Sex & The City's Big Eff Up!
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We've received quite a few emails from several PerezHilton.com readers who've been lucky enough to see the new Sex and the City movie.
They've all said the same thing — that boom mics litter a few of the movie's scenes!
WTF????
How could they let this happen????
Why wouldn't they fix such an obvious gaff in post-production???
In a scene where Carrie and Big discuss their wedding vows, a microphone is seen hanging down at the top of the screen the entire time!
We're sure SATC was given a huge production budget…so, why weren't the microphones 'erased' during the editing process?
Did they blow the editing money on wardrobe?????
In addition to counting the number of cute shoes Carrie wears, we're going to be looking out for stray mics when we watch the flick this weekend!
[Image via WENN.]
we all knew the movie was going to be saggy, single and sad in the city- but i guess we can add sloppy to its resume now too! i
pa- can we get an update on kim catrall's cankles? thanks perez
What a nightmare I have seen that on the series that I have on DVD. You can see Carrie in here bedroom and the microphone and the production crew are clearly seen in the tv that is turned off. How silly they did not edit for that. It seems they do that a lot. Oh well still going to see the movie!!!!!!
SCREW U PEREZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I've worked at a movie theatre before and it is not the production companys fault when the movie theater puts the movie into frame the apature could be all wrong. So Its probably the movie theater or the projectionist fault.
What's up with all the "eff".
You used to not be afraid of the F work.
It's called FUCK, Perez, and you know it.
Trying to appeal new prude sponsors?????
You are loosing your charm, girl.
Now everything you do (and post) seems to be only to get more and more money.
once again you posted "news" without checking the facts first
The boom is showing because the THEATRE PROJECTIONIST DOESN'T KNOW HOW TO DO HIS JOB.
Tell you lucky readers to complain to the theatre management and get the frame lined up on the screen correctly so all the yucky stuff is tucked where it's supposed to be vs. showing and making the director, etc look like fools.
GOD WHO WRITES THIS SHIT FOR YOU PEREZ. i mean, really? sounds like you have dumb fucking people working for you.
having seen the movie, the far more worrying aspect is the lack of details about Stanford and Anthony who blatantly do not get enough screentime
That must be her without make up, although she's ugly as hell with make up!!!!
UGLY AND OLD
She just gets uglier and uglier. Speaking of not aging well. She was never "pretty" just heavily pastered, but OMG, she's downright haggish with her old lady neck and hands, plus her pockmarked and otherwise scarred face. ICK!
I never saw a mike boom, and I saw a screening of it..I thought it was better than the show..
If I see one more photo of this "Shoefaced" woman I'm going to go outside and kill myself!!!!!!! There is nothing less attractive than this thing and I don't care where they put her, on TV or in the movies!!!
i love her no matter how gross she looks
can't you leave her alone perez?
Wow, Perez. You're a douchebag. There are boom mics in every single print of every film shipped to theaters. Its up to the projectionist to frame it right.
Sorry Perez it has NOTHING to do with the producers of the movie, it has everything to do with the person working the projector! EvERY single movie at a movie theater has microphones showing if the picture is set too low, it is something the edit out before the movie is released on dvd
The boom mikes being in the frame is the fault of the projectionist, not the filmmakers. The boom mikes are commonly in the frame if you see the full frame. The projectionist's job is to center the film on the screen and if it's not done properly, you will see things like that.
Re: Judit – Nobody is answering number 93, so I will. Judit, a boom (adjective here) is a long arm that holds cables, lights, microphones over a scene being filmed, hopefully out of sight over the heads of the actors. Mics (noun) is short for microphones (plural). Litter (verb) means they are all over the place, corrupting the beauty of a "natural" scene.
You cretin, this happens in most movies. Just sometimes they're more obvious than others.
Sometimes screened versions of movies are different than theatrical releases. They showed a different Iron Man ending than the theatrical ending.
Dang you haven't even seen the movie yourself and you're making this a news story? Maxim mag review, anyone???
wow totally checking that out
PEREZ- YOU WILL GET OLD ONE DAY SOON TOO AND THEN MAYBE YOU WILL STOP BUSTING ON EVERYONE OVER THE AGE OF 35.
LIFE TAKES ITS TOLL AND WE DO OUR BEST
Dude, it's "gaffe", not "gaff".
Check out Charlotte when she and the girls are in Mexico she's being a real rude American
The movie is great and i didn't notice any mics !
I saw the same thing when I watched Atonement!
