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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Ichirou on May 28, 2010, 05:05:30 AM

Title: "This might be one of the most racist, anti-Arab films you will ever see..."
Post by: Ichirou on May 28, 2010, 05:05:30 AM
SEX AND THE CITY 2

(http://blog.zap2it.com/thedishrag/sex-and-the-city-2-poster-371.jpg)

What's the view from the hill, Evilbore muslims?  Has a fatwa been declared against Sarah Jessica Parker yet?

Some more choice quotes from the Ain't It Cool News review:

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SEX AND THE CITY 2 spends roughly half of its 145-minute running time openly mocking Arab traditions, no matter how dated and out of step with the world at large they may be. Is there a place in the world for films that question and defy the terrible ways that women are treated in some regions of the Middle East? Without question.

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Kim Cattrall's sexy speak has gone from funny/seductive to creepy. When Samantha overtly comes on to a guy in the movie, and he pretends to respond favorably, you can almost see him choke back the vomit.

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There's a scene in which a scantily clad Samantha finds herself picking up the spilled contents of her purse (including loads of condoms) in the middle of a Middle Eastern marketplace. Is it wrong that for the brief moment I thought that the men screaming at and surrounding her might start picking up rocks?

From Ebert's 1-star review:

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Some of these people make my skin crawl. The characters of "Sex and the City 2" are flyweight bubbleheads living in a world which rarely requires three sentences in a row. Their defining quality is consuming things. They gobble food, fashion, houses, husbands, children, vitamins and freebies.

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Charlotte York (Kristin Davis) has the two little girls she thought she wanted, but now discovers that they actually expect to be raised. Mothers, if you are reading, run this through your head. One little girl dips her hands in strawberry topping and plants two big handprints on your butt. You are on the cell to a girlfriend. How do you report this? You moan and wail out: "My vintage Valentino!" Any mother who wears her vintage Valentino while making muffin topping with her kids should be auled up before the Department of Children and Family Services.

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And crotches, have we got crotches for you. Big close-ups of the girls themselves, and some of the bulgers they meet. And they meet some. They meet the Australian world cup team, for example, which seems to have left its cups at home. And then there's the intriguing stranger Samantha meets at the hotel, whose zipper-straining arousal evokes the fury of an offended Arab guest and his wife.

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There's an uncomfortable scene in which the girls are menaced by outraged men in a public market, where all they've done is dress in a way more appropriate for a sales reception at Victoria's Secret.

And Ebert's still a horndog, God bless him:

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I must confess that while attending the sneak preview with its overwhelmingly female audience, I was gob-smacked by the delightful cleavage on display. Do women wear their lowest-cut frocks for each other?
Title: Re: "This might be one of the most racist, anti-Arab films you will ever see..."
Post by: Eric P on May 28, 2010, 08:54:32 AM
http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/burkas-and-birkins/Content?oid=4132715

The Stranger's review is pretty grand as well

Title: Re: "This might be one of the most racist, anti-Arab films you will ever see..."
Post by: Ichirou on May 28, 2010, 08:59:54 AM
It would be so fucking awesome if Sarah Jessica Parker got a Salman Rushdie-style fatwah issued against her for this movie. :lol
Title: Re: "This might be one of the most racist, anti-Arab films you will ever see..."
Post by: Ichirou on May 28, 2010, 09:03:31 AM
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What is the lubrication level of Samantha Jones's 52-year-old vagina? Has the change of life dulled its sparkle? Do its aged and withered depths finally chafe from the endless pounding, pounding, pounding—cruel phallic penance demanded by the emotionally barren sexual compulsive from which it hangs? If I do not receive an update on the deep, gray caverns of Jones, I shall surely die!

:rofl :rofl :rofl
Title: Re: "This might be one of the most racist, anti-Arab films you will ever see..."
Post by: Ichirou on May 28, 2010, 09:10:52 AM
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Very quickly, the SATC brain trust notices that it's not all swarthy man-slaves and flying carpets in Abu Dhabi! In fact, Abu Dhabi is crawling with Muslim women—and not one of them is dressed like a super-liberated diamond-encrusted fucking clown!!! Oppression! OPPRESSION!!!

This will not stand. Samantha, being the prostitute sexual revolutionary that she is, rages against the machine by publicly grabbing the engorged penis of a man she dubs "Lawrence of My-Labia." When the locals complain (having repeatedly asked Samantha to cover her nipples and mons pubis in the way of local custom), Samantha removes most of her clothes in the middle of the spice bazaar, throws condoms in the faces of the angry and bewildered crowd, and screams, "I AM A WOMAN! I HAVE SEX!" Thus, traditional Middle Eastern sexual mores are upended and sexism is stoned to death in the town square.

These women should be tossed off an airplane into the middle of Afghanistan. :rofl :rofl :rofl
Title: Re: "This might be one of the most racist, anti-Arab films you will ever see..."
Post by: brob on May 28, 2010, 09:26:18 AM
I'd love a reality series where Sarah Jessica Parker traded places with Wrath.
Title: Re: "This might be one of the most racist, anti-Arab films you will ever see..."
Post by: Ichirou on May 28, 2010, 09:30:39 AM
I'd love a reality series where Sarah Jessica Parker traded places with Wrath.

