Sex and the City

pasted from an email to a friend:

last night, patty and i went to see the 10:50 showing of "sex and the city," and it was so much fun! i enjoyed the movie at lot. the characters were well-developed and had sympathetic character arcs. it was obviously over-the-top and ridiculous. if i had to review it though, i'd have to say it was so-so. here's why: while it had a well-developed story line, good emotions, and good tension and pay-off, it was even more saturated with the appeal of material culture than the show was. and get this -- the movie entirely lacked the (albeit small) amount of meta-text level criticism that the TV show managed to attain every now and again that would put the consumerist manifesto in perspective. it made a long movie even longer. i will use an analogy. just as in superbowl, the actual game takes quite a while, but with all the advertisements, the whole deal takes even longer -- the sex and the city movie had a plot that did take a while -- and all the fashion placement extended it beyond what it needed to be, and not with much benefit. nevertheless, i really enjoyed it.

there were an INSANE number of women there all dressed up -- and the theatre was SWAMPED! you couldn't move for lack of room. the movie lines were handled like airport security on a busy friday at 5pm. i can't wait to see what the box office numbers are it are like for its opening weekend. it's just crazy how many people where there. we had to buy tickets quite ahead of time, and i'm glad that we did.