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Added 3/20/2010
Excellent film, well deserved rewards. But why oh why all these combo packs? For those who updated their hardware to Blu-ray, we don't need or want included DVD's or Digital Copies. I only want a single Blu-ray disc release, because I don't want all those extra discs cluttering my Blu-ray library. Barnes & Noble lists it, so why not Amazon?
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Too Good...I'm Glad it's a True Story
Added 3/17/2010
When I went to watch this movie I thought that its runtime of 129 minutes was pretty long. I was wrong. I thoroughly enjoyed watching it that when the credits came up I was surprised that the film was over. I really wished it had not ended so soon. I could easily have sat for another hour or so had there been more scenes to watch.
Inspiring true story, larger-than-life characters, stirring scenes, thought-provoking dialogues, great portrayal by actors (especially Bullock) - many excellent elements come together in this film. It's one of the best movies (if not the best) I have seen in many years.
I'm grateful that this film does not promote humanism. For me, as a Christian, God's providential grace is undeniable in this real story of triumph and altruism. Watching this movie based on a noble story awakened in me a keen sense of wanting to do good unto others.
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One of the Best.
Added 3/16/2010
The Blind Side is a great family movie filled with drama, warmth and humor! Sandra Bullock gives a super performance! Good casting.
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Sandra's Powerhouse Triumph!
Added 3/15/2010
"The Blind Side" is a wonderful, unforgettable masterpiece that's destined to become a perennial holiday classic.
Everyone in your family--from youngsters to the older--should be enthralled with this magical movie experience brought to us by John Hancock.
As writer and director, Hancock has gathered together a once-in-a-lifetime cast who enwrap you in a family so real that you feel like a member. Based on real life, the Tuohys of Tennessee find and nurture a homeless young black youth, Micahel Oher. They eventually adopt him and consider him a full-fledged member of their Christian family. They're also responsible for his becoming a multi-million dollar football star at Ole Miss.
That's the heart of this story that will have you laughing one minute, and trying to choke back your tears the next.
As the pistol packing, brassy Mother Lion, Leanne Tuohy, Sandra Bullock absolutely electrifies, giving the performance of a lifetime. Her Academy Award performance puts her firmly in the pantheon of movie greats. Like her legendary predecessors, Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, Bullock has the magical spark that connects directly with the viewer and when she confronts a gang of thugs who threaten her newly adopted black son, Michael Oher, the hair on the back of your head tingles when Bullock gets right in their faces and spits": "You threaten my son, you threaten me!" Looking fabulous with her new blonde do, wearing knock-out fashions and exuding electrifying charisma, Bullock brings us an unforgetabble heroine to love forever.
Most of us can barely remember those actresses who've recently snared the Best Actress honor (quick, who was that French actress who won last year for "La Vie En Rose") Sandra Bullock, however gives us a fiery, fabulous heroine that we'll be discussing and thinking about for years to come.
This is hardly to say that Bullock is the only one who did great. Hancock's entire cast--from the extras in the background, the school faculty, the athletes, the young performers in Michael's welfare housing projects--were all extraorinary.
The Tuohy family became like people you'd love to have as neighbors: Tim McGraw is the handsome, genial head of the Touhy family and owns a chain of Taco Bell restaurants that make him a multi-millionaire. His two children played briilliantly by Lily Collins and the scene-stealing, impish Jae Head, enhanced this story-book family.
The Blind Side should have won the Oscar for Best Picture but many of the big city movie critics hated it. New York Magazine was especally notorious for its steady stream of sarcastic observations about Sandra Bullock and the movie itself. Maybe it's staggering box office ($255 million domestically as of 3/14/2010) was a deterrant. Numerous other critics were aghast that Sandra Bullock was actually winning awards for her role over Meryl Streep.
Bullock proves herself to be Hollywood's greatest star. She's a brillant commedienne (i.e, The Proposal, Miss Congenialty) and now with The Blind Side, a brillant dramatic actress. She's going to be around for a long, long time and now her millions of fans are wondering what her next triumph will be?
