Scott Wolff Same: I have a Kermode marathon, every now and then, and it always includes this review. It’s definitely one of his best reviews/rants. And I love that, at the beginning, he says “You aren’t going to get a rant here”... ...of course not, Mark haha.
I LOVE THIS MAN. yes, sex and the city is an insult to women.. and to men.. to humans everywhere! agreed with everything he said about the ugly, glorified classism.
The tv series was a subversion to your average chick flick. It was great at the time it was airing, now its just poignant considering how we progressed. The movie however is total trash! Trash TRASH TRASH TRASH... utter garbage.
@@StayFractalesque Please stop generalizing women by saying "all women" or "most women", seriously? The majority of women has nothing else to offer than sexuality?
Jake Ram ~ Yeah, i Know it’s a bit random but Do You Remember it being called = “Sex iN the City” They call this phenomenon the Mandela effect and i clearly remember it being called Sex iN the City & Not Sex and the City. . Crazy Right ! RU-vid has got some amazing videos about this Subject. it’s Like the famous song by the artist formerly known as Prince. He has a song called = “Let’s Go Crazy!” The intro used to say = “Dearly Beloved we are Gathered here today to ‘Celebrate’ this Thing Called Life” That has Now Also Changed into “Get Thru” This Thing Called Life. i clearly remember Oxy Clean Changing into Oxi Clean Before i was aware of the mandela effect & i Thought how stupid it was to change your company logo like that.
"Imperialist American pigdogs!" this is just classic Kermode. I much prefer watching his reviews of terrible films than good ones; his angry rants are hilarious.
There's a book called "Neo-Feminist Cinema: Girly Films, Chick Flicks and Consumer Culture" as it expands on what Kermode was saying about female liberation being portrayed as the right to wear expensive shoes.
@@StayFractalesque there's nothing "film snob" with making kubrick references... he's mainstream, or was at least. kubrick references are about as snobby as nolan references
@@silverschannel8578 Still snobby in comparison to anyone that doesn’t have much investment in film and what’s behind it which is the general majority public
I thought I was blessed when I saw Kermode's review of Blackbird recently. Then someone in the comments recommended that I watch his reviews of Sex and the City 2 and Entourage. I was not disappointed. I will now have to revisit these 2 epic Kermodian rants periodically for a quick pick-me-up.
Kermode hits the nail on the head with this one. I remember when it came out actually being embarrassed for Americans. The saddest bit to it all, there ARE women who want to be just like this.
I think that is the (insidious) point. What they want is wealth and a total freedom to not worry about rent, job insecurity, responsibilities (or ever being confronted by their class fuckery) but it is framed as a female thing, which it isn't. Essentially it's aspirational bourgeois consumerist porn. Most people just want to live well, and these women live exxtreeeeeeeemely well. I don't think they could exist.
Of course. Mayo loves to play devils advocate, and knows when to poke Mark when he goes off on complete tangents. Their broadcasting styles complement each other really well.
I'm here in the US, as a massive fan of Hugh Grant I'd been searching everything Hugh all over youtube which happily led me to find this show.I am now searching every review done by Mark Kermode and this is my favorite brilliant!
Believe it or not, I came here from the Avataar 2 review by Mark thinking that that was an epic rant. Someone suggested this to me, and now I stand corrected. This truly is the epic one! Dear Lord! 🤣🤣🤣
I can't improve on Kermode's points so I'll just say this: This film offended the vagina I don't have. On the class side, I went from a centrist typical normal upper-working clas guy to a Cultural Revolutionary begging to execute Sarah Jessica Parker in a wheat field while reciting lines from the Little Red Book. How intensly can you satirise consumerism without meaning to?
"If we were in the SATC movie we'd been 'the Help' ". Yes! Thank you, sir! That's one major reason why this movie is so insulting! This is the best review I've heard/read.
I'm late to the game and just discovered this delicious review. I've binge-watched the videos on this channel and I must say, you're such a pleasure to listen to! Your thoughtful, thought-provoking, humour-laced reviews bring me so much joy! You're a gem, mark!
"An orgy of dripping wealth that made me want to be sick" I love it when he rants. Another classic destruction of a terrible movie by the brilliant Mr Kermode.
The saddest thing about this and other similar films is that there are many many women walking around with these caricatures as their roles models for relationships and life.
This is the first review I watched by Mark Kermode and it still remains my favourite, it is an absolute mark of genius that should not have been restricted to ten minutes. If this were in front of a live studio audience the standing ovation would be phenomenal.
The Kermode-Mayo act works really well in this review, which makes it all the more hilarious : "You'd expect that for £22,000..." "Is there a choice of films....?" Just cracked me up.
So many guys from my country (Pakistan) especially my state and hometown work in the Gulf. KSA, UAE etc. I am talking manual labourers, drivers, cleaners, the lowest of the low. Hard excruciating and low paying jobs. The labour laws are draconian and they are treated inhumanely, their passports are taken from them upon arrival so they cannot move freely. And yes, they visit homes and their families once a year for month max. Many spend 3,4 years so they can save money.
Stumbled on this film on late night tv at the end of 2018. I have seen episodes of the tv series and while it is not my thing I think the performances were fine and some of the script was well written with moments of smart insight - the women were at least living a life we could recognise. This film now takes them into the realm of fantasy - obscene wealth, extraordinary indulgence, cultural insensitivity that is so closed to serious racism, horrible indulgence around bodies and beauty and ageing - its just horrible. Can not believe these smart, capable actors agreed to this script. Truly hideous. Carrie has become a character you wouldn't want to spend a minute with.
I have just read Lindy West's "Burkas and Birkins" and it is *far* more condemnatory of SATC2 that this is - and much funnier, too. And Mark's right, it is *really* rude.
Since around the turn of the millennium there’s a whole bunch of these shows that I think you can broadly bracket into the same group (Sex & the City, Entourage, The OC etc etc) involving people who you’re seemingly supposed to aspire to but who talk and act in a very unnatural ‘Americanised’ way. Half the planet seem to lap this stuff up but they all frankly do my head in. All I can say is thank god for people like Mark Kermode who vocalises these complaints and speaks up against the volley of absolute shite that’s been served up for the past 20 years or so
If there is a "Sex and the City 3" they should have the brains to set it in Baltimore and hire John Waters to write and direct it. At the very least he'll bring a genuine sense of fun to it.
