Who else thinks those huge bags are going to be so out by the time this movie opens?
Today is trailer day for me (and thank you to my patient cohort Dave for explaining to me how to put in videos. I’m a little impaired when it comes to that kind of thing), which means next we have the newly released trailer for the Sex and the City movie.
I have to admit, the buzz around this movie has been both huge and puzzling. I should mention that I never watched the show (I saw about five minutes of one episode and got distracted and that was it for me) so I’m not really the proper one to explain the phenomena. However, what I can say is that even though the show just ended a few years ago, it still feels already incredibly dated, doesn’t it? So I wonder why people would be so excited (and they have been–the tabloids were packed with stories about the filming of the movie and fans were endlessly hovering around the shoot) to bring back something that now seems almost as distant as Sarah Jessica Parker’s brief turn as Annie on Broadway in the ’70s.
It seems to me the filmmakers have two choices. Either they make it basically an extended episode of the show with the four stars all going shopping, dating, partying and drinking (that is what they did, right?) or they try to move in a new direction. The problem with the former is that it would beg the question of why this isn’t just a reunion movie on HBO, not to mention the fact that the women are older and it would be nice to see them do something different. The latter, though, is just as big a problem because it’s a good bet that a lot of the show’s fans don’t want to see the characters move on too much or be that different from what they remember. They’re trying to recapture their own lost youths via these characters.
Ohhh, what am I talking about–even I know that the real reason everyone wants to see this movie is a) the clothes and b) to find out if Carrie gets married. And I’m betting yes on married. Not that I know anything, but the deception campaign around the filming was a little too insistent on the whole “that wedding gown scene was a dream sequence” thing. Give the people what they seem to want and end with the the madcap, happy wedding with lots of big dresses.
Ok, not to get too bitchy, but why would YOU, someone who has never watched the show, have written this article. Get a fanatic, like my friends and I who have been avid fans for years, and then maybe it’ll be something worth reading.
I have to agree with Kristen on that one. You have to truly be a fan of the show to even begin to describe how FABULOUS the movie will be!!! I can’t wait for May 30th.
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