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Post by Neurochick on Apr 2, 2009 15:52:08 GMT -4
Wow, very moving and very true. Yes, thank you for posting this. It was very touching. It, also, negates some of the criticism that these woman are only about sex, fashion and men. Their friendships are what make them survive. Though it's true they love sex, fashion and men, it's the friendship they have with each other that makes the movie. I liked the last scene where they were in the restaurant celebrating Samantha's birthday and when the camera pans outside, you see groups of younger women going into the same club, as if the cycle is repeating itself.
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Post by huntergrayson on Apr 5, 2009 12:31:45 GMT -4
It really was the core of the series and led to some of the best moments - like the awesome Frenemies episode between Charlotte/Samantha or the heartwrenching My Motherboard, Myself episode where Miranda feels so alone for the funeral and Carrie has gathered everyone there. See, stuff like that made the whole Miranda/Carrie falling-out the most dramatic aspect of the movie for me. I think they should play the friendship aspect up even more in the next movie. And it would be nice if they remembered that these women, at some point, had careers. Also, more Stanford please. And just a scene or two of Jennifer Hudson - even just a phone call or something - would make me a lot more forgiving of the plotline in this movie if Carrie remembered to be her friend/mentor rather than the kinda retro stereotyping of it all.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2009 13:12:49 GMT -4
While I agree that the friendship between the girls made for some of the best moments of the series, I didn't think there was much of that warmth and sincerety left in the film. Too much focus on Carrie IMHO who was my least favourite character during the last few seasons. I liked the show best when they showed the friendship (and its rocky moments) between the others. Somehow, the film didn't manage to capture that. It was All About Carrie which made the scene when she went to see Miranda on New Year's Eve so surprising because that was like the only scene in the entire film when Carrie did something for one of the others. So yeah, the friendship aspect should be played up way more.
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Post by luminosa on Apr 5, 2009 15:00:15 GMT -4
I remember yelling at the screen during the New Years Eve scene! I was swearing- you better get your ass out of bed and go see your best friend. But I'm inclined to believe that if Carrie had been with Big or any other man, she would have talked to Miranda on the phone for a bit and that would have been it. Yes, she went to Miranda but I don't think Carrie wanted to be alone either and she had nowhere else to go. Just like the "bullshit bagels" episode, where Carrie went to Miranda's pretending to be more interested in Miranda's problems but then quickly turned the attention back on herself.
By the end of the series I couldn't stand Carrie and I only continued watching it bc I had already invested so many years.
I was surprised at how much I liked the movie, but thought they could have gotten rid of J.Hud's character all together. I wonder what they're going to do for the next one and I really don't want to see Carrie parading around in her ridiculous maternity get-ups.
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Post by huntergrayson on Apr 5, 2009 16:03:24 GMT -4
What, you mean the latter seasons were All! about! carrie!? I'm shocked, shocked I tell you. I had grown to love everyone else, so I put up with it. I dunno, maybe I'm brain-damaged, but I really can't/don't complain about the series that much. I should establish that it's one of (a) the few shows me and both my parents watched together from the start and (b) despite the fantasy aspect, does feel like a cultural touchstone for me and my friends. O/T but tying in with the whole "yay, friendship!," theme, after my friend's dad passed away, our mutual friend in NY sent the entire series as a gift - and we watched all the episodes, despite seeing many of them before. Yes, the movie was too long, betrayed certain characters/aspects of the show (Steve/Miranda, Charlotte's acceptance of adoption) but you know what? I didn't care since it meant I saw "my girls" again. That said, the J Hud storyline should have been handled a thousand times better.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2009 17:06:48 GMT -4
It's nice that everyone supported Carrie after Big didn't show up at the wedding, but no one, at first, seemed to have much advice or concern for Miranda when she was going through her issues with her cheating husband. Everyone threw everything up in the air at a moment's notice for Carrie, but it seemed to take time before anyone noticed something wasn't right with Miranda.
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Post by Ladybug on Apr 6, 2009 11:10:25 GMT -4
I have always hated Miranda and Steve as a couple, so I hated their story. I wish they would have focused more on the Charlotte/Harry relationship just because I like Harry and like them together. The whole vibe of Steve and Miranda is that she settled for him, resents him for it, and he owes it to her to make her happy and oblige her at all times because, well, she lowered herself to marry him. I don't think there has been mutual respect in that relationship and they always seem miserable to me, even when they are "happy."
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Post by Neurochick on Apr 6, 2009 13:04:55 GMT -4
I have always hated Miranda and Steve as a couple, so I hated their story. I wish they would have focused more on the Charlotte/Harry relationship just because I like Harry and like them together. The whole vibe of Steve and Miranda is that she settled for him, resents him for it, and he owes it to her to make her happy and oblige her at all times because, well, she lowered herself to marry him. I don't think there has been mutual respect in that relationship and they always seem miserable to me, even when they are "happy." I agree, I never felt that Miranda really loved Steve. She kind of married him because he was the father of her baby. Maybe they were trying to show that a lot of people marry for reasons like that.
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Post by margojata on Apr 6, 2009 13:17:57 GMT -4
Miranda seemed to never want Steve to be happier than her. She only appeared interested in him when he had another girlfriend. I did like them together, though. Especially in season 6, she really seemed to calm down - which is why I HATED the movie and seeing her back to the old bitchy Miranda who could never be happy.
I think the show had simply just run it's course, and there was nothing else to do - hence the lousy storylines of season 6 part 2, and the movie. The premise was single gals dating in the big city. Their friendships, trials, tribulations, shitty men, etc. Once they started getting older and settling down - what else was there to do with them?
I really wish they would have ended with a single Carrie - not bemoaning Big AGAIN, but going home to NY because that was what SHE wanted to do. I liked the Carrie character, but despised her with Big. Starting in season 1 and going all through the show, he made her a blubbering doormat. I never understood why it was a fairytale ending for her to end up with a guy that did that to her.
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Post by discoprincess on Apr 7, 2009 15:27:38 GMT -4
I saw a blurb that John Corbett would love to be in the next movie they wanted him. Found it.
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