Was 'The Blind Side' A SCAM?
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- Опубліковано 4 січ 2025
- What in the white-savior nonsense did I just watch here? The Blind Side is a profoundly terrible movie with some of the most cringe-inducing racism in recent cinema history. And if that wasn't bad enough, if Michael Oher's recent allegations against the Tuohy family are true, then boy howdy, this was truly a damn travesty. For the love of god, please don't send any hate to Sandra Bullock, we love her here in the CFEU.
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Training A-Train was better lol
Ayo fellow Emma Thorne viewer here??😊😊♥️♥️
@@icravedeath.1200is Emma behind The Boys? That's so cool!
@@michabaron4129 I was looking through their subscriptions
@@michabaron4129no lol, I was talking about their subscription list on their profile.
I spat out my drink 💀💀
Goddamn that was good
Honestly he was rated one of the top high school football players in the country before he joined the Upper class family, he obviously knew how to play football.
Yeah, so how dare they claim his success as their own!
When Blind Side was in cinemas I was a 12-years-old German-Polish baby. I didn't know much about racism or the white savior complex but even then the movie rubbed me the wrong way. I felt something was off, they stripped the man of everything, his character, strength, emotions and made him to be an android to be rescued. I was shocked to learn how beloved this movie was, and not surprised that it was all fake.
Which is funny since androids like all robots are programmed to not need a human's hand.
Asides from when they need maintenance, like we humans occasionally do😂@@Neku628
Yes same! I was quite young so didn't know about that either but something just felt really off about it
After Savy Writes Books 4 hour thesis on the subject, I couldn't be more infuriated by the whole situation. The fact they made him practically Simple Jack was the biggest insult.
As a kid my bullshit detector always went off when the ads for this movie played, thanks for the validation
It would be funny to see the ads get for this film get torn too ribbons.
"Felt inspired by their high school principal" OKAY IN HIS DEFENSE--my high school principal was (is, he's still alive and there, I just graduated half a decade ago tho) is a Black man running a predominantly white school in a suburb where there were both multi-millionares and neighborhoods far under the poverty line. He lost his son to gun violence, and he purposefully organized known leftist students (many of whom, including myself, did activism in and out of school) and made sure we had literal platforms for walkouts against school shootings and gun violence. We also had organized and private spaces to continue leftist organizing and advocacy inside the school, and even before I graduated I was allowed to design and lead our NAHS students (I was the president so it was my call) to paint a giant mural dedicated to LGBTQ+ figures in history. The mural featured Alan Turing, Oscar Wilde, Martha P. Johnson, Harvey Milk, and Laverne Cox, and the mural took up and entire corner of the hallway. Of course it's been years since, and I don't know how they're currently running it, but like. My principal was woke and epic so unfortunately I did feel inspired by him.
that’s honestly amazing and he sounds like an awesome dude and you should feel inspired by him
Oscar Wilde was a pederast predator and molester and grapist of young 11-15 year old men the same age you were in school back then.
Honestly there's literally NO REASON to hold him up as SUCH OR ANY IMPORTANT GAY FIGURE when he is a BETTER REPRESENTATIVE FOR NAMBLA than ANY gay ADULT rights.
Also until the 1980s pedophiles, hebephiles and ephebophiles were ALL represented IN EVERY LGBT marches and celebrations and had magazines and editorials IN EVERY Western European and American country.
And THE ONLY REASON the later 1980s LGBT+ crowd distanced FROM THEIR GROUPS was because they gave the entire movement a bad name, even if MANY EARLY LGBT+ people were also okay or pro child-adult love and abolishing the age of consent.
BTW Oscar Wilde himself didn't believe much in the age of consent either. Or in consent as he targeted, lured and graped SEVERAL YOUNG BOYS in his apartments wherever he travelled in the UK and the rest of Europe.
Based principal
Now THAT is worthy of a freaking movie.
