Jezebel
The trailer for Sex and the City tells us both nothing and everything we need to know about the movie, which opens in May: "Friends are forever"; giant flower brooches; kissing Big; wedding dress; blah, blah, blah. After the jump, let's look at it, frame-by-frame. No, really. What the hell else is there to do tonight?
For starters: Holy shit with the flower. Wasn't Carrie working those like eight years ago anyway? I mean, i know fashion is cyclical, but come on.
Patrick Demarchelier is shooting Carrie in wedding dresses.
God, Carrie is so fucking fat. JK! Seriously, I had no idea it was even possible for a stomach to be that flat.
I thought Samantha was the one who wore the pearl necklaces. (Har har.) OK, so now this is where we start seeing some '80s themes. Is this movie a prequel?
'Cause this is Carrie's outfit from the show's opening credits.
And the bitch still doesn't have a damn cell phone.
Speaking of '80s...I though Miranda would be the one to sport the Paula Poundstone outfit.
Miranda gets mad about something.
And then takes a serious autumn walk with Carrie, who's now wearing soft brown hair.
Charlotte is shocked by something.
But that's not what concerns me. I'm more interested in those Post It notes next to her. After staring at them for an inordinate amount of time, I've decided that they say "storage," "toss," and "take," which leads me to believe that the girls are at Carrie's apartment, helping her to pack so she can move to Big's.
OK, so here, Charlotte is dressed like M.I.A., but with a "Carrie" bandanna, and everyone else looks disgusting. After seeing some more Post Its in the background, I'm thinking that while helping her pack, the girls found some of Carrie's Ghosts of Fashions Past, and being silly (probably after a Cosmo or two) they dressed up in them.
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Earlier: Christina Aguilera As Sex & The City's Samantha: "I'm A Man"
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That is some observant analysis, right there.
Maybe the movie is not a prequel, but is full of flashbacks, brought on by the packing?
God, that would be the dumbest idea evar.
i want charlotte's MIA outfit
Excellent analysis, SM. Now I don't have to bother seeing it, which I was strangely tempted to do.
Good detective work!
Aren't they supposed to be "evolved"? Looks like the same shit.
Hello Lovers......Only SJP could wear christmas ornament size baubles so well...I'm such a hater
@elevendy:
Not "evolved," just OLDER.
Maybe that's the point? Like, we were happy being young and single so let's still act like floozies even though we're old and married?
I am embarrassed I just watched that.
i'm glad y'all did a frame by frame, b/c so many people are watching it and the trailer i see has like 3 frames in it.
@KarenWalker: Now I'm more tempted than I was. Damn analysis.
What the hell did they do to the theme music? It was bad before, but now it's just retarded.
yeah great analysis. I just e-mailed a link to my mom, although iceland probably wont see that movie in theaters. we always used to watch the show together when it started out and she would jokingly cover my eyes when they showed the "dirty" scenes. My american cousins were shocked and appalled when they found out that mom would really let her 16 year old daughter watch such inappropriate TV.
@mollsmolls: Floozies, ha! Haven't heard that in a minute. That word always makes me laugh. And trollop, too.
Oh, I would just die if Charlotte did a video rendition of "Galang."
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sooo ashamed that i want to see this
Didn't they just wrap the shoot? Uh...this is not a good sign that this is a good movie. A trailer so soon is sort of like a bad omen (means they don't have a distributor). This sucker might end up on HBO instead of theaters.
Hey maybe the Northern Exposure guy comes back and kicks the ass of the Law & Order guy.
Your detective work rivals that of every Law & Order spin-off except Ice-T in SVU.
why is miranda mad?
@elevendy:
Oh my god, trollop...
In elementary school there was a girl named Megan Trollope, and I remember my friend's mom getting SO angry at us talking about her, thinking that we'd made it up as a nickname...
OMG I love Jezebel.
@Curtice: I have loved northern exposure guy since I was in junior high, and I will never forgive Carrie for breaking his heart.
Samantha looks scary now. They should have had Xtina fill in. This movie would be the best thing ever if in the end Samantha reveals that she is a man.
That is all.
All I have to say: Praise the lord and pass the ammunition.
@mollsmolls: No shittin? Oh, man. Megan would've hated me! The puns, knock-knock jokes, and band names I can come up with would be never ending. So unfair.
I cant wait to see it hahaha
I so do not care.
I'm totally going to see this movie! Though never a fan of its concept originator, CB, I love these girls, each one of them; on screen and off. I adore SJP, her voice, her energy, even her damn perfumes for cryin' out loud. (Omg ... I am hopeless.) But this stuff just celebrates, at its basic level, girlfriends ... doesn't it? And I love all my gfs ... so I love these four too. (Wow ... a lotta lurve here ... counterbalanced but just a soupçon of math!)
@akling4: Steve lost his other ball?
I'll be there and I'm dragging the hubby with me. Revenge for all those stupid, British films he's made me watch!
I'm convinced she has gnarled old lady hands under those gloves.
@lesbiansayswhat: mayhaps- she did seem to come around to the idea of motherhood by that final episode...
personally, i'm hoping she's yelling at carrie for doing something stupid, and then carrie realizes that she IS stupid, so they reconcile and have a walk and a chat in central park
I'm not a hater!
@iodine: ah! i used to watch this with my mom, dad, and 14 yo brother when i was in high school. everyone i knew thought we were freaks.
make fun as you will, but i am super excited for this movie. this may be the 2 bottles of pinot talking, but i love me some satc.
thats a pretty amazing analysis
props
That IS the least informative trailer ever.
For the record: I have had some friendships go out of style.
@rednrowdy: Really? That happens when too many people are viewing a clip simultaneously? I was wondering...
@Bollywhaaa: me too! so would that make them like, passe-scrunchie friendships or something?
@PaisleyPajamas: Isn't New Line the distributor?
I read an article once that said if the trailer shows no dialuoge, just scenes, it's either foreign language or total crap, and the studio knows it. Although come to think of it, the Manhattan they live in is certainly foreign to me!!
I'm willing to bet that last picture is from right after they danced around and sang to some up-tempo empowering woman song. Not that I've ever done that or anything.
I thought the "toss" post-it on the fridge read "toes," which made me wonder wtf was going on with the ladies that they needed to remember something about toes. Fungus, maybe? "Toss" makes a lot more sense.
What a shit trailer. Seriously though, DC Jezzie meet up in May at the premiere!
@hushnowcharlotte:
Ok!
@iodine: See, my parents wouldn't let me watch Dawson's Creek until high school because it "wasn't real life." Correct - Joey was 18 when she had sex, that's way later than most people! Did I mention I was raised by June Cleaver?
Excellent sleuthing work to discover what the movie's about! I may wait and Netflix it now that I have the gist. Thanks for saving me the 10 bucks to see it, Jez!
@JessaFields: Looks like you are probably correct according to the link below. I still stand by my assessment that a trailer this early spells bomb at the box office. They will continue to market this to the extreme to try to get as many people in the theater that first weekend before word of mouth kills it.
Hey, it could still be a fun one to smoke a bowl and yell at the screen.
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Kim and Sarah next to each other? Say what?
@hushnowcharlotte: Only if we wear dark glasses, snark ala MST3K and throw popcorn at the screen.
@akling4: Same here.
*Hangs head in shame*
Is it wrong that I really want to see this?