| Sunday, February 14, 2010 |
| Interiors |
I don't mean to complain about the weather, seeing as how much of the East Coast is buried under a couple feet of snow, but I'm in St. Petersburg, FL, and it really should be warmer. After five days, I'm not sure the temperature has even hit 60.
You know who is happy about the cold weather? Movie theater owners. Because if you can't walk on the beach, you may as well catch up on those big hits you missed. I saw two of them, "The Blind Side" and "It's Complicated." Even though both of them have been playing for weeks, the showings were packed.
The inspirational weepie and the baby boomer rom-com have one thing in common: sensational real estate. Both Sandra Bullock and Meryl Streep's characters live in gorgeous homes. I'd happily move into either the Tuohys' tastefully decorated mansion (apparently, owning 80 Taco Bells is very lucrative!) or Jane's sunny Santa Barbara estate (apparently, selling chocolate croissants is very lucrative!).
Both films teach important lessons. For instance: don't drive around in your brand new truck jammin' to Young MC's "Bust a Move." Even after all these years, it's so funky fresh, you're liable to crash!
And, if you're Skyping with your new boyfriend, don't leave your computer unattended if your horny ex-husband is sneaking around the bedroom in the buff.
To be honest, both blockbusters are ridiculously entertaining, but I'm going to give "It's Complicated" a slight edge because Meryl Streep is so winsome as Jane -- please, Hollywood, keep giving her starring roles. "The Blind Side" also features some dialogue that made me wince: "You're changing that boy's life," one of Leanne's snobby friends says to her. I knew what she was going to reply even before she said it -- "No, he's changing mine." Also, child actor Jae Head as precocious kid brother S.J. is teeth-grindingly annoying.
All in all, though, I couldn't have asked for better turn-off-your-brain vacation-time fun. |
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