Sex and the City (2008)
Let me confess, well, I watched the movie on a DVD before going to the cinema to watch it with my friends. Wanted to see if any of the deleted scenes made any difference to the movie in a whole.
Samantha’s story maybe, but the rest, not that much. I guess audience here wouldn’t know what really triggered Samantha’s action, other than the fact (yang semua orang sudah tahu) that she loves sex. But why after 5 years did she decided to go back to her ownself? Well, I guess thats the missing piece. But honestly, something you could live without throughout the movie.
I’ll try to keep in mind that this is just a movie, and it plays with your emotions as well as your imaginations to understand what each and every girl had to go through.
The whole story, of course revolves around Carrie. I think she got it easy. The highlight of the whole movie, and she doesn’t even have to do full frontal. Haha. Anyway, after her off and on relationship with Big, I guess she deserves that kind of ending, simply because she needed to. I think most girls would still fall head over heels, and would rather have a proposal, then a closet blueprint.
I keep on wondering, if Carrie really truly does want the things she want (selain Big), or she’s wanting the things, she thought Big would want her to want so that he’ll want her. Hmmm..
And there’s Charlotte, every guys dream girl. Hmm.. She dresses, acts, talks nicely, and she’s not all that bad looking. The one that would want to stay at home and take care of the kids. Of all the girls, I’d fall in love with her instantly. To me, I look at her and I think, “Damn, I’d do anything to make this girl happy..”. Macam tu la lebih kurang.
When it comes to relationships, I think Miranda’s is a classic one. Moving to Brooklyn, having a kid, got married. A career, a husband, a kid, a nanny, a house. So I guess people (girls!!) could relate more on what she is going through. Changing yourself for that someone. But sometimes, I guess she forgot that she is in fact in love with Steve. None of that really matter when you love that someone and you believe you guys are meant to be together, kan?
I love that they are in love. So, that’s that.
All in all, the movie was a great addition to the series. Its not easy to move from a small screen to a much bigger one without disappointing at least half of the regular audience.
The first 15-minutes of introduction was done perfectly to sum up each and every character. And I love the fact that they started the movie using a line from the very first episode. (If I’m not mistaken..).
By the way, it was like seeing a summer/winter/fall/autumn fashion show, which don’t get me wrong, was really nice. But you can see that they really wanted to be in the movie, the designers and all. It just had to be in all the scenes, let it be at home, at the store, at Carrie’s apartment, the time she wanted to move, the time she had to unpack. I’m a fashion retard, so all I see is beautiful people wearing beautiful stuff, but I couldn’t understand the whole thing about paying a loooooooooot of money for a shoe.
Someone told me, they could have taken the movie, and just show it on TV rather than creating way too much buzz and promotion about a ‘film’ when there is nothing much to promote about. I’m not gonna go into that, simply because, what makes a good movie. The script. Something new that the audience have never thought of. But this is taken out of a series, so people do know the characters, and what they are like.
You cannot be surprised at an expected attack, no matter how, because you just know. So…
I liked the movie, I think it wasn’t a total waste.
So let me know what you think..

August 1st, 2008 at 4:36 pm
i’d like to watch the dvd version, because frankly i felt like watching a pirate vcd on big screen with all the messy deleted scenes/swearing and left the audience with the sushi-samantha-scene only. hahaha
i like the fact that they stay true to being real, like the series. despite some of fairy tales inserted here and there (the vivienne westwood gown, the wedding) they don’t make it too perfect to be true. even Charlotte sh*t in pants. and Miranda’s national forest? OMG. LOL. Carrie is forgivable for her obsession over Bigger wedding, because every girl i knew are like that. but in the end, it’s the Groom that matters most. yeah, girls get confused all the time.
and please, don’t try to understand a “shoeholic”, it’s pointless. i am one and i don’t understand myself either. hahaha