Re: MelKa – Thank you 106. Seriously. It's as if Perez has the FCC up his ass, or lost a lawsuit. All this registering, email address, personal info, linking, logging in shit, screen name locks, and blockades—it's as if he doesn't want posters to feel to post as freely as before. (My english is by no means perfect.)
Am I the only one to notice this shit? By all the riggamarole, his hits seem to have significantly diminished.
I sure go to the trouble much less.
The movie was not lined up on the screen properly. The mic is always in the shot on the reel (every movie) but it has to be lined up in the projector. This is not something that the movie company did wrong - its definitely the projectionist!! I'm an editor - so its from a legit source!
I saw the movie last night and I didn't notice 1 stray microphone. I thought the movie was FABULOUS!
i went to the sex and the city premiere in columbus, and there was a whole scene that was messed up, mics kept popping into the picture and part of the screen was black! but the movie is amazing, fabulous, marvelous, glamorous, etc.
and there is no mess up with carrie's hair at the end of the movie.
omg this is supposed to be like the movie of the summer…wtf how could they do this…im seein it the day it comes out..ill b lookin out..ugh
Jesus Christ she's ugly!
Boom mics are always around, if the theatre doesn't use the correct aperture the film will be exposed vertically more than intended. For example a 2.35:1 being shown at 1.85:1 could do jus what happened to your sources.
Jesus that bitch is ugly!
if u view it on a imax it will show it, I saw another movie that was not formatted for a giant imax screen, regular big screens will be fine. EVERYBODY JUST CALM THE F*** down. Carrie has got this!
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can you tell me what happens at the end, PLEASE!
Re: asdrea – you arer a fuc-k-in bitch!!!!!!!! Everybody lovesssssssssssssss sex and the city. Go rot in hell!!!!!
This is actually a mistake that Used to happens quite often in movies shot in different aspect ratios. When the film is edited the boom mike is almost always seen and it is just assumed that it wil be cropped out when it is put through the projector at the theater. IT sounds like there was probably something wrong with the projector at a few of the theaters what on compounded the problem of the aspect being a little off. But this thing isnt that uncommon or that stupid even
FUCK YOU PEREZ! the film is pretty much PICTURE PERFECT! its absolutely incredible, saw it tonight and have never loved or engaged in a film so much in my life, do you comment on the fact you can see te shadow of the camera man on shia's shoulder in India Jones? NO
YOU'RE A FELLOW GAY HOW DARE YOU KNOCK THE SATC FILM!? were you not invited to the PREMIERE………..thought not!
stop being so bitter, incredible film
You fucking idiot — that isn't a problem with the actual movie, it's from having dumb kids running the film prints that don't run them through the projector properly.
ONCE AGAIN! PEREZ WAS NOT INVITED TO THE PREMIER SO HES FUCKING JEALOUS. CUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNT
NOooo, I refuse to believe it. Those lucky bastards probably just got to see the film in one of it's earlier stages of editing. Remember when they were on Oprah like, less than a month ago and there was still a TON of editing to be done!! NO no no, SATC WILL be perfect, even if they are almost disgustingly old now.
Christ Perez–
You're a real idiot. The things you post as news when in fact they're your own ignorance is UNREAL.
Re: Bahama9 –
Haha, I actually saw this on TV for "film bloopers." In 3 men and a baby, the "ghost" is actually a cardboard cut of of an actor that someone forgot to move. Even one of the actors in the movie commented on it, and how the rumor of a ghost has not hurt the film's profits
Definitely NOT a post-production mistake! The projectionist at the theater didn't align the picture on the screen correctly!
This slut is slut !!!! U R All Sluts!
If you people knew anything about film, the people responsible for the boom mics showing is actually the projectionist of the movie theater you went to see it in. It's not uncommon for boom mics to be in the shot of a film, but you usually don't see them because when the film is shown, the top and bottom of the frame are not seen on the white screen. So the projectionist at the theater simply lined up the film incorrectly on the screen, which is why you're seeing the boom mics.
Technically, the projectionists should position the screen to where the booms are offscreen, but in this case, they may have been too low to fix. Visible booms are usually a common mistake in many films, but if it's as noticeable as people are making it seem, that is just weird.
I way the movie last night, it was PERFECT!!! but, I disliked the opening song, we were all screaming when the theme song was played and all of a sudden we hear the Fergie song….and everyone booed! But The movie and the rest of the soundtrack is shear perfection!!!!
Perez, you dumbass, the boom mike problem is not the filmmakers' fault; it's the projectionist's. He/she is in charge of centering the projection on the screen, and if they're not doing their job, the picture will hang too low… hence the boom mikes.
