Watch it or Whine: Sex and the City
Everybody say Hi to our super special guest reviewer, Dr. Ang! **waves furiously so she can see me all the way in Nebraska** I just got back from seeing it too, so I will give my take on it later in the comments section ((pretty much the same as Ang though)) Okay here she goes!:
Saw the movie on Saturday afternoon (while my husband watched Iron Man), and I loved it!! While I didn’t get into the series until the 5th season, I fell in love with it quite quickly, and it’s one of those shows that I can watch any time (even when they cut out the good parts for the syndicated version on TBS). I’ve been waiting for this movie since the series ended in 2004. There may be spoilers in this review, so if you don’t want to know what happened, stop reading right now.
Four years after the series finale, we have finally been given another glimpse into the lives of Carrie, Samantha, Miranda, and Charlotte. It is three years later, and the seemingly happy endings are not quite so happy. Samantha has moved to L.A. but runs off to New York every chance she gets (“only for the A-list events”). Miranda and Steve are having a dry spell and he cheats on her. I found this to be a little unbelievable, and I think the writers may have needed to bring some other drama to the story to off-set the Carrie/Big situation (which I will get to). Charlotte and Harry are happy with their adopted daughter, Lily, and (amazingly?) Charlotte gets pregnant. Ok, so this is the only story line that has no real drama. These folks are genuinely happy. Which brings me to Carrie and Big, whose real name we finally learn, but he will always be known as Big. They decide to buy an apartment, then they decide to get married, then Big can’t go through with it…well, for Sex & the City fans this will come as no surprise, given Big’s history.
The clothing, shoes, and accessories were incredible (they even mentioned the Bag, Borrow, or Steal website). The story line was predictable, but still enjoyable. There was a happy ending. The only downside was that it was long, over two hours. I don’t mind watching Sex & the City at home all day long, but I don’t find theater seats that comfortable (at least in the theater that I went to). All in all, I liked the movie a lot. It was nice to be able to re-visit the characters and find out what happened after the series ended. I wouldn’t count on a sequel though.
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Alternate Title: I should have taken my suspension of disbelief booster shot before we went.
Warning: if you have not seen it, and you don’t like spoilers then move to the next post!
Seriously, keep reading and you will find out why I was disappointed.
Okay, you can’t say I didn’t warn you!
I have always loved Indy, I love everything about all three of the other movies, especially his whip yielding. Has it really been 19 years since I saw The Last Crusade with my parents? I tried to find a picture of myself as Indiana Jones for Halloween when I was eleven but no such luck. I was super jazzed to go see Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, even if the title did sound like a J.K. Rowling reject. It started out good, I rolled my eyes at him surviving a nuclear blast, I giggled at the smashed up box of the Ark of the Covenant ( a good foreshadow of the return of Marian), I instantly loved Cate Blanchett as an evil communist. I found Shia Labeouf labeoutiful, even if he is seven years my junior. The setting in Peru was stunning, I thought the whole concept with the Mayans, and the skulls, and natives and everything were spot on. I loved the return of Marian and the whole family aspect of the movie (An adventuring family? Rock on Incredible style.) So I am only pointing out good things right? I liked the movie right? Wrong.
Why not? ALIENS!! Not like from across the border, but from like outer-space. I do not like Sci Fi! I have tried it with a mouse, in a house, with a goat, on a boat, and I STILL DO NOT LIKE ALIEN MOVIES Sam I Am. And this movie was chock full of them. They even had a space ship. Gah! Me no likey. Stupid George Lucas, doesn’t Star Wars have enough Aliens for you? Could you not have left my Indy alone? Anyway, it had good points, but it is definitely my fourth favorite Indiana Jones movie.
Filed under Time Suckers, Watch it or Whine | Comments (7)Friday’s Watch it or Whine: Baby Mama
Guess what I did today? With my mom? And no one else? And no one interrupted me, and the baby crying was not mine? I went to go see Baby Mama, (if you had not guessed that by the title, this may not be the blog for you. Try someone else).
Anyway, I thought we would switch up the Read it or Rant a little this week because the only thing I have read either involved talking animals on cardboard pages, or is a glossy magazine full of clothes I can’t afford, and would not fit even if I could. ( We get lots of magazines here, and do not pay for any of them. The MMIL gives us hers when she is done, and I get Marie Claire and Cookie for free because we steal other people’s coke points.)
We went to a matinee ( How do you spell that?!? Every way I try still has a red line under it!) and while it was a cute movie, I was glad that we did not pay $7.50 a ticket for it. It is about this Type A lady (Tina Fey, whom I loooove) who has focused on her career and now has acute baby fever. She can’t get knocked up, so she hires this totally white trash chick (Amy Poehler, one of the very few shining stars from SNL lately) to be her surrogate. The girl gets pregnant and moves in with Ms. Type A. Hilarity ensues. Steve Martin, Greg Kinnear, and Sigourney Weaver were all hilarious. Without giving away plot points, it has some fairly predictable twists; Mom and I both had the ending pegged pretty early on. I think that this cast actually outshone the writing, but with anyone else, this movie would have bombed. To sum up–definitely add to your Netflicks queue, or go see a matinee with your Mom or Girlfriends, but save the big bucks for this one. I will try to actually read something this week.
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