Quick Movie Update

Encounters at the End of the World: Not my favorite Herzog doc...I'll paraphrase an email I sent to a friend after watching it: Herzog comes dangerously close to parodying himself with this film. It is one of his funniest movies, but funny in the way a joke is funny, or the way one can be funny by being self deprecating. It also lacks a main character and becomes essentially an essay on the scientists and nature in Antarctica. Still, some amazing images and to listen to Herzog's poetic voice over is a treat always worth the price of admission.

Sex and the City: If there was any doubt, I'm am now absolutely, positive I'm not gay. This movie sucks my ass. I looked at my watch 4 times and couldn't believe how long it was. Jeezus. The movie doesn't care about people, it cares about dresses and shoes. The whole movie is a fashion catalog. People are accessories...Mr. Big isn't a character - he's a description from a self-help article in a woman's magazine. The little Chinese baby - I'm going to become a jackass liberal for a moment and call that offensive. She might as well have been a Samantha doll with her little dresses and have a string to pull out of her back to say funny lines. All the men in the show are gay. Even the straight men are gay. Shit, the women in the movie are gay men. Many plot points make no sense whatsoever. SJP is a decent actor, but Kristen Davis? Are you kidding me. I kept hoping, praying, she would just take her goddamn top off. Instead, we get a crotch shot at the end of the movie by the ridiculous neighbor Dante. Thanks, had I known the movie was going to turn into a gay porn, maybe I would've dropped in to Love Guru for a few minutes.

At some point, I felt like yelling out - get off the screen you ugly old hags! I'd rather watch reality porn - because honestly, what is Sex and the City when it comes down to it? It's fashion porn propagating dumbass romance novel myths with UGLY woman who have been dressed up by gay dudes. In short, if there were two options for the future of the world -

1. Sex and the City
2. Taliban-esque Islamic Fundamentalist State

I would need to seriously ponder my vote.