The most cringe inducing moments.... - Sex and the City 2 (2010) Discussion

[–] katla_007 14 years ago

Liza Minelli singing "Single ladies". I almost walked out then and there.

The way people were dancing to Lizas performance and getting all "Oh no, what's next" when the song stopped for a moment right before she finished.

The chubby lady who sang along to "I am woman" like she was an actual singer.

Samantha's hissy fit in the market, she should have gotten a big fat slap!

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[–] FloridaSunshine 13 years ago

And them wearin the head scarfs to hide from the mob that was some scooby Doo BS going on right there

That has to be the funniest damn thing I've read in a long time. I literally laughed myself silly reading that.... "Scooby Doo bs".... priceless! I'm going to borrow that line and use it whenever possible.

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[–] chellard 13 years ago

-carries outfit to the market.. wtf was that? it looked like a tshirt overtop of a tacky prom dress
-90% of the outfits in the movie were so rediculous
-i agree lieza sounded like a grandma
-sooo many bad puns
-the camel toe... like really?
-the scene of samantha blowing the hooka pipe and the dude walking away with a boner
-samantha thrusting screaming "i have sex!"

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[–] Jack2979 13 years ago

-the scene of samantha blowing the hooka pipe and the dude walking away with a boner

That was just painful to watch her try soooooo hard to come off as sexy, and then they add insult to injury by giving dude a boner! In that whole scene she had the flirting tactics of a 18 year old self proclaimed sex expert. It truly is a shame how badly they screwed up her character with these movies, especially this one.

Darling, you can't rape a townie......

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[–] ginamac29 13 years ago

Haha, I literally said "WTF is she wearing" during that scene. The fashion in this movie was horrible--I love Patricia Field but she clearly had nothing to do with the clothes--or she didn't care or something.

So many cringe-worthy moments but Samantha's Dick Spurts comment was just the worst. It's like they hired a 13 year old to write some of this stuff.

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[–] shannon77 11 years ago

something about ""The Gays"" getting married, in such a patronzing tone.. like saying ""the Colored's" in the 1930's..
>my gay best friend is marrying her gay best friend>

Sam having the worlds largest Orgasm at the country inn

The lady getting pissy because Carrie and Big (at wedding reception) talk about not wanting kids.. (hey, lady, mind your own f'inn buzness!

The Nanny not wearing a bra

The Beyonce song by Liza (as mentioned above)

Sam always needing sex, like a 52 year old womans V is going to explode..
the horniness of Sam was made cartoonish and fetishistic in this movie.

But I loved the clothes.
and the line "Lawrence of my Labia"

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[–] Petals121 9 years ago

I actually understood Samantha there. She had just had her purse ripped and everything spilled on the ground. And then these men started harassing her. I understood completely why she got upset.

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[–] JessaCita 14 years ago

Great ones mentioned so far! I cringed at all these parts (even though I didn't totally hate the movie).

-I also cringed when Anthony was reading his wedding vows & he got choked up. Sorry, but I just don't buy Stanford & Anthony as a couple. They HATED each other with a fiery passion. Maaaaaybe they could set aside their differences & be civil, but no way would they be getting married!

-Samantha saying "Lawrence of my Labia." OMG *cringe*

-Big giving Carrie a black diamond because SHE kissed Aidan...

-Then Carrie asking why it was black, and saying "I thought you were gonna say because it's black like my soul." (In her "sexy, sultry" voice, of course...)

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[–] JessaCita 14 years ago

Okay... That's your opinion.

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[–] JessaCita 14 years ago

I love Samantha, don't get me wrong. The line didn't offend me or anything - I just cringed when she said it! I smiled & cringed at the same time & didn't feel like, "Oh, how inappropriate!" or anything like that. :) I just thought it was cringe-worthy! It felt like a cheap pun to me. Not a big deal, but it did make me cringe!

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[–] ShizaMinelli 13 years ago

It was a terrible line, not to mention unoriginal, but she sold it really well imo.

When you're 17 a cow can seem dangerous and forbidden...am I alone here?

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[–] lesmar13 13 years ago

SJP wearing that outfit to go see adian for dinner. OMG!!!! WTF were they thinking????

the karaoke scene....

samantha having sex at the end??? I looked away. She cant pull that off anymore. Its gross now. UGH!

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[–] Sudoku_123 13 years ago

And them wearin the head scarfs to hide from the mob that was some scooby Doo
BS going on right there

LOL, now that's funny!!! I didn't hate the movie, but there were lots of moments that could have been scrapped.