14 years ago, a movie like the Blind Side could get major studio funding, nationwide theater distribution, gross $265 million, and win Oscars. Today, this movie would be made on a shoe-string budget and premiere on Pure Flix streaming.
this was uplifting to read
Not to mention on Lifetime or on the Hallmark Channel.
They were showing this at the middle school where I worked. When the classroom aide tried to tell me about how nice and Christian and against racism it was, I said that students (at the massively white middle school) should be told to think about how grateful the school should have been for having such a great addition to their team.
In other words, racism just makes you miss out on cool and talented people. It’s not some praiseworthy thing to ‘let’ non white people join your organization.
“The Blind Side” is just Jordan Peele’s “Get Out” from the white family’s perspective.
Damn. Haunting observation.
Heck, there was a black guy with an IQ of under 80, yet he has an impressive memory where he can draw anything from scratch. So, what the fuck is the big deal with IQ!
Michael probably felt pressured to call them "mom and dad". I can relate.
Also worth noting that the average IQ in the US is 90 something and the average IQ worldwide is something like 82, so like, even if it did matter he'd barely be below average
I think IQ is mostly about puzzle solving more than anything. So it’s not even that useful a skill anyway.
@@lyokianhitchhikerbeing able to problem solve and analyze problems constructively is a very important skill to have lmao what are you talking about??
@@Raven.Madness yeah, but the sorts IQ tests focus on aren’t that useful.
The only time I took an IQ test was years ago on the internet because I was bored, but I remember most of the question were about pattern recognition, spatial reasoning, short term memory and vocabulary. So if you get a good score on those skills good for you but it doesn't tell anything about your overall intelligence. And new vocabulary can be learned at any time so it's not an innate "fixed" value (english is not my first language, I took the test in english and still got a high score)
Oh, I don't see color... that's my blind side
“Who would’ve thought black people could be good at basketball” lowkey took me out LMAO
Gurl, if your type is semi-hot dad, you should watched "Charmed." There's a blond white man in his 30s, Leo, who is the epitome of almost hot, but a little too boring, but somehow sexier for missing the mark.
My wife tries to convince me Leo is hot
Lol I had a crush on Leo
I grew up in rural Texas, and this movie TOOK OVER the culture there. Almost everyone had it as their favorite movie ever or in their top three.
0 self reflection.
Thanks for the throwback!
4:35 As someone who's autistic, unfortunately, my IQ apparently does matter, or is at least treated like it does.
Short version: If I had scored too low on/didn't do well on an IQ test as a kid, I would have been forced to get a much worse quality of education and probably wouldn't have been allowed to go to college, and therefore probably wouldn't have been able to leave my abusive father's house and live on my own.
Long version:
You see, even though I consistently got very high grades as a kid, because I had an autism diagnosis attached to my record, throughout the majority of my educational existence in an American public school, I would always have at least one teacher trying to put me in special Ed. This was because apparently me existing in a class full of non-autistic children (and getting almost constantly bullied) was disruptive, and a number of teachers also didn't like that I would doodle on my papers and point out that doing that wasn't wrong if I was getting all my answers right, which I usually was.
So, they made me take an IQ test when I was about 11. It wasn't explained to me that that was what it was until after the test, but it was explained that it would determine what sort of classes I would be allowed to take. I don't remember it being very hard. I got an IQ score of 126. It was never explained to me what that meant, I just knew at the time that it meant that I was allowed to take advanced placement classes, which were actually sometimes challenging for me and much less boring than the regular classes I had been taking. Suddenly, I wasn't "disruptive" anymore and my teachers didn't have a problem with my doodles anymore either. I did well in my new classes, but it never felt like I was the very smartest kid in class, so I just assumed that an IQ 126 must have been close to average because I was a kid.
