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i'd also be curious to know how that money could have been spent--to help those in need--in the country they live in. $10 million is a lot of money, even in america.

But think of all the craftsmen, designers, makeup artists and SFX people who had jobs thanks to having to outfit and attempt to make these 4 husks alluring and attractive.

Thank you for this.

Point well made.
Personally I think Hollywood could very well stand to not make one shit movie a year and donate the budget to the betterment of the world.

But as for the cost of sostumes in SATC2, it would be irrelevent, because was this movie not all CG anyway? I mean my God look at them!

These are good points. But we aren't immune to them ourselves, even if they are true of us to a lower level. Think of your movie-watching budget (e.g., seeing flicks in theaters, getting to and fro, netflicks, treats during the showings, etc). My (and your) annual movie budget is enough to ensure that scores of children don't starve. The same is true of many of our other expenditures. Peter Singer's arguments in his article on Affluence and Poverty cuts Sex and the City 2 deeply, but it cuts us as well.

Fire up the Murdertank cause I'm going to find every last piece of that wardrobe, pile it all up in the middle of Time Square and drop a nuke-dook right in the centre.

To be fair to Sex & The City 2, it will very likely easily make its money back perhaps two or three times over. Given that, perhaps it would be more fair to scrutinize how the profits are used.

As for me, I'd rather just ditch this "money" thing and live in a Gene Roddenberry Star Trek society.

Didn't Sarah McLaughlan do this video?

Also, who in the _fuck_ spends $4000 dollars on jeans? The most I've ever spent was $98 dollars and it's because they make my ass look FanDamnTastic and they've lasted the past five years and I'll keep 'em till they're threads. *sigh* Of course I could support a child in Ethiopia for just pennies a day...

/end privileged white girl rant

As people have pointed out, you can do this with any high budget movie. I'm sure my weekly coffee and beer budget could feed a family of 4 in Somalia for a year.

Just imagine for a moment all the good in the world that could be done if... American Idol (or Glee or Chuck or whatever) went commercial free for just one episode and had those companies donate that money instead to Doctors Without Borders or the Red Cross or [insert your pet cause here].

Targeting SATC alone is unfair.

Lennon, (how apt!)

I agree. The corporations owe, they gotta give up the dough to our towns, or else we gotta shut 'em down.

@Sofia: I think we already had one of those last night on the PAD thread.

Jesus, Pookie, that was awesome.

For those comparing the difference between this and other movies its simple.

That $10 million dollars is going to something in those films. But think of all the craftsmen, designers, makeup artists and SFX people who had jobs thanks to having to outfit and attempt to make these 4 husks alluring and attractive. Check out the closing credits to a movie. You have eight gajillion names for the SFX crews and a handful for wardrobe. Plus, its not like the craftsmen and designers working with the movie made the outfits. Some rich fucking designer made the outfits and charged them for them.

My main complaint is that the budget is for the costumes. The goddamn costumes. Yes, the point of the fucking movie is that they are all shallow, vapid, bitches who dress in expensive clothes. I understand that. But you can mimic outfits without having to pay the exuberant price.

I suppose you're right, stopthemadness. So I guess my real question is: How did they manage to make a TV series, and movies, that dealt with fashion? Simple shots, The Devil Wears Prada, "Project Runway," ok...but a character driven television show? How?

I thought we went to the movies to "escape" if not for a little while. Thanks for ruining the last piece of solitude for me, dude. I can't even appreciate a bit of haute couture now without thinking about the human plight? Jeez.

Seriously though, who cares? Even a fucking latte is an exorbitant amount of money compared to a third-world country. Just sayin'...

Can I get the formula for the monetary amount that assuages white, middle-class guilt?

easy, admin,

buy some scotch (single malt) and mail it to my house.

i will report back to my people that you've paid your reparations.

::slaps hands together::

and that's how we solve problems, y'all.

Reminds me of how annoyed my dad would get at my mom and me when we would go shopping yet he'd thinking nothing of dropping some serious coin on random ass farm equipment. Farming was a hobby not his profession, by the way. In other words it's okay to spend a shit ton of money on VFX and blowing shit up for the sake of cool (jury is still out on how cool some of it is), but heaven forbid money be spent on wardrobe. Especially when wardrobe is and always has been a very important part of the characters. Granted the movies are slightly out of control with the label whoring (I cannot get over Carrie on a PC), but the ladies are older, more successful, and can afford them.

Budgets aside, acting skills aside, general loathing for SITC and all it stands for aside, I don't understand how it became cool to support racists? Is it just because of their designer clothing? Or is it okay because they're making fun of Muslims?

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/film-reviews/sex-and-the-city-2-film-review-1004093261.story

pookie has a point, but that shouldn't stop any scotch deliveries based solely on white man's guilt.

Not where I live, Pooks. Not where I live.

Madness, do I have to clear this deal with that other black guy with the bullets or are we good to go?

Here's the formula, admin:

Your SIN card + my pockets [gold boullion, prorogue if ingot or better] doublepluspaychequegood x 'Me Wantee' + free tampons to the power of infinity [Maya Angelou v. Toni Morrisson at the Collisseum] sigma 'the jazz' or 'a credit to the negro race' exponent Cristal boycott, with mouth grills now to be soaked in Hennessey prior to swallowings = leavings, 'blood diamonds'.

Please leave funding and daughters at the door of our very, very legal operation. I'm the Grace Jones chair there, so...so, it exists. That's the part that I know.

Just take the lesson from my screen name. Do as Spinal Tap would bid you to do and 'Gimme Some Money'.

I feel so 'togetherness' now!

We're talkin' Geritol-soaked tampons for these four mummies, right?

I think the reason that this is so much more offensive than the budget for say Transformers, is that Sex and the City pretends to be about empowering women while it actually perpetuates a lookist, sexist, if I could only have a man(ist) thought process for the people watching. While Transformers is really just about... robots in disguise? I don't know, I didn't see Transformers, but it isn't pretending to make the world a better place while actually making people's lives much much much harder.

The girls of Sex and the City 2 deserve every penny that was spent on that movie. If you're so worried about people in other countries, then sell your house and car and donate the money to poor foreign people. I could care less about them.

What trips me out is that people actually think that because someone has money that they are "SUPPOSED" to give to the needy. How do you no that they have not given millions? I am not a millionaire but pretty close so why is it that people automatically think that I 'Should" donate to help those less fortunate. I give to needy Americans. I donate to the American Cancer Foundation, Humane Society, and to St. Judes Childrens hospital where children with cancer are treated free but when I purchase a new BMW for myself I get hit with donating money to those less fortunate. I am sure the writer of this article has no clue as to what those involved in the movie humanitarian efforts are all he wanted to do was highlight the negative which was a very lopsided comparison.
Why do we always have to give to other Countries? Do people in this Country not need help?

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