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Shhhh. Just Be Quiet and Let It Wash Over You / Dustin Rowles

Trailers | August 4, 2009 | Comments (33)

Below we have the trailer for The Blind Side, based on a true story and adapted from Michael Lewis’ The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game. It’s about a poor, oversized and under-educated teenager who is taken in by a middle-class family, matriarched by Sandra Bullock’s character, and eventually recruited for college as a potential NFL prospect.

Apparently, Will Smith doesn’t have anything opening this holiday season, so Sandra Bullock has stepped in to fill the feel-good gap. And I won’t lie to you: It looks formulaic and manipulative, but I’ll probably completely fall for it. It doesn’t mean I won’t recognize its faults, it just means that it might make my chest heave a little. And I might get something in my eye during the course of the movie which may cause it to leak. Because, while I hate being manipulated when it’s a movie about cancer or someone dying or My Girl, I don’t mind when it’s one of those crowd-pleasing, feel-good true stories that has very little remaining from the actual true story. It’s the Capra gene. I usually get swept up; I feel strangely connected with the audience of undiscerning theatergoers. It’s a weakness (see August Rush).

However, while Sandra Bullock was probably the right choice for this movie in terms of ultimate ticket sales — despite a weak-ass Southern accent — watch this trailer and ask yourself this: How much better would this movie be if that was Connie Britton? This role was freakin’ tailor made for Connie.




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SPOILER ALERT


He gets drafted into the NFL in the first round by the Baltimore Ravens.

The end.

END SPOILER

Posted by: Forbiddendonut at August 4, 2009 10:08 AM

That is exactly the kind of movie I hate.

And I kind of want to see it.

Posted by: Chugga at August 4, 2009 10:09 AM

Well, I for one did not get something in my eye during the trailer at all. Also, I do not get something in my eye at commercials, so, y'know. I'm totally not a big girlie-girl at all or easily manipulated like some people, Dustin.

Also, I totally don't love Sandra Bullock, and don't watch everything she's in ever.

So there.

Posted by: Anna von Beaverplatz at August 4, 2009 10:12 AM

'Scuse me while I go punch Sandra Bullock in the dick.

Posted by: Snath at August 4, 2009 10:26 AM

What AvB said.

Posted by: Eyvi at August 4, 2009 10:26 AM

ain't nothin' about this family that is middle class. but the book is great! hope the movie doesn't dissapoint!

Posted by: d-nice at August 4, 2009 10:32 AM

What Snath said.

Posted by: avocadolime at August 4, 2009 10:34 AM

Yeah Rowles is right. The trailer makes me feel like Sandra Bullock sat around watching tapes of Connie Britton on FNL. The real thing would've been a lot better.

Posted by: Phaedawg at August 4, 2009 10:35 AM

Honestly, not my type of movie... but I rather enjoyed this trailer.

That being said, this will be a wait-til-DVD watch.

Assuming this isn't the "family" movie come Christmas time... damn you Harry Potter for moving to summers!

Posted by: Colin at August 4, 2009 10:38 AM

Hey did you guys know there's a UFC fight on August 8th? cuz I didn't

Posted by: VinKong at August 4, 2009 10:50 AM

Sandra Bullock is
The female Keanu Reeves
I would wreck that ass

Posted by: admin at August 4, 2009 10:53 AM

Thank you whitey, it ain’t nuttin like a white family showing black folk what you can get with a little love and sunshine.

Posted by: Guess Who! at August 4, 2009 10:57 AM

The part of me that still tries to be myself thought "This looks like your typical feel-good bullshit that I won't bother seeing."
Unfortunately, the mom side of me took over and I could feel my throat closing, eyes welling up, chest tightening. Mom-me will probably decide to see it, continuing her relentless take over of my pre-mom self.

*sigh*

Sometimes I hate Mom-me

Posted by: Superfish at August 4, 2009 10:59 AM

...damn you Harry Potter for moving to summers!
Exactly, Colin! I'm just glad the first half of Deathly hallows will be at the end of next November. Unless, of course, WB decides to whore for more money again.
:twitch:
On the trailer, I'm a softy - like, cry at pretty much anything - and I will definitely need a tissue when I rent this.

Posted by: Patty O'Green at August 4, 2009 11:05 AM

I know one thing if I was that young brother I’d be trying to break something off real proper in Ms. Bullock.

Posted by: Guess Who! at August 4, 2009 11:11 AM

I would do things to Sandra Bullock that even I would be embarrassed by.

Seriously. That lady is... just... I drool.

Posted by: Skitz at August 4, 2009 11:16 AM

I've got a soft spot for old Sandy. While we were dating, Mrs. Newman wound up next to her on a flight CHI-LA. Sandy asked if she would switch seats with her production assistant, and my wife, who didn't immediately recognize her, of course said no fucking way. Despite this they wound up getting hammered together and Sandy invited her to jump in her limo to go party out in Palm Springs. My wife declined because she wanted to come see me (we were long distance dating; Aww, so sweet). When she met up with me later I called her a dumbass.

