Okay, I'm just going to say it.

I made it about 4 minutes into the Sex in the City movie. I just don't get the premace of this series/movie and I don't understand why it appeals to anyone. As far as I can tell, it is about obnoxious rich people who live in a bubble and have no concept of anything that appeals to people who work in the real world.

While I get that there is a certain level of "empowering women" aspect to the show, I really just don't get how THIS would be the vehicle for women that want to be taken seriously or feel that they need something to show that they are strong, intelligent, or any other trait which conservationism has traditionally told them they aren't.

All I saw was women who were obsessed with consumerism. It's like the show is boiled down to this: cultural/sexual reference + Gucci reference = "feminist" humor.

Bah, whatever...

Edit: upvoting because I'd love to discuss this.

poncelon - that was a very astute critique of the movie.

My wife loves this movie, and despite me trying to educate her out of it, she finds it witty and fun.

As you observed, we are (definitely) not rich, she has never been to NYC (although I have), we will likely never be able to afford Gucci, she doesn't even like alcohol, and we have a strict rule where we never discuss our teabagging with friends.

This is Hollywood's (or NYC's) attempt to define the 'modern' successful woman - horny, rich, ditzy, childless, shallow, and intimately involved in the fashion industry. Conservativism runs strong in NYC.

I don't think I heard a single mention of politics here - how is this Conservative?

^ http://www.videosift.com/video/Fox-News-has-a-Teabaggin-Problem

In a strange way, my reaction reminds me of the recent Southpark about Queefing v. Farting. One could argue, I guess, that SITC is about women being crude and obnoxious, say the way Jackass is about men being crude and obnoxious. Still, I think what bugs me the most is that this is somehow viewed as "feminist" when I feel it only reinforces stereotypes about women such as: women like shiny things, are obsessed with getting married, and are generally catty.

I should probably not say this, but having caught a few scenes of the movie I was surprised because I thought another one of the premises was that they were all supposed to be very attractive. I'd say the women looked like they had gone WAY overboard with the plastic surgery.

I think the moment where I had to turn the movie off was something like "Fashion week" or something where sarah jessica parker was going on about how it was so important and whatnot... This is going to sound harsh, but I feel like people that think fashion week is "very important" or somesuch bullshit need to spend some time in a concentration camp.

Yes folks, don't vote Ponceleon for prez... you don't want any of that.

sex and the city television series = brilliant
sex and the city: the movie = POS

>> ^ponceleon:
Okay, I'm just going to say it.
I made it about 4 minutes into the Sex in the City movie. I just don't get the premace of this series/movie and I don't understand why it appeals to anyone. As far as I can tell, it is about obnoxious rich people who live in a bubble and have no concept of anything that appeals to people who work in the real world.
While I get that there is a certain level of "empowering women" aspect to the show, I really just don't get how THIS would be the vehicle for women that want to be taken seriously or feel that they need something to show that they are strong, intelligent, or any other trait which conservationism has traditionally told them they aren't.
All I saw was women who were obsessed with consumerism. It's like the show is boiled down to this: cultural/sexual reference + Gucci reference = "feminist" humor.
Bah, whatever...
Edit: upvoting because I'd love to discuss this.


However, these women are not strong characters. I forget the writer, but a lady made up some rough rules to define strong female characters in TV shows.

Rule 1: There must be at least 2 female characters
Rule 2: They must talk to each other at least once an episode
Rule 3: They must talk about something other than men

And rule 3 is where Sex In The City fails.

^ Bechdel's Law

I actually tried to watch the first season of this show because I had been told that it was 'hilarious'. The problem for me was that I hated every character in the show - you could have set them all on fire and I wouldn't have cared.

>> ^Morganth:
I don't think I heard a single mention of politics here - how is this Conservative?


Only the phrase "tea bagging" is political in that some conservatives are trying to re-enact the boston tea party by getting people to send tea bags to the white house - and they call it tea bagging.... which is hillarious because I don't think they know what it means and would probably be horrified.

See here for *clothed* video of tea bagging that's different from the way this clip explains it... from John Water's movie Pecker - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3W9HdAMGMc

none of the women except Charlotte are rich by accident. they are all self made, hard working girls (Miranda is a lawyer, Samantha is a prestigious event planner/publicist and Carrie is an author) i find the show very empowering to women because all of them embrace and openly discuss sex. Samantha is the epitimy of that, never being hung up on men and playing a true equal to men in the sex field. (Unlike a lot of media that portrays men as players and women as either sluts or emotional train wrecks) there is quite a bit of consumerism clothes wise, but they have the money, its reality, if ur a rich woman you usually splurge on some nice things. Obviously their lives should not be the way women strive to live, ITS A SHOW, it needs to be entertaining which complete realism cant always achieve. The movie pissed me off a bit with the whole stupid wedding drama..and SPOILER samantha dumping smith...but i usually didn't have any problem with the show.

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I just never liked the show. The writing never seemed to be that good to me, and the acting at times is questionable.

Even in this clip, I found none of it funny, and the "Revelation" on why it's called tea-bagging just seemed so..fake.