Could The Blind Side Score a Best Picture Touchdown?

S.T.: Good points all, but have you actually SEEN The Blind Side? It's HORRIBLE. It's racist, it's condescending, it's overlong, it's appallingly simple-minded compared to the book it's based on. Let the Academy see it and then decide.

Kyle: We all know that the academy HATES racist, condescending, simple-minded Sandra Bullock movies. Oh wait, Crash.

S.T.: LOL. But listen, this is Precious lite. The Academy already has its social-awareness message nominee to feel gooooood about.

Kyle: The funny thing about that comparison is that I agree, but not in the way you'd think. Precious offers the white liberals of the academy the chance to offer a fig leaf and understanding to African Americans. The Blind Side does the same, but to southern-accented Republicans. It's a Best Picture derby of reconciliation and benign tolerance!

S.T.: I can't live in a world where The Blind Side's Oscar creds are even debatable, let alone apparently legitimate. Just shoot me. It made its fortune, it won its audiences' hearts. Can't that be enough?

Kyle: I will not shoot you, Stu, but if you happen to get shot in the harsh inner city, I will take you in, give you a warm home, and teach you to Oscar-prognosticate with more accuracy. Deal?

S.T.: Thanks, deal.

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