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[–] pc-daisy 12 years ago

Yes, put all the cringeworthy minutes together and scrap them and the movie would have the opening and closing credits!
lol

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[–] sydnee_man 13 years ago

I cringed at that one as well. Sorry.

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[–] princesspeach09 14 years ago

'Sorry, but I just don't buy Stanford & Anthony as a couple. They HATED each other with a fiery passion. Maaaaaybe they could set aside their differences & be civil, but no way would they be getting married!'

i agree... stanford and anthony getting married is just going TOO far. i liked how they developed their relationship in the first film - the way they had clearly set aside their differences and decided to be civil/friendly with each other - it showed that the characters had matured. and they had that arkward new-years kiss which was quite amusing but I think they should have just left it at that. showing them get married in the 2nd film was unrealistic and fairly ridiculous.

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[–] ctp1222 13 years ago

They never explained what happened to Marcus. I liked him. I'd love to know about that break-up.

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[–] princesspeach09 13 years ago

yeah considering he and stanford were in a serious relationship it seems odd that it was never explained what happened to him.

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[–] punxgurrl 13 years ago

Yeah it's like they couldn't get the actor who played Marcus to come back so the writers said "Oh screw it! We'll just have Stanford marry Anthony! That'll make sense, and we have to have a gay wedding just because." It just seriously didn't make sense.

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[–] jiggy45 13 years ago

OMG I totally agree! And I thought the explanation of why they were a couple (something about how they each had run out of guys to hook up with) was just insulting, to the characters and to the audience. Couldn't the writer(s) have come up with SOME REASON why they just might have fallen in love??

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[–] blackno31 11 years ago

Except the Stanford-Anthony wedding was set up near the end of S&C first movie because there was a scene with those two at a New Year's eve party, through an apartment window, and everyone was celebrating at midnight and they look around, realize that it's just the two of them that aren't kissing and hugging anyone, so they kiss and then chug their champagne. Back in the day Anthony would never have been in the same ROOM with Stanford, let alone kiss him at a party. And vice versa. So I kind of expected that wedding.

I cringed that ANTHONY hadn't planned that monstrosity of a wedding, since he'd planned everyone else's...

LLR

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[–] Maddywoo13 14 years ago

I cringed in all those moments, esp the single ladies dance. I actually looked around to see what other people's reaction to that was.

I cringed more in this movie than New Moon.

Although I did enjoy that Anthony and Stanford had the gayest wedding on the face of the Earth. Anthony and Stanford together? not so much.

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[–] katinka1969 14 years ago

I am one of the few who liked the movie, so my cringeworthy moments were mostly cringeworthy in that good, SATC way.

Having said this, when Miranda called out from the car "it's Abu Dabi Doo!", I wanted to slap the writers quite hard.

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[–] ItsAlwaysSomething 14 years ago

Charlotte crying about her ruined vintage skirt. I know the scene was supposed to be about her being stressed out from motherhood, but that scene made me cringe. It was almost if it were saying, "Screaming babies? Fine. A potentially cheating husband? OK. But a ruined vintage Valentino skirt? Nooooooooooo...!!!!!!!"

Plus, the way the little girl was basically copping a feel of her mom's ass. Creep-o-rama.

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[–] coral-scala 14 years ago

The Karaoke sequence!!!
Awful!!!

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[–] LovesConfusingJoy 13 years ago

Charlotte crying about her ruined vintage skirt. I know the scene was supposed to be about her being stressed out from motherhood, but that scene made me cringe. It was almost if it were saying, "Screaming babies? Fine. A potentially cheating husband? OK. But a ruined vintage Valentino skirt? Nooooooooooo...!!!!!!!"

OMG I felt that same way, I cringed but I actually felt sorry for her about the skirt.

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[–] Authoring 11 years ago

Something's wrong with you for your brain to have gone to a sexual place when you watched that. She's a little girl and simply only comes up to that part of Char's body. It was the most logical place to make the prints.

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[–] ItsAlwaysSomething 11 years ago

I guess our experiences differ, but its not commonplace (for me, anyway) to see children get their parent's attention by slapping their backside. That's just weird and inappropriate. It's not "wrong" of me to point that out.

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[–] Authoring 11 years ago

It is wrong of you to see something sexual in that. You have no clue what you're on about. You have a messed up over-sexed mind to think like that period. Seriously, you do. Lily didn't slap her mother's butt in a sexual way or anything close to that feeling - she didn't even really "slap" it with the intent to just slap it. She rammed into the side of her mother she was facing (Char's backside) to make handprints and get her mother's attention. You're perverse to see it as anything else. I mean copping a feel? Something is definitely wrong with you. Think about what you wrote. Think about why your mind went there. The scene was perfectly innocent.

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[–] ItsAlwaysSomething 11 years ago

Again: your opinion doesn't constitute absolute truth. Grow up.

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[–] Chefeetaboopers 10 years ago

My friend...

I dealt with a child pedophile constantly trying stuff to my mother and sisters and I.

I dealt with perverts both children and adults trying to touch people.. doing stuff that you can tell was meant to be perverted.

While the whole butt thing was kind of odd, I didn't see it as perverted and I don't really see what gave you the impression it was meant to be perverted. Her daughter is still way too young to even think of things like that.

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[–] PlatinumScreen 14 years ago

yes, madge, all you stated made me cringe too. i thought in the first few minutes of the movie that everyone seemed to be trying too hard. cynthia nixon's dialogue at the opening wedding seemed forced.

i did not enjoy it at all although i liked the first one quite well. i never cared much one way or another about the fashion in the show or first movie, but for the first time the clothes put me off. it seemed like wretched excess when so many are struggling in the real world. i know this is a movie and it is hollywood, but tone it down a bit. the clothes were so in my face flapping all over the place in the desert wind.

the only part i really enjoyed was the frank conversation miranda and charlotte had together at the bar about their struggles in motherhood.

blech to the rest.

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[–] funnyguyla 14 years ago

I liked the conversation with Charlotte and Miranda also but I cringed when Charlotte said, "And how do those women who don't have help do it?" as if she didn't know she was talking about 90% of the population.

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[–] PlatinumScreen 14 years ago

funnyguyla, so true. that almost seemed like a last minute rewrite to send a shout out to all the poor mothers who "suffer" alone.

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[–] sweetie_candy 14 years ago

yeh all these things were bad

the 'lawrence of my labia' was just too far! not offensive but like did she really have to say that??

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[–] furious_georgina 14 years ago

Oh come on that was funny! This is coming from a woman who said "nobody wants to *beep* grandma's pussy!" you can't be offended around Samantha!

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[–] drc235 14 years ago

I agree with just about everything posted thus far. However, I will defend the "Lawrence of My Labia" line; Kim Cattrall is always so fully committed to the role of Samantha that she takes slapstick dialogue and just totally sells it (for me, at least).

The first 20 minutes were just terrible: forced, unfunny dialogue; the director and editor were completely unable to establish any sort of tone. The "gay wedding" played like a humorless dream sequence and it made me very uncomfortable. I am gay, but it didn't offend me at all. It just made me blush on behalf of the entire cast, extras, and crew who had to be present for the hours it took to film.

The costume changes every 45 seconds were just embarrassing, and, like an earlier post mentioned, in this time of economic struggle, it seemed like the costume designer was just jerking off onto the faces of all us mere mortals in the audience. The only explanation I can come up with is that "they" assumed this decadence would somehow be therapeutic for the viewers, allowing us vicarious thrills. "Wrong!" I say.

The worst (and also funniest moment) of the entire film is when Big gets off the phone with Carrie (after she confesses to kissing Aiden) and the camera zooms out of his office window to show him "emotionally" bracing himself with one hand against the wall. HORRIBLE!!! And hysterically funny...

Chris Noth is a majorly lame man! In character and out. I went to college in Manhattan, and he and I frequented the same gym (Crunch Lafayette) where I've seen him be rude to staff more than twice, and the same liquor store (Discount Wine on Broadway off Astor Place) where I once overheard him b*t*h out a sales clerk for having the audacity to suggest a certain wine for him because, apparently, "all South African wines are s**t!" And, as this was 5+ years ago, I can't remember if it was 9th, 10th, or 11th Street, but he lived on the north side of one of those between Broadway and University. Just wanted to put that out there for any potential stalkers. Love & Respect...

Oh, and, please, Star and King, let's not make this a film trilogy. An ODD COUPLE-esque spin-off with Samantha and Charlotte, however, may have potential...

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[–] dannyboy123 14 years ago

I cringed throughout the entire thing to be honest but the camel toe moment when they're in the desert on the camels was nearly enough to make me wanna kill myself.

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[–] coral-scala 14 years ago

Charlotte's "camel lips" in that scene were rather disgusting!!!

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[–] Lgirl716 13 years ago

It's funny you say that about Chris noth because I have heard the same thing. My cousin waitressed in NYC many years ago and Chris was a regular customer at the restaurant. She said he was incredibly rude and came off like a huge bastard.

