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So here’s The Women trailer that was playing with Sex And The City over the weekend. I find it funny, but I’d redo it to appeal more to the psychographic of SATC‘s two-quadrant audience. (Did you notice that the main lyrics to the Duffy song “Mercy” on the soundtrack of the trailer for The Women were: “Why won’t you release me… I’m begging you for mercy”?) I’ve found out that The Women‘s budget was only $16.5 million, not the $18 million previously circulating. Wow, that’s cheap. As I reported yesterday, Warner Bros is now going to “take another look” at marketing and distributing it in wide release: (See my previous post: Why Won’t Warner Embrace ‘The Women’? Or Will It? And What Other Female Film Isn’t Getting Love There?
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Well – from a male pov, (not that anyone here cares), the trailer looks just dreadful. I did show it to my wife – and she had no interest in even putting it in our netflix que for when it is released on DVD. I am a guy who definitely will see and enjoy chick flix, but this won’t be one of them. SATC – at least the TV show, had pizazz, it was sharp, witty, and had spice. This just looks like an “over-the-hill woe-is-us women’s men-suck club” movie. Honestly, nothing at all excited me about it – except that Meg Ryan, even after whatever she did to her face, still appeals to me somewhat, but nowhere near the way she did way back – sleepless in seattle / when Harry met Sally, etc. I am rambling, but this trailer literally put me to sleep.
I AM AN AVID FAN OF THE ORIGINAL MOVIE
I,VE SEEN IT UMPTEEN TIMES
I THINK COMMENT BY TOM IS RIGHT
FROM THE TRAILER I JUST SAW, THIS MOVIE SHOULD GO STRAIGHT TO VIDEO.
WHAT HAVE THEY DONE?
SUCH WONDERFUL ACTRESSES IN SUCH A THIN SREENPLAY.
WELL THEY’VE GOT UNTIL THE FALL TO FIX IT.
Actually as a normal fan of movies and television, this doesn’t look half bad. Kinda funny, and who doesn’t love a good cat fight. Frankly it looks better than SATC
I would go see this movie…
The executives really need to pull their head out of their asses and see the light. This movie if promoted right could make them money….
You’ve got to be kidding. Sex and the City had a built-in fan base. It did well because it’s “cool” with the younger generation. Nothing about these old jokes or old broads is cool in the slightest way.
Do any of the women have superpowers?
Not a young person, a fan of chick lit, nor of SiTC, but this trailer is a hoot. I’d go check this out.
“Pharmaceuticals.” ahahah!
Why the venom, folks? This movie looks very entertaining, and has a top-notch cast. Don’t judge a film on a 2-minute trailer. These gals know comedy (although I can do w/o Jada), and we need only look at the success of Golden Girls to realize that there is a vast market for veteran actress TV shows and films. I’d much rather watch these “old pros” deliver lines than the bimbos Hollywood is spewing at us these days.
WB, it’s decisions like this–your withholding the film–that are causing your demise. Time to get with the times, find some blood that can evaluate good projects…esp. when you’ve already MADE the freakin’ flick!
Well it might not be the original ‘The Women’ that I know and love but I think this will play quite well with women in flyover land (i.e. not NYC or LA) and with women over 30 (and especially with women who are near senior citizens or senior citizens). It doesn’t have to be very good because these markets are currently so underserved the audience will make the effort and go see something targeted to them. To me that says more about how the biz is clueless than the taste and sophistication of people outside Hollywood or NYC or of older ladies.
If I had been Diane English and the powers that be in Hollywood I would not have called this film ‘The Women’ because, seriously how could you top Clair Booth Luce, George Cukor and all the legendary stars in the original?
It makes ZERO sense for a movie with this much talent and the success of Sex and the City and more likely mamma mia — that this should get a platform release. COME ON. This just shows how much discrimination does happen in hollywood and more women should be outraged
Well, hmmm. I didn’t find the trailer to be awful, but it only elicited a weak chuckle or two. Poor trailer? Maybe. But with a dialogue and situation based comedy, your trailer is usually made up of particularly clever highlights. Hopefully the highlights shown were not the sum of the funniest bits, but I suspect otherwise. I doubt I’ll ever bother to watch it, unless it is many months from now and there is nothing else on cable and I ran out of books and I can’t get out of the house and I don’t need a nap and I don’t feel like cleaning or doing laundry.
It’s looks good. Better than some of the dreck getting wide releases. Did we really need “The Ruins” added to our cultural lexicon?
To the person surprised at the “venom”, I think some of us were expecting to see a funny trailer after Nikki built this movie up as the second coming of female driven films. Clearly, it’s not. It feels as dated as a Dan Quayle joke from Murphy Brown.
Hasn’t this project been bounced around for over 12 years? I feel like I’ve heard about this forever from all my gay studio friends who couldn’t wait for the remake.
Agreed, I didn’t find it funny or much of anything …except- it’s almost novel to see women over the age of fetus for a change. Now if we could see a few that wear a size 8+ THAT would be truly different.
Absolutely dire, except for the Candace Bergen bit. The childbirth scene looks about as funny as root canal.
The point is not whether this looks good, it’s the fact that even atrocious comedies starring male movie stars always get wide distribution. I can’t think of a single example of when that wasn’t the case. I also happen to think this looks funny (I am a 25 year old woman). The excuse that studios usually use in cases like this is that women don’t go to the theaters enough to make their movies into hits, but they did with SATC. So what’s the problem? I mean, at least that is how I interpreted “what you’ve been crowing about the last few days” — to quote another commenter who, despite his (or her, but his) name, is not quite “speechless” enough.
I just wanted to say that I will definitely go and see this movie with my girlfriends. It does look like it’s going to be a cute movie. I have been a huge fan of the original movie since I was a little girl (i’m 30 now)My mom got me hooked and I got my girlfriends hooked on that version too, so I think they will like this one too.
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As for the comment left from “Tom” (and the other writers as well)…I’m not sure if you have all seen the original version, but this trailer seems pretty close to it. The old jokes paying a lil’ homage to the old jokes in the old version. “the white square..blah blah..stove” is the same kind of banter that the perfume girls gave in the old one and “the water broke” joke; yes, we’ve heard it alot, but guess what? She’s a female, and that happens to us when it’s time for baby. Just like anything else we do. How about when we watch a ton of movies about car chases and cops etc.? Those are all the same too. It’s the movies. So what. Just go out and have a great time at the movies or don’t. Who cares.
It always seems like when a movie is different than the original, people critique it for being different, and when they make it spot on, people critique it for being too much of the same. If you don’t like the trailer or a movie why write about it? Seems like alot of wasted time and energy to me. I know I will go out and enjoy it with my girlfriends, and have a great dinner and great drinks and make a wonderful evening out of it. So hey, a night out is a night out.
Thanks for showing the trailer. I never saw it in theatres during my SATC Previews, so I got to see it here. Thank you!
It’s a remake. It was done in 1939 with Joan Crawford and again in as a musical in 1956 under the title “The Opposite Sex” with June Allyson and Joan Collins.