Re: mirr – Thanks mirr! I'll check it out! And to think I got goosebumps for nothin'!
I think it depends on where you see the film. Years ago, I saw "The Mirror has Two Faces", a Barbra Streisand joint, and their were boom mikes throughout. Plus, on almost every close up, people's chins were cut off. Clearly, the theater was projecting the movie too low on the screen. I went to complain, but the teens working the concession stand looked at me as if I was speaking Japanese, so I gave up. By the way, I don't know Japanese, in case you were wondering.
Re: Marcus Aurelius – ABSOLUTELY!!! Do it Perez! Pair 'em up!
saw the movie last night and didn't notice any mics throughout the entire movie! It was a fabulous movie! Quite the emotional roller coaster. Amazing fashion!
I don't get it, how could that happened! I'm expecting a perfect movie I'm looking forward to see this movie very soon and I hope it's goood!!!
Dude that isnt surprising anymore. The boom mic was hanging down in at least half of the shiteous Good Luck Chuck and in several scenes of the wonderous Lars & the Real Girl. Grips have just gotten lazy with their carrying I guess.
Does ANYONE know what "Mr. Big" (Chris Noth) named his newborn son in real life? I heard it was a very cool name. Just curious, as I'm expecting a baby boy in July and haven't decided on a name. Thanks!
That's not the film's fault that's the movie theaters fault due to not setting up the film right on the projector…
Re: Jamie – Wait, what? How could something wrong with the film be fixed by a projectionist? They are in the theater & cant go back in time & fix the movie. I suppose the could adjust the film to put some of it on the ceiling of the theater, but people might find that distracting! lol
they do that in a bunch of scenes on the shows dvds…its soo ovie too!!
It's gaffe, not gaff. Love your ESL (English as a second language) skills Mary-o!
Ok, everyone's already said this first (in a lot of bad spelling I might add) that it is the projectionist's fault. Also, I saw the movie last night (AMAH-ZING!!!) and no it's not a "rough cut" you retards, it's all done being edited, you seriously think it's not done being edited on Tuesday and it comes out Friday???
Anyway,
Charlotte gets pregnant, names the baby Rose
Miranda forgives Steve after he cheated on her- they meet on the Brooklyn bridge.
Big and Carrie get married at the end in a small wedding because she "let the wedding get bigger than big"
Samantha dumps Smith Jerrad.
Charlotte poops her pants.
Re: Devon – If you were in fact a projectionist, you'd know that people are WAY exaggerating this. Especially if a film is presented in cinemascope, there actually isn't much of a margin at all for us projectionists to frame up or down with, without you being able to see the frame line and cutting off the heads of the actors on screen. Obviously some of the time this is the case, but LOTS of times there is absolutely nothing a projectionist can do.
Charlotte gets pregnant, names the baby Rose
Miranda forgives Steve after he cheated on her- they meet on the Brooklyn bridge.
Big and Carrie get married at the end in a small wedding because she "let the wedding get bigger than big"
Samantha dumps Smith Jerrad.
Charlotte poops her pants.
Absolutely, 99% of the time this is an issue with the projectionist.
fuck perez!
you jsut gave a spoiler away!!!!! i hate youu!!
Perez you soooo love to trash the big boys… uh, girls that is. Oh well i guess that goes with the territory of being a big hot gossiper such as yourself!
I only noticed a boom mic once.
The movie… well, the clothes were quite amazing, the accessories we even better. The movie was too long, and they tried to hard to make you laugh, which worked, but it seems too far fetched at times. My favorite part (which, is NOT a spoiler if you read SJP interview in the new VOGUE) was the faux photo shoot for Vogue. Amazing! Plus, Andre makes a cameo! (if VOGUE is your bible, like it is to me, you know who that is) I hope people enjoy this movie more than I did though!
Charlotte names her kid Rose??? Isn't her last name Rosenblatt? WTF?
That's as bad as Miranda naming her kid Brady and then marrying Steve…Brady Hobbes Brady…LAME!!!
check out Jessica Lavigne in rehab!!!, Avril's freon-sniffing, sixth cousin..
www.funnyordie.com/hollywoodswinging
Just so you know, you can't "erase" something like that in post. I do video editing on a small scale, and it isn't possible- unless there is a match shot with out the boom mic in it. Sorry, you can't fix everything in post. And that is a fact!!!
