MOVIE - Ocean's 8

PG13 (1:50)

Wide release 6/8/18

Viewed June 8, 2018

RT Critic:  68  Audience:  45
Critic's Consensus:  Ocean's 8 isn't quite as smooth as its predecessors, but still has enough cast chemistry and flair to lift the price of a ticket from filmgoers up for an undemanding caper.

Cag:  4/Liked it a lot

Directed by Gary Ross

Warner Brothers Pictures

Sandra Bullock, Anne Hathaway, Cate Blanchette, Helen Bonham Carter

My comments:  This movie was a blast.  It was so much fun seeing popular actors appearing left and right AND it's a very clever heist story.  Yep, it was very Ocean's Eleveny, right down to the depiction of Sandra Bullock/Debbie Ocean being the sister of George Clooney/Donny Ocean, ...now, possibly, deceased....

RT/ IMDb Summary:  Upon her release from prison, Debbie, the estranged sister of legendary conman Danny Ocean, puts together a team of unstoppable crooks to pull of the heist of the century. Their goal is New York City's annual Met Gala, and a necklace worth in excess of 150 million dollars.

MOVIE - The Heat

R (1:57)
Wide Release 6/28/13
Viewed at ElC on Tuesday, 8/6/13
RT Critics:  66  Audience:  79
cag:  5/Loved it
Directed by Paul Feig
20th Century Fox

Melissa McCarthy, Sandra Bullock

My comments:  This was one freakin' hilarious movie.  Never mind the crazy over-the-top Boston accents ("are you a nahk?" - too funny).  The storyline was somewhat plausible, the characters were waaaay out there - and the actors depicting those characters WORKED it!  Totally entertaining, ha-ha-ha funny, stupidly endearing - those two protagonists work together like peanut butter and jelly.

Rotten Tomatoes summary:  Uptight FBI Special Agent Sarah Ashburn (Sandra Bullock) and foul-mouthed Boston cop Shannon Mullins (Melissa McCarthy) couldn't be more incompatible. But when they join forces to bring down a ruthless drug lord, they become the last thing anyone expected: buddies

MOVIE - The Blind Side

A based-on-real -life, up-from-the bottom, feel-good movie
Released 11-20-09
PG-13 (2:06)
Thanksgiving, Nov. 26, 2009 at PP with Fran and Christine
RT: 73% cag: 90%
Director: John Lee Hancock
Sandra Bullock, Tim McGraw

Sandra Bullock and Tim McGraw portray real-life Memphis, Tennessee residents Leigh Annd and Sean Tuohy, who "adopted" a homeless black teen and helped him become the successful NFL football player that he is today. Mike Oher was smart, almost-silent, polite, huge, unschooled -- and homeless. He somehow got a chance to go to school in a private Christian school on the "other side" of town, and Leigh Anne Tuohyfigured out his dire straights and brought him home. One night turned into becoming his legal guardian. The two Tuohy children figure hugely into the story. And it's a wonderful, heart-warming story. Really well done. Really thoughtful. Even the football games are interesting. That Leigh Anne is one ball-of-fire! Sandra Bullock is great - so is Tim McGraw (who knew?) -- the whole cast really works (the young son, SJ, is GREAT). Lots of laughs, a few tears shed - a great Thanksgiving movie.

During the credits, there are videos and photographs of the REAL Mike Oher, the REAL Tuohys, NFL videos - good stuff. A perfect way to end the movie.

MOVIE - The Proposal

Charming and really, really funny - a feel good movie!
PG-13
108 minutes
Released June 19, 09 (Dede and I tried to see it in LA on opening night, but all had were first row seats, so we declined.)
7/6/09 at El Con by myself
RT: 46% cag 90%
EW: B+
Ryan Reynolds, Sandra Bullock, Betty White, Craig T. Nelson, Mary Steenburgen

Lots of good, loud laughs go along with this movie. You can't take it too seriously, and you can certainly enjoy Bullock and Reynolds sparring with one another. Great timing, perfect smirks, incredible bodies, and Betty White is.....hysterical!

Sandra Bullock is the executive editor of a high powered publishing firm in NYC, Reynolds has been her executive assistant for three years. She's one scary boss- sort of like Meryl Streep in Devil Wears Prada, but toned down a tiny bit. The whole company is afraid of her. Reynolds loathes her. But when she discovers that she's about to be deported to Canada, she instantly comes up with an idea to marry him so that she can stay in the US and keep her job. Enter the Immigration service with all their questions, send the couple to Alaska for "Granna's" 90th birthday, and you more or less have the major premise of the storyline. Bullock in her high heels and tight ass are a little over-the-top when they arrive in Sitka, but I guess they really want the audience to see her mellow out, so there has to be a big difference. These two actors really "work" together.

Alaska, for this film, was actually Bearskin Neck, Rockport; a mansion near Singing Beach in Manchester, and Gloucester - all in Massachusetts. What fun it must have been for the residents to watch the film. The set/setting was great.

Totally enjoyable, I didn't want it to end. The "interviews" at the end during the credits were really fun, too, but I ended up not reading the credits because of listening and laughing through them. Full audience (smallish theater, but it was Monday night...), very noisy before the film started. Loads of laughs and no squriming or talking during the 108 minutes. Everyone seemed to enjoy it.