.....starring Best Actress nominee Sandra Bullock and my wife and I enjoyed it.
The Link
I think Sandra has a good chance to win her first Oscar for this spot on performance.
The rest of the cast was fine and the story was interesting.
With Tim McGraw and Kathy Bates each doing well and appearances by football coaches Nick Saban, Tommy Tuberville, Lou Holtz, Ed Orgeron, Houston Nutt and Phil Fulmer as themselves, I thought this film had a lot to offer.
Even non football fans should find things to enjoy in this mostly true account of how Michael Oher, as portrayed by newcomer Quenton Aaron, a homeless, traumatized, academically challenged black high school student earned a college football scholarship and then became a first round NFL draft choice after being taken in by a caring white woman and her affluent family.
I'll recommend this film as being worth a ticket or a rental for most adult movie watchers.
I saw "The Blind Side" less than 24 hours after viewing "Precious," a film I've also reviewed on this forum.
The stories told in those two movies were polar opposites in almost every possible way except each was about a disadvantaged, traumatized, academically challenged young black, one homeless at their movie's beginning and the other homeless at the end.
However, as young people trying to cope in tough circumstances, Precious and Michael were so, so, so very much alike, just with different storylines and lives as things happened and turned out.
Precious and Michael (and the acting newcomers who played them) displayed far more personal similarities than differences, I thought.
Their characters could have been twins, enough alike in appearance and mental state to be sister and brother, having similar personalities, mannerisms and ways of handling their problems.
I found that interesting and, for me, an eerie example of movie deja vu.
Watching these two "oppositely similar" films, one after the other in close order, brought home to me how totally our different lives are affected for the better (or the worse) by happenstance, opportunties, occurances, support and perseverance or the lack thereof.
This seems true to me.
Whether life is somehow predestined or just a crapshoot, I'll leave that discussion for another time and place.
The Link
I think Sandra has a good chance to win her first Oscar for this spot on performance.
The rest of the cast was fine and the story was interesting.
With Tim McGraw and Kathy Bates each doing well and appearances by football coaches Nick Saban, Tommy Tuberville, Lou Holtz, Ed Orgeron, Houston Nutt and Phil Fulmer as themselves, I thought this film had a lot to offer.
Even non football fans should find things to enjoy in this mostly true account of how Michael Oher, as portrayed by newcomer Quenton Aaron, a homeless, traumatized, academically challenged black high school student earned a college football scholarship and then became a first round NFL draft choice after being taken in by a caring white woman and her affluent family.
I'll recommend this film as being worth a ticket or a rental for most adult movie watchers.
I saw "The Blind Side" less than 24 hours after viewing "Precious," a film I've also reviewed on this forum.
The stories told in those two movies were polar opposites in almost every possible way except each was about a disadvantaged, traumatized, academically challenged young black, one homeless at their movie's beginning and the other homeless at the end.
However, as young people trying to cope in tough circumstances, Precious and Michael were so, so, so very much alike, just with different storylines and lives as things happened and turned out.
Precious and Michael (and the acting newcomers who played them) displayed far more personal similarities than differences, I thought.
Their characters could have been twins, enough alike in appearance and mental state to be sister and brother, having similar personalities, mannerisms and ways of handling their problems.
I found that interesting and, for me, an eerie example of movie deja vu.
Watching these two "oppositely similar" films, one after the other in close order, brought home to me how totally our different lives are affected for the better (or the worse) by happenstance, opportunties, occurances, support and perseverance or the lack thereof.
This seems true to me.
Whether life is somehow predestined or just a crapshoot, I'll leave that discussion for another time and place.
