Christmas Day,
It’s NOT Complicated
Iwas standing in line at the movies Christmas Day, and someone in the box office announced the 1:10 p.m. show of “Sherlock Holmes” was sold out. By the time we got to the box office, a few more movies were sold out. That left “It’s Complicated” or we go home. From the ad, this movie looked like an old Doris Day-Rock Hudson movie. So what the hell? Let’s go.
This movie positively sucked, and it was so bad, I felt it was my duty to write this column. The entire movie is stupid and painful to watch. Meryl Streep is too old to be a confused, sex-starved valley girl. Alec Baldwin should be locked up forever if he is naked in another movie. In more than one scene we see Baldwin prancing around his fat, ugly, hairy, naked body on a 20-foot high screen. YUK.
What movie is complete today without shameless commercials? A scene has a doctor examining Alec Baldwin, and the doctors asks, “What drugs are you taking?” Baldwin replies, “Lipitor, and Flomax.” Must we be bombarded with these crappy prescription drug pitches everywhere we go? A 30-second scene has Meryl Streep at a water cooler, with her arm around a jug of Arrowhead Water, unfortunately the jug looked better than Streep.
One scene has Alec Baldwin suggesting Meryl Streep smoke pot with him. The next evening Streep has the roach from the night before, and suggests to a very boring Steve Martin they smoke pot. In this film, why would anyone want to smoke pot with Steve Martin, or any of these three old farts? They give pot smokers everywhere a bad name.
Sometimes, I go through the big $5.00 box of DVDs at Wal-Mart. I am always surprised by how many new movies with big stars go directly to DVD and then the clearance box. How did this film ever get released to the movie theaters? This movie is no way good enough for the DVD clearance box; it should go directly to VHS.
