, I totally think Aidan was the better catch than Big. Her and Big make a slightly odd pairing and I always saw her and Aidan as more suited. And you of course mention the fact that Big has acted like a dick so many times that you can't understand why the hell she bothers with him in the end.
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Post by Chris on Jul 14, 2008 7:42:20 GMT
JMO, but Big being a selfish twat makes him a perfect match for Carrie. Aidan was WAY too good for her.
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Post by Dennis on Jul 14, 2008 10:17:36 GMT
Exactly. And rewatching the main series on Paramount, I totally think Aidan was the better catch than Big. Her and Big make a slightly odd pairing and I always saw her and Aidan as more suited. And you of course mention the fact that Big has acted like a dick so many times that you can't understand why the hell she bothers with him in the end. But Big has shitloads of money, and Carrie is a very, very shallow girl. I was surprised how little did this for me, and the whole audience yesterday was terribly subdued. If even Miranda and Steven can't get me going, nothing will. I will try again on a rainy day under a blanket, that sounds like just the thing.
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