Best Drunken Sandy quote: "That man (Matthew McConnahuey) is the most beauuutifuuul man in the world."

Posted by: ed newman at August 4, 2009 11:20 AM

The fact that I was a recent inhabitant of the Baltimore Maryland area means I already know this story, how it ends, and the whole controversy over whether or not it's real. Of course, that means I'll probably STILL see the movie, eventually, but not until the football season is over or near over and I know how this kid did in his first year in the NFL which could make it far more uplifting or far more disappointing.

And ed, your wife is a better woman than I. Given the invitation, I would totally go party in Palm Springs with Sandra Bullock.

Posted by: Genny (actually Rusty now) at August 4, 2009 11:30 AM

Huh. I thought that was Evangeline Lily in the picture. Or Kate Beckinsale.

They're all so interchangeable.

Posted by: figgy at August 4, 2009 11:48 AM

aw crap. man i HATE that i will totally sob all over this movie when it comes out on cable.

Posted by: JenVegas at August 4, 2009 11:50 AM

Hello Newman, so you want us to believe that your old lady preferred to go party with you as opposed to go party out in Palm Springs with Sandra and have blow snorted off her ass?

Posted by: Guess Who! at August 4, 2009 11:56 AM

Bullock.
Football.
Precocious little skinny white kid.
Affected Southern accents.

I'm so there. Sans the shame.

Posted by: boo at August 4, 2009 11:58 AM

Wtf?

That's not Bullock. That's Kathie Lee Gifford. Which indicates the all sorts of suck this is.

Shame on you all, wanting to mack on Frank's wife.

Posted by: idiosynchronic at August 4, 2009 12:26 PM

I am not going to say anything against how the world should work.

As for the Connie Britton love, I concur. She was hot in Spin City and she would be perfect here. I could also see Amy Adams doing this when it is remade in 20 years.

Posted by: richmac at August 4, 2009 1:02 PM

Oh, hell no. The scene with the kid walking in the cold? IN THE COLD?! Sorry, no mother could resist that shit. I dare you.

Posted by: courtney at August 4, 2009 1:33 PM

Seriously. I kinda lost it at "Don't you dare lie to me."

Posted by: bev rage at August 4, 2009 1:44 PM

I agree with d-nice. How the fuck is this a middle-class family? What was middle-class about that house? What? Nothing that I saw.

I hate rich people. Nobody helped me out...shit...

Then again I had a good family, and a house, and a bed...but I was a big kid who played football and I didn't get to go to the NFL...

I hate rich people...

Posted by: Deistbrawler at August 4, 2009 1:49 PM

I would watch this movie if everything I wanted to know about it wasn't in the trailer already.

Oh, the kid wins a football trophy? Good to know before going in.

Posted by: commanderfunky at August 4, 2009 2:47 PM

I may have just teared up a little. And then I may have just watched the trailer a second time. Pathetic, I know.

Posted by: Nic at August 4, 2009 5:05 PM

First off, y'all should go to the library or your local bookstore and check out/read the book. It's ostensibly a biography of Michael Oher, but set within the larger framework of how and why the offensive lineman position in the NFL has changed over the past 20+ years. The family in the book isn't middle class, I;d classify them as rich, but not uber rich. One thing the movie doesn't seem to focus on is the fact that the family are born again types and in fact the father says that even the Mormons are going to hell they do make good teachers.

And I would so do Ms. Sandra even though her flower has been forever spoiled by MM's wangus. Also her mouth, 'cause you know she sucked his dick.

Posted by: Fappy McFapper at August 4, 2009 6:27 PM

I'm with Dustin. This role is just begging for Tami Taylor. Bullock's southern accent infuriates me so goddamn much!! If she wasn't in this movie I think I might be able to see it. And her lecturing the kid in the middle of football practice? Please, that shit would never happen.

Posted by: Austin asking for trouble at August 4, 2009 7:32 PM

Bothers me that the focus has changed from the child to the family though that store bought hair Bullock's sporting is assuaging said discomfort. I'd highly recommend the book. Oher (spoilers!) got drafted by the ravens this year. So it piques my curiosity to see how his career will turn out.

Posted by: Mr. West at August 5, 2009 10:49 AM

This trailer makes me nauseous and angry.

Thank you whitey, it ain’t nuttin like a white family showing black folk what you can get with a little love and sunshine.

Yes! Thank you, Guess Who!
How is no one else insulted by this insipid-ass bullshit?

This is exactly the kind of congratulatory, "patting-ourselves-on-the-back" horse semen that makes rich cocksmokers say to themselves "Well gee whiz, y'know, I would've probably done the same. I guess that means I'm a pretty great person then, huh? Wow, what a great movie! Sandra Bullock is so cute!"

Is the story touching? Yes. Is it worth telling? Maybe. Like this? Hell. No.

...

p.s. Sandra Bullock is so cute.

Posted by: Dre Strangelove at August 6, 2009 4:23 PM





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