| Author | Message | ||
     Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.114.136 |
Ulf! Wrong forum! | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.242.126 |
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| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 67.116.103.241 |
The full title is actually SEX AND THE CITY 2: CANNIBAL APOCALYPSE | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.114.136 |
Yeah. It's really stretching the whole template thing. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
:<) Nice one, Tone. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.242.126 |
 Tony's on top form. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.152.200.51 |
For what it's worth, even Orson Scott Card -- that fiery conservative homophobe -- says that SatC has the best writing on television. I love it and have watched the whole series on DVD twice. Wrong forum? | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
I loathe it, and think the writing is lazy and cliched - it reminds me of Roy Chubby Brown's "comedy" routines; stuck in a time when the words cock and cunt were considered shocking. The wife watches the show all the time, and even a brief snippet of the theme tune can send shivers along my spine. The best writing on TV, for me, is LOST. Or THE SOPRANOS (although I know the latter is now finished). | ||
| Simon Strantzas (Nomis) Username: Nomis Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 38.113.181.169 |
Spoken like a man who hasn't watched enough BATTLESTAR GALACTICA or THE WIRE. (Not that I don't love LOST, though.) | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.98.9.4 |
SEX AND THE CITY 2: CANNIBAL APOCALYPSE Pleanty of swallowing going on then... | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.98.9.4 |
gobbling each other... | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.43.119.113 |
"Spoken like a man who hasn't watched enough BATTLESTAR GALACTICA or THE WIRE." Frak me! - another 'Galactica lover -I ain't alone! gcw | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.141.80 |
'Course you're not, mate! BG would be perfect if they didn't keep saying "frak". | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.43.119.113 |
I'm cool with the Frak word mate! gcw | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.152.225.78 |
I love BSG too. The Wire feels like less than the sum of its (good) parts, though. I hope history remembers that The West Wing predicted election history rather than reflected it. | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.74.96.200 |
I love it when Zed talks about "The Wife".  Takes me back to Les Dawson days. I were walking down't street with the wife the other day, when we saw six men attacking the mother-in-law. The wife says "Aren't you going to help?" And I said, "I think six is enough to do the job." SEX & THE CITY seems to be about shopping for expensive designer brands despite you living on a wage that couldn't possibly pay for the gear and the flat you live in, nor food; oh, and being screwed. So it's deep social commentary, right? Emily Pankhurst would've loved it . . . I enjoyed the first series of TERMINATOR: THE SARA CONNOR CHRONICLES, but that may be because it was onyl 12 episodes long thanks to the writers' strike. Now it's a 22 episode series it seems to be treading water and full of padding. I'd like to watch BSG but alas it's on pay telly only. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.242.126 |
I love it when Zed talks about "The Wife". Takes me back to Les Dawson days.  I don't even know whay I call her that, Mark - it started out being ironic, but now I do it all the time. Aaaargh! I've become an overweight, cardigan-wearing 1970s male cliche. | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.225.216.137 |
Admit it, mate -- you're looking for a role in the equivalent of the LIFE ON MARS sitcom! | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 89.19.80.91 |
SatC is at its funniest when it undercuts female romantic notions with reality and at its most poignant when it shows that external bling isn't important. To say SatC is about consumerism is like saying BSG is about space battles. I really have wandered into the wrong internet saloon, haven't I? | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 90.203.130.70 |
"I loathe it, and think the writing is lazy and cliched - it reminds me of Roy Chubby Brown's "comedy" routines; stuck in a time when the words cock and cunt were considered shocking. The wife watches the show all the time, and even a brief snippet of the theme tune can send shivers along my spine. " Mr McMahon you are my blood brother in so many ways my friend | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.225.222.198 |
>>To say SatC is about consumerism is like saying BSG is about space battles. Okay, I'd have to say you were right, Justin, cos I've barely seen any of S&TC. I was going on the reviews I'd read of the movie, wherein it seemed to be that all that transpired during it was that people got disappointed but everything worked out all right because they got a big closet and a new pair of shoes. I hope BSG isn't only about space battles, cos I would, at some point, like to be able to watch the fracking thing, even if it does have its own cuss words, the like of which I can't remember having come across since I last read Asimov. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
I used to watch S&TC after I'd staggered home from the pub after far too much lager. I recall enjoying looking at it, but not particularly what I heard. | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.21.22.227 |
At first I enjoyed looking at Samantha. Then, after the longest time, I fell in love with Charlotte  | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.152.198.117 |
"I was going on the reviews I'd read of the movie, " All I can say is that I've never laughed as much as the scene in the TV show where the most romantic-minded woman goes to bed with the perfect guy only to find that he unconciously shouts "fucking bitch, fucking whore!" whenever he comes. I'm talking about BSG, here of course. | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.21.22.227 |
"I'm talking about BSG, here of course." That goes without saying. | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.74.96.200 |
Surely it would have been "fracking bitch!" | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.152.222.240 |
"fracking witch, flipping tramp!" | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.114.136 |
I like Sex and the City! A very moral show, I think. I tried watching the first ep of The Wire but found it crashingly dull, impenetrable yet cliched also. It had a tough, gritty texture but told with something like the technical skills of a Death Wish film. Tell me it gets better. | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.190.25 |
Wow - I think The Wire is superb, but I can't stand Sex and the City! | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.114.136 |
I'm not nuts on it, but I like it a bit. I also felt The Sopranos to be up its own ass... but even I will admit my taste is odd. | ||
| Simon Strantzas (Nomis) Username: Nomis Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 99.225.111.224 |
THE WIRE is as close to a documentary as you'll ever get from a drama. The entire series, start to finish, is essentially one story. It's more often compared to a novel than anything else. I can't see enough good things about how fascinating it is. But, yes, I think you need to give it more than one episode of viewing. Like a lot of great shows, if you invest your time in it you will find one day it pays out that investment ten-fold. | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.192.86 |
Simon's right - The Wire is definitely the kind of show that rewards the viewer's patience. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 160.6.1.47 |
"THE WIRE is as close to a documentary as you'll ever get from a drama." That's the problem. I watched the fist season and it ended with a bit of shuffling off stage. I wasn't left feeling that the drug war was pointless, but that the show was. | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.74.96.200 |
Not heard of this. Is it on free telly here in the UK? | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.152.200.5 |
It's by David Simon who produced Homicide: Life on the Streets. I don't think it's been on terrestrial UK telly. |