The Blind Side Trailer - Trailer Addict

Having read the book, I'm not optimistic the movie is going to be real accurate. And Sandra Bullock's Southern accent is weak. But hey, Ed Orgeron, Phil Fulmer and Nick Saban cameos! (though not in this trailer)

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They seem to have focused on broader audience appeal.

Let’s face it; those who want to focus on the strategy of the left tackle have already read the book and are already going to go see the movie. If they want to expand their market, they need to focus on everybody else. At the very least, the trailer emphasizes the human interest angles that will draw in the Julia Roberts / Sandra Bullock types. At most, this movie is made for them.

And I’m fine with that. I would anticipate some flashback-like recaps of the development of the position in the NFL, just to explain Oher’s importance, but the relational story really does make for a better overall movie.

I’m also fine with them not showing the coaches. We are already boiling over to see them; why not keep us in suspense a little longer?

But I have this sneaking suspicion I’m going to cry at this one.

by Hooper on Aug 4, 2009 2:36 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Is it weird I started crying when he talked about not ever having a bed…. I mean…fail.

A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.
~Earl Wilson

by BeantownVol on Aug 4, 2009 2:40 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

It's even worse when you know it's coming.

And I know what you mean.

by Hooper on Aug 4, 2009 2:42 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I just act like I have something in my eye

A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.
~Earl Wilson

by BeantownVol on Aug 4, 2009 2:45 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

You and everybody else in the theater. ;-)

by Hooper on Aug 4, 2009 2:48 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

My wife recently told the kids . . .

. . . that her eyes were sweating.

Hadn’t heard that one.

Rocky Top Talk

by Joel on Aug 4, 2009 3:23 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I may need to go back and re-read the book

But it seems like I remember the father being the central figure to Oher, not the mother. If my memory is right, the trailer indicates the movie is a pretty radical departure.

"Florida didnt win their first SEC title until 1991 and now they think they invented football."
-Ron Zook

by rustytanton on Aug 4, 2009 3:32 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

She was pretty central.

He got the ball rolling more than the trailer indicates, but she was the one who really took over his non-football life.

by Hooper on Aug 4, 2009 3:39 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I guess that parts about the importance of the left tackle were what was committed to memory

"Florida didnt win their first SEC title until 1991 and now they think they invented football."
-Ron Zook

by rustytanton on Aug 4, 2009 3:43 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

You remember right

But the guy playing the dad isn’t as big of a star as Sandra Bullock, so there you go…

Lou Brock loves Lamp.

by birdjam on Aug 4, 2009 4:08 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

heh

by Hooper on Aug 4, 2009 4:21 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

that's Tim McGraw sans hat as Sean Tuohy

So you could make an argument he is a bigger star.

The movie was bound to focus on the Mom’s role for the wider audience the first poster talked about.

by guilded on Aug 4, 2009 5:15 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Tug's kid?

He’s not a bigger star than Sandra Bullock.

Lou Brock loves Lamp.

by birdjam on Aug 4, 2009 8:20 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Sandra Bullock!

She was great in that movie about a bus that had to SPEED around the city, keeping its SPEED over fifty. And if its SPEED dropped, the bus would explode! I think it was called… “The bus that couldn’t slow down.”

Lou Brock loves Lamp.

by birdjam on Aug 4, 2009 2:50 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

fast ?

Phil,GO VOLS !!!

by bulldurham on Aug 4, 2009 2:52 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

LOL

So should this move have been called …

…

[wait for it]

…

ESS-EEE-SEE SPEEEEEED!!!!

by Hooper on Aug 4, 2009 2:57 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs

or ( I must drive 55 )

Phil,GO VOLS !!!

by bulldurham on Aug 4, 2009 3:00 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

And...

be followed by a sequel that no one saw

A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.
~Earl Wilson

by BeantownVol on Aug 4, 2009 3:02 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I was thinking

Woah (awkward, Neo-esqe, funny looking action hero gaze)….speed.

A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.
~Earl Wilson

by BeantownVol on Aug 4, 2009 3:01 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I can't believe I didn't think of that

"Florida didnt win their first SEC title until 1991 and now they think they invented football."
-Ron Zook

by rustytanton on Aug 4, 2009 3:30 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

YAY

Simpsons reference.