I found out years later that not only was that NOT the case and the that apparently 126 is well above average, but upon doing some research into IQ tests, just how fucked up the whole situation was for me. IQ tests do not actually measure intelligence. They measure how good you are taking a particular test. If I had happened to have been tired or hungry or not feeling particularly well the day they made me take that test, I would have done worse on that test, and there is a non-zero chance that I would have been forced to take special ed classes, which obviously based on my academic performance, I did not need to be taking. And if that had been the case, it would have meant that I would have gotten a much worse quality of education and would have more than likely not been able to go to college, something that has allowed me to be able to leave the abusive household I grew up in and actually live independently.
IQ is a nonsense metric, and a tool of oppression. These are the tools that builds the society that we live in, regrettably there are situations where it is treated like it does matter, even though it absolutely shouldn't. 11 year old me could have told you that I didn't like my classes because they were too easy & boring and that my teachers were mean. I didn't need an IQ test. I needed an adult who would actually listen to me and see that I wasn't the problem just because of a diagnosis that I didn't even know about.
Idk how it works in the US but could be similar to Canada in that they need a specific amount of students to fill out the special ed classes. Us in Ontario, they have two separate streams of high school education which is Applied and Academic (three if you count special ed which is a separate thing for more severe mental handicaps). Academic is the highest level and you *have* to have graduated from it to go to university (or I think if you go on to get a college diploma first, then you may be able to go to university that way? Or you might have to go back to adult education to complete academic classes). Applied automatically bars you out of university - the highest level of post secondary you can complete with it is a college diploma.
My youngest brother is dyslexic, so his school was constantly trying to push him into Applied, despite the fact that he wasn't even failing his classes (TBF he barely passed but he passed!). But they can't *force* you to switch to Applied, only bully and manipulate students into doing it and many parents don't know how to advocate for their children so they'll give in and agree. Not my mum lol. She was RAGING when my brother told her they tried to get him to switch to Applied bc she had already gone to the school SEVERAL times by then to tell them it wasn't happening. She didn't mind if my brother would rather go to college than university, but she at least wanted it to be his *choice* and not because that was the only option he had. So the final straw happened and she went in raging, told them they were ableist, asked if they also thought her husband (my dad) shouldn't get to be a mining engineer and senior VP of the mining company he worked for because he was also dyslexic, and the school finally shut up about it.
But similar thing happened to my friend. He thinks he's autistic but it's expensive to get tested as an adult (it's covered for children but his parents never brought him bc culturally, they don't "believe" in that), but he is also (in his words) very lazy so he'd do the bare minimum in school, so obviously the school tried to pressure him to switch to Applied. His dad is a university professor and owns his own chemistry lab, so he brought his son to get his IQ tested just to show the school his son was a genius, and just lazy 😂
But it's usually financial reasons they try to shove kids into Applied here bc they need enough students to justify keeping those classes. Kinda fucked bc I knew a girl in Applied who had the highest grades in her classes, but she didn't want to change to Academic bc she liked being top of the class and like girl ??? You're clearly capable and grades aren't everything, but this type of program really preys on students and parents' insecurities like this :( Not every province has this split, and I think it's very archaic tbh. When I lived in New Brunswick, we didn't even have a separate special ed program - everyone was in the same class, but there were teaching aids that would specifically work with the disabled children to get them to a similar level, which I thought was super cool bc it got kids "used to" more severe disabilities so imo they were a lot less ableist instead of hiding those kids away in a separate classroom, like my high school did :(
Yeesh I wrote an essay, sorry 😭
@@kitsterangel hey, it's ok. I didn't apologize for my "essay" and you shouldn't either. It's neither of our faults that no one on the internet has an attention span. The only other thing I really have to say is that it's really disturbing that school systems consistently try to force kids into environments where they don't belong no matter what country you live in.
Thank you both for sharing your experiences! This is important.
@@kitsterangelyeah, I was blocked from studying anything remotely STEM in higher education because I took Applied math in grade 9.
Rewatching all your videos and, after a brief segue, I now know far more about oil wrestling and the state of lgbt rights in Turkey than I thought I would when I got up this morning, so thanks for that!
