Holy Cow… Sex & The City Ticket Pre-Sales Are HUGE!

I’m stunned at that!

But I do love that review, sound advice.
Bridget Jones was one thing, but this is a whole new realm of evil!

Rather watch rocks chase a family.

Jeffrey Wells statement has to be the best I’ve read all week!

It’s so ridicules that we have women who model them selves after these sluts. It should be called Sluts In the City.

I mean it’s really pathetic how these women in this movie are so old and depict horrible morals and are basically useless. Young women want to be as dumb and slutty as Paris Hilton and older women want to be like those awful women in this garbage film!!

What has the world come to?

Jeffrey Wells is right… if you want to make sure your future wife or girlfriend is sane and normal… test her on this show…

What if SATC beats Indy at the box office?

Not to monopolise the discussion… but I forgot to respond to this:

“I mean it’s really pathetic how these women in this movie are so old and depict horrible morals and are basically useless. Young women want to be as dumb and slutty as Paris Hilton and older women want to be like those awful women in this garbage film!!”

Honestly, man… if you ever saw even one episode, you’d realise you are com-pleeeeeet-ly wrong. You see the word “Sex”, hear about the ONE character who has ever been promiscuous in the show and basically add 1+1 to get 100.

No one’s suggesting you have to like the show, see the movie or… whatever… but at least know what you’re taking about.

I just recently started watching “Battlestar Galactica” after having never seen an episode and, until then, I thought it’d be stupid sci-fi that explains every mundane technology and has all the trappings of “Star Trek”. Turns out I was wrong… and I’m glad I never spewed crap assumptions about it publicly, ‘cus I’d have just looked like a moron.

Thankfully for you, you’re discussing this with like-minded people who share your totally-off-the-mark assumptions.

Well, it’s amazing the power expectation and assumption can have even in the face of evidence to the contrary…

Just look how many people tell themselves Transformers, Indy IV and X3 were good films!

But I dare say he was using irony to hide this typical, shrunken testicles intimidation the film seems to breed.

Anyway, my point is… having watched every episode of SATC… it is simply a FACT that the show is NOT about immoral or “useless” women or “sluts” at all… and anyone who can bypass their fear of strong women for 22 minutes to watch an episode will realise it’s a cleverly written show about real women as they are in almost every Western city on Earth outside of the no-passports, women-in-the-kitchen isolation of Bible Belt USA.

Heck… it even has well-written male characters if you can believe that.

As I say… it’s not to everyone’s taste… but at least hate it for something factual.

Genius indeed! And it’ll probably make a killing, relative to its production costs.

George Lucas should look into doing something like this…

Harmfull side effects include.
Games, coloring books, toys, vodka ty ins, Action figures, screen savers, and Sequels…

Thank God, my wife doesn’t even want to see it.
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There are a couple of chic flicks I have liked over the years (Pretty Woman, Legally Blond, etc..) but this one never peeked my interest. My oldest son wants to see it but only for the same reason he watched Baywatch; I asked him once what Baywatch was about and he said, “I don’t know but the women are bumpin’” (I surmise bumpin’ is a good thing). :o)

Heh. It’s funny that you guys mention G Lucas, isn’t he doing the exact opposite of this with Star Wars this year? Releasing a 2 hour tv pilot in theaters and then a regular TV show, all CGI of course.

Now Sex and the City with extensive green screen/CGI work is a novel idea…hell, they might even be able to make Sarah Jessica Parker attractive! :p

Seriously, if you value your manhood, stay the hell away from this film. Unless you value your marriage or GF more lol…..

Ink,
As long as they look good, my son doesn’t care. Wait a minute….we’re talking Sarah Jessica Parker, right? I think my son needs his eyes checked. :o)

Hey sorry Kane, but you couldn’t be more wrong. It’s obvious your a fan trying to get people to stop insulting your show. I’ve seen half a season of this show and I can tell everyone how it goes. There is nothing ‘gritty’ about it I don’t think you even know what the word means. The Shield is a TV show that’s Gritty not SATC.

SATC is essentially Seinfield only the cast is all women less funny and more risky. The women spend an insane amount of time sitting around a table talking about sex, orgasms and men. Yet with all the talk of men good luck finding a male character that is even close to resembling a human being.

I have always given every show on television a chance no matter what I think of it before I watch it. This was truly one of the worst shows I had ever seen.

Menopause: The Movie.

