comment #1

The Winchester says ...

It amazes me the love this show gets from a mass amount of the public, and yet Arrested Development gets cancelled.

comment #2

christian says ...

this show was a pox on feminism. all of the women were boring, shallow and hardly sexy.

comment #3

Mike Schaefer says ...

It's Sex AND the City, not "in". So, you're expecting hard-core sex in The Simpsons Movie?

SATC is obviously not the sort of rugged, manly thing you go for, Jeff, but the show, for what it is, is sharp and clever -- it will do Devil Wears Prada numbers, easily.

comment #4

Monument says ...

I always thought this MadTV parody summed up the show rather well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sFSHRwUze4

comment #5

scooterzz says ...

am i the only one who thinks this train left the station quite a while ago? i was a fan of the show but couldn't care less about a feature at this point.....

comment #6

Ross says ...

I watched all the seasons on DVD with the wife and had a good time with it. It's an easy way to blow a half hour, fairly well made and funnier than most sitcoms, plus it had 4 fairly good looking women talking and having non-stop sex. Never understood why it got such a bad rap from the fellas. I'd much rather watch this than something like The King of Queens or Two and a half Men.

All that said, I have zero interest in a feature... it already feels dated. And I'm sure it'd be nothing more than a two hour show, with a bigger story-line. By the time it comes out, 5 years will have past, the women will all look much older, and you will probably be able to tell they're all just in it for the paycheck. No thanks.

comment #7

Josh Massey says ...

Movies haven't stood tall above TV in years. In fact, I would say that right now, TV is higher over the movies than ever before.

comment #8

ben151 says ...

Um, can you really see two of those actresses bringing a Von Trier energy. Wouldn't we be better off with a kind of Peter Bogdonavich in the 70s vibe? I mean, shouldn't the comedy be funny but really accessible, like Paper Moon, like What's Up Doc, like The Last Picture Show? Unfortch, the glib knowingness seems to win out. The original SITC Bushnell columns were tough and kind of honest, while still bouncing along. I don't know anyone who's lining up to see SJP get raw. She's supposedly great in "Smart People," the comedy that shot in Pittsburgh last fall, with Dennis Quaid and the cool young girl from "Hard Candy" and the kid from "History of Violence" and Thomas Haden Church. The script was tight.

comment #9

Arran says ...

Though it was a much talked-about show, its average audience was, I believe, in the range of 5 million. Do they really think this will be huge?

comment #10

Wrecktum says ...

Does anyone really want to see these old bags on the big screen?

(I exempt that Kristin chick. She's pretty milfy.)

comment #11

The Winchester says ...

"Never understood why it got such a bad rap from the fellas."

I can't speak for all fellas, but I can say my reasoning is two-fold.

1) the show hit right at the same time as the whole "HBO makes shows that are better than anything ever conceived in the history of filmed storytelling" phase. (Around the second season of Sopranos), and that arrogance turned me off.

and

2) After the show aired, every woman in the country seemed to be under the assumption that the show was "a mirror of their lives", which we all know is a lie. And yet, they'd insist it was. Suddenly cosmopolitans are everywhere while people discuss their shoes.

Say what you will, but I'd rather get in a discussion with a fanboy upset about how Transformers strayed from the original source material than talk anything with a gaggle of gals after they're three appletinis into the evening and comparing whose Manhola blancs are better.

comment #12

D.Z. says ...

Monument: http://www.owensworld.com/flashmovies/categorie-12-1.htm
You might have to adjust the quality by right-clicking.

comment #13

insidah says ...

My biggest concern about the proposed feature film is a creative one. Frankly, the show wrapped up its overall storyline (The Carrie/Big relationship) quite nicely in that last half hour. I'm not sure what's left to cover - this endeavor seem to me more like a business decision and a payday-related opp for the talent, not a well motivated creative one.

comment #14

drbob says ...

I watched SATC a few times and always had a good time with it. Nothing special, but amusing enough to catch on an off night.

