Liked the movie, great story about what she did. And if that's her in that picture, she's way hotter than Sandra Bullock.

The Blind Side was pandering garbage.

I wouldn't call a couple of exchanges a "war". A "police action", maybe.

"@scott_tobias very good. I worried about you all night. This has made my day, now go out today and make a difference"



It's like arguing with Mister Rogers.

CatfoodSpork: The Blind Side was pandering garbage.

I recall reading that Orr wasn't too happy with the film, since it made it look like he was a complete idiot about football.

Poison: Liked the movie, great story about what she did. And if that's her in that picture, she's way hotter than Sandra Bullock.

LeeAnne is the hawtness. I'd show her MY blind side, if ya know what I mean...

Poison: Liked the movie, great story about what she did. And if that's her in that picture, she's way hotter than Sandra Bullock.

In all fairness, the dude in the movie was almost "hotter" than Sandra Bullock. Low hanging fruit and all that. :-p

The Onion's film critic is engaged in a cute Twitter exchange war with the woman who wrote that movie where Sandra Bullock turns that fat kid into a Christian

Does ANYONE know how to form a sentence anymore????

I don't get it.

t3knomanser: CatfoodSpork: The Blind Side was pandering garbage.

I recall reading that Orr wasn't too happy with the film, since it made it look like he was a complete idiot about football.

His name is "Oher". Don't be a racist by calling him "Orr"

"To read Oher's own version of his life (ghostwritten by former Sports Illustrated associate editor Don Yaeger) is to witness a real feat of grace: he decisively reclaims control of this story without once taking anything away from his love of or his gratitude for his adoptive family - a family that's been elevated to near sainthood."

He did not like that the film portrayed him as not knowing football, but that was his only complaint.

I liked that movie until I read the book. The book is about football. The 5 second overdub of Sandy talking about football at the very beginning, that's like 60% of the book. The movie then took all the honest reflections on race and privilege out, replaced them with quipy down-home southern one-liners, shoved Kathy Bates in to lend the paper-thin characters some credibility, and invented a gunfight climax that sucked all the drama out of the actual transformation.

If you hated the movie because it is pandering garbage, read the book.

OK. I've been ignorant about twitter for awhile now. I assume the @ symbol means "at" but in twitter it appears to mean "to" or something? Also I don't think I understand the # sign useage.

I HATE The Blind Side! Every time I watch it I cry and then my kids make fun of me... Grumblegrumble something about real men

I didn't know that Sandra Bullock was in The Big Lebowski.

Spoon over Marin: @ means your addressing someone # is to emphasize what you're saying.

It's turning English into gibberish.

hmm. ok, thanks.

I only saw the first half hour of The Help, but I rather enjoyed it.

It was another White People Make Sincere, Heartfelt Movies About the Plight of Black Folk in America film to me. Magic manic pixie transforms lives of several postmenopausal African American Women, suddenly bucking every social norm in the South for decades. A lot of good actresses given a real surface treatment.

(Although it was amazing to see Cicely Tyson now sounding and looking, without makeup, exactly like she did covered in makeup and prosthetics for The Autibiography of Miss Jane Pittman 40 years ago.)

In fact, I really detested many moments of the film, like when Alison Janney thanks Manic Buck-the-Trend Wake-Up-That-Backwards-Hometown Pixie Daughter for "bringing courage back to this family." Yeesh.

John Nash: The Onion's film critic is engaged in a cute Twitter exchange war with the woman who wrote that movie where Sandra Bullock turns that fat kid into a Christian

That woman seems to be made of pure, solid idiot, and The Blind Side was truly the worst film experience of that year, so I'm gonna go with the Onion fellow on this one.

I have to agree with Scott Tobias - I also liked the movie better than cancer and homelessness.

But it was still a steaming pile of feel-good pandering crap.

nmiguy: Poison: Liked the movie, great story about what she did. And if that's her in that picture, she's way hotter than Sandra Bullock.

LeeAnne is the hawtness. I'd show her MY blind side, if ya know what I mean...

penis?

Spoon over Marin: @ means your addressing someone # is to emphasize what you're saying.

It's turning English into gibberish.

English is already gibberish, has been gibberish for centuries, and will hopefully always be gibberish. It continues to be useful despite this, because our willingness to shove every concept we find into the language makes it versatile and adaptable. It also makes it a mess of verbing, slang, hashtags, smileys, and words borrowed from a thousand other tongues, even when we don't actually have the phonemes to make use of them.

Ishkur: In the old days, there was always an unwritten rule that a writer/director/artist/creator/whatever never replies to their critics. It's giving them what they want for one thing (validation), and nothing good can ever come out of it (it makes you look insecure and petty, and it's not going to change their opinion).

But nowadays, I see artists doing this all the time. Not only do they reply to critics directly, but they even engage in arguments and back-and-forth bullshiat. I guess they get it from the hip hop industry, which practically perfected the art of replying to detractors through dis records.

But why does anyone think that replying to a critic is a good idea?

I find your mainfesto to be shallow and pedantic.

The author, mother, author and inspiration for the hit film "The Blind Side" responded to criticism from Scott Tobias

They said "author" twice

@scott_tobias Dont b a hater But if u must then hate cancer, homelessness, war, poverty, child abuse, animal cruelty but a movie. #sadforyou

Which is weird seeing as how she can't seem to form a proper sentence.

/Hate the movie, but that girl from Precious did a great job as the football player.

sorry *manifesto*

Look at me, I'm an attention whore adopted a black!

What a waste of characters.

/dntBAH8r. Dmss
//bumper stumpers taught me to read on the internet

I never saw the blind side but anyone who knocks someoneone from the onion down a few notches is ok in my book.

Diogenes: I only saw the first half hour of The Help, but I rather enjoyed it.

Take away the toilet humor and there really isn't much to be entertained by in the The Help.

So this is a movie about the ultimate, driven, win at all costs, bad high school football parents. They not only shopped for the right district and school, they arranged to have the right kid (picked him up for a song on the adoption market). That's some over the top sports parenting! I tried to do it with the kid that I had, they contracted that part of the equation, how can I compete with that.

//just kidding!

Maybe it makes me lame, but I liked the Blind Side. I didn't love it by any means, but I still thought it was a decent movie for what it was - a feel-good drama. I rather see this movie than most of the trash that Hollywood makes these days. I can agree that it might not have deserved some of the awards or nominations it got, but it's certainly not garbage. I really could care less if it's exactly the real life story that occurred, the film can stand on its own without having to be affiliated with the real story. Perhaps I'm not cynical enough to hate it. Cynics can pat themselves on the back for being too cool for school and continue hating it.

How very interesting. Has there ever been any useful content on Huffington Post (or "huffpo" as all the kewl media industry kids call it)?

Hate movies and all of humanity? Become a film critic!

Demolition Man?

apeiron242: Hate movies and all of humanity? Become a film critic!

So being a critic of critics would mean...?

Diogenes: I only saw the first half hour of The Help, but I rather enjoyed it.

I saw the poster, started humming the Beatles song under my breath, then went to get a burger with my 5$ instead.

I think I probably got more from the film than your method.