Kane, I read the comments up until you decided to make a generalization about a group of people (”no-passports, women-in-the-kitchen isolation of Bible Belt USA”) in order to prove that making a generalization about this show/group of women is wrong. You lower yourself by such measures, you know? For shame…

Yeah, on my Facebook I’ve noticed an insane amount of dates being made between many of my female friends in order to go see this movie together. Apparently this is one of these shows that a lot of girls had watched during college, and some are planning reunions after graduation just to see it! I don’t care about it in the least but it’s indeed an interesting phenomenon in the making.

I agree with Vic. Despite what Kane said, I do think the show and the movie is very appealing to women for some reason. Perhaps they relate to it a lot. Sure there are some male fans but most wouldn’t be saying, “Hey, buddy! Let’s go see this movie!” Nope, heh.

Daniel… I’m sure I COULD be “more wrong”… since I’m not talking TOTAL bull crap. Yes, I’m a fan (of most HBO shows, actually) but that isn’t why I’m on the defensive. And, yes, you’re right - “gritty” isn’t quite the right word… but what I meant is that, in its time, SATC was extremely red hot discussion material that pushed the buttons of what people expected of women on TV.

I know this because it was up there with Buffy and Fight Club as the most discussed and argued about material in pop culture while I was doing media at Uni. It was “out there” and wasn’t afraid to make people question their assumptions about what’s “right” and “wrong” in TV. To a large proportion of society, that kind of programming is a good thing.

But to say the characters are “immoral” is ludicrous (unless you follow a religious dogma taught to you as a child - and which you really can’t be expected to see differently) and to say they’re “useless” is just retarded (they work as highly paid columnists, lawyers, publicists etc.). Moreover, this narrow-minded reference to them as “sluts” is just offensive and proves the old adage: “men are studs… but women are sluts”. It’s such an obviously arrogant and chauvinistic attitude that anyone who believes it doesn’t really deserve a good, intelligent woman.

It’s actually embarrassing… but whatever. You can’t tell an adolescent that they’re still a kid anymore than you can explain to a moron that they’re stupid… or to a chauvinist that they need to give women some respect.

You should all read an article I found yesterday (written by a guy) that asks the questions: “Can men alone make a hit of The Incredible Hulk? Will women stay away? And, by the way, does a box-office expert ever get asked questions like that?” (Read it here: http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b139976_sex_assumptions_city.html)

Ironic, isn’t it? You’re all so shocked and stunned that a film can do well on female audiences alone. But guess what: there are slightly more women in the world and you don’t see them screaming blue murder over some of the absolute crap WE take to the top grossing lists.

Anyway… my whole point here has been that it’s PERFECTLY FINE not to like something but - for the most part- your assumptions are way off base because you have nothing but your assumption. So if you actually know what you’re taking about, great. Go nuts! But if you’ve never seen something, leave it at baffled (like Vic generally has) rather than claiming the show’s about slutty women and little else (and ruining society or whatever).

‘Cus, guess what: you probably loved a film that had no substance but to whore out toys, video games and/or hot chicks.

And… Stephen… it’s “pete’s sake”, not “peace sake”. ;o)

You know I am actually aware of when I’m being a hypocrite, right?

Ever heard the saying “if you can’t beat em…”?

I thought that was Sammy Hagar ??

We’ve got to end this Iraq war and get our troops some better dvds to watch.
Jk, Frank thanks for your service….!

If you stare at the photo long enough they do look like the ledgendary rock group Van Halen (the Hager years) in drag, shopping in Manhatten as part of some bizzare Rolling Stone cover shoot.
(Maybe I’m seeing the future, the future Conan?).
Everytime I see Kim Katrel I think of her as an evil vulcan that likes to tie me up a,,,,never mind.
Aliens vs Predator and the City…..

Cheers. Everyone its friday !! Whheew

I see this having a big opening, but being the heaviest front loaded movie of the summer. I think in it’s second or third week this movie will fall fast and hard. It won’t even come close to Iron-man or Indy.

It’s actually much higher than 40% Friday was a 60% drop Saturday was 45% and Sunday was 57%.

You talk as though Indy 4 is a failure. I’m not an indy fan at all, but the movie isn’t exactly a failure when all is said and done it’s still gonna have a huge amount of money and be in the top 2 or 3 for the summer. Star Trek 11 would be lucky to suffer that fate. However I think the next Trek Movie looks like crap so far. Then again it’s not fair for me to judge since I only liked TNG and I kind of enjoyed DS9, but hated the original as well as Voyager.

Oh for sure. Iron Man for some reason just hit the perfect sweet spot this year. Indy has terrible legs as it stands right now. Although while it does have worse legs than Iron-man on a day to day comparison it’s still technically higher than Iron-man was on the same day.

Iron Man - $181,675,868 / Day 11

Indy - $216,881,000 / Day 11

Gonna be interesting to see where it all ends up. I imagine when all is said and done they will end up pretty close to each other.

