'Sex and the City 2' Poster: Tastefully Touched Up or Painfully Photoshopped?
While the people behind 'Sex and the City 2' are telling people to just "Carrie On," there are lots of people lingering and questioning just how much digital sassiness went into the
new 'SATC 2' movie poster. The poster, which features an "ethereal-looking" Sarah Jessica Parker, has the actress dead-center and sporting a flowy white dress and golden accessories (shades, purse, shoes). It's glamorous and very 'SATC,' but various media outlets have issues with the fact that both Sarah -- and her bust line -- don't seem too true to life.
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In their article, the Mail says claims the 'SATC' ad wizards "have smoothed out the skin on her face and body and accentuated her bust for the ethereal-looking poster," referring to Parker. Even the headline refers to the seemingly touched-up 44-year-old, saying she "gets a little boost up top" for the "youthful" poster.
Jezebel.com even classified the poster as something for their 'Photoshop of Horrors' category, saying: "Maybe, since the plot involves the ladies going to Dubai, it's supposed to look like a mirage?" Another blog,
Videogum.com, wasn't so delicate, asking in jest: "Am I really supposed to believe that Carrie Bradshaw is a runway model or something? Sarah Jessica Parker is 73 years old!"
Parker is actually 44, and was just 33 when the body-flaunting, sex-heavy 'City' premiered in 1998. She's not the oldest one of the 'Sex,' group, though. Kim Cattrall, who plays the hypersexual Samantha, is 53.
PopEater photo editor Maggie Coughlan says that it's not so much the fact that digital touching up was done, but where it was done. "Aside from the enhancement in her chest area, the smoothing of SJP's skin is also very obvious. They've taken off years from her body by simply retouching the image," Coughlan says.
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Well, maybe if there were younger, better looking women, this movie would be worth seeing. Wait, I didn’t see the first movie. Oh yeah, I had my very thick beer goggles on and my wife had to drag me to the theater.
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Here's a tip, mrgmorgan56. If you go to a multiplex you can see a real movie while your wife sits through drivel like this.
god, i wonder what your wife looks like.
What about her photoshop nose job? From broad to pointy. You go girl, I mean photoshop!!!!!!
I find Sarah Jessica Parker to be one of the most unatractive people on show business. I am finding it hard to understand why someone in Hollywood is pushing Parker as a sexy woman, as if the viewers can't figure that she is not only unatractive, I am sorry to say but she is actually very ugly.
Lol, Mel - apparently Mrgmorgan56 has his beer goggles on when he with his wife, so I'm sure he thinks she looks just as good as SJP did in SATC. Or prettier - after all, isn't the saying, "the drunker you are the prettier they are?" His wife must look like playmate of the year!
You're right, if they're going to make a movie about 4 hosehounds living sexed up lives in the city, at least they could choose women that look the part, not these sad old hags that are just plain over it.
They should photoshop all 4 of them right out of the movie.
I agree with Mat. I have always found SJP to be unattractive. She looks like the dude from Twisted Sister or a transvestite.
Hey, some folks think anorexic, bow legged, flat chested girls with big noses are sexy. SJP made a gazillion dollars with this gig. And the farce continues...
lol.. thats so funny how often does she make u do something u dont wanna... i think that she might as well get a face lift like the rest of the stars she is at that age...
Jessica is just like my Tickle Me Plant. You never know how it will react One minute the leaves are wide open. Then after being Tickled the leaves instantly fold and even the branches droop. Minutes later it reopems.
Months later it flowers. You may know someone that is like a Tickle Me Plant. See the video it was fun to grow and I give them away for the holidays.
Just search Tickle Me Plant
Parker is a woffer. I really dont understand why anyone would think that 1. she is even close to hot and 2. she is even an average actress. It is simply amazing to me. When the studio folks have to leave the set, I am sure that they have to leave bowls of water and food for Parker......wof, wof, wof!
I've been saying it for years, I don't get what people see in this girl, sorry to say she really is not good looking at all...in fact hate to say it she is rather homely!
Maybe the poster was right after she had a baby, or right before she announced she was pregnant. Maybe it was when she was nursing. Maybe's she's not wearing a bra. Maybe she's lost weight, or gained weight. So what if she was wearing a "push up" bra. That's the whole marketing idea: "Sexy". That's what the male audience wants (T & A), isn't it?
Hey Mrgmorgan56..is the number 56 your age???
If it is, you are an old man and should feel priviledged that your wife still wants to take you to the movies. You sound like a man that has no class and an IQ of a horny teenager.
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But....wait until you hit 56. You won't think it's old at all. You'll think it's a mistake! (My birthday's tomorrow, BTW)
86 is old while 56 is oldish. That said, I've never understood the appeal of SITC. The brunette is pretty enough I guess, but really. Who gives a fig about the fictitious sex lives of four women, only one of whom is remotely attractive?
This is what happens when your entire life is spent trying to fit into size zero dresses, rather than being healthy. Starvation over the years like she and Rachel Zoe and so many others have done lead to dark circles, bad skin, saggy butts (no matter how small they are, bird-like legs, and hollow eyes. No fat in the face makes the wrinkles even more prominent, and no amount of makeup can help. There's plastic surgery, but then you end up looking like Nicole Kidman...expressionless and freakish. This is not beauty in any way shape of form. When they have to us technology to not only 'fix' your posters so you'll look halfway decent, but use serious cash to redo every shot in your movies, it's time to take a serious look at yourself and maybe buy a sandwich and a glass of milk...yeah, real whole milk, the kind that provides real nutrition, calcium and good fats for the body.
people actually get paid for pointing these things out? wow.
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Wait! We get paid for this? Where's my check???