Wrath and Matthew Broderick living together would make for a helluva sitcom. :lol
Title: Re: "This might be one of the most racist, anti-Arab films you will ever see..."
Post by: Brehvolution on May 28, 2010, 09:38:18 AM
Why does she have condoms in her purse if she is married? :smug

Menopause was 5 years ago, sweety. :smug
Title: Re: "This might be one of the most racist, anti-Arab films you will ever see..."
Post by: Great Rumbler on May 28, 2010, 09:55:29 AM
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Very quickly, the SATC brain trust notices that it's not all swarthy man-slaves and flying carpets in Abu Dhabi! In fact, Abu Dhabi is crawling with Muslim women—and not one of them is dressed like a super-liberated diamond-encrusted fucking clown!!! Oppression! OPPRESSION!!!

This will not stand. Samantha, being the prostitute sexual revolutionary that she is, rages against the machine by publicly grabbing the engorged penis of a man she dubs "Lawrence of My-Labia." When the locals complain (having repeatedly asked Samantha to cover her nipples and mons pubis in the way of local custom), Samantha removes most of her clothes in the middle of the spice bazaar, throws condoms in the faces of the angry and bewildered crowd, and screams, "I AM A WOMAN! I HAVE SEX!" Thus, traditional Middle Eastern sexual mores are upended and sexism is stoned to death in the town square.

These women should be tossed off an airplane into the middle of Afghanistan. :rofl :rofl :rofl

:rofl
Title: Re: "This might be one of the most racist, anti-Arab films you will ever see..."
Post by: chronovore on May 28, 2010, 10:49:33 AM
I'd love a reality series where Sarah Jessica Parker traded places with Wrath.
At least Wrath's close-ups would at last be favorably lit.
Title: Re: "This might be one of the most racist, anti-Arab films you will ever see..."
Post by: Mr. Gundam on May 28, 2010, 10:58:26 AM
http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/burkas-and-birkins/Content?oid=4132715

The Stranger's review is pretty grand as well



Lindy knocked it out of the park on that one.

:bow THE STRANGER :bow2
:bow SEATTLE :bow2

I loved the TV series, but the movies are crap.
Title: Re: "This might be one of the most racist, anti-Arab films you will ever see..."
Post by: TakingBackSunday on May 28, 2010, 11:02:51 AM
Jesus at the photoshop of Horseface Jessica Parker
Title: Re: "This might be one of the most racist, anti-Arab films you will ever see..."
Post by: TakingBackSunday on May 28, 2010, 11:27:08 AM
No, I mean, the amount of touching up done to her in the promo.
Title: Re: "This might be one of the most racist, anti-Arab films you will ever see..."
Post by: ManaByte on May 28, 2010, 01:13:54 PM
Jesus at the photoshop of Horseface Jessica Parker

Where this?
(http://daly-tribe.com/Humor/sarahjessicaparker.jpg)
Title: Re: "This might be one of the most racist, anti-Arab films you will ever see..."
Post by: Brehvolution on May 28, 2010, 01:17:44 PM
 :lol
Title: Re: "This might be one of the most racist, anti-Arab films you will ever see..."
Post by: Diunx on May 28, 2010, 01:23:58 PM
Which one is the horse?
Title: Re: "This might be one of the most racist, anti-Arab films you will ever see..."
Post by: Dickie Dee on May 28, 2010, 01:28:21 PM
That Stranger review is amazing.

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If this is what modern womanhood means, then just fucking veil me and sew up all my holes. Good night. 

:lol
Title: Re: "This might be one of the most racist, anti-Arab films you will ever see..."
Post by: Fresh Prince on May 28, 2010, 09:55:01 PM
Isn't this escapist drivel? Like euro trip for 40 year old women.
Title: Re: "This might be one of the most racist, anti-Arab films you will ever see..."
Post by: pilonv1 on May 28, 2010, 10:11:04 PM
145 min  :lol

This is by far the most offensive part.
Title: Re: "This might be one of the most racist, anti-Arab films you will ever see..."
Post by: Himu on May 29, 2010, 12:31:18 AM
i love sex and the city and this sounds horrible
Title: Re: "This might be one of the most racist, anti-Arab films you will ever see..."
Post by: Mandark on May 29, 2010, 12:32:14 AM
some EBer should be sent on mission to see this, and report back.

i love sex and the city

Sounds like we've got a volunteer!
Title: Re: "This might be one of the most racist, anti-Arab films you will ever see..."
Post by: Himu on May 29, 2010, 12:51:38 AM
some EBer should be sent on mission to see this, and report back.

i love sex and the city

Sounds like we've got a volunteer!

I'm seeing it with my friends tomorrow.
Title: Re: "This might be one of the most racist, anti-Arab films you will ever see..."
Post by: Ichirou on May 29, 2010, 01:01:25 AM
Post a review of it in this thread!