This makes me feel a hell of a lot better about being a Takano fanboy, by way of comparison.

May 28, 2010 12:24

So I went to see Sex and the City 2 (a friend dragged me to see it because she knew that my reaction would be priceless) and walked out of the theatre a more ardent socialist and fair-tradist than I have ever been before. Anything to redistribute wealth away from these fucking yutzes.

The way I see it, there are exactly seven things that went wrong with this franchise:
  1. Somebody gave Candace Bushnell a TV series.
  2. They cast and crewed the series in the way that they did.
  3. They stretched out the series for six years.
  4. They made a film out of the series.
  5. They decided to make a sequel to the film.
  6. They set said sequel in Abu Dhabi.
  7. They advertised it with godawful puns on the verb 'to carry'.
See? Only seven things! Doesn't it seem like such a simple curse laid on the line like that?

This movie is bloated, glitzy, morally bankrupt, trades off of damaging gay stereotypes, is profoundly racist, profoundly anti-Muslim, plays Orientalism more seriously than any film since The Thief of Bagdad, manages to be genuinely racist against the Irish of all people for the first time in [my] recent memory, includes the line 'Lawrence of my labia', has too much sex in too little city, portrays being married as not only not worth it (understandable if disagreeable to me) but as some sort of Dickian nightmare (none of them are being abused or neglected in any way, by the way), and carries over an already-bad franchise into 'actively makes global income and human-rights inequalities worse by existing' territory.

This film may do wonders for US-Islamic relations: in several scenes I found myself actually rooting for the clerics.

Also, the fact that one of the characters is a mother who wears haute couture while baking cupcakes with her toddlers and throws a fit when they get it messy is the best argument for giving plenary powers to DSS that I have ever seen, intentional or not.

people suck sometimes, why?, raaage!, a movie is fine too, dear god that's bad, reviews

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