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The Blind Side

  • queencitybuckeye
    wkfan wrote:
    iclfan2 wrote: Book is much better than the movie.
    Books are always better than the movies.

    I gave it a '9'...it was a little cheesy...but a good movie.
    Almost always. The book "Jaws" was dreadful, for example.
  • kritzell
    ZWICK 4 PREZ wrote: 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288
    Damn engineers.:huh:
  • wkfan
    queencitybuckeye wrote:
    wkfan wrote:
    iclfan2 wrote: Book is much better than the movie.
    Books are always better than the movies.

    I gave it a '9'...it was a little cheesy...but a good movie.
    Almost always. The book "Jaws" was dreadful, for example.
    Did not read that book....the movie sucked, too.
  • ernest_t_bass
    How many of you think that this family actually had Ole Miss in mind when they took this kid in? Seriously? When that part of the movie came up, it all made sense. Then, when Miss Sue ends up "getting an apartment" near the Ole Miss campus...
  • Speedofsand
    I liked the part where they played 'How high the moon' by Les Paul & Mary Ford.

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  • Heretic
    The Blind Side: the inspirational story of some kid who got taken in by a family and went on to football success, which has led to him being drafted and playing for the Baltimore Ravens, meaning that on this site (where most of the NFL fans root for AFC North teams that aren't Baltimore), everyone involved in this film and the real-life events is a piece of shit.

    -7
  • fan_from_texas
    ksig489 wrote: The movie was awful due to the fact that there was so much of the story changed for the screen. This wasn't the Michael Oher story. This was a cheesy football movie that used the character name Michael Oher to market the movie. The 15 minute glossed over version of the illegal recruiting was quite funny. There was a lot more to that according to what I have read.

    This movie was made for 2 reasons:

    1. Try to win Sandra Bullock an award (which she will never deserve because she is an awful actress)
    2. Try to make the woman look like she did all of this out of the kindness of her heart and not with dollar signs in here eyes.
    I generally agree with this. I thought the movie itself was pretty good, but it was only loosely based on the actual story, from what I've read.
  • cat_lover
    Solid movie,not great but not a clunker.
  • LJ
    ksig489 wrote:
    No snow we go! wrote: Biggest Blind Side.... Jesse James
    Best thing about this movie was this comment.


    The movie was awful due to the fact that there was so much of the story changed for the screen. This wasn't the Michael Oher story. This was a cheesy football movie that used the character name Michael Oher to market the movie. The 15 minute glossed over version of the illegal recruiting was quite funny. There was a lot more to that according to what I have read.

    This movie was made for 2 reasons:

    1. Try to win Sandra Bullock an award (which she will never deserve because she is an awful actress)
    2. Try to make the woman look like she did all of this out of the kindness of her heart and not with dollar signs in here eyes.
    I dunno if they had dollar signs in her eyes, they were already quite independently wealthy. North of $15 million NET worth I believe.
    ernest_t_bass wrote: How many of you think that this family actually had Ole Miss in mind when they took this kid in? Seriously? When that part of the movie came up, it all made sense. Then, when Miss Sue ends up "getting an apartment" near the Ole Miss campus...
    I knew some rich kids who had private tutors bankrolled by the parents who got apartments close by when they went to college.
  • slingshot4ever
    9. I liked it alot more than I thought I was going to. Good performance by Bullock.
  • tuskytuffguy
    I love it when people say a movie that is based on a true story is "too Hollywood" or "too over the top." It shows what a real moron you are judging movies. If movies were made like a book or didn't have a "hollywood" splash, then they would be utterly boring and noone would watch them.