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    The Blind Side

    Is anyone else starting to get sick of these movie trailers? Sure, I think its great that a Raven is featured on the big screen, but it seems like there's a commerical for this movie during every TV break and it's causing me to lose some of my enthusiasm. The good news is, if it's starting to annoying me it really has to be pissing the Steeler fans off!





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    Re: The Blind Side

    Quote Originally Posted by 00Ravens View Post
    The good news is, if it's starting to annoying me it really has to be pissing the Steeler fans off!
    Heh, just look at it that way then, it should ease your pain more.
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    Quote Originally Posted by CoverD View Post
    Heh, just look at it that way then, it should ease your pain more.
    Oh, that definitely makes it more palatable. I think part of the reason I'm so annoyed by it is the stupid song that's in the trailer. I can't get it out of my head. I think they're trying to make Oher seem like a big softy, but we all know that he's a raging lunatic between the whistles.





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    Re: The Blind Side

    Well, I saw in one trailer/commercial that they do show him picking up the one defender and trying to put his ass back on the bus that was discussed in the book. So hopefully they do show his intensity after he gets used to the game.
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    How excited should we be about this movie when Michael Oher doesn't seem to like it? He said it makes him look stupid and like he needed this White family to come and rescue him.





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    Re: The Blind Side

    Quote Originally Posted by RavenMad View Post
    How excited should we be about this movie when Michael Oher doesn't seem to like it? He said it makes him look stupid and like he needed this White family to come and rescue him.
    And that is my problem with the movie. Oher himself is not a fan of this movie or the book, which makes me wonder if anyone talked to him before making it.





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    Re: The Blind Side

    Quote Originally Posted by RavenMad View Post
    How excited should we be about this movie when Michael Oher doesn't seem to like it? He said it makes him look stupid and like he needed this White family to come and rescue him.
    I hadn't heard that... is there a story or interview you can link to?
    Not doubting you, just looking for more info.
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    Who'd of thunk it?

    Hollywood taking a story and skewing it so that it fits what they want to portray on the screen.

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    Yeah, the trailers do kind of make Big Mike look like Lenny from "Of Mice and Men"...:grbac:





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    Quote Originally Posted by StingerNLG View Post
    And that is my problem with the movie. Oher himself is not a fan of this movie or the book, which makes me wonder if anyone talked to him before making it.
    Yeah I heard the same thing. Even from just the trailers, it doesn't look to portray how Michael really was/is. The guy in the film that plays Mike looks like a sad puppy dog. Even with a blank expression Oher looks ready to tear someone's head off!

    But that's typical Hollywood change the story and or characters to make a mass appealing film.
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    Re: The Blind Side

    I got to see an early screening of the movie last week. It is a very heartfelt and moving movie but they do give the character of Michael Oher the "Forest Gump" treatment and make him appear dumber and slower then he really is.

    With that the movie was very good and well done. The ending of the film caused the audience I was with to cheer and clap very loudly and this was a good three minutes before the credits start to role.
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    Quote Originally Posted by 00Ravens View Post
    Is anyone else starting to get sick of these movie trailers?
    Use a DVR -- you will never have to watch a movie trailer again. I only watched the trailer over the internet because it was posted here a few weeks ago.

    As to the movie & reviews: I will likely enjoy this movie a lot - I like sports movies, I love the Ravens, I like tear jerkers with happy endings. It's all fantasy coming from Hollywood, anyway, and doubtful that Oher is portrayed any less accurately than Hollywood has portrayed Patton, McArthur, Eisenhower, Rommel, JFK, Bush, Brian Picolo, Ernie Davis, or John Wilkes Booth.
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