The Blind Side (2009)
A poor, oversized and under-educated teenager is recruited by a major college football program where he is groomed into an athletically and academically successful NFL prospect.
Cast and Information
Directed By: John Lee Hancock
Written By: John Lee Hancock, Michael Lewis
Starring: Kathy Bates, Sandra Bullock, Ray McKinnon, Rhoda Griffis, Kim Dickens, Lily Collins, Quinton Aaron, Tim McGraw, Adriane Lenox, Jae Head, Irone Singleton
Genres: Drama, Biography, Sport
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Ytadel | 2 14% |
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Gee, mom! Owning a pet black person looks like so much fun! Can I get one, too? Can I?! *makes jerking off motion*
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Melvin Smif | 45 48% |
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Entertaining and heartwarming but ultimately nothing more. The acting was fine, not Oscar worthy, but not poor. The little kid was a distraction and could have been toned down a lot. This film handled race relations and the NCAA controversy in much the same way by simply accusing anyone who questioned the motives of the family of being either racist or mean spirited and I think that is pretty dishonest.
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Pickpocket | 0 4% |
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This movie was made for impressionable idiots. The acting is about what I expect from a Sandra Bullock movie - terrible. Everyone is awful and unbelievable. Manipulative in the worst kind of way. Emotional scene - *cue sappy emotional music*. Ugh, I can't stand that. The climax was beyond awful, I laughed pretty hard at that. Yes, after beating up a bunch of armed gang members you should just stand there and close your eyes. Hey genius, try running before they wake up and cap you.
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BeeDub | 82 50% |
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Sandra Bullock is always fun to watch, but the movie itself is so cloying it becomes a chore to finish. Your mom probably loves it, though.
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Bown | 38 4% |
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Cliched, predictable, and subtly racist on so many levels it made my blood boil. Bullock's performance and character are far too good for the rest of this dire movie.
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| 4 | theficionado | 13 10% |
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If only every large black prospective football player from the projects had the charity of a sassy white Christian woman. Final act implicitly criticizes those who had the gall to throw this family's motives into question. Tellingly, Quinton Aaron, whose character the movie is ostensibly about, earns third billing; his six-and-a-half-foot presence barely registers.
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DavidBlast | 50 44% |
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... and then it hit me: Man, I sure don't hope that this movie winning an oscar, lead to a surge of white women in cars, riding around looking for random black kids: -"Are you homeless, sweetie?" -"No, I'm actually on my way to.." -"GET IN THE CAR YOU ARE SLEEPING AT MY HOUSE NOW YOU POOR THING!"
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| 4 | keysercomp03 | 87 33% |
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This story that is based on the real life of a successful NFL player is a captivating and hopeful film. Sandra Bullock commands the film as she plays a generous mother who teaches morals of the importance of staying strong for those who you call family. This type of story has been told many times, but in this particular film one is left with hope and a refreshing sense of what a family unit can conquer together when determined.
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understamp | 10 5% |
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Racist feel good movie for middle class suburban stay at home mums.
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| 4 | keysercomp13 | 100 83% |
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The Blind Side, in my personal opinion, is the best movie I have ever seen. The movie is based on the true story of Michael Oher being taken in by the Tuohy family after living on the streets. The Tuohys displayed the true kindness in their hearts by accepting Michael as a part of their famiy, and I think the movie portrays that well. This movie is appropriate for all ages, genders, and is just an all around great film!
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frederic_g54 | 5 21% |
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What do you want to know ? Is it one of those sappy, predictable, inspirational movies à la "Remember the Titans", "Freedom Writers", that I find hard to recommend as a whole ? You betcha !!! Bullock's alright I guess, but it's not worth running to the theaters for. Obviously, this movie wouldn't be complete without an annoying brat. This movie pussied out big time.
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| 3 | MajorB | 83 39% |
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Accomplished filmmaking craft blown on a cloying, saccharine screenplay. How did this film manage to make a true story so predictable? Manipulative and condescending in equal parts... Not even Sandra Bullock's Oscar-worthy performance can save cliche'd lines like "I'm not changing his life, he's changing mine."
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INDYATMN | 63 15% |
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Would've made a good doc. Surely the real people this story is based on r far more interesting. Bullock's brass balled Christian conservative (w those qualities diluted for mass-consumption) whose near super-heroic abilities 2 make every drunk redneck and thug warlord back down from her strains credulity. The film feels like a fascinating true story about intriguing people w/ strong opinions you might disagree with that's sugarcoated over in favor of fictional inspiration u can swallow easily.