"It's static noise. You can't hear anything. You go up and down the line, your wide receivers, your running backs, your tight ends, nobody can hear. Nobody."
- Cal QB Nate Longshore commenting on playing in Neyland Stadium

by jimvols on Aug 4, 2009 7:05 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Pretty girls and football ?

What could be wrong with that !

Phil,GO VOLS !!!

by bulldurham on Aug 4, 2009 2:53 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Hey

Should we all crash a gator site and ask them how they like the new signs ?

Phil,GO VOLS !!!

by bulldurham on Aug 4, 2009 3:06 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Nah.

I graduated from ~~a Florida high school~~ 6th grade a long time ago.

by Hooper on Aug 4, 2009 3:14 PM EDT up reply actions 2 recs

ROFL

by bobo_the_vol on Aug 4, 2009 7:08 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

And I'm thinking the price of eggs is going up in Fla.

Phil,GO VOLS !!!

by bulldurham on Aug 4, 2009 3:08 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Their loss if they do.

If they destroy the billboards, the ad money stops flowing between borders.

by Hooper on Aug 4, 2009 3:13 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Would that include shotguns ?

Phil,GO VOLS !!!

by bulldurham on Aug 4, 2009 3:19 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Anything to promote Second Amendment rights?

by Hooper on Aug 4, 2009 3:39 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Rocky Top Talk viewing night, anybody?

by Hooper on Aug 4, 2009 4:24 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Gonna flt me in?

I hear bloggers make a killin’!

A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.
~Earl Wilson

by BeantownVol on Aug 4, 2009 4:29 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Fail..was supposed to be "fly me in"

A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.
~Earl Wilson

by BeantownVol on Aug 4, 2009 4:30 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

A real man can cry watching the trailer if football's involved, right?

btw, Sandra Bullock could read the phone book and I’d at least see the matinee. Now I have the excuse of a good football movie.

by memphispete on Aug 4, 2009 4:30 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Doc Saturday didn't seem to like the trailer.

I find his critique odd, particularly for this:

To my shame, I have not read The Blind Side, …

To which he then goes off on a Sandra Bullock movie being, well, a Sandra Bullock movie. It’s out of character for him to bring criticism without adequate research, and most of his problems seem to be that the movie follows much of the book:

… annoyingly precocious children, latent racism, paternalistic guilt, forced feel-good montages, and tight, slo-mo pancake shots on helpless ninth graders …

Um, yep. That was pretty much the book. In fact, the pancaking of helpless ninth graders was pretty much their entire offense during Oher’s senior season.

Ah, well. Can’t win ’em all, I guess.

by Hooper on Aug 4, 2009 4:45 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I think the difference is more in tone than in content

Again, hazy memory, take with a grain of salt, but my memory was Lewis never really seemed to inject an opinion about all these issues, presenting both positive and negative aspects. Whereas, from the trailer at least (which may be an unfair judgment since trailers notoriously suck), it appears we’re going to get Sandra The Great White Savior of Michael Oher.

"Florida didnt win their first SEC title until 1991 and now they think they invented football."
-Ron Zook

by rustytanton on Aug 4, 2009 4:53 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Lewis did focus far more on the football than on the human interest story.

I think he may have even leaned away from the human interest a bit to avoid driving off his sports audience.

I don’t know if it’ll avoid the dread fate of chickflickery or not, but this first trailer is clearly intended to get football widows and Bullockites interested. They seem to assume that the football crowd already has enough reason to go watch it.

If they release a second trailer, it should help clarify. But it’s not like that stuff wasn’t in the book in the first place. At least so far, everything in the trailer was either directly pulled from the book or a reasonable parallel. Mrs. Tuohy really was kind of a “Great White Savior” in the whole thing; she was the one who brought him in, bought him clothes, taught him social genteels, etc.

by Hooper on Aug 4, 2009 5:01 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I watched the trailer before reading the write up on EDSBS

And I had the exact same thought about the movie as his point #1…

A white woman saves a black boy story.

The trailer focused a whole heck of a lot more on Sandra Bullock than it did Oher’s life. This is probably exactly what the director was going for, but I doubt I’ll be seeing it.

by rblakeh on Aug 4, 2009 4:49 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

But what else did you expect?

I’ll be curious to see how heavily they lean the story toward the mom, and if it ends up sidelining Oher (so to speak). But there’s no way the movie gets more than regional interest if it sticks strictly with the football.

And it’s not like H-wood is ever going to change their formula for us football hicks…

by Hooper on Aug 4, 2009 4:56 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs