It was truer to real life than any of you think. They had to make it cheesy to cover the real scandal, however. The way "Big Mike" looks at Sandra Bullock's character and the way Sandra Bullock's character insists he call her "mama". There's real sexual tension between the two. I think the dad got a kick out of the whole thing. I believe he was some kind of cuckold and fantasized about watching big Mike ram his rod into Sandra Bullock's "Blind side", hence the movie title.>> ^peggedbea:
because nothing in real life can ever be parodied. see, null and void because white people really do rescue black people!!!!!
did you see the movie?
unfortunately, i did. boredom overcame me during a flight back home from the netherlands and the dude and i gave in and watched the whole damn thing.
while, the fact that the family opened their home to a child in need and loved him and accepted him and helped him achieve great things is SOOO FUCKING BEAUTIFUL it hurts, there is absolutely no way the true story was this fucking cheesy. or pandering.
the movie was so obviously made to make upper middle class white people feel good about themselves,far more focused on race and the cultural idiosyncrasies that perpetuate "us vs. them"-isms, and far less concerned about reminding people how important and rewarding it is to be mentally, physically, spiritually and emotionally available to their communities.
or maybe it was actually a fantastic inspiring movie and i was just tired and cynical and coming down from a week of smoking hash, sucking dick and walking around in the cold.
>> ^Golgi:
this parody doesn't hold much water due to the fact that this is based on a true story; and the movie was truer to the facts in this case than most other "based on a true story"'s. so, meh.

I loved Office Space. I'm a big Mike Judge fan. I've been seeing clips of this movie all over the place and I just HAD to see it.

The thing is, the clips I saw were ultimately better than this movie as a whole. Don't get me wrong, there were some great parts in it...but it just didn't stand up as a complete movie and parts of it just down right dragged. I still recommend it as a rental though.