Yaaaassss I am on my way to research that now as well!!! 😂🤣🤣🤣😅😉
Nice job! I saw that movie years ago, and yes, it pulled at my heart strings like a Hallmark movie. Having recently seen the news that Michael was suing the Turdies, I barely gave a damn. At this point, after hearing your wise and informed review of this matter, I concur and support Michael! I thoroughly enjoy your unique, humorous but, factual delivery. Thank you! I see why your mom is wild about you. Fondly, Tick.
What you said about inheritance is probably very true. I think it is also worth noting that in some states parents are legally responsible for the adopted children until age 21 not 18. Sure they liked helping him when it was shiny and benefited their alma mater, but what if something went wrong? If Oher had injured himself and lost his scholarship I don't think the Tuhoys would have covered medical bills and tuition.
holy moly, i KNEW i hated this movie for a reason. it got put on the tv in *several* of my classes in school, both across middle school and high school. i never even understood the reasoning for them showing it to us, but it was texas so we can probably draw conclusions lol
i watched this movie in the mental hospital and somehow didnt pick up on any of the problematic things. i feel like a moron.
to be fair I think you had bigger things going on at the time
@@queencokefrancis i mean yeah but its just so obvious a year later 😭
Ok glad I wasn't the only one with that experience haha
@@averagechannelname9969I wasn't in the mental hospital but I was on heavy psychiatric medication for what later turned out to be a misdiagnosis. Similar vibes to the experience 😂
my friend's stepdad adopted her at 21 so that he could legally be considered next of kin and therefore be able to make medical decisions for her in the event she's incapacitated etc. there are a lot of reasons to get these things done and i have a hard time believing any real lawyer would've told them it's illegal in tennessee when it clearly wasn't. i'd also like to point out that these assholes are from MIDDLE tennessee which is their real problem. us mountain folk are way more chill most of the time kinda. mostly due to the constant threat of cryptid attacks
I hate that when this all came out everyone called micheal greedy and he should be grateful they took him in. Kids even adopted ones do not owe you anything. Michael wasn't even adopted and they lied to him.
I always felt something was very off about this movie. I refused to watch it and still haven’t. The praise it got (the praise the white adoptive mother got, specifically, and the actress who played her) really seemed messed up. I was just a kid at the time and a white kid with from an all-white town, too boot, but this movie baffled me. I remember seeing all the praise and feeling like I was being punked. It was so clearly a glorified “white savior” film that didn’t even bother to give the black actor much of a role in his own movie. Like, this movie wasn’t about him. It was about the white woman and her “bravery”. That was clear from just the trailer and posters.
Edit: I had no idea the guy was autistic. I am autistic and very quiet and plus sized/bigger than the other girls growing up and maybe those were some of the reasons I felt an ick about this film. The treatment of larger, neurodivergent children as only worthy if they can perform for others like a circus act (aka having some special talent that makes them “worthy” of being saved/supported) horrifies me. I was always told how smart I was and that that was my saving grace for my weirdness and largeness. So I tried desperately to meet those expectations, but I never was thy smart. I wasn’t the genius my mom expected. I could never live up to the one thing I was taught made me worthy.
hey-you’re beautiful and valid and you don’t have to live up to anyone’s expectations besides your own
You didn’t mention the (to me) most telling and second most heinous part of it all. The Tuhouys also brokered deals for their CHILDREN, who did nothing to help him and were just along for the ride, to individually benefit from the movie’s proceeds while keeping Michael from earning any money for his life story. They were 1,000% using him to get alumni kickbacks, they didn’t adopt him because he didn’t want him to have any claim to their fast food money, and they never ever had his best interest at heart because they stuck him in a conservatorship to keep treating him like a cash cow. I never liked this movie and I was so pleased when the truth came out.
I actually didn’t know about that and didn’t see it when I was doing research for this, thank you for telling me
I hated this movie when it came out, the condescending way it treated Michael drove me crazy. I can't imagine being the real Michael Oher and seeing your own life be portrayed that way. That would be my fucking villain origin story.