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[–] TheGoofyCat 13 years ago

The stuff that made me cringe while watching the movie were -

The "Irish" nanny, her accent was so fake and stereotypical, my boyfriend is from Northern Ireland and he's been to most places in Ireland so he knows what Irish people sound like and act like and when we watched the movie together he said it was so bad and fake as soon as she opened her mouth and spoke.

The scene in the cafe when Samantha is saying that the place is so hot and so on and Carrie says something like "bet they didn't put that on the website" cringe! one of the worst jokes in the movie.

Carrie's weird hand when she's eating the pringles on the plane (don't know why but it makes me cringe)

Also when Carrie is putting on the eyeliner and she's giving a smouldering look into the mirror for what seems like forever.

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[–] lld3497 13 years ago

The girl who played the Nanny ALICE EVE was born in London England
she proably just tweeked the accent she already had.

Sláinte I refuse to get into a battle of wits with someone so woefully unarmed

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[–] coney_island_baby 10 years ago

That's probably why it was so terrible, a London accent is about as close to Irish as it is to Texan. I'm a Londoner and I do a dreadful Irish accent :P can pull off a reasonable Scots accent though, as most of my family live there.

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[–] sydnee_man 13 years ago

I agree with you 100%

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[–] LovesConfusingJoy 13 years ago

That was the only scene I too enjoyed. Miranda and Charlotte. Their friendship is my favorite and we never saw enough of them together.

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[–] flapper25 14 years ago

* Carrie's reaction to Big's anniversary gift, telling him he should have got her a piece of jewelery. She just seemed so spoiled in that moment. I don't blame Big for wanting those two days apart.

* The joke Miranda makes in the beginning about Liza Minelli "manifesting" when there are so many gay men in one room. Lame.

* Carrie putting on that atrocious "crown" hat. I thought it was a joke at first but she ended up wearing it at the ceremony.

* The constant referral to Anthony and Stanford's wedding as a "gay" wedding.

* The scene at the wedding w/ the lady who idolized Carrie. Just felt awkward and out of place.

* Charlotte bitching and moaning about having to take care of two kids w/ a full-time nanny. She doesn't even work! Does she listen to herself speak?

* The bad puns (Lawrence of my labia, the Jude law, Erin Go braless, etc.)

* The slow-motion scene in the desert of the outfits. They looked like they were getting ready to go trick-or-treating. I agree w/ the above poster about the fashion being too in our faces, esp. in this economy.

* Carrie making everything about her all the time. Samantha's in jail & she's still bitching about Aidan to Charlotte.

* Samantha complaining about having to sit in coach eight million times. I think once would have been sufficient.

* Charlotte falling off the camel & getting a real camel toe.

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[–] JessaCita 14 years ago

* The slow-motion scene in the desert of the outfits. They looked like they were getting ready to go trick-or-treating.

Hahahaha. So true! That scene was very cringe-inducing. They all looked ridiculous, especially ever-practical Miranda in that cowboy hat. Puh-leaze.

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[–] Avariavasiel 14 years ago

Liza. Not just her singing Single Ladies, but just Liza. Period. And the fact that Anthony is allowed to cheat...I felt like that was a slap in the face to the gay comminity, who have been fighting so hard for the right to have gay marriage legalized, and then...this? F@ck you.

Carrie's tux at the wedding...topped with the crown.

Carrie's temper tantum after her bad book review, where she storms out and slams the paper down.

The friggin plane ride! C'mon! Those little seperate compartments and the bar? Too much. And Samantha's constant diva complains about flying coach.

Definitely Big bracing himself in that "emotional" moment after Carrie confesses to him about Aiden. Seriously, who gives a sh#t?

The camel toe.

The seperate cars and personal butlers.

I wouldn't have anything against the kareoke scene if it hadn't been such an obvious, tacky song choice.

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[–] Wicked-Fix 14 years ago

Anthony and Stanfords wedding, the entire thing, especially Liza.

The karaoke scene made me want to shrivel up and die it was so embarassing.

The entire movie was cringe inducing, and an insult to a great series. SJP and co just wanted more money, I can't believe she let this happen. At least the first movie had some sort of plot/purpose.

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[–] JessaCita 14 years ago

The more I think about the karaoke scene, the more I cringe. That was truly awful. It might have even been a little better if they showed like 10 seconds of the girls doing karaoke, then cut back to them laughing & drinking, but showing the entiiiiire song was so awkward!

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[–] pptrts24 13 years ago

Sooo many. If not cring-worth, just plain painful and overly forced moments that insulting to the viewer. Off the top of my head...

Agreed. First 20 min. were awful. The wedding...every line was delivered like a punchline. I was half-expecting a laugh track.

Charlotte's forced 'Jew-isms.'

