One of the trending topics on Twitter this weekend was #SATC2 ...aka Sex and the City 2. It was opening weekend for the movie and being one of the most anticipated movies of the summer....this came as no surprise.
What was surprising is what people were tweeting. The comments went from :
@stopfrizzyhair I'm going to SATC2 tonight...sooo excited
@JenniRed hanging with my sister. I love her SATC2 and then dinner.
....to....
@sapphire_917 underwhelmed by SATC2 movie.
and my two personal favourites (they both came in with over 100 re-tweets each)
@JoannaWeiss SATC2 is apparently a) the worst movie even and b) the best thing ever to happen to movie critics.
@robbiereviews Our genius TV critic Ian Hyland's verdict on SATC2: "This year's worst release since the BP oil spill, with just as many f***ed-up birds"
I thought that the last one was so funny I used it for my Facebook status ... which ended up getting several comments and "likes".
Even after all I had read and heard... I decided last night to go and see the movie for myself. One of my best friends does PR for the AMC so the tickets were free... would I have gone otherwise ... probably not.
To sum up my opinion for you...I agree with the last three tweets. It was awful, long, corny and campy. Also note that there were very few people who tweeted positive comments on the film, most were just of people who hated it or hadn't seen it yet. Apparently they had not quit the trending topics button this weekend.
Samantha's usual woman-sex empowered ways were replaced with trashy, whorish acts that ends up costing her an amazing opportunity to work internationally. Her actions and sayings she quipped were obvious, skanky and would probably make a hooker blush. Her character was no longer edgy and I just felt bad that there was a 52 year old professional woman acting this way.
Charlotte was annoying in her own way. She was afraid her amazing husband would cheat on her while away in Dubi. Instead of enjoying her trip with her friends, she obsessed and was distracted the whole time. In the end ... it all ended up being for nothing. (Which I could have saved you from wasting 2 hours and 45 minutes of your life and told you from the beginning.)
Carrie and Miranda were less annoying in contrast to the other two ... I didn't mind their story lines.
Am I glad I went yes... but only because now I have something to blog about.
This weekend SATC grossed $51 million dollars in four days .... which seems OK . Until you find out that the first movie made well over that in just three. Also SATC2 was beat out by Shrek Forever After, also a sequel, grossed $55.5 in its second weekend . This means that people would rather see an animated green ogre then four "sassy"middle aged women run around the desert.
SATC 2 is no longer trending but have the tweets already done their damage? Are these bad reviews, bad tweets and bad WOM the reason for the decline in the box office numbers?? Or is it just the "curse of the sequel" that's to blame??
The question is .... in a few years will they make a Sex and the City 3?...maybe instead of Dubai it will be filmed in an old folks home .... but lets face it Blanche from the Golden Girls is the only woman of that age who can get away with sex humor ... so they better not even try.
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