Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela, Matt Damon as the captain of South Africa’s rugby team, and Clint Eastwood behind the helm = Invictus, the telling of the true story how Mandela joined forces with South Africa’s rugby team to help unite their country. Freeman appears to play a pretty convincing Mandela but I’m not sure what to think yet about Damon’s South African accent. Here’s the trailer:
Release date: December 11, 2009 Rated: PG-13 Starring: Morgan Freeman, Matt Damon
It was a relatively mild weekend at the box office. However, I lied and ventured out to see The Blind Side, which happened to surpass New Moon (Hallelujah!) in weekend gross income. Click here to see the weekend box office results:
I know. I said I wasn’t going to see a movie last weekend but I scored some free movie passes and I couldn’t just let them sit there. Right? So I went and saw The Blind Side.
Now, despite the name of this blog — That Show Sucks — I couldn’t bring myself to call The Blind Side a crappy movie, because it’s not. Read More