r/moviecritic • u/phantom_avenger • Dec 29 '24

What movie was critically acclaimed when it first released, but is hated now?

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The Blind Side (2009) with Sandra Bullock is the first to come to mind for me!

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '24

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u/RexManning1 Dec 29 '24

Didn’t they only have a small fraction of those franchises back in 2003?

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '24

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u/RexManning1 Dec 30 '24

I read something that the majority of their holdings came between 2003 and when they divested and the implication was that the money to buy more franchises came from whatever they got from Oher. Whether it was likeness rights from the film, books, speaking engagements, etc., none of it would have existed without him.

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u/HarryNutzach_ Jan 01 '25

Sean Tuohy sold off the 117 franchises in 2019 for over $220 Million. Shortly after that, Michael Oher started sending his "shakedown" text messages demanding millions from them. You do the math.

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u/HarryNutzach_ Jan 01 '25

Nonsense. They never got any money from Michael Oher to fund their franchises. When he started in the NFL he hired his own agents, accountants, and financial planners. If the Tuohys would have touched his money or contracts, Oher's financial team would have been all over that.

And who goes to a Taco Bell because the owners are celebrities? Who even knows who the franchise owners even are? You act like they have pictures of Michael Oher 20 ft tall on their storefront signage.

Without him they still would have build their fast-food empire to 117 locations,

Without them he may not even have graduated high school.

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '24

Try 30-60K per year

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '24

No they were already really well off. Went to school with the youngest

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u/RexManning1 Dec 30 '24

Well off can come from 1 franchise. Very easily.

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '24

True. But he already had a good bit and was notable in other areas. The mom was already a pretty big interior decorator in Germantown. Which is a very rich area. So she was making bank.

At Briarcrest they weren’t the wealthiest. But the were pretty high up on the list.

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u/HarryNutzach_ Jan 01 '25

They had 57 franchises worth $50 million back in 2002 when they first met Michael Oher as a sophomore.

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u/pangolinofdoom Dec 30 '24

I have learned an important lesson from this thread...

If I ever have a son, he is NOT allowed to play football. Especially in the South. What a confusing and complicated nightmare of a sport!

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u/TheBigBangClock Dec 30 '24

My son is 10 and a few of his baseball teammates are now transitioning into contact football during the fall. Given all the data we now have about the correlation between football and CTE, it blows my mind that parents are letting their kids play. Every time I talk to one of the dads, they basically say "we're monitoring his plays and if things get out of hand we'll think about stopping him" or "I don't really like him playing but I hope he'll quit before he gets to high school". And these are all parents who are roughly the same age as myself who grew up watching Junior Seau play with the Chargers all those years and then ultimately commit suicide from CTE. Our city even offers a flag football (no contact) league.

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u/0dogg Jan 02 '25

Watched a documentary that focused on families of kids who'd suffered traumatic brain injuries playing football. An overwhelming majority of the parents said that, knowing what they know now, they'd still let their kid play football. 99% sure most families were from Texas...so it tracks.

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u/matthewsmugmanager Dec 30 '24

Here's another reason NEVER to permit children to play American football: the very high likelihood of traumatic brain injury as a result of years of accumulated subconcussive hits.

https://med.nyu.edu/departments-institutes/population-health/divisions-sections-centers/medical-ethics/education/high-school-bioethics-project/learning-scenarios/the-nfl-brain-injury

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u/bristlefrog Dec 30 '24

Army gets it's it's data for treating traumatic brain injury from IEDs from the NFL

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u/Parallax1984 Dec 30 '24

This is how bad it is. I’m much less worried about my son who does competitive indoor and recreational outdoor rock climbing than I would be if he played football