The most preposterous thing about the first movie was the way they tortured Carrie so needlessly. He stands her up at the altar, she takes like 2 years to move on with her life, and then suddenly everything's okay again? (Sorry, spoiler.) It felt like the entire series "condensed" into 2.5 hours and revealed the weird masochistic undertones of the whole show. Now they've backed themselves into a corner; if there's more "Big trouble" it'll feel like a retread. If the conflict is just having and dealing with a kid or something, it'll be boring. Get yourself out of that one, Michael Patrick King.
I know, I've thought about this way too much. I watched the first one while home sick on Dayquil.
@PikaDar❂Queen of the Tamagotchi: It means you'll never get to find out if you're a Carrie, a Melinda, a whats-her-name brunette, or some PR blonde lady named Sam. Because of this, you'll have no way to introduce yourself when you meet SATC fans and they say "OMG! I"m so totally a ___".
@Wrapitup: Indeed. Michael Patrick King will be the new Edna Ferber, penning frothy comedies about people with lives all of us Poors can only dream of having.
This installment is going to reboot the franchise. Gotham is much darker and more brooding, main characters die, there is no "Robin" and when Samantha takes it in the shitter the resulting mess ruins a $12,000 couch - and there are closeups of the whole thing from the jokes about the meatpacking district all the way to the grunting, sad denouement.
Oh god no, this is a really bad idea! Every year in real life is like 5 years on a lady-over-40's skin! That movie won't get made for at least 3 years, and by that time, those ladies are gonna look a hot mess on the big screen, especially that horsie one. *shudder*
This will be a relief for those people who cannot understand plot unless it's explained in voiceover. I can imagine they feel somewhat cheated and confused when searching for entertainments.
@Private Hangnail: Oh, I understood. What bugged me was how one-dimensional the sugar daddy boyfriend was. They could have cast a broken ATM to play his role.
I'd love it if Joan Rivers co-starred in the sequel and acted as if she was a 40-something puma, and the four aging ladies all acted as if Joan was their age (and it would be even better if all the young guys thought Joan was the hottest, making Samantha, in particular, rage with jealousy). The filmmakers won't do it, of course, but such a film would do boffo box office because the haters, every last one of them, would pay to see it at least three times.
@MAGGIEBETH: I can't see how my loathing for these four fictional characters is exactly equivalent to a loathing for older single women in general, especially since they're hardly representative (as if any four fictional characters could be, of course).
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