I'll be honest, I fully thought the football guy was mentally handicapped when I watched this movie as a kid and teen (it was playing on TV and I was too lazy to switch the channel). They make it such a point to show how "stupid" he is, so I thought he had some sort of disability. The fact that he didn't is uh...... A choice to have made for this movie. But before knowing what white saviour complex was, it still gave me weird vibes.
I just watched that. I kept thinking there’s no way that type of white southern lady was genuinely so cool
What a delicious roast. Just the way I love them, burnt to a crisp. Thank you for giving us Deborah Ross and for the good P.I. leg work.
That is a really aggressive statement. I have a friend that is friends with Leigh Anne Touhy. She is a good person that took in a troubled teen. What is wrong with that? Geez.
@@hollyhilliard1603Touhy is a lying thieving sack of sanctimonious shite.
I just want to say, Michael and the wife of the Tuohy family both showed up in an episode of Extreme Makeover Home Edition. How the Tuohy family "saved" him is brought up a lot. Also, after that one episode, the wife of the Tuohy family became a member of the Extreme Makeover Design team. I didn't like her even then, though back then I couldn't explain why. Now with what has come out about the Tuohys, it's obvious why.
When I saw this I didn't know it was fake, but I still thought it was *intensely* condescending. Sandra Bullock's character comes off as absolutely terrible and they make out that Michael is like - developmentally disabled. It's gross. (hello the algorithm brought me here)
This movie & Avatar (the James Cameron one) were played in damn near every single one of my high school classes during junior year. I don't know why my teachers were so obsessed with those two movies
How did they figure out how to make a daily wire movie a decade before the daily wire even existed
10:34 this particular thing is common here in Texas, or at least was when I was in HS (01-05), parents would wear buttons of their sons on the football team
lol, always thought it was so stupid 😂
That's so cringey!
Another great vid QCF! Yeah, this movie was always meh and cringe imo. I hated how they portrayed Michael as a dumbass. latest bombshell about this "true story". Oh and that wig tho 👌🏻🔥
(5:38 "I do love a good symbol..." Gotta love my gay spirit animal Buddy Cole) 🙏🏻
Omg you did the anime anger thingy so good with your makeup
You should check out his 2014 book where he specifically says he wasn’t adopted but put under a conservatorship and it was due to them being boosters at ole miss and him getting in. Regardless, he acknowledged in his 2014 book.(which I actually read.) that he was in a conservatorship and acknowledged it back then.
Great line, re: the unlikely invention of Turkish wrestling being from when two "friends" were walked in on. Floored! That was just one stand out, but we don't have all day for my lame comments. Thanks for the entertaining roast of this great white hoax. Cheers.
Wait….I thought we all oil wrestled the homies 😢
If a child with learning disabilities leaves wrong answers, it's an issue. But when a child LEAVES THE TEST ENTIRELY BLANK, that indicates to me that the child DOESN'T FEEL MOTIVATED TO TRY, a psychological and emotional problem that is not necessarily a result of developmental handicap.
If the script showed that the previous teachers were a bit wrong in their view of Oher and the mom realized that he was going through an internal self-loathing that it was hard for him to articulate, maybe the movie could have shown a unique message, in that clinical or standardized tests don't always reveal what can be found just by talking to a child and listening to them with respect.
I got about 20 minutes into this movie as a kid before walking away, something felt so off
NGL the way you pronounce "conservatorship" is kinda driving me insane but otherwise this video fucking slaps
I was looking for comments about this 😅
Darth conserVator Ship
😂Same
I think a lot of people were just hoping to hear her speak out about it or "give up her Oscar" in protest because she was (and still is) a very big name in the industry. In reality though, she is just an actress who was given the script, she would have no idea what parts of the original story were true or false. I mean, you could also argue that her participating in such a white-savior-coded movie was potentially bad in itself, but that's a different discussion entirely
23:21 the fact that they used the word PRESUMABLY here, indicted to me that it was untrue. They basically said “well we assume he got paid.” It’s obvious that they are obfuscating (hiding the truth) when they use the word presumably. That’s a word that allows them to not be responsible for saying something that is factually incorrect.
