Sunday, December 26, 2010

Sex and the City 2: The Live-Blog

On the 17th of December, 2010, I watched Sex and the City 2, for the purpose of writing this article and this review. After I initially mentioned on Twitter that I was going to watch the film, Simon Kinnear (of http://kinnema.blogspot.com/) tweeted me with a link to his very funny live-blog of Sex and the City. Suitably inspired, and desperate for something to entertain me whilst watching the film, I decided to do the same, and posted my thoughts about the film on Twitter as they occurred to me. Here are my tweets about the film, collected in a mostly chronological order, though I have moved some of the replies around in the interest of clarity.

Thanks to everyone who replied and I hope you enjoy this piece of rampant self-indulgence.

Note: Replies are highlighted in bold.


Edwin Davies
I'm just about to start watching SATC2 for an article and for one brief, glorious moment I thought that the DVD wasn't going to play

Simon Kinnear
@ If it helps, you might be able to blag your article without seeing , using my liveblog:

Edwin Davies
@ I was tempted, but I'd just feel bad. Whether or not I'd feel worse than I will do after actually watching it is another matter

Simon Kinnear
@ OK. In which case, the only advice I can give you is: keep the alcohol handy ;-)

Edwin Davies
"Just when you think all your friends are too old to get married, here come the gays." Was...was that a joke? It was structured like one...

Edwin Davies
...but it's just not funny on any level.

Edwin Davies
They're also butchering a bunch of really great songs with that all-male choir.

Edwin Davies
"Why would Liza say 'yes' to this?" Is a meta-commentary on itself?

Edwin Davies
Someone should be able to take one of the letters from Liza's EGOT away for . Just the G, since the Grammies don't mean anything

Edwin Davies
So far is offensive to gays, Italians, the Irish and the very concept of comedy.

Simon Kinnear
Don't say I didn't warn him. After my exploits t'other week, it's the turn of @ to liveblog - please for shoe-porn scorn

Jack Graham
@ @ Re ... isn't it extraordinarily generous of Hollywood to be making big budget propaganda films for Al-Qaeda?

Edwin Davies
@ @ maybe it's a double-bluff; "You can't destroy our culture anymore than we already have"

Edwin Davies
Oh, look how difficult it is for Charlotte to raise her kids when she has a nanny. How does she fucking manage?

Edwin Davies
You can't include It Happened One Night in your film just for one laboured gag. That's sacrilege.

Edwin Davies
I mean, you shouldn't be allowed to include in such a lesser film, but at least use it well

Edwin Davies
Who would have thought that the Tetley Tea adverts would have been a late career peak for Kim Cattrall?

Edwin Davies
Sarah Jessica Parker walks into a bar. The barman says, "Why the long face?"

Edwin Davies
I'd like to think that Pedro Almodovar hasn't cast Penelope Cruz in his next film purely because he was incense by her cameo in

Edwin Davies
So it's not a sound financial decision to sell your old apartment but is to keep it and leave it empty for two years?

Edwin Davies
"That is one chic Sheik" - that is one crap crack

Edwin Davies
Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom isn't as torturous as this

Edwin Davies
This is what happens when you work from the first draft of script, and when your cast clearly haven't read it

Edwin Davies
That shot of the four women walking across the desert in garish clothes looks like something Baz Luhrmann would do if he directed Dune.

Edwin Davies
Art Malik doesn't seem to have changed much since True Lies. Neither has Hollywood's view of the Middle East, it seems

Edwin Davies
"Inter-friend-tion" just made me throw up a little bit

Edwin Davies
Oh, the magic Arabian manservant has taught Carrie a lesson about marriage! How heartwarming. Sorry, I meant, "patronising"

Edwin Davies
Oh good, recount the events of the scene that we just watched. Because this film isn't long enough.

Danielle Hill
@ it might be me but I get a feeling you don't like the film ed. It's such a shame cos the series is soo good

Edwin Davies
@ I do like the show, which is one of the reasons I hate this film. None of the depth, all of the shoes.

Danielle Hill
@ that's what they used to say about me! :D

Edwin Davies
The Thief of Bagdad has a more nuanced vision of the Middle East, and that was made in 1940 and had an almost all-white cast

Edwin Davies
Oh, well this is completely plausible.Carrie has just run into an ex-boyfriend in the midst of an isolated Abu Dhabi market

Danielle Hill
@ and I'll have nothing bad said about Aiden

Edwin Davies
@ his character is not the problem; it's the sheer, mindnumbing stupidity of the contrivance

Edwin Davies
Stop saying "inter-friend-tion" like it's a REAL FUCKING WORD!

Edwin Davies
Inter-fun-tion? Inter-fuck--off.

Simon Kinnear
@ I am enjoying your coverage so much. Keep persevering!

Edwin Davies
Where's a sandworm when you need one?

Edwin Davies
I couldn't get a signal in Altrincham yesterday, like fuck can Charlotte get a signal in the middle of the desert

Edwin Davies
The number of costume changes in this film is not as surprising as the fact that each is more garish and ugly than the last

Edwin Davies
"I Am Woman" is a rousing anthem of women's liberation, except in , where it is a crass celebration of attainment. Counterproductive?

Edwin Davies
Also, being a strong, invincible woman apparently means "drunk"

Edwin Davies
The problem with is that it tries to make every scene an emotional climax, a problem when nothing emotionally compelling happens

Edwin Davies
really makes me really appreciate The Women, which offers a genuinely funny and compelling insight into the lives of married women

Edwin Davies
I mean the original, obviously. Not the version with the mound of plastic on Meg Ryan's shoulders where Meg Ryan's face used to be

Edwin Davies
Is letting your child just scream and scream bad parenting? 's answer; no. Anyone else's answer; God, you are an awful, awful person

Edwin Davies
Nice of you to pay tribute to the pour schlubs out there who can't afford help. Real classy.

Edwin Davies
My parents worked 12 hour days to make sure we didn't go without. Anyone who can afford help has no fucking right to complain.

Nicole Campos
@ When you're done, you must read this piece on why is science fiction ;)

Edwin Davies
@ any article that namechecks Edward Said is okay in my books.

Edwin Davies
*Gasp* Carrie kissed Aidan! Something that almost resembles a dramatic happening has occurred, just two hours into the film.

Edwin Davies
I've only just realised that I have no idea why they are in Abu Dhabi in the first place. Other than plot purposes, obviously

Edwin Davies
It's like how everyone teleports to Egypt in Transformers 2. Not because it makes sense, but because a Pyramid needs to explode

Edwin Davies
Now that Samantha has been arrested for kissing, I'm hoping for a Seinfeld style ending where everyone ends up in jail

Edwin Davies
As far as "ticking clock" final acts go, having to get to the airport in time to avoid flying Coach is no Hurt Locker

Edwin Davies
And so they are helped by women wearing Burkhas, beneath which they are wearing the same jewellery and shoes as our 'heroines' ' satc2

Edwin Davies
The message seems to be that, regardless of culture and race, women everywhere are shallow, vacuous morons

Edwin Davies
And an even crasser call back to It Happened One Night! I'm buying that on DVD just to make up for watching it be so badly mistreated

Edwin Davies
It's...it's over? It's over! I made it through! Now I truly know how Andy Dufresne felt after he crawled through that pipe.

Edwin Davies
In case there is any lingering ambiguity, is not a good film
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