Last night I went to see the Sex in the City movie with two girlfriends. It was opening night, something I've never experience before. We bought our tickets earlier in the day and then went to the last showing at 10:30pm. It was a long movie, so I didn't get home until 2:00am! I have not stayed up that late in ages.
This morning I've been thinking about the movie and trying to decide if I liked it or not. I discovered the HBO show, Sex in the City, after Melody was born. I was a new stay at home mom, struggling with postpartum depression. The show was an escape for me. I liken it to eating lots of Ben & Jerry's ice cream... not necessarily good for me, but fun. I loved the city aspect of the stories. I enjoyed watching Carrie's addiction to shoes, even though I've never owned a pair of heels. In fact, I might have been the only person in the theater last night wearing flipflops. I've never seen so many women trying to be trendy. Me? I had on a pair of Gap bermuda shorts and a Target t-shirt. I ate berry flavored chewy lifesavers as I dreamed of being as skinny as the movie stars.
The movie's story was not as smart or funny as the show. Also, Big's character was not true to show. Maybe he had a change of heart in the past four years. To me, he was annoying and noncommittal in the show. In the movie he was sweet and doting. I felt like Charlotte didn't have much of a place in the story. Her adopted Chinese daughter was a cute subplot, but it annoyed me that she was present during a lot of the dialog scenes with the four friends. Samatha's story was boring. Miranda was true to the old show, and I liked the interaction between her and Carrie the most. The Valentine's Day restaurant scene was one of my favorites. I also like the scene when Carrie hit Big with her bouquet of flowers in the middle of the street.
It was a fun movie to see on the big screen, but the story line was not a strong as the episodes from HBO.
2 comments:
sounds like fun - even if the movie wasn't superb, still a fun thing to do with girlfriends!
once you upload those pics from yesterday's playgroup, I'd like to have a copy too
This sounds like me. One of my friends here had mentioned going to see it. All the sudden, about 50 women who work with my friend and Nathan were "replying to all" with all their comments about going out and "drinking, then eating, then drinking some more"...etc. Plus, cleavage and high-heals were in there somewhere as well. NOT the kind of evening I had in mind so I didn't go. Glad I didn't after hearing your comments on it. Sounds like a "rainy/snowy bored evening at home" movie.
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