Comments on: Film Review: The Blind Side

By: Alice

Alice — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 04:56:10 +0000

Ha! I hadn’t heard Target called that before. Good one!
Though the may not have a Bergdorfs, there’s certainly a lot of money in Memphis. Did you see Leigh Anne’s diamond crucifix?

Further to Lin’s point, I think the trick to film criticism is taking each film on its own merits (or trying to). I love rom-coms, and happily review them, but even within that genre, there’s good and bad (The Ugly Truth – which I haven’t tried to sit through – evidently being in the latter group). As for ‘pleasant,’ well, I don’t think such films deserve the axe, but rather calling them like you see ‘em.

By: Glenn Dunks

Glenn Dunks — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 07:06:34 +0000

Alice, Red Circle Boutique? I actually don’t think where these characters live that they have a Bergdorf Goodman around the corner.

Lin, there is a big difference between movies like “The Ugly Truth” that are terrible movies and something like “The Blind Side” which I think is not necessarily a bad movie, just incredibly unambitious.

By: Lin

Lin — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 02:59:38 +0000

Spot on!
I think you’ve also brought an interesting discussion – the difference in opinions between regular movie-goer and film critic. Why is it that a film being, I suppose, ‘easy to watch’ and ‘pleasant’ isn’t good enough, so to speak, to get fine reviews? A lot of rom-coms are very re-watchable – but many get the axe, if you know what I mean. It’s not just limited to film reviews but music reviews too. It’ll be interesting to learn what it is that film/music/theatre critics look for, if there is a particular something.

I stumbled across an interesting (albeit, not so PC) quote in a TV show: “If you think about it, if you wanna win an Oscar, you have to either play ugly, retarded or a lesbian.”

By: Alice

Alice — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 02:55:01 +0000

Surely the twin sets weren’t from Target, daaarling!

By: Glenn Dunks

Glenn Dunks — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 02:42:42 +0000

Exactly, this is where I had trouble with reviewing this film. Personally, I didn’t hate it like many others of my kind (er, film obsessives) have, but I also didn’t particularly think there was much there to like; it’s pleasant and Bullock is lovely. But, here’s where the catch is, I KNOW that many will love this movie because it’s not aimed at the hardened film snob, and the typical “average” moviegoer will most certainly find much to enjoy. I hope I was able to get that across and that I was able to get the balance. It’s like “Australia” in a way, I think, which was reviled by many within the film critic community, but was loved by a lot of audiences who don’t see 200 movies a year. “Precious” this ain’t!

I dunno, it’s tricky!

By: Lin

Lin — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 02:22:26 +0000

Great review Glenn!

I really enjoyed this film – then again, i’m a sucker for feel-good movies and this fits the mould perfectly. I also thought Sandra Bullock was great – she really carried the film in her usual charming way. What I liked about it was that I didn’t feel like it over glorified the kindness, and instead just told a story that is, dare i say it, heart-warming/tugging and just plain sweet.

Very re-watchable in my opinion, though I don’t think it quite deserves an Oscar nomination – thoughts?