Is it just me, or did Steve shrink? I know he was never tall, but Miranda downright towered over him @ the wedding.

Big AND Samantha--the way they deliver their lines. Big, so many of his lines. He mumbles. Like he's trying too hard to be Mr. Sexy Man. I couldn't understand a lot of his lines. Had to rewind, mute, and see if I could read it on CC. No luck! CC didn't even catch a lot of his lines. Plus, as if it's not bad enough how Big speaks, he just tries too hard while he's acting in SATC2. I swear, I think I actually caught him do like a 'double-step' thing (something like you'd see in those B&W films he likes to watch in bed)...after he was hit on by the gay guy, at the gay wedding, as he was crossing the gay bridge over the gay river w/the gay swans. And Samantha (agree...she does commit, doesn't she?)...It's always annoyed me how she delivers her punchlines. WHO talks like that...ALL THE TIME?

I know this one esp. is prob. just me, but I don't like how Big always calls Carrie, 'Kid'. It was cute *sometimes* during the series, when they were trying to be platonic. But something just seems off when, now they're married, and when he's all romantic, with his mushy lines, and he utters, a 'kid'. It's a big turn-off.

The scene w/Charlotte's nanny and Harry giving the w/the wet-shirt during bath time. Nope! Didn't see that one coming.

Charlotte in the white kitchen...while on the phone...while wearing cream vintage Valentino...while making/decorating like a million pink cupckes...while she's holding crying baby...while other child is finger-painting...in RED! Gee...I wonder what could POSSIBLY go wrong here.

Also, there were many moments that you knew were gonna come back and mean something...but did anyone NOT see her place her passport on the counter, then get distracted (1) by the Call to Prayer and then, of course, (2) Aiden. Even if you didn't see it was her passport, it was *something*.

I don't like the way that, Carrie esp., bites Charlotte's head off. I get that Charlotte's supposed to be extremely niave, etc. But, examples: Carrie's pretending to be alright w/Big's proposal of having two days off while explaining it to a confused Charlotte who 'just doesn't get it', according to Carrie. Then after Carrie reads her bad review in The New Yorker, and she's frustrated, she quips, how she 'shoulda stuck to writing about being single...now he wants two days off from their marriage'. Charlotte says, 'but I thought you both--', and Carrie cuts her off, 'CHARLOTTE!' It's just not the right response THEN. Another example of that: Charlotte asked 'what time is in in New York' and Carrie snipes at her, 'Charlotte, you HAVE GOT to STOP obsessing.' ummm...she was asking what time it was, not 'i wonder what Harry and Erin are doing'.

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[–] charlimcbean 13 years ago

I've noticed more and more since watching the entire TV series (again and again) and the two films how derogatory and bitchy all of the girls are to Charlotte and it makes me sad - they're supposed to be friends?! In this film all she's doing is trying to understand Carrie's situation, presumably to be supportive. That dosen't make me cringe but it pisses me off. For me Charlotte seems to be the most normal woman in the show/films too so it's kind of sending the message that to have morals/want a family is crap compared to wanting to have dysfunctional relationships/shag countless numbers of men until your 50s and beyond.

The bits that made me cringe most were Miranda Miranda Miranda!!!! All the screams (out of the car window, next to the pool) - she's supposed to be cynical Miranda not some 18 year old on their first girly holiday. Also the Abu Dhabi Doo - Christ give me a break.

Hmmmm puzzler. Bit of a puzzle.

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[–] pptrts24 13 years ago

Yes. Thank you. So you see the way they treat Charlotte too. It's no fun. That's not very friendly at all. And if anything, it makes their character look worse...not only bc they're being so nasty, but Carrie's contradicting herself. All Charlotte's doing is trying to follow whatever the hell it is that Carrie's trying to sell her.

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[–] BethieBumface 11 years ago

That was absolutely my least favourite scene in the movie. For one, why would they be walking up the side of some random dune anyway? Miranda looked atrocious and Samantha looked like a pharaoh.

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BTW It seems since 2010 when the film was out and I started posting on the topic that Jack2979's anti-SatC2 messages were deleted except for some..

MAGIC=Sarah Silverman.

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[–] rainbow_cupcake 14 years ago

The "hilarious" scene where they're running around trying to pack all their millions of outfits in a short space of time or they'll be charged for the room... I was completely unmoved. In fact that scene, if anything, left me feeling slightly depressed.

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[–] amandabom 14 years ago

1.Carries outfit at the market.
2.That she met Aidan at the same market . *crrrrrringe'

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[–] princesspeach09 14 years ago

liza minelli single ladies - what the *beep* was that all about??

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