**1/2 – I was extremely skeptical going into this film. I assumed that it would be a schlocky, feel-good, wrong-side-of-the-tracks, cheeseball hard luck story… and that is pretty much what it was. Despite that, the movie was well shot and well acted for the most part and ended up being marginally entertaining. Sandra Bullock did a convincing job in her role as a bossy, self important, sassy, makeup encrusted, Southern woman who is probably supposed to be endearing, but I found extremely irritating. There’s also a little kid in it with a bizarre spastic manner of speaking that is also supposed to be endearing, but – once again – I found very annoying. This movie tries to prove Hooper X’s (from “Chasing Amy”) theorem that blacks “all just wants to be white.”
The Blind Side
**1/2 – I was extremely skeptical going into this film. I assumed that it would be a schlocky, feel-good, wrong-side-of-the-tracks, cheeseball hard luck story… and that is pretty much what it was. Despite that, the movie was well shot and well acted for the most part and ended up being marginally entertaining. Sandra Bullock did a convincing job in her role as a bossy, self important, sassy, makeup encrusted, Southern woman who is probably supposed to be endearing, but I found extremely irritating. There’s also a little kid in it with a bizarre spastic manner of speaking that is also supposed to be endearing, but – once again – I found very annoying. This movie tries to prove Hooper X’s (from “Chasing Amy”) theorem that blacks “all just wants to be white.”
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