is very funny, and well done.
A fun movie to see if you enjoy those characters, and that -- "franchise."
The critics beat up on it --
the critics just --
have bees in their bonnets.
SATC was racy as an HBO series, and the two movies match up to that -- (if you will be put off by a gay wedding right in the first act -- don't rent it!)
The "Samantha Jones" character -- indefatigable.
In both her business, and her social life.
(In the first HBO season, 1998, Samantha and Carrie in a nightclub: Samantha zeroes in on the "fabulous" eligible man she wants to meet up with:
Carrie: "He only dates models."
Samantha: "Well -- [mirror check] -- I'm as pretty as a model, and -- I own my own business!"
And she takes off after the guy.
(Carrie's voice-over): "Samantha had the kind of deluded self-confidence that leads men like Ross Perot to run for president."
All four of these ladies -- seriously, could anyone actually
eat that much
shop that much
or ... "date" that much??
"Seriously," -- no.
That's why it's a TV show & two movies; not serious -- fun.
(The fashions! The hair-and-make-up! Fun!)
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Some viewers would say Samantha has loose morals, sexually, and risks social disease.
(Come to think of it, I've said that -- if only to myself.)
However, the character has some kind of combination of determination and optimism which is inspiring and amusing. Sometimes she has to muster optimism in desperate (if silly) circumstances.
Well -- she's in public relations. She "sells the sizzle." You have to have optimism for that, and when you don't have it, you've got to fake it.
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[Dressy lunch, New York City, the four women]
Samantha is telling the other three about all the terrific vitamins she's taking, and the great results she's getting from them.
Ever-skeptical Miranda: "Where are you getting your information?"
Samantha (holds up a hard-cover book with Suzanne Somers' picture on the front and speaks with aplomb and élan -- lah - dee - dah): "From Suzanne Somers and her team of doctors."
(LOL. Doesn't every celebrity with a book to sell always have a "team" of doctors??!!)
Miranda: "You're taking medical advice from the woman who invented the thigh-master?"
Samantha: "Damn right! Have you seen my thighs?"
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The "Carrie Bradshaw" character finally -- finally -- got married to "Mr. Big" in the first SATC movie, and as the "2" movie begins, I was freaked out to see that --
after all that Carrie went through (and put herself through) trying to get that romance to "pan out" as a "real" relationship -- dating for ten years, etc. etc. blah blah blah --
Finally
they are married and happy and as the 2 movie gets rolling,
you know what she's doing?
...
She is --
nagging
the ever-living life out of that man!
I couldn't believe it.
-30-
I didn't get to watch SATC much. Either we didn't have HBO or I was always traveling or busy with little kids. But the few times I watched it, it cracked me up and felt like a guilty pleasure.
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