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

[melengro]

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

Comments

[elle_white]

I have never liked 'Sex and the City' and would never spend money to see the films. I've always found it badly acted and offensive. A movie based on the lead characters going into Islamic territory gave me a very bad feeling. Judging by your review, that bad feeling was not unfounded?

[melengro]

This film is l'Empire a la fin de la decadence. It is a Symbolist poem with all of the irony and humanity systematically removed. It proves that everything bad that was said about Sex and the City was, in the bitter end, correct. Its portrayal of the UAE is the most offensive I have ever seen in contemporary cinema.
This film is why the terrorists hate us.

So, yes, your bad feeling is pretty understandable.

I've taken to taking things like this:

'OMG. Smith is so hot. OMG OMG Big is such a jerk. OMG OMG OMG Aiden's back? Wait, okay. Who are you most like? Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte or Miranda? Or are you a mix of two of them?'

And replacing them with:

'OMG. Shao Li is so hot. OMG OMG Altena is such a bitch. OMG OMG OMG Chloe's back? Wait, okay. Who are you most like? Mireille, Kirika, Chloe, or Silvana? Or are you a mix of two of them?'

It makes me much happier about the world to fantasise that this is what 'normal' people squee about.

[elle_white]

With much of the live action entertainment available in the west today, it makes the stigma against animation as a childish and unsophisticated medium even more ridiculous.

[melengro]

I KNOW RIGHT? If Sex and the City is legitimate 'art' and Noir is 'cartoon crap', then we're officially living in some kind of bullshit dystopia from G.K. Chesterton's nightmares and I fucking want out.

[elle_white]

Seriously, I much prefer animation to most of the live action crap on today. I've seen a lot brilliantly written animated entertainment, but many critics pass them off as "a good entertainment for the kids."

When a reviewer recommended Utena for nine-year-olds and up, I was head desking for a long time. He claimed the only things that might worry parents was, "mild domestic abuse and bizarrely worded song."

[melengro]

Utena for nine-year-olds and up

WHAT.

YOU'VE GOTTA BE SHITTING ME.

[elle_white]

There must be many nine-year-olds who need therapy now.

[melengro]

'Mummy, why is a sword coming out of that lady's chest? Who is that man and why is he licking everybody? WHY IS THE FAIRY-TALE PRINCESS GETTING STABBED WITH A MILLION SWORDS???!!!'

[elle_white]

And this reviewer claimed that parents might be concerned about the "mild" domestic abuse and the "oddly subtitled songs." Not the blatant sexings, incestuous relationships and molestation! We need to protect kids from weird music! It might traumatize them!

[melengro]

If the Utena OST is so weird, I'd hate to know what this person thinks of music that's ACTUALLY strange, like Stravinsky or Glass.

[airie_fairy]

...I watched the Utena movie at...twentysomething and LOL WHAT. If I were to show it to a kid I'd at least be aware that I was showing them something highly mature.

"mild domestic abuse"

But that's only a small problem, obviously. God, I want to smack somebody now. I'm very inappropriate for children at the moment.