The Blind Side

http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/theblindside/

:(

during Michel Oher's game broadcasts. You know someone was gonna make a movie out of it

"we need more of that cute white kid. can he be the black guy's coach or something? maybe he could teach him the basics of football?"

it is Sandra Bullock and okay RZellweger too but that film adaptation looks awful.

I haven't read the book but I did read the NYTimes article which was the germ for the book.

This is worth a read if you haven't already

The Ballad of Big Mike: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/24/magazine/24football.html?pagewanted=all

It's the opposite of this trailer.

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i'm waiting for white media to jump into this post.

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We don't even know if he'll turn out to have magic powers.

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"I ORBITs the solar system, listenin..."

(C)Keith Murray, "Cosmic Slop"

It's nothing for a movie to not get the book exactly, but Jesus this is barely in the same galaxy as the book. Aside from Sean Tuohy's wife being like the third (at best) most important person in the story, it seems like they're completely missing the subtly made point of how if Oher didn't have the body of a perfect left tackle, the Tuohy family probably wouldn't have given a shit.

Unhappy Negroes? Check.
You guys are amazing.

"Based on a true story..." sports films. Because no matter what the true story was, screenwriters always warp and adapt it to fit the same ol' fucking traditional themes and tropes that every other fucking fictional sports movie uses. See: "Fever Pitch" and the "Friday Night Lights" film. The latter sorta got some of it right, but it almost completely ignored the racial, class, and social commentary of the book, besides making the "Black" team they play in the championship look like a bunch of evil thug hooligans.

Th is is why I'm glad "Moneyball" is now dead in the water. Even if they decideded it was an unfilmable movie with a non-traditional script, I'd rather it not get made than have some hack turn it paint-by-numbers cheese.

you could re-edit most of this trailer with a homeless dog, and nobody would even notice.

then it has the usual ingredients of a whitey saved me movie. him dancing with the kid, awkward "fistbumps", bullock throwing caution to the wind, marching into the hood all by herself to confront those evil thugs.

and think of all the stuff they didn't show. i'm sure there's a scene where bullock catches her rich friends making a racially insensitive joke, and i'm sure she knows just the right words to put them in their place.

but yeah, i agree with everything you said.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVF-nirSq5s

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O_E: Your Super-Ego's Favorite Poster.


"I ORBITs the solar system, listenin..."

(C)Keith Murray, "Cosmic Slop"

"write that down"

With all due respect sir, I'm a white lady.

>With all due respect sir, I'm a white lady.

she look good.
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He's changing hers.

THE BLIND SIDE. Coming November 20th.

Sometimes the people you try to save, end up saving you.




Sandra Bullock.




The Blind Side.




Fall 2009.


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O_E: Your Super-Ego's Favorite Poster.


"I ORBITs the solar system, listenin..."

(C)Keith Murray, "Cosmic Slop"

And that something is a "blind/gaining sight/learning how to see" play on words.

I'll be back when I think of one.

She Blinded He with Kindness!

Bring back Thomas Dolby or Manfred Mann's Earth Band for the soundtrack?

Guaranteed Big 'Bers

If I can come up with a proper tagline, maybe Warner Bros. will give me a job. I'm trying to make my papes here.

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A Sandra Bullock joint

lmao

Hell, why not two Golden Globes why we're at it?!

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/season/2009/11/sandra-bullock-blind-sides-the-competition-and-may-grab-first-oscar-nomination-by-pete-hammond.html

Could this suddenly become the year of Sandra Bullock?

A little less than a month ago I traveled to the Warner Bros. lot in Burbank to see a film called "The Blind Side" starring Bullock that, frankly, I wasn't expecting much from. Sometimes nice surprises happen.

This is the kind of inspiring and solid upbeat studio release (directed by John Lee Hancock) that could, and should, put Bullock firmly in the race for best actress. This could be her "Erin Brockovich." Just like the film that earned Julia Roberts her Oscar, this is a true life story about Leigh Anne Tuohy, an unstoppable force of nature who persuades her very white Southern family to take in a virtually homeless African American teen named Michael Oher (played by newcomer Quinton Aaron). This unusual "adoption" leads to a brand-new life for the boy and sends him on his way to eventually becoming an All-American football star.

Like the far more visible (at least media-wise) "Precious," it's a story of a person lifted out of his or her own personal ghetto, who uses hope and an indomitable spirit to prevail against all odds.

Aaron and the rest of the cast, which includes Tim McGraw and Kathy Bates, are just fine. But it's Bullock, burning up the screen as an upscale Southern woman who finds her heart and soul, who should finally earn some awards attention. It's easily her best screen work since her underrated supporting turn in "Crash," but she has yet to appear on anybody's short list of best actress candidates. (This writer excluded.)

"The Blind Side," together with her romantic comedy box-office smash "The Proposal," should make 2009 this star's most memorable year ever. (The less said about "All About Steve" the better.)

In fact, I've been told by sources at last week's ShowEast exhibitors convention that the movie played like gangbusters there. One top distribution exec for a rival studio actually told me that it could be classified as a great film if it were only about 10 to 15 minutes shorter. It does run long and could lose some of the football footage, but it never loses its grip on the audience thanks largely to Bullock.

Playing a real-life person is always helpful in awards season, particularly when that person can run around to media to say how authentic the portrayal is. It certainly worked with Brockovich's praise of Roberts, and I imagine Tuohy will do the same thing for Bullock.

It's entirely possible Bullock could even end up with two Golden Globe nominations this year if all the cards line up, one for actress in a comedy or musical for "The Proposal" and one for actress in a drama for "The Blind Side." And in the ever-fluid lineup of best actress Oscar candidates this year she has a real shot if Warners gets it out there to the acting community.

The major negative in this scenario is the film's Nov. 20 opening, directly against Summit's expected blockbuster "New Moon." It could get buried in the rubble that juggernaut leaves behind. Still, underdogs, which "Blind Side" undoubtedly is in this case, sometimes find a way to rise to the top.

It's called word of mouth.

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Instead of taking them into their home and helping him become a man.

Dumbass.

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