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.

[mizuno_youko]

Wow, that sounds awful.

[bewarethespork]

I hear that the TV series wasn't so bad, but then the movies came along and ruined it? My inner capitalist can totally get behind a show that is all about people wearing expensive stuff and spending money, but Sex and the City 2 doesn't sound like crazy hedonist capitalist fun; it just sounds stupid.

[melengro]

The TV series was silly offensive-to-many-people-including-any-and-all-self-described-socialists-which-includes-me-but-really-quite-harmless. At least from the ten or so episodes that I saw. I have no desire to see the first movie

[bewarethespork]

I have read so many reviews of this movie already because they have all been hilariously snarky. It is good that I did this, because I might otherwise have convinced myself that the movie might have been So Bad It's Good and therefore required watching. Now that I know it's merely So Bad It's Horrible, I can steer clear of it.

[melengro]

I need to check to see if it's been added to the SBiH page yet. If not, clearly this needs to be remedied. Failed to appeal to even its target audience? Check! My ultra-girly, WASP cousin Alexandra couldn't stand it and after it was over turned to her father, my cousin-by-marriage Ted, and said 'Daddy? I...I think I'm an anti-porn Islamic feminist now.' And Alexandra was a self-described 'feminine feminist ~*~<3' (yes, the Say It With Hearts aspect is necessary considering what my cousin is like) and rather pissed-off at the existence of porn before this movie.

tl;dr THIS MOVIE MADE MY COUSIN WANT TO CONVERT TO YOUR RELIGION OUT OF SPITE.

[airie_fairy]

I HATE EVERY INCH OF SEX AND THE CITY. IT IS BAD FOR THE WORLD. So, um, yes, pretty much.