Why, oh why, would anyone want a SATC movie with depth and distinction. It's supposed to be light and frothy, not Ingmar Bergman.

P.S. I know I am inviting a lot of wrath and scorn, but I never understood all the love for Arrested Development. I nominate Ron Howard for the worst voice-over narration ever (no where close to Daniel Stern), and the plots got awfully silly sometimes.

comment #15

erniesouchak says ...

The series was a trifle, so why expect or ask for depth and distinction? And an unvarnished, '70s-style look would go totally against the grain of the show, which was glamour all the way. I haven't seen so much filtration on a female face (all of them) since "Moonlighting."

comment #16

EOTW says ...

"I'm just saying the obvious, which is that movies have to stand tall above TV -- they have to take the higher, more refined road."

Uh, Jeff, clearly you have never watched one episode of "The Wire," which stands taller than any movie I have seen in a while. Taken as a whole, it is in many ways the classic TV series and certainly the best thing on. thee has NEVER been a bad episode or hardly a bad moment. You can keep your movies. Just give me a show this richly written, directed and acted and I can be a happy geek over it.

comment #17

p.Vice says ...

Bitches, man.

comment #18

BurmaShave says ...

THE WIRE is one of the greatest shows of all time and certainly the best thing going in visual media right now. It's quickly becoming the great literature of our time. It has a hell of a lot to say about Modern America than The Sopranos, as much as I love that as well. Some of the street dialouge is almost Shakespearian. How Idris Elba, Dominic West and Aiden Gillen don't have Emmys on their shelves, and how the show has not ONCE been even nominated for Best Drama Series is a travesty.

I got my Sex & the City experience in huge chunks watching the DVDs with my girlfriend. It's cute. It grows on you. They definetly should leave it alone though.

comment #19

Terry McCarty says ...

What did happen to the Sarah Jessica Parker film set on a college campus where she played either a teacher or an administrator? I think it was shot either before or after FAMILY STONE.

comment #20

MPNeeb says ...

Maybe it's me... but what can the movie do with 2 hours that it couldn't do with the previous 50 hours that have come before?

comment #21

PanTheFaun says ...

I don't take severe issue with the show, but I'm not a huge fan either. Every time I've seen it, it was moderately amusing-- inciting smiles but not laughs-- and midly diverting, but also somewhat generic and embracing its own mediocrity. Sort of like "Entourage."

comment #22

frankbooth says ...

The Wire: believe the hype. Waiting for Season 3 to turn green in my rental queue is killing me.

Eli Roth should direct the SITC movie. Three of the girls are tortured horribly, and the fourth turns the tables and violates her tormentor with a razor-studded strap-on. The catch is, Roth has to play this role himself.

Then the survivor gets hit by a bus. Everybody wins!

comment #23

Spacelamb says ...

Terry McCarty, you might be thinking of the Strangers With Candy movie, where she worked at a high school. The movie wasn't a patch on the series but SJP's cameo was quite funny, I though.

comment #24

EOTW says ...

Burma, I've often wondered the same thing. How could this show not EASILY win bunches of Emmys, but one only has to look to the crap that is The Sopranos (everything after the first season). Just imagine, if the actors on The Wire had gotten famous and big headed, the show might've sucked like Sopranos did for so many years. Instead, the show has been low key and brillant, never having a bad ep at all. So, I think maybe David Simon and the folks prefer it this way. I know I do.

comment #25

Ogami Itto says ...

"It's an easy way to blow a half hour, fairly well made and funnier than most sitcoms, plus it had 4 fairly good looking women ..."

It had 3 fairly good-looking women.... And Sarah Jessica Parker.

Ugh.

comment #26

Rich S. says ...

I think this would work about as well as a Laugh-In movie. Though I've watched many of the episodes with my wife, SATC was a show of its time and that time is long past.

Now, if they waited a few more years and cast younger women as the quartet's daughters, learning to navigate a New York sexual minefield radically changed from that faced by their mothers, they might have something. Shia Labeouf could play Mr. Big, Jr.

comment #27

DavidF says ...