Can i just stop for a moment to thank you for making me aware of turkish oil wrestling 😂
This vid is criminally under viewed, much like all your content.
they showed this movie at my junior high, along with another movie (i don't remember the name of the other one) but they were similar in that rich white people "save" impoverished youth. it wasn't presented as examples of the white savior propaganda, because of course, the teachers couldn't see what was wrong with any of it. honestly, i had overlooked a lot because as a teen, i didn't understand that "based on a true story" actually meant "horribly butchered retellings that paint the ones being 'saved' as obliviously helpless" which is truly horrifying when the "saviors" strip their victims of their independence and toss them aside when the victim has nothing they want anymore. hopefully more people will reject this toxic mindset as time goes on and we become more informed
I’m an adoptee, and this movie unfortunately holds a prominent spot on my parents’ movie shelf.😵💫
11:55 yeah...as a lifelong Vols fan, this scene alone was why I hated this film. Thanks for vindicating my sentiments towards it, some fourteen years after watching it.
I can also remember having a stomach bug and yakking up the buffalo wings I had just ate, the night I'd watched this with my family.
The fact that the writer of the book it's based on is on camera laughing about how making him dumb helped sell the book, I'm not surprised that the Tooehey's screwed him over as much as it's stated they have.
Shout Out Turkish Oil Wrestling, Learned about that from super Street Fighter 4
When I got out of high school, one of the jobs I took was being the drama club teacher at our local rec center's after-school program. Twice a month, all of the program teachers voted on a movie for the kids to watch. One month, it was a choice between Pee Wee's Big Adventure and The Blind Side. Only me and one of the other teachers voted for Pee Wee. One of the other teachers chastaised us for voting against The Blind Side, saying how important it was that the kids watch it, not only because we were in Baltimore and Michael played for the Baltimore Ravens, but also because the movie "taught about being a good Christian and not being racist and overcoming adversity". I remember the coworker who had voted for Pee Wee and I talking privately about how The Blind Side left a bad taste in our mouths, citing the film's myrid of problems and how the people who had voted for the kids to watch it were only doing so in order to look like good people to the parents who's kids attended our program.
I wish I was still in contact with that coworker and could send him this video. I'm sure he would feel like I did watching it; vindicated, that yes, we weren't some freaks who were "looking too deeply" into The Blind Side the way our other coworkers treated us. I also know he would get a kick out of your brand of humor as much as I did!
They played this movie in the jury duty waiting room years ago while we all waited to see if they needed us. I half-watched it over the book I’d brought and thought it felt like a cheesy Hallmark Channel movie. Two or three years later, got called for jury duty again, and they ran that stupid movie AGAIN. This time the Rich White Christian Savior element jumped out and screamed at me. When all this info about the real story started coming out, I honestly wasn’t surprised. I got called for jury duty a third time a few years ago-maybe I need a t shirt that says I ❤ JURY NULLIFICATION to wear to the courthouse and they’ll finally leave me alone-and thankfully they didn’t play that movie yet again. They left the TVs off after the video of one of the judges thanking us for showing up and doing our civic duty.
0:12 Roller derby?
Roller derby girls are scary
@@atomheart7907yea they're hot af
Who could do that to a sweet little girl?
Losing a child is one thing, but to know they died in such a way? That’s got to be eating at that poor family every day.
