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The Top Three Reasons Why The Official 'SATC' Movie Poster Sucks
Posted by Molly Friedman at 3:55 AM on April 26, 2008
For what seems like an entire century, ladies and ladyboys have been anxiously awaiting the release of the ultimate "chick flick," Sex And The City: The Movie (have we mentioned how godawful that title is by the way?). In any case, yesterday we had the privilege of seeing the final one-sheet for the film which is set to open next month. And almost immediately, we began griping about it (annoyingly, just the way Carrie Bradshaw whined over her column's bus ad during the first season). After the jump, we discuss all the various problems with this image, from that dress to that font to, well, almost everything, boiled down into three primary points:
1) Where's The Classic Foursome Shot?: Yes, SJP is the star (and one of the EPs) of the series. But to feature only her on the poster is not only a slap in the face to her co-stars, each of whom are reduced to credits only, but confirms those rumours that SJP "demanded" that only she be the face of the poster. So congrats, Sarah Jessica. We get it. Kudos. You just didn't have to (literally) shove that fact in our face, k?
2) The Font's Angle Wouldn't Give Us A Headache...If We Were Stoned: How edgy! The credits, the title, and even SJP's stance is all wonkily crooked to the point where any effort we might have taken to read the small script would require tilting our heads to the side and squinting. Which really isn't fun at all. What's the point? New York is like, wild? Something more profound, like the girls are teetering on the edge of adulthood (a stage we're pretty sure we reached by Season Two)?
3) Pat Fields Has Officially Reached The Height Of Tackiness: From time to time, SATC costume designer and notoriously eccentric stylist Pat Fields has come through with a killer ensemble for the leading ladies. Sure, no "normal" girl could pull them off, but cinematically, they worked. And yet. We don't care if that blue smock is made of the purest crushed blue sapphires sourced straight from Burma; all we see is a shaggy shapeless rug. And don't get us started on the black fishnets. Really? No, really?
[Photo credit: WB/New Line via Firstshowing.net]
- EXCLUSIVE: FINAL 'SEX AND THE CITY: THE MOVIE' POSTER [FinalShowing.net]
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Nunaurbiz
Posted 5:09 AM 26/4/08
SJP is obviously not into us
Nunaurbiz
TheStarterWife
Posted 4:47 AM 26/4/08
@DannielynSpears: Wait what?
Fuck.
TheStarterWife
Doreen DelPurgatorio
Posted 4:46 AM 26/4/08
@Molly McAleer: It's Miranda, in the Brooklyn, from the outer-borough obscurity
Doreen DelPurgatorio
bess marvin, girl detective
Posted 4:34 AM 26/4/08
@Molly McAleer: It's Big, ahem, I mean John Preston, at the hands of his driver, Raoul
bess marvin, girl detective
hummingpenguin
Posted 4:28 AM 26/4/08
This whole exercise has really turned tacky and gross. All that "what women want" product placement bullshit totally ruined me for this movie. Not to mention SJP elbowing out her more talented co-stars. Yuck.
hummingpenguin
Molly McAleer
Posted 4:24 AM 26/4/08
@DannielynSpears: Who do you think dies?! I think it's Samantha with the cancer in the library!
Molly McAleer
EDogII
Posted 4:22 AM 26/4/08
Uh, I don't see one single cast member on the poster...only a horse with a blue blanket.
EDogII
pureblarney
Posted 4:17 AM 26/4/08
Sex and consumerism sells. Next lesson please.
pureblarney
DannielynSpears
Posted 4:17 AM 26/4/08
These are all pretty insignificant gripes. Especially if the the rumor I hear of a major character dying is true, well that really won't be the light-hearted fun I look to SATC for.
DannielynSpears
Old No.7
Posted 4:14 AM 26/4/08
Who's the tranny?
Old No.7
Molly McAleer
Posted 5:38 AM 26/4/08
@bess marvin, girl detective: That would be a fantastic "fuck you" to Carrie...
"Thought you weren't going to die alone, Carrie? BAM! Fuck you! You're dying alone!"
Molly McAleer
major disaster
Posted 5:33 AM 26/4/08
What I'm getting from that poster is a "Shitty sex columnist by day, hooker by night" vibe. But that might just be me.
major disaster
Sailor
Posted 5:30 AM 26/4/08
She had to make the demand because with that face, there's only room for one on the poster.
Sailor
raincoaster
Posted 5:29 AM 26/4/08
I like the shot of her winning the Preakness better. But I AM glad crushed synthetic velour is back; I can haul my junior-high wardrobe out of mothballs.
@Decebal: she snapped a sesamoid in the match race with Foolish Pleasure and they had to put her down. Sorry to have to tell you.
raincoaster
Mel Gibstein
Posted 5:26 AM 26/4/08
@Decebal: We can only hope. Is that Travis Bickle driving behind her about to turn SJP into road pizza?
Mel Gibstein
Decebal
Posted 5:19 AM 26/4/08
Hey, if one of the main characters dies (of the four ladies of course) that means there won't be a sequel.
Decebal
OldTowneTavern
Posted 6:24 AM 26/4/08
I think the poster should have been that nude photo Samantha Jones took in that one episode, only now she's 50 stories high and her leg is hoisted above the New York skyline.
OldTowneTavern
Miss Anne Thrope
Posted 7:04 AM 26/4/08
@EDogII: LOL. And after all the tight, revealing clothes throughout the show, she wears a muu muu now? Is she allowed to eat?
Miss Anne Thrope
KateNonymous
Posted 6:52 AM 26/4/08
I thought the black and pink "marquee-light" poster issued earlier was too precious, even for this show. But this poster is just ugly. In addition to the Defamer-generated list of comments, that shade of blue isn't just hard to wear, it's hard to look at.
KateNonymous
OldTowneTavern
Posted 7:37 AM 26/4/08
@mink: And yet it's still something my $14 will pay to see. Damn them!
OldTowneTavern
mink
Posted 7:21 AM 26/4/08
The poster looks like something my 14-year-old niece would "design" for her SATC fanfic page. The dress/sweater wreck looks like something my 14-year-old self would have worn in the late 80's. Does Pat Fields have some kind of clothing-related dementia?
mink
MCU
Posted 9:12 AM 26/4/08
I'm getting more of a no-really-I'm-a-movie-star-really-I-am/ desperately-clinging-to-the-temporary-stardom-that-shall-never-return/ is-that-all-there-was?/it's-my-movie-bitches vibe from it.
Probably not what the stylist was going for.
MCU
IKnowThings
Posted 10:37 AM 26/4/08
Wait- they are making a movie of Sex and the City? Way to strike while the iron is hot. Or is this one of those nostalgia remakes, like G. I. Joe?
IKnowThings
HappyBlues
Posted 12:14 PM 26/4/08
Ah well... all careers gotta end sometime.
HappyBlues
westie1984
Posted 8:05 PM 26/4/08
Grand Theft Auto V?
westie1984
gwendolyn
Posted 12:36 PM 28/4/08
@OldTowneTavern: $14!?!? Where do you live? Greenland?
Oh, and yes, Pat Fields does have a clothes-related dementia and this time it manifests itself in her use of bathroom rugs from the Bed, Bath and Beyond on 6th Avenue...
gwendolyn
dumblonde
Posted 3:01 PM 28/4/08
The slanted text really threw me off. Before I read the thing about the text I was very confused. Then I realized the problem was just crappy design.
dumblonde