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GordonBombay | 60 33% |
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The movie has taken an unfair beating by the critics if you ask me. This is partly because it with its two Oscar nominees has been moved up in a league where it simply doesn't belong. The movie is a sweet simple disneyesque movie. If a great movie like The Maltese Falcon is a meal that satisfies all your sences, then The Blind Side is the junkfood you eat when you feel sad. It is not good for you and it doesn't give you any nourishment, but while you are eating it, you are enjoying yourself.
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| 3 | musicmad420 | 15 1% |
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This movie was made to appeal to idiots. And the creators knew what they were doing.
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| 3 | keysercomp04 | 93 50% |
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A heartwarming story that combines both sports and the importance of family, The Blind Side, tells the story of NFL player Michael Oher. A tear jerker at times, the somewhat predictable plot does not draw away from the message of the movie. Sandra Bullock's Oscar winning performance sets her as one of Hollywood's premiere actresses.
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| 3 |  |
chemtrails | 25 10% |
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It's racist guys, it's super racist
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omgfridge | 1 8% |
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Just because Bullock wasn't awful and just gave what anyone else would call a normal performance doesn't mean you should win an oscar. I found the comic relief aka the little kid to be a nuisance. Far too formulaic and scenes just seemed so unbelievable. Lame inspirational football movie that doesn't do anything memorable.
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Lilarcor | 49 7% |
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So... much... sugar...
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Cinema_Asia | 45 7% |
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This may be loosely based on a true story but it's cheesy and recycles every single sports movie cliche. Oher's hilarious depiction is that of a big black Forrest Gump who can play football. There was also a fairly patronizing tone about race relations which felt dishonest. They also had to put in an unbelievable action sequence involving gang members. Sandra Bullock is alright but it's difficult to see how her usual career woman acting role deserved an academy award.
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GreatScott85 | 40 12% |
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Cliche, manipulative drivel that's far too formulaic and in terms of politics feels downright insulting.
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drstrangeluv | 20 3% |
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And so the message here for the black youth of America: you better hope that a orange grizzly mama adopts you and teaches you how to play football, or else you're going to wind up dead in a gang fight. Inspiring.
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Stewball | 80 80% |
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Due to the size and color of the main characters, comparisons between this and "Precious" will probably surface. At least this one succeeds without manipulating the pity factor. Weak points are the mercifully abbreviated parade of NCAA football coaches and the over the top little kid, but they are more than made up for with the rest of the casting, including Sandra Bullock's endearing and best performance of her career. It's a touching story, but it's not artificial, it really happened.
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mattorama12 | 64 46% |
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Man, Criticker is really not happy about Bullock's Oscar win. The movie is definitely sappy and there isn't a ton of artistry, but it did get me in the feels several times and that counts for something. I think both Aaron and Bullock give strong performances that make this work. Aaron's gentle naivete is what the whole thing really hinges on.
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Eric WK | 10 3% |
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The most offensive film I've ever seen.
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constantine | 76 59% |
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I don't know why I still love Sandra Bullock so much. Although she made terrible career choices in the past, she definitely nails it here. This is undoubtly her best performance yet. I disagree it's a tear-jerker movie. Yet it has moments but can't say they are manipulative. Movie is really impressive, however I'm not sure if this is derived from director/writer's success to tell a good story or the story itself is already touching since it's based on factual events.
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muutanet | 53 42% |
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Story started nicely and now I understand why they gave Bullock an award. The part was well written. But everything what was build in the beginning, crumbled to the mediocre in the latter half. Collins was a doll face, but the young kid I hated from my guts. Guys, guys, guys! What is this "American football"? It has nothing to do with kicking the ball: they run around with the ball under their arm!
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Charlie | 65 42% |
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Could have been much better, but this whole "I can step up to anybody, rednecks and gang members, which in real life would blow me away in a blink of an eye..." just ruined much of a pretty solid story. Sandra Bullock is great though.
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KasperL | 30 10% |
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Leigh Anne isn't the easiest of characters to play. Bullock does a decent job with it but that this movie got a single Oscar-nomination and even won her Best Actress is frankly mindboggling. My personal dislike for inspirational tales and sugarcoated drama aside, the dramatic beats, social commentary, humour and attempts at "Aaaawww, how sad..." moments are all equally unskillfully and/or carelessly done. To quote Mrs. Tuohy: Shame on you.