Thank your for educating me, both for the source of controversy behind this movie, and "Turkish Oil Wrestling" 😳🙃 I watched this, even though I have fond memories of this movie. I was distracted by Sandra Bullock as a "Classy MILF" (DO NOT LOOK THAT UP!) Again, I love your outfit and your "Zhuzhing It Up" for your audience. (inappropriate comment about " _____ slapping that like button" omitted 🤭)
you can’t just bring up “classy MILF” and expect me to not look it up
my teachers would play this in high school one of the many reasons why I hated seeing movies that were "based on a true story"
1. Buddy Cole is the best. So is Scott Thompson.
2. This mess + SBF/crypto wrecked my former good opinion of Michael Lewis & retroactively made me distrust his previous books. Seriously, what a heel.
3. Don't get hot for this horrible mid dad. Bella Swan's Dad is the worthy shame-crush.
4. Sandra Bullock deserved that Oscar for being Sandra Bullock & it's too bad this was the year/role the stars aligned for the Academy to give her one.
5. "ALCAN". ... jfc ... these weird corpo graduates of "Blandernon"
6. Michael Lewis profited off the child Michael too, apparently without compensation or even interviewing him...for the book he wrote about his "inspirational" story.
7. Thanks for mentioning the community that helped raise him; they were much poorer than the Tuooeys but several Black families took him in for extended periods, fed him, clubbed together to cover what he needed. His community was trying to look out for him despite generational poverty + trauma & systemic racism. They were erased from the stories many times.
Saw this movie when I was in high school. Even high school age me picked up icky White Savior vibes from the movie. (SIDE NOTE: one of my classmates was named Michael Ohr. No relation 😆)
The joy I felt by seeing a Borders bookstore again followed by the patronizing book reading scene... Is it possible to get an internal whiplash?
I remember watching the Oscars that year and when Sandra Bullock won, I literally flipped a table and said "no".
I don't watch the Oscars anymore besides highlights afterwards
The one good thing about this movie is it sent me down the rabbit hole of learning the true story not the “true” story the movie told.
I never saw this film when it came out because it gave me the ick even though at the time I didn’t yet have the words for why, and now I’m glad I saved myself the frustration of having watched it when it came out and having to keep my autistic mouth shut about my opinions because nobody else shared them.
I know this is 11 months ago however, I remember watching this film and didn't fully understand how bad it was when I was a kid since of course I was a kid and then watching it again as a 17 year old in 2021
I felt incredibly uncomfortable but my mom didn't quite understand why I was uncomfortable
I liked this movie as a kid, mostly because I ignored any and all indications that the movie was anything real. My brain just liked the idea of "poor kid gets good treatment", maybe because there is a lot of poverty in my family.
I definitely didn't think of it as real, just kind of nice.
But, it should also be noted that I am a simple autistic Danish person, who at the time had absolutely no idea that a movie could be "based" on true events without being a documentary and I didn't look for subtext.
I have gotten a lot more discerning of the media I consume, so now I can see what it is
If anyone wants extra tea, r/Memphis had it when the lawsuit was filed.
Lots of servers with details lol
I've seen turkish oil wrestling in person, it was spectacular
I watched the trailers for this movie back in the day, and it struck me as despicable white savior porn....and I'm someone who defends The Help.
I'm a 32 year old American straight man and I just learned that the blind side is a football position 😂 I had no idea, I thought it was just the name of the movie. The irony of this is making me laugh🎉
I had to watch this movie in Grade 7, and I never thought much of it at the time. In fact, I don’t think we even finished it.
I’m not surprised it’s fake.
Luanne Tuey (idk how it’s spelled) was on Extreme Home Makeover or whatever that show is called.
“I am going to become the joker” 😂
Honestly so upset with myself with how much younger me loved this movie. Thankful i grew up and understand how crazy problematic it is. But still, yikes former me, yikes.
Savvy writes books did a great video diving into these same topics and does a huge breakdown if people wanna dive deeper
my friend invited me over and put this movie on when we were done getting stoned. i kept thinking of how Precious is a much better flick.
I genuinely can’t think of a worse movie to watch while stoned
@@queencokefrancis I watched The Holy Mountain for the first time high while visiting a fwb. it was still a better time than either movie
I watch Carl Sagan when I'm stoned.
