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Demisemicenturian 
"Four ever European"
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 Posted - 03/31/2010 : 23:42:42
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The Blind Side
Hhmmm. The trailer makes it look really hokey, and the reality is just the same, unfortunately. It's just so full of do-goodery, with hardly any of the bad-donery shown. I found it exasperating only getting tiny glimpses of Michael's past. That may be supposed to reflect his own attitude/frame of mind, but I don't want to only view what he wants to think about. He meets his brother, who is then never mentioned again; Leigh Anne meets his mother, who is then never mentioned again; &c. &c.
Do Southern women really sound like Bullock in this? I know she's from the South herself, but she just sounded like a caricature to me. Talking of caricatures, does there really have to be the one teacher who insists on giving Michael Ds and refuses to see how bright and wonderful he is like all the more enlightened characters? And as for "Did you think we'd have a black son before we knew a Democrat?"... 
I hate facts being changed in biopics. The timeline is bad enough (he was at the Christian school for a couple of years before moving in with the Gruey Twoeys), but changing the name of the school is just plain annoying. It seems unlikely in the extreme that the school would have objected to its name being used.
I don't think Bullock deserved an Oscar for this, as much as I like her. You know, they've never really found the right role for her. This is back on track in a way, i.e. drama with comic touches, but she needs to play an underdog to be at her best. Quinton Aaron is much better as Michael, quiet but not brooding, sulky, difficult, weak, overly shy or any of the other qualities that would so typically come with that.
And it doesn't make American football seem interesting AT ALL. It just seems to be about brute force and complicated administrative rules.
It's undeniably a great real-life story and thus a feel-good film, so I don't quite want to give it only 3/5 yet, but I think I will in time. As someone on the I.M.D.B. has said, it's a "made-for-TV movie that somehow wandered into the "Best Picture" category". |
Edited by - Demisemicenturian on 04/01/2010 15:39:17 |
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The Blind Side