I’m not sure what your talking about and I’m thinking maybe your just confused. I’m talking on a day to day comparison. I’m saying what Iron-man made on it’s 11th day and what Indy made on his 11th day and showed them to you. My source is Boxofficemojo.com

I think Iron-Man will beat Indy, but I wouldn’t say easy it seems like it will be pretty close.

Also As much as I love Batman I don’t think it really has a chance of beating Iron-man. I wish it would nothing would make me happier to see TDK become the highest grossing super hero movie of all time. Sadly I have to deal with reality. More than likely it will land around 260 - 280 range. Since Iron-man is already at 276M I don’t see TDK as having a chance of beating it.

You’re giving TDK more credit than I will. I think it has to many things against it to perfom that high. This is a movie that the studio execs them selves don’t even expect to hit 300M. Ironman is a lock for 290M and will probably make 300M easy. I see these movies being divided by at the very least 10M. I guess we will just have to wait and see.

Rofl I love the Check your math comments like it actually has anything to do with math. I’m using Domestic figures so in no way is their an error in my math. I usually really only refer to Domestic figures.

The current numbers Domestic are 276Mil. I’m sorry but I have no idea what your are talking about when you tell me to check my math. I’m not doing math I’m simply reading the numbers off of a website. I am not using the world wide numbers. Just the Domestic North America numbers. Explain this MATH ‘error’ you see.

I can easily check it, but I have no reason to. I was only talking about Domestic the world wide numbers had absolutely nothing to do with what I was talking about.

Worldwide: $505,036,529

Not sure what your problem is or what difference that number is suppose to make it had absolutely nothing to do with what I was talking about.

Guys, I’m tellin’ ya, I think Iron Man is gonna be the biggest film of the year.

It certainly deserves to be….

My thoughts exactly, Vic. While I’m definitely looking forward to it and it will certainly be better than Batman Returns, with such grotesque takes on the villains, it may go the route of that film and under perform.

Not to mention people have seen Batman plenty of times before, I don’t think it will bring in the “curious” crowd that Iron Man brought.

I don’t think TDK will out perform Iron Man tho.
….and I’m betting that Iron Man is also the better film, personaly. It exceeded my (and about everyone else’s) expectations.

We’ll see.

Personally, altho Batman is my all time fave hero (Iron Man is my third), I really thought that Iron Man was better than Batman Begins. Not waaay better than Begins, but better. Possibly the best superhero film of all time.

Geez, look at what this thread’s become hehe.
Ah……here goes.

Iron Man, IMO, was better for the following reasons:

1) MINIMAL LOVE INTEREST STORY LINE
If you inquired all Batman Begins fans around the world about what one thing they DIDN’T like about the movie, almost universally (with exceptions) the answer coming back with be “The damn love story with the wooden walking Tom Cruise baby incubator”. It felt like every time Rachel Dawes was on screen the pace and motion of the movie ground to a complete halt… and the love interest was never sold. It felt forced and unnatural. Iron Man on the other hand had a very minimalist approach to the love interest story line… the two never even kiss. Not to mention, Gwyneth Paltrow fit in with the movie much better and never got in the way. She, and her relationship with Tony Stark actually HELPED the story as opposed to hinder it.

2) YOU CAN SEE THE DAMN ACTION
My one critique of Christopher Nolan’s direction when it came to Batman Begins was how he choose to shoot the action sequences. Whenever Batman was going to do something really cool (like beat the hell out of the henchmen at the docks), Nolan either choose to have the camera cut away to something else so you only HEAR Batman doing his thing, or committed the heinous sin of shaking the bloody camera around like an German midget having an epileptic seizure to create a fake and artificial sense of “action” or “intensity”. This drove me nuts. Iron Man on the other had generally always had him in frame, in the shot allowing us to see what he was doing. Thank you Mr. Favreau!

3) IRON MAN HAPPENS IN THE REAL WORLD
There’s something about brining the fantastic into the mundane that makes the fantastic all the more awe inspiring. Prior to Jurassic Park, I had seen lots of movies with Dinosaurs, but they were usually back in time (where you would expect to see Dinosaurs). But when Jurassic Park brought those creatures into the the world and time we live in, there was something far more magical and awe inspiring about it. Batman Begins doesn’t really exist in our world totally. The styles, technology (better and worse) and atmosphere of “Gotham City” (which is also fictional) are all slightly off from the real world. And so, when the environment is a fictional world, the fictional characters dwelling in it seem a TOUCH less fantastic because they’re not in the world we inhabit. Iron Man on the other hand takes place in the context of our world… which for me personally, made it engage my imagination all the more. Some people won’t agree with this point, and that’s fair since it is subjective.

