So, Sandra Bullock speaking in a hilarious southern accent is now enough to deserve award-level praise. While I definitely enjoyed The Blind Side, let’s not descend into crazy talk. In the end, this was just a slightly better version of the standard Disney sports movie.
Looking back on The Blind Side the plot seemed to happen around the main character. Quinton Aaron would stand around being ginormous and all the rest of the cast would bounce off him and move the story along. I guess this is why Bullock is getting all the praise. I thought Aaron did good work as silent and in over his head. Hopefully there will be work available for a 6’ 10’’ 300 pound actor. As for Bullock, this may be her best work but I’m not sure that was a tough list to crack. And that accent was hilarious but once again that could just be my general enjoyment of the southern twang. The best work of the entire cast was done by Jae Head as the little brother; he improved every scene he popped up in. Thumbs up for casting 2 Deadwood vets, Kim Dickens and Ray McKinnon, I will always approve of that.
The true story was amazing. I will not deny the craziness of this gigantic uneducated black kid randomly moving in with a rich white family and going on to the NFL. Yet the movie still felt like the usual uplifting Disney sports drama. Thankfully, the football action was not important to the story so we didn’t have to deal with the team coming together, breaking apart, and coming back together again right before the championship. The Blind Side avoided that but still but the whole plot in jeopardy just so the family can get back together and have an emotional ending.
This was a perfectly acceptable sports drama. The Blind Side had a one in a million story to draw from and didn't screw it up for the big screen. Is that praise?
7 out of 10
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