I meant that any person who would make a conscious decision to see this movie would have to be qualified as a moron.
Every movie made is intentional I would think: tearjerker, comedy or horror... just depends on what you like or don't like. Lots of great movies are made about what is going on in the minds of 16-18 YOS: "Juno" and "Say Anything" come to mind, but the real drama of this story is not that Oher became an NFL tackle but that this family reached out to him.
It looks so cliché, I'm not gonna bother with it. Sports movies are all the same and they all suck for the most part.
Was good. What made it better was that it's a true story and a good one at that. It's not up there with District 9 or Inglorious Basterds as far as best movies this year, but it's in the top 30% for me this year. Worth a matinee. Intentional tearjerker? I didn't see many attempts at it. Fail because Oher doesn't speak much? Guess what: that's how he is. Some of y'all are being needlessly critical.
Very good movie. But was showing the Joe Theisman career-ending injury at the very beginning really necessary to teach us about the importance of a left tackle?
With respect to the story, yes. But it's nice to see Bullock at least trying to do something serious/respectable since 28 Days.
I'm wondering if everyone understands that this movie is based off of a book. Usually in that case, things that happen in the movie also happened in the book. Like the main character not talking much, the Joe Theisman incident being talked about, and the fact that the story actually is a tear-jerker, to name a few.
That is how the book begins...talking about how that injury, and Lawrence Taylor specifically, defined the importance of the left tackle position
I Haven't read the book (I have it, but haven't started it yet) but I pretty much felt that was the point of showing the clip. The book is actually called The Blind Side: The Evolution of Football. the movie is a comparison piece. It looks at how the left tackle protects the QB's "blindside" and how Oher had been set up for the position his whole life (hence them harping on "The only aptitude he scored well in was his protection response"). It shows how in football the QB doesn't always see the hit coming, and in life this family never expected to get what they got from a kid they took in off the street. It was a good story, I paid my $7.75 to be entertained and I was. Hey, but what do I know? I'm a moron, right.
Oher was not happy he was portrayed as a kid who didn't know anything about football. In reality , he had been playing it since the 7th grade.