4) ROBERT DOWNEY JR.’S TONY STARK IS A MORE ENTERTAINING CHARACTER THAN CHRISTIAN BALE’S BRUCE WAYNE
Please note I’m not saying Tony Stark is a BETTER character than Bruce Wayne. I don’t think he is… but there’s no denying that when sitting in a movie theater, the moments that Tony Stark is on screen are more entertaining to watch than Bruce Wayne. In Iron Man, Stark is a funny, quick tonged character who almost always said or did something on screen that made you laugh or love him even more. His quick one liners and general disposition made watching him on screen almost as fun as watching Iron Man on screen. Same can’t really be said for Bruce.

5) IRON MAN HAD BETTER DIALOG
Say what you will, but man… that little speech Rachel Dawes gives Bruce as they’re driving in the car in front of Falcone’s was nauseating. “Who will stand for justice… yadda yadda yadda”. There were actually several monologues in the film that had a high cheese factor to them… some awesome ones too. Iron Man just seemed to have tighter dialog. Sillier sometimes for certain… but rarely diving into the deep blue cheese. It was usually witty and with the wink of an Iron eye at times… but for what it was it was pretty tight.

6) IRON MAN ACTUALLY LOOKS LIKE IRON MAN
Sorry, but Marvel translated the look of Iron Man PERFECTLY onto film (just like they did with Spider-Man), you look at him and he looks like the best of Iron Man in the comics; the believability of the Extremis suit yet with the charm and a tip of the hat to the Classic armor (thank God they didn’t use that Superman style triangular chest logo the current suit has and instead used the circular one). Meanwhile, Batman still hasn’t escaped from the Burton tradition; all black rubber/plastic suit w/ yellow belt that looks nothing like the comics suit (what Burton movie DOESN’T have black rubber?). Not only is it impractical and impossible for Batman to move in, it also looks really, really fake, especially when you get an actor who has ACTUALLY WORKED OUT for the part and has REAL MUSCLES and could wear the comics style bat suit and make it believable. The batsuit in The Dark Knight looks even worse, not only is it still plastic/rubbery looking it is now too busy/detailed and makes Batman look mechanic, Batman is NOT Iron Man, stop with the armor horsecrap (look at TDK suit’s friggin’ shoulders! gah!). DC/WB, please, Burton’s Batman was 20 years ago, OK? Burton’s all about being “chic” and “stylish” and in his own world and doesn’t respect the comic books, he even said he never has and never will read a comic! (It’s amazing that his first Batman film turned out the way it did!) So don’t you think it’s time to put Batman in his black and gray comics style gear? It doesn’t have to be a halloween costume, it can be cool looking and made out of special materials (like the Daredevil, Spider-Man, Fantastic 4, and even Harry Osborn suits’ MATERIAL), but for godsakes get rid of the damn Burton suit variations already! The black, gray, and flexible comics style batsuit WILL work, even soldiers wear those colors/shade, it would work great on film if you’d let it.

7) IRON MAN WAS CLOSER TO THE COMICS
Q: Were Bruce Wayne’s parents murdered after watching a crappy opera that had the one thing in it (bats) that scares the bejezus out of their kid (yet they took him to it anyway)? A: No, they were murdered on their way home from seeing a film (that their son actually liked!). Q: Was the BATMOBILE ever a piece of crap humvee tank that Bruce Wayne just found in some garage at his company? A: No, he built it, and it was very sleek/streamlined. Q: Did Bruce Wayne make his costume or did he also find that in a garage at his company? A: He got what he needed (with some occasional help) for it and made it mostly himself. Q: Was Bruce Wayne trained by Ra’s Al Ghul? A: No. Q: Does Rachel Dawes exist in the comics? A: Hell no! Q: Does Batman sound like a hissing cat when he talks? A: No, he makes his voice deeper than it is when he is Bruce Wayne and is sometimes whispery, like Kevin Conroy’s voice as Batman on Batman: the animated series and the Justice league/Justice League Unlimited cartoons. BB, while still the best Batman film so far (TDK will be better, IMO) really dropped the ball in some areas (for me). Iron Man got waaaaay more right than Batman Begins did.

So there ya have it. That is why I think Iron Man is now possibly the best superhero film of all time.

I realize that some of this may or may not be me nitpicking, but nevertheless, I think Iron Man is the superior film. Batman is my favorite superhero (Iron Man is my third fave), by the way, so please don’t think that I’m hatin’ on him, I just thought Iron Man was better.

Thanks for reading.

I’ll admit I was a slight nitpicky towards the end, BTW. Just my opinion.