They also don't post stuff about certain people. It really is a bollocks site.
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I put it in the same category as Sex In The City - condescending, reductive cultural junk food which some people mistake as a 'How To Be A Woman' user manual.
I mean, I like kitsch old nonsense with the best of them, but Bridget Jones' Diary was a load of crap and I found it quite patronising and shallow. Even more disappointing that it was a woman who wrote it. If a man authored those books it he'd have been (rightly) savaged, I suspect.
JoJo Moyes' books are similarly also toilet paper bilge that talks down to women (Me Before You is one of the worst movies I think I've ever seen). Leave your brain at the door before you watch it.
I think we might be long lost twins!
SATC is the WORST pile of horseshit that has ever been commissioned. Reductive drivel where it's all about 'independent wimmin innit' and they all end up (mainly) in storylines focusing on MEN. SJP was lauded as some sort of fashion icon - she looked like a 9 year old playing dress up.
I sent this to a SATC-loving friend and she went in a major huff with me - this is just *chef's kiss* Burkas and Birkins - The Stranger (review of the second Sex & The City movie).
(I've quoted it on this thread numerous times, so, sorry if it pisses anyone off - for repeating it, I mean. Not for offending SATC fans, don't care about that).
The best thing about the book was the novel diary element, and the listing of fags smoked, weight, glasses of wine drank etc etc.
She was irritating, Renee Z playing her was even more irritating, nobody was likeable really and were very immature and uselss for 30 somethings (apart from dull Darcy).
Satc - how Carrie can ever be a likeable character by anyone, she was a selfish, spoilt tw@t and i hated her dress sense (there were some good styles)
God I detest Carrie and how she thinks she's stunning. Such a parody of a woman, 'can't afford a meal but that's fine because I have shoes!'
I think SATC is somewhat problematic now- but at the time time I loved it, the glamour of it all- having said that though I don't think ANYONE rates the 2nd movie it was utter tripe and pretty offensive to Arabs come to that! (Lawrence of my Labia, anyone?) 
I loved the series but never Carrie and it was getting more ridiculous.I think SATC is somewhat problematic now- but at the time time I loved it, the glamour of it all- having said that though I don't think ANYONE rates the 2nd movie it was utter tripe and pretty offensive to Arabs come to that! (Lawrence of my Labia, anyone?)
2nd movie was unbelievably bad
I liked SATC at the time because I was a dumb 20 year old who enjoyed the clothes and the glamour of New York. If I’m ever channel flicking and come across it now I cannot bear 30 seconds of it. Carrie was the most self- absorbed shallow hole- what kind of fuckwit spends all her money on shoes and might lose her apartment?! Charlotte was naive and child-like, Miranda was a dull corporate woman and Samantha was a bawdy nympho. At the time we saw those character as ‘strong’ and ‘ballsy’ but they weren’t, they were men obsessed and empty.
Don’t even get me started on the 2nd movie. Worst film I’ve ever seen. And the follow up series!! Haha! Couldn’t even hate-watch it. SJP seems to love it and is the catalyst for it continuing. Give it up, love.
Don’t even get me started on the 2nd movie. Worst film I’ve ever seen. And the follow up series!! Haha! Couldn’t even hate-watch it. SJP seems to love it and is the catalyst for it continuing. Give it up, love.
I‘m so glad you said this, because I felt the same, Helen had always been my favourite side character in the other books, she was so funny, unique and interesting. I tried to rationalise how different her character was in her own book by thinking it shows how depression can really affect people, and they might still seem themselves on the outside.
But she deserves another story of her own, where she’s more like how she was originally written too.
For Bridget Jones, I think the films need Colin Firth, because he’s so good at playing “the straight man”.
Everyone else in the film is bonkers and he’s just there with his very serious face. It just makes all the other characters even funnier to me.
And sadly, because I thought he was gorgeous in his Pride and Prejudice days, Colin Firth has morphed into my dad, which is just plain wrong.
I loved BJ when the books and films first came out. I think they should have left it alone after film No2 though. I just think they were of their time and should be left there.
I never liked SATC. Didn't watch it. Never will.
I've never watched SATC.
I read the BJ books, went to see both films, read the third book, watched the third film and was totally confused because Colin Firth wasn't dead and their was no rockstar lover. I enjoyed the first two books but I think Helen Fielding sold her soul to the devil writing two completely separate sequels for the third. Yeah, I know it's fiction but FFS.
Does anyone have any tea on Richard Gadd whom Baby Reindeer is supposed to be about? I’ve seen some interesting comments online and wondered if there was any truth in it.
I haven't seen it, but there's a thread on here which I started reading that was bat tit crazy. He's mentioned a few times
Hope that helps
Have you read her most recent one? It’s a sequel for Anna. Is there anybody out there is a book that still makes me cry any time I read it. I read the sequel a couple of weeks ago and….. it ain’t it.
narky bleeping Joey!
Really bad sequel. I got bored halfway through.
I've always despised SATC even as a teenager when my best friend was obsessed. I did enjoy the Bridget Jones books when I read them back in the early 2000s. I never watched the films and have no intention of doing so.
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