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"There's more cleavage in this film than at a pro wrestler's wedding."
— Who knew that the man who wrote Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls would one day be shocked by a flick's flaunting of boobs? I guess Sex And The City 2 really is a ground-breaking movie!
Re: The Liza Minnelli performance: put a gag in it. Or maybe put a shroud on it. It's hard to say.
P.S. Of course SATC2 is awful. Isn't that kinda the point?
Well there was a time when the tv show was actually quite good and not such a camp chick-lit fantasy consumption fest.
@Lee: I don't believe you.
another r. ebert quote, from last year:
"I am happy to say it brings back an element sadly missing in recent movies, gratuitous nudity. Sexy women would "happen" to be topless in the 1970s movies for no better reason than that everyone agreed, including themselves, that their breasts were a genuine pleasure to regard — the most beautiful naturally occurring shapes in nature, I believe. Now we see breasts only in serious films, for expressing reasons. There's been such a comeback for the strategically positioned bed sheet, you'd think we were back in the 1950s."
so he's pro-full boob, but anti-cleavage, or something? interesting…
There are 2 elements at play here. 1. Think of everything post Easy Rider and pre-aids as a second pre-code era. 2. Breast implants make all nude scenes look fake and cheesy.
He's not annoyed by cleavage; he says at the end that he was "gobsmacked by the delightful cleavage on display" in the audience. (He has earned his pervy old man status, I think.) He was annoyed by the movie and the characters, and only brought up the cleavage to point out that it made no sense in whatever Emirate they're supposedly visiting.
Huh, Dick Spirt. I'll bet my besiifriends will find that mildly amusing as well.
You're such a Samantha! Of course, I'm Carrie.
Nobody else can be Carrie.
I'm a Charlotte, but I never call my clothes "vintage" as that only serves to put ten years on your face/ass.
Ebert's take on mammalian protuberances is valid and consistent. Nothing wrong with some young boobies bouncing merrily across the screen for no reason. Aging cleavage (and hm-Hm-hm for that matter) as the focal point of a flick: fail.
That photo caption is amazing.
When did Roger Ebert become my patron Saint?
Also: I would like him to receive a Purple Heart for seeing this film so that I don't have to.
I mean, I wouldn't have anyway, but he took one for the team.
Unaware that pro wrestlers' weddings were the benchmark for cleavage. But all for it.
"Like the plugs you pound into a Playskool workbench" is easily the best description of the Pat Field School of Color Coordination in Costume I have ever read.
Thank you, Mr. Ebert.
I was going to comment on how it also is a bit risque for someone complaining about cleavage. Plugs to pound indeed.
So is SJP going to put a hex on him now?
http://www.contactmusic.com/new/xmlfeed.nsf/story/gallo-regrets-roger-ebert-curse
And this is cleavage with real boobs attached to it.
Good for the boobs. They seem to be coming along nicely this year.
He similarly objected to the preponderance of breasts in Ken Russel's The Devils: "[The film is] all the more horrendous because, as Russell fearlessly reveals, all the nuns, without exception were young and stacked."
"They're rescued by Arab women so well covered only their eyes are visible, and in private these women reveal that underneath the burkas they're wearing Dior gowns and so forth"
Hey, don't worry everyone, looks like under that thin veneer of consumption encouragement, this film is actually a feminist flick!