I loved it - and I can't abide any kind of football!

Rating: 9/10 (24 April 2010)

This is a simply lovely movie and Bullock deserved that Oscar. She is so consistently good in her movies, even if some of the movies are poor, that it's time she had an Oscar anyway. It was amusing she had a Raspberry at the same time but so what? I'm looking forward to seeing All About Steve too - our local cinema pulled it because they had "too many other movies to show and it was a turkey," they said. I said I'd have liked the chance to find out, thanks, and I don't believe anything Bullock does can be that bad....
She took that Raspberry with her usual good humour and charm, what could do better than that to promote it?
I don't have a lot to say about the story of Blind Side because everyone's said it already. It's a wonderful, heartwarming, feel-good movie. So nice to see Bullock in a "normal marriage situation" instead of struggling with a nasty husband/partner who doesn't appreciate her or treats her like dirt as is the case in some of her movies. Beyond that, it's all about the talented but neglected boy who needs love and help and my how he repays it big time. So good to hear this was based on a true story, I'd like to read the book sometime.
A movie to savour and see again. I can't comment on the football, it isn't what we play over here in England and anyway I don't like football at the best of times, but each to their own, it's clearly a popular and lively game and you don't really need to know how it works to enjoy the movie. I could endure the football because the rest of it is so moving and lively and well-crafted.