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An Oscar Nod For This?
Added 3/15/2010
I remember looking forward to this movie and being utterly disappointed on the way out and the reasons are many. The story had potential, but the director chose to turn this into a made for Lifetime Channel Tv movie. All directors manipulate the audience to an extent, but the Blind Side does not allow the audience to think at all. We clearly know who is a big bad meanie and we clearly know who the saints with halos are. And there are no in betweens. And can anyone honestly say there was anything in this "film" that could not be anticipated from the trailer? I would venture that anyone, after seeing the 60 second preview could probably describe the entire film. There was nothing in the screenplay that could not be predicted. How can such a predictable film be remotely considered for top picture?
The portrayal of the sport of football itself was half baked(I was really looking forward to some insight into the sport of football in this movie, but my little sister seems to know more about the sport than the director does). The coach of the OTHER team was a devil and all his players were little demons. Michael's team were the good guy underdogs that you MUST root for unless you are a communist. And Michael shoving his meanie nemesis all the way down the field and over the fence? Why was this scene necessary? If someone were to actually do that (and they never did or will), they would be ejected and suspended. And even if it were to happen, a total brawl would ensue on the field. Was the director trying to get a laugh? That would be the way I would expect to see football portrayed on an episode of I-Carly, not in an Oscar nominated film.
And at the end of the film, do we really understand who Michael Oher is? All we get is a caricatured sketch of him. The film was all about Leigh Ann, and not Michael. Some have argued the focus of the film is about Leigh Ann's good deed, and that is all good and fine, but I would like a bit more depth to Michael's character. That was who I came to the movie to see. And I am not totally willing to coronate Leigh Ann and her husband as total saints yet either; I believe that there was more to the NCAA investigation than we were led to believe. But once again, the director was unwilling to let the audience think here. The audience was clearly TOLD the NCAA was the big meanie. All black and white and no grey is the EASY way out.
Finally, I do not believe Sandra Bullock deserved an Oscar for her performance in this film (or any other film she has been in for that matter). Her performance was pretty much exactly what you would expect; very little subtlety or nuance. She was pretty much happy, mad, and sad everywhere the script told her. Not a bad performance, but if one saw all the other female leads that were nominated, Bullock's performance was easily at the bottom of the bunch. Heck, even a few that WEREN'T nominated were better. Amy Adams, for instance, turned in a FAR superior performance in Julie and Julia. I guess if Taylor Swift can get a Grammy for album of the year, we really can't be surprised if the Academy hands out an undeserving award or two.
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stop the combo's
Added 3/20/2010
Excellent film, well deserved rewards. But why oh why all these combo packs? For those who updated their hardware to Blu-ray, we don't need or want included DVD's or Digital Copies. I only want a single Blu-ray disc release, because I don't want all those extra discs cluttering my Blu-ray library. Barnes & Noble lists it, so why not Amazon?
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Too Good...I'm Glad it's a True Story
Added 3/17/2010
When I went to watch this movie I thought that its runtime of 129 minutes was pretty long. I was wrong. I thoroughly enjoyed watching it that when the credits came up I was surprised that the film was over. I really wished it had not ended so soon. I could easily have sat for another hour or so had there been more scenes to watch.
Inspiring true story, larger-than-life characters, stirring scenes, thought-provoking dialogues, great portrayal by actors (especially Bullock) - many excellent elements come together in this film. It's one of the best movies (if not the best) I have seen in many years.
I'm grateful that this film does not promote humanism. For me, as a Christian, God's providential grace is undeniable in this real story of triumph and altruism. Watching this movie based on a noble story awakened in me a keen sense of wanting to do good unto others.
2 out of 2 people found this helpful.
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One of the Best.
Added 3/16/2010
The Blind Side is a great family movie filled with drama, warmth and humor! Sandra Bullock gives a super performance! Good casting.
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