Props to pvice for the "Say, Anything" callout.

Yeah, I never really got the show but, being a dude, figured it just wasn't aimed at me.
And while I have no personal desire to see SJ Parker in the nude I always found it odd that she was the lead on a show called "Sex and the City" and very clearly had anti-nudity clauses in her contract.

Entourage gets compared to the show and while I don't think it's a GREAT show it's about something other than the characters. I don't know a single woman who is like ANY of the women on Sex in the City thought that just might be cuz I'm hanging out in the wrong bars. To paraphrase Tolstoy (poorly), the characters on Sex in the City were all superficial and each was superficial in its own way. The show occasionally, but rarely, went much deeper than that.

comment #28

Mike Schaefer says ...

" I don't know a single woman who is like ANY of the women on Sex in the City thought that just might be cuz I'm hanging out in the wrong bars."

Actually you're dead on, unless you're hanging around in gay bars -- it's generally thought that the 4 SATC women are really surrogate gay men (which is why the show has such a huge gay following). Straight women don't behave like that (even in NY) but gay men sure do. I mean, I don't know any women who would consider breaking up with a guy because he doesn't know who Manolo Blanihk is... but I know a lot of queens like that.

comment #29

christian says ...

the biggest insult about the show is that carrie is a "writer" living like imelda marcos in ny.

and i missed the episode where these shallow souls had to step across the bodies of 9/11 victims in pursuit of their hi class shoes...

comment #30

Josh Massey says ...

"I think it was shot either before or after FAMILY STONE."

That's probably a good bet.

comment #31

Terry McCarty says ...

Re Spacelamb:
I looked up the film, titled SPINNING INTO BUTTER, on imdb.com. Here's the synopsis:
A hate crime on the campus of a New England college puts the school's dean (Parker) in a position where she has to examine her own feelings about race and prejudice, while maintaining her administration's politically correct policies.

comment #32

thatmovieguy says ...

Good observation, DavidF. The lasting legacy of SEX AND THE CITY (which was sometimes a witty show) is that it has made thousands of young women behave like its characters, who in turn behaved like they were vacationing on Fire Island in the pre-AIDS era: Friday and Saturday nights are devoted to "hooking up" (it's like hooking, except that you don't get money for it), while Sunday-Thursday are now set aside for hanging out with your friends and griping endlessly about how you can never find a "real relationship." Really?! Even in the bathroom stall or down by the clutch in his Porsche? I'd heard this kind of "poor, poor promiscuous me" talk from male friends for years, but now I hear it from women who are too young to legally order a Cosmopolitan. Many of them honestly believe one of these days they'll go shopping for sex and get lasting love as a special bonus: Hey, it worked for Carrie! But plenty of women out there have found out that being a professional "friend with benefits" isn't nearly as much fun when you're working without a script. (See Laura Session Stepp's book UNHOOKED for testimonials.) And as for the ones who thought they could get into journalism, write about their friends' love lives and make enough to live in a spectacular New York apartment and wear designer clothes every day of the week -- surprise!

comment #33

Ogami Itto says ...

"Actually you're dead on, unless you're hanging around in gay bars -- it's generally thought that the 4 SATC women are really surrogate gay men (which is why the show has such a huge gay following). Straight women don't behave like that (even in NY) but gay men sure do."

That explains why Sarah Jessica Parker looks like a guy in drag.

comment #34

IndiSB says ...

Dreaded seeing this come to fruition. I applauded Kim Catrell for backing off originally, but now she obviously can't deny the big paycheck. Do not want to see any of these older women having sex on a big screen, Diane Keaton naked is enough.

comment #35

BurmaShave says ...

Mmmm, Diane Keaton, thank God for freeze-frame.

And for the record Ogami, SJP was pretty cute back in LA STORY and STRIKING DISTANCE. Now? As Borat would say, not so much.

comment #36

Rich S. says ...

Old Joke:

SJP walks into a bar. The bartender says, "Why the long face?"

Sorry, couldn't resist.