{"id":1448,"date":"2008-06-15T21:22:58","date_gmt":"2008-06-16T02:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/?p=1448"},"modified":"2008-06-16T19:50:36","modified_gmt":"2008-06-17T00:50:36","slug":"sex-and-the-city-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2008\/06\/15\/sex-and-the-city-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Sex and the City&#8211;Movie Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/image\/stars\/3o5.gif\" alt=\"3 Stars\" \/><br \/>\nOK, let&#8217;s agree up front that I&#8217;m not in the target demographic for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1000774\/\">this movie<\/a>. I watched a few episodes of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0159206\/\">TV series<\/a> and found the story of four rich, witty and somewhat shallow young women trying to make it in New York City mildly amusing, but not amusing enough to watch regularly.<\/p>\n<p>The movie is pretty much like the TV show, but with a bit more nudity. (Or if you&#8217;ve been watching on basic cable, a <em>lot<\/em> more nudity.) Probably most readers are already familiar with the TV show and thus already know whether they would like the movie.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nAs expected, I found the movie mildly amusing. No doubt if I had more X chromosomes I would have found it hilarious. It bothered me a bit that none of the male characters really came to life. They basically show up and do whatever the plot requires, but we never get a good feel for what is going on in their heads. Still I shouldn&#8217;t complain. There plenty of female characters in guy flicks who are just the same.<\/p>\n<p>Of course the female characters are colorful and memorable, and the movie does have some nice moments, including a suitably corny ending that belies its pretense of sophisticated cynicism. On the whole, it could be a lot worse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, let&#8217;s agree up front that I&#8217;m not in the target demographic for this movie. I watched a few episodes of the TV series and found the story of four&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2008\/06\/15\/sex-and-the-city-movie-review\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-1448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-sex-and-the-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}