The ‘Sex and the City’ screening made it really, really hard to like the movie
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
The “Sex and the City” screening last night was really annoying, in that it was preceded by 30 minutes of coverage of the red carpet premiere in New York, beamed to theaters all over the country where these press/promo screenings were being held. I have no interest in red carpet coverage of anything, and certainly not for the premiere of a movie I’m lukewarm about anyway.
So if the red carpet stuff was at 7:30, why not skip it and show up at 7:55, just in time for the movie? Because while they generally set aside seats for critics, they also release those seats to civilians when the theater fills up. Technically, we’re supposed to be there 40 minutes before showtime — and “showtime” in this case was 7:30, even though the movie wasn’t actually starting until 8. So I had to get there at 6:50 or so.
Oh, and don’t forget: Once the movie actually started, it was 2 1/2 hours long. From beginning to end, including the 10-minute drive each way, the entire experience occupied four hours of my life, 70 minutes of which was just to sit around doing nothing and/or watching the awful, awful red carpet coverage.
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