Episode 13 - The Blind Side

Real-life professional American football player (and actual human
being, mind you) Michael Oher, who is the subject of the 2009
Oscar-nominated sappy box office smash hit “The Blind Side,”
isn’t the biggest fan of how he was depicted in this movie — and
we can’t blame him.


It depicts him as a dopey vagrant who can barely fend for himself
and who has absolutely no understanding of the game of football,
until, one day, a white family (mainly Sandra Bullock, who won an
Oscar for Best Actress for this somehow) saves him and teaches
him how to be great at the game — single-handedly paving his way
to Ole Miss and then the NFL.


In reality, Michael Oher had been playing football all his life,
was already a star athlete at the rich white school where Sandra
Bullock’s character’s family met him, and achieved his goals all
on his own.


But, hey, when has Hollywood ever let the truth get in the way of
a good story? Well, actually, that’s a stretch, because this
movie’s story is equally as awful as its bastardization of what
actually happened.


Join us as we tear apart this insanely racist, cheesy and
manipulative mess that isn’t even good enough for the likes of
Lifetime.


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