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nandorizzi | 75 71% |
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This is a story that seems everybody has seen several times. However, it's hard not to sympathize a little bit with the film, which is light, fun and inspiring. Obviously it's not a masterpiece, but it's ok.
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Jeb | 71 52% |
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The Blind Side is a tearful, uplifting and overly heartwarming experience. Bullock's endearing performance is complimented by the overall cheerful spirit of the plotline. It'll definitely seize your heart towards the beginning and the end.
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Zealot185 | 31 10% |
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It carefully toes an inoffensive line that runs through a gridiron of race, poverty, and education, ending up teaching us nothing about these important topics because it clearly wants to appeal to as wide an audience as possible. That's why they cast Bullock, who gives a convincing and charismatic performance, but did NOT deserve the Oscar. There's an uplifting story buried underneath the underdog-movie cliches and overly sweet Disney-esque Christian coating, but that's a lot to suffer through.
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Ross | 35 26% |
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A thick nauseating feel good story without any dramatic elements. Everything is pink and fluffy. Bullock wasn't especially good. Oher has expressed recentment towards both book and movie, and who can blame him. The best bicture nomination is a scandal.
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woodoo | 30 5% |
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Come on people, what are we doing here.
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Icarus | 60 27% |
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The movie is straight-up, mainstream cheese, the scenes all have the same rhythm that leads to a monotonous feel throughout, and Sandra Bullock is clearly doing her best Julia Roberts as Erin Brockovich impression to win the Oscar. That said, the film is emotionally "reserved" enough to avoid completely falling off the cheese truck, and the still photos at the end make a huge difference. This is the kind of overly-sentimentalized story I would roll my eyes at were it not for those photos.
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Langelund (CinemaZone.dk) | 40 24% |
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Pre-dic-tab-le. And Bullock's performance is not even close to Oscar-deserving. But overall pretty decent, worth the watch and with (what feels like) a tender moment here and there.
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| 1 | keysercomp15 | 8 16% |
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The Blind Side was a wonderful remake of a recent book. It takes you through the life of Michael Ore, an abandoned hood boy that turned into a professional football player. Perfectly portraying Michael's struggles and hurdles, the movie is awe-inspiring. This movie will bring both tears of sadness and joy and truly puts your life into perspective.
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CinematicESP | 65 9% |
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I like that it's a sports movie that is hardly a sports movie, and that it goes into the issue of kids being manipulated into sports. I don't think it packs the emotional punch it was going for, and I really don't see why Bullock's performance, while she does make you root for her, was Oscar-worthy at all.
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hellboy76 | 66 51% |
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I will be honest, I have never seen this movie in one sitting, just all the various parts from the dozen or so times I have walked in and the wife has been watching it. But it seemed at least well made.
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guy piranha | 55 30% |
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Hm, we have kids, unlimited funds, cars, houses, restaurants...time to prove to ourselves just how down to earth we still are! Let's get one of those negroids! We can cry or shake our heads at his sad upbringing each and every fucking time he mentions stuff like "i never had candy, though i look like an elephant." Yeah, all it takes is a white person to make things right...Wake up people, this movie isn't overcoming racial borders, it's showing them off in that elitist "concerned-caucasian"-way.
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cagedwisdom | 75 65% |
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Apparently I forgot to rate this.. Seem to remember I loved it, but now I'm seeing all these mid-range ratings I guess I'll have to watch it again. Just putting this non-ranking up to say one thing: Bullock's acting isn't oscar good? What the hell have you guys been smoking. Sometimes this community baffles me. Don't get me wrong, I love you guys even though I know you only through your mini-reviews, but right now it seems like everyone here grew a second, retarded, brain.
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| 1 | legstump | 60 39% |
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A thoroughly middlebrow helping of 'aw gee rich white people ain't all bad' which would border on offensive if it a) wasn't true; b) didn't at least occasionally slightly warm my jaded heart and c) didn't overcome my usual reflex to avoid anything with Sandra Bullock in it.
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nutcrackr | 40 4% |
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Most interesting was the real photos shown during the credits. The rest was pure pap.
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| 1 | Kokolo | 20 0% |
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So many cliches... Unbeliveable. And what makes it sadder is that academy adores these movies, and Bullock is gonna get nomination for her mediocre performance...
