"I swear I thought there were more people in this movie besides me."
The Blind Side PG-13 (2009)
Directed by John Lee Hancock
I have never seen this movie. Here is my recap and review.
Based on the Extraordinary True Story!
My favorite thing about movies based on Extraordinary True Stories is that they condense months, years or even decades into just two easily-digestible hours. This is accomplished mostly by leaving out anything "boring" or "true". Characters and situations are transmogrified to the point where they are unrecognizable to the participants in the events themselves. Genius.
The Blind Side does all of the above tremendously well.
Sandra Bullock plays a Successful Older Blonde Small White Woman. Newcomer Quinton Aaron plays the exact opposite of that. And how they come to be pals in this movie is Extraordinarily True.
One day, while in line at a fast food restaurant, Sandra (Sandy) is waiting patiently as she can to place her order. In line ahead of her is young Quentin (Quentin) trying to decide what to order. Sandy finally loses it, yelling "What the heck, Quentin? Hurry up! I gotta get my kid to Gymboree!".
Quentin slowly turns around with tears in his eyes, and quietly whispers "I'm sorry ma'am... I would have decided more quickly what to order by now, but I didn't see you there... 'cause I was born... with a Blind Side..."
Emotional music fills the air as Sandy realizes she can help Quentin. She takes him home to meet her family, played by Randy Travis. Together, as a family, during a music montage, they invent a new football helmet with mirrors and cameras attached to it.
Quentin has no interest in playing football, but to hide the Blind-Side-Eliminating New Helmet Technology (BSENHT) from The Russians (TR), he secrets himself on the local team. This is harder that in seems, because the team is made up of skinny little white kids and Quentin is nearly the exact opposite of that.
In order to keep close tabs on her New Helmet Technology, Sandy becomes a Walk-On Expert, a little-known position in high-school football management that allows her to walk on to the field any time she wants to point her finger forcefully in a player's face.
Watching the football players get pointed at (through binoculars) by such a Blonde Woman, The Russians finally decide that they have wrongly chosen evil over good. They then turn their own "Blind Sides" in their hearts to "Seeing Sides". They now love America.
The end of this movie was created by taking equal parts Rocky, Vision Quest, The Natural, Dangerous Minds, Rudy, Dead Man Walking, Hope Floats and Dead Poets Society and blending them until Extraordinarily True and Mushy.
Recommended for fans of helmets, binoculars and heroic blondes.
Directed by John Lee Hancock
I have never seen this movie. Here is my recap and review.
Based on the Extraordinary True Story!
My favorite thing about movies based on Extraordinary True Stories is that they condense months, years or even decades into just two easily-digestible hours. This is accomplished mostly by leaving out anything "boring" or "true". Characters and situations are transmogrified to the point where they are unrecognizable to the participants in the events themselves. Genius.
The Blind Side does all of the above tremendously well.
Sandra Bullock plays a Successful Older Blonde Small White Woman. Newcomer Quinton Aaron plays the exact opposite of that. And how they come to be pals in this movie is Extraordinarily True.
One day, while in line at a fast food restaurant, Sandra (Sandy) is waiting patiently as she can to place her order. In line ahead of her is young Quentin (Quentin) trying to decide what to order. Sandy finally loses it, yelling "What the heck, Quentin? Hurry up! I gotta get my kid to Gymboree!".
Quentin slowly turns around with tears in his eyes, and quietly whispers "I'm sorry ma'am... I would have decided more quickly what to order by now, but I didn't see you there... 'cause I was born... with a Blind Side..."
Emotional music fills the air as Sandy realizes she can help Quentin. She takes him home to meet her family, played by Randy Travis. Together, as a family, during a music montage, they invent a new football helmet with mirrors and cameras attached to it.
Quentin has no interest in playing football, but to hide the Blind-Side-Eliminating New Helmet Technology (BSENHT) from The Russians (TR), he secrets himself on the local team. This is harder that in seems, because the team is made up of skinny little white kids and Quentin is nearly the exact opposite of that.
In order to keep close tabs on her New Helmet Technology, Sandy becomes a Walk-On Expert, a little-known position in high-school football management that allows her to walk on to the field any time she wants to point her finger forcefully in a player's face.
Watching the football players get pointed at (through binoculars) by such a Blonde Woman, The Russians finally decide that they have wrongly chosen evil over good. They then turn their own "Blind Sides" in their hearts to "Seeing Sides". They now love America.
The end of this movie was created by taking equal parts Rocky, Vision Quest, The Natural, Dangerous Minds, Rudy, Dead Man Walking, Hope Floats and Dead Poets Society and blending them until Extraordinarily True and Mushy.
Recommended for fans of helmets, binoculars and heroic blondes.
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