October 27, 2009
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so again about Where The Wild Things Are… it’s sad. and it’s just so sweet, i can’t seem to get over it.
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i was watching the trailers before Wild Things and they played a trailer for The Blind Side, that football book i mentioned last week. so weird that i just thought about it and saw the trailer like that, especially after i completely forgot they were making a movie. the movie trailer looked oh-so-craptastic, to my dismay, but i see how there’s really very little room around that.
it’s a non-fiction book about a dirt poor, lost-in-the-woods street urchin high school kid who just happens to have all the physical attributes to be a premier football lineman. a wealthy white woman sees him digging around the dirt slums and brings him into her home and basically gives him a new life going to high school and playing football. the woman is played by Sandra Bullock, so right away it’s going to be at least a little craptastic. it’s a great story in book form though, written by Michael Lewis (Liar’s Poker). in movie form, on the other hand, there’s really only one way to go and that’s “uplifting”, aka typical, aka craptastic. gotta make some money somehow.
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Comments (2)
i have to admit, i saw that preview for the sandra bullock movie and burst into tears. I know, i’m a total sucker. that football kid just looked so sweet, like a gentle giant or something. i totally wanted to see it but didn’t know what the title was – i was too busy feeling happy that he got to play football.
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according to the book, he is exactly that, a gentle giant. and he is now an NFL rookie on the baltimore ravens. it’s gonna be a bad film, i suspect, but i also suspect that i’ll see it anyway. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Oher