Sex and the City? No thanks.

So...

There's a new Sex and the City movie coming out this Friday. Apparently, it sucks, but I could have told you that based on the last Sex and the City movie, which was also an unneccessary piece of garbage thrown together not because there was any kind of story left to tell with the characters, but simply to make a few people some cold, hard cash.

Now, I'm not some "SATC" hater here. I actually have seen many of the Sex and the City TV show episodes and can appreciate the show and totally understand why so many people like it. It's actually well done, well written, and has good, well-rounded characters. It's a little unrealistic, but then name me a TV show that isn't.

Here's my beef with the movies. The TV show had an ending! A pretty good one at that, if I recall. And then along comes the Sex and the City movie and basically craps all over that ending just so that there can be the thin pretense of a story to fill 100 pages of movie script.

Let's examine. The show ends with Carrie, the main character, coming to a realization that if you truly want to find love, you must first love yourself. Awww...how sweet. So what does the movie do? It shows us Carrie with her heart-broken, a total mess, lying in bed and depressed for half the film. I'm sorry, did the film's writer forget the how-ever many years worth of storytelling on the show where Carrie never acted like this? And, really, who wants to watch that anyway, especially when the entire reaction was based on a mis-communication between bride and groom on their wedding day that caused Carrie to runaway because she thought the groom wasn't coming to the wedding? Now, the audience knows that her fiance didn't just abandon her so it's just a really God-awful thing to sit through watching Carrie act like that.

In addition, they had to have one of Carrie's friends, Miranda I believe, learn that her husband is having an affair. Really, you have to crap all over their characters just to give Miranda a reason to be in the film. In the TV show stories were born from characters, but in the movie the characters are shoe-horned into a story.

I could go on and on, but I'll just say that it's nice to see critics finally catching on to the crappy film franchise that is Sex and the City. Hopefully audiences will stay away from this one, even though there is the nostalga factor, but Sex and the City fans, I should think, would want the series to be done with so that the movie studio stops taking a giant dump on it and ruining the legacy of the TV show.