I don't know how i found your channel, but im so happy i did. You're saying what we're all thinking, and i love it! can you vote for Queens? 'Cause you win.
I've got to be the only person I know that hasn't seen this and now I don't plan too. Especially if it's that painful.
When I first saw this movie, I was even in the community and culture to embrace it. But it did feel “weird” to me, and then the “ranked highly in protective instincts” broke the magic utterly. That’s so obviously not a real thing. That’s a lie. A cringe lie. And then I couldn’t see the rest of the movie as anything other than cringe.
I've seen this movie 15 years ago during two weeks within what easily might be the strangest social setting I came yet to experience. _"Percy Jackson"', "Left Behind"_ (the non-Cage one) as well as a "documentary" about the case of an evangelical preacher in Africa (I can't recall the particular country unfortunatly) who supposedly died in a car accident and got prayed back to life by his ministry (with evidence!!1!) are the other movies I came to enjoy during this time..
In retrospect it had been an invaluable experience and absolutly unique insight into, well, people as such and the nature of evil I suppose. And although it occured over here in Europe and involved exclusivly fellow europeans it was an absolutly shocking insight into US culture just as well. I had my fair share of experiences within rather uncommon, strange or even scarry circumstances, but this probably had been the most interesting from an epistemological point of view.
this film is a really solid outline for a sequel to Get Out 😬
The worst part is that it is "based" on a real person,
For example, if they made up a football player instead of writing an insulting parody of a real person, it would be about 5% less idiotic
Savy Write Books destroyed the original book with her epic essay
this is like incredibly off topic but is that shoe in the background the same shoe from the "my new shoes! ignore the ugly ass home arrest bracelet" post
The real blindside was the papers we were misled into signing along the way.
10 seconds in and my legit first thought is how much i love the look this video omg??
Turkish Oil Wrestling needs inspirational movies made about them!
Ohh wooow i used to love Borders..me and my friends would spend hours there on weekends when we were like 15..drank too much coffee..i think i got my first Sunny Day Real Estate CD from there..damn i miss Borders, simper days
My mom took me there quite often when I was growing up. My favroite memory of it has to be when she bought me this coffee table book on the history of semi-trucks, from the late 19th century all the way up to the Renault Magnum in 2004.
26:25 Let me guess, they have twins named Shannon and Cannon.
When I first saw the movie, honestly? My first impression was that it was really long. Like seriously long. That impression has remained with me to this day. I don’t remember much about it other than I thought it was really freaking long.
19:29 you accent the “serv” part con-SERV-a-tor-ship. Conserve-ator-ship.
9:27 How many damn mirrors do they need for their gawdy bathroom?
gaudy
"That lady actually seems really mean?" - me at 12 years old right before i got in trouble, towards leanne
ok look all im saying is that if Reggie Bush had to return his Heisman than Sandra Bullock should have to return her Oscar. its only fair.
and yeah I know they eventually gave Bush his Heisman back, maybe Bullock can get her Oscar back 12 years later too, who knows
Wait, what was that wrestling thing?
Damn never saw this movie in its entirety as a kid but from the clips I saw I do feel dumb for not clocking the white saviorism
“I love a semi hot dad”you and me BOTH!! By the off chance you see this , do you ever use Haus Labs products? If so do you have any recommendations?
I can’t afford Haus lol but I mainly use NYX and Revolution
I remember seeing this movie and enjoying it when i was a kid. Heck i remember it being in one of my friend's Bar Mitzvah Speeches. Looking at it now, and with the context of the allegations. God this movie was horrible and the Tuoy's are terrible people.
Yes it is. Soon as rich white republicans were involved. Yes.
Not Sandra Bullocks fault.
"The Blindside" is about as real as the story of "Bloodsport".
Question of the day: Which Sandra Bullock role ACTUALLY deserved a Oscar?
Wrong, it's Miss Congeniality!
Ive been sitting though all your videos and just commenting to say i hope you get more attention!!