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chemical404 | 49 36% |
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Insignificant by its design. One of the many Hollywood manufactured uplifting fairy tales about poor kid 'making it'. There is hardly any conflict in the story, it just shoves fake happiness about humanity. It's almost criminal this movie gets so much attention, and the fine, realistic film Sugar (2008; Ryan Fleck), that deals with very similar themes, goes almost unnoticed.
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closer_ | 70 63% |
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A very simple plot but good screenwriting and directing. The little boy stole his scenes :) But the star is of course Sandy she was very good at least deserve an academy awards nomination
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AnnMovie | 90 61% |
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A truly "uplifting" tale in which I genuinely felt up lifted (not the "uplifted" where you're balling your eyes out, but instead the smiling and with a sense that there is good in the world uplifted). Very well acted (way to go Sandra!) and a witty, sweet script. What I really loved was that this movie could have chosen to be dark and depressing, but that wasn't the focus at all. A great blend, and a great film!
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ofallpieces | 40 4% |
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Republican bullshit.
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Okkervil | 48 36% |
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Bullock is quite good, not Oscar good, but she carries "The Blind Side" well enough. Its first half is considerably stronger than its second, which suffers from stupidity & a simple lack of interesting moments or plot points. There no real skillful filmmaking on show either, with characters thrown in and pulled out of the narrative at will in a clumsy & lazy fashion. Ultimately "The Blind Side" amounts to nothing more than a nice uplifting drama, with several flaws & a lack of quality in depth.
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Anselmi86 | 64 43% |
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After finally seeing this, the thought I'm most left with is that the Academy really needs to reevaluate the meaning of the words: "Best of the Year." Sandra Bullock, by far delivers a career-best performance, but certainly not awards-worthy. And to name this film one 2009's ten best pieces of cinema is just straight-up mind-boggling. The film is enjoyable and solid...were is a made-for network TV movie. It really has not a single scrap of cinematic originality or profundity.
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| 1 | bharath | 65 41% |
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Its hard to rate any biographical movie. If you ignore the fact of it being biographical movie, it is just old wine in a new bottle - underdog comes on top. That left aside the movie is entertaining, it is all about Sandra Bullock. I dont believe she deserved the Oscar, her performance at best was on par. The movie starts of well but tapers downwards pretty fast after the first half.
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Timon88 | 33 23% |
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Sandra Bullock was right--her acting in this was terrible. Her winning the Best Actress Oscar is testament to Hollywood's ever-expanding capacity for self-congratulation, rewarding films it sees as "socially conscious", no matter how offensive and patronizing that "consciousness" may, in fact, be.
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| 1 | pompousass | 20 44% |
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Soft warm cozy sports story from the maker of The Rookie, Hancock. Bullock stays obstinately on the surface of her role, and Aaron is touchingly minimalist as Michael Oher, a future first-round NFL draft pick. Very late in the game a couple of aspersions are cast on the motives of Oher's adoptive parents, aspersions which, if shown to be even fractionally valid, might have made a more interesting movie.
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graveyardtan | 45 14% |
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Are you fucking kidding me? An Oscar nod? For this? This is the worst movie I saw all year...by a long shot.
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cussot | 40 1% |
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This is competently made, Bullock does her job well and I suppose everyone's intentions are good. But really, why spend money on telling this particulary story?
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SlrSoapbox | 75 59% |
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I have to laugh at the reviews complaining this is predictable. Of COURSE it's predictable, you already know the ending! Anyway, while it's pretty much a by-the-numbers inspirational sports drama, I still felt kinda touched by the end of it, and I'm a total cynic about this sort of thing. Bullock's performance was great, and Tim McGraw was basically unrecognizable. It's better than I expected it would be.
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Nearphotison | 79 58% |
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Quinton Aaron was great, and Bullock did well with her role. I liked the focus on the characters rather than the football. However, one has to wonder just how much of this film was pandering to the real people it's based on. I almost wish it had been pure fiction, so we could have seen some more human flaws in the family. Still, the emotions were very real and the film left me feeling warm and fuzzy, which was the point.
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MartinTeller | 56 12% |
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Cliché and formulaic doesn't begin to cover it. Every moment of this is predictable, every beat. There are standard plot arcs, and that's sometimes just how it goes and can still be enjoyable, but this goes beyond that. If anything surprises you in this movie, you haven't seen enough movies. I like seeing people do nice things for others. But I don't like cinema that's so bland and unimaginative. The best you can say about it, including Sandra Bullock's performance, is that it's competent.
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| Average Percentile 47.21% from 4011 Ratings |  |