Y is everybody makin' such a big deal about this movie? Bunch of old washed up, ugly ass grannies… tryin' to be "cool"… in anothr words, frickin old sluts.
okay… i love that show and i am really mad that the freakin boom mics were in the shots!! you can do a better job at payin some attention to it!!! and you also need to do a better job editin!! and sjp looks like a granny!!
It was always about the $$$ They didn't give a shit about the movie itself, it was all about $$$. Fuck them all.
Nicole Richie called and she wants her hands back.
The same thing happened when I went to see meet the fockers… not a big deal buddzy!
If you did your homework you would know that it is the fault of the projectionist at the theater. Boom mics are visible in MANY movies if the film is not properly aligned with the screen. Check the facts before you write an ignorant report.
Oh wait, that's what you do.
STFU.
Im so sick of you. I used to be a fan and now you're just so GD annoying. You complain about everything and make fun of things you enjoy. IE sex and the city move. you're complaining about how bad it is, yet you bought tickets already and are excited to see it.
JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP ALREADY.
HOW FRIGGIN CHEEZY!! SJP.. shame you you and you look like a fugly grandma in that pic… ewww she's just getting older and haggard by the minute… yucko
Perez you fuck, no spoiler alert.
EwWwWwW!!!! Perez can you please stop posting this pic
Mew is not a typo, iz funny.
I may have to watch this film now cause I really didn't mean to.
Thanks a bunch.
Perez, you are an idiot.
Everyone in the movie business (or who has ever been to a movie) knows that it's the theater's fault if mics show. Movies don't come cut for screens… the technician must line it up.
shit those must've been some pretty bad editors
I just saw the movie…and if you are an extreme Sex and the City fan especially if you are extremely observant…I dont think you will be seeing any of that…it really was not that obvious at all because the movie is sooooooooooo great and there is so much going on and the details all around are so exquisite that you seriously dont see that mics at all…I DIDNT and I am extremely observant as it is part of my daily job to pay attention to details being in the fashion industry! IT WAS PERFECTION AT ITS BEST!
Re: Bahama9 – Thanks, number 58, Perez/Mario, the new "Queen Of All Censoring", won't let me post my whole name OR my g-damn motherfucking ava-freaking-tar.
This site used to be fun. But Perez "paved Paradise and put up a parking lot".
Now it's just too much of a pain in the ass to post. Way too much red fucking tape.
I have done a lot of writing, in different genres—even on this site—but it's no fun anymore. Will soon be leaving for good.
Re: sinead – WHO DIES IN THE MOVIE??????
she looks like ass….. wow
give her a bag please…….like now!!!!
WHO DIES IN THE MOVIE???ANYONE KNOW????
Just saw it and it was a-fucking-mazing! Everything a SATC fan could want. If there *were* boom mics in the shots, I sure as hell didn't notice.
Perez/Mario has created "nicknames" and "avatars".
And now Perez/Mario censors the "nicknames" and "avatars".
Thanks, Perez.
You are censoring many people right on off your site.
Good luck, as the "hits" on your site you once bragged about—will now plunge.
Re: TRACY –
Nobody dies, dont know where that rumor came from.
(I saw the movie already)
I just saw it at the Miami Premiere and I didn't notice any mics…
Re: sarah – hai…
It would be the fault of the projectionist at the cinema. Tell the cinema to fix their Fucking Framing. That's what i get told when i stuff up in the projection box
It's called HYPE!
SO BIG STANDS CARRIE UP AT THE ALTAR BUT THEY GET HITCHED AT CITY HALL AT THE END OF THE MOVIE
STEVE CHEATS ON MIRANDA AND THEY BREAK UP BUT AGAIN THEY GET BACK TO GETHER AT THE END OF THE MOVIE
SAMANTHA DUMPS SMITH - AND ENDS UP GAINING A 'POOCH' IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE
CHARLOTTE HAS A NEW BABY GIRL - ROSE
THERE IS SOME NUDITY - YOU SEE MIRANDAS TITS WHILE SHES HAVING SEX AND ALSO STEVES BUTT….YOU ALSO SEE SOME COCK WITH SAMANTHAS NEIGHBOR DANTE SHOWERING NAKED OUTSIDE - HES HOT AND WE ALSO SEE HIM HAVING SEX. SAM LOOKS GOOD LYING NAKED WITH SUSHI ON HER BOD
CHARLOTTE POOPS IN HER PANTS WHILE HAVING MONTEZUMAS REVENGE
i saw it last night and it was amazing! loved it! but—i didn't see the mics. i think i was to into the movie. i do recomend. and this is a horrible pic of SJP