90 thoughts on “Sandra Bullock Movies”

1. HI STEVE Sandra and Julia Roberts have probably been the two most consistent female movie stars at the box office in the past quarter century or so~ at least at their peak. Sandra’s adjusted average domestic gross over 36 movies is about $102 million whereas the in my opinion overblown Jennifer Lawrence for example doesn’t appear to be able to open many, if any, movies outside 2 partially self-selling franchises, Hunger Games ad X Men the latter in particular very much ensemble. Her 14 other films have a miserable average adjusted domestic box office gross of about $45 million.

   Certainly Bullock has been among the highest paid actresses of the modern crop having a reported current official net worth of $200 million -see also Part 3. Sandra’s has also been well thought of artistically with IMDB crediting her with 77 acting awards and 114 nominations; and Bruce ranks her 12th on his list of the Greatest female Movie Legends in the 60 year period 1950-2010.

   High praise indeed from Oracle 2 but the Work Horse did get annoyed with Sandra’s manager for absolving her of all blame for the failure of 2011’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and blaming WH’s idol Hanks because Tom was the top star. However Sandra got equal 2nd Billing to Tom so Bruce argues that Bullock has to accept some of the blame.

   Certainly Harry Lillis Crosby if he were around would probably support The Work Horse because on one occasion he advised wannabe movie stars of his heyday “Always share your billing. That way if the movie bombs you can spread the blame!” On the other hand Alexander Archibald Leach publicly savaged his co-star Jayne Mansfield for the box office failure of 1957’s Kiss Them for Me.

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2. Added Steve’s latest You Tube video to this page. Our thoughts on her career and his video.

   Vote up and shared. Overall I have seen 30 of her movies….28 of the 32 you have listed. I like many of her movies but she has some that I will never ever watch again. I thought #16 Minions was one of the worst computer animated movies of all-time…even if it made a boatload of money. #29 Miss Beauty Queen 2 along with #32 Slow Boat 2 are two of the worst sequels of all-time. #15 The Heat was unbearable to watch….ok…done slamming Sandy. Let’s talk about the good stuff. She has a very solid Top 5….though Crash is not one I will re-watch. But Speed, Gravity, A Time to Kill and The Blindside are fun movies to watch. Other favorites would include #11 The Proposal…she and Ryan Reynolds made a good team. #10 While You Were Sleeping…WoC and I watch it regulary. #9 Miss Congeniality…..Michael Caine makes it fun to watch and #8 Demo Man…good sci-fi movie. I have not seen Prince of Egypt or Birdbox….the other two misses are way down the list. Good video on one of the biggest stars working today.

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   1. Hi Bruce, 28 of the 32 on the video is great, I’ve seen 16 and Flora 3.

      I watched Bird Box on Netflix a few months ago, some creepy moments, violent too, but not a film I’d buy on blu-ray. Going by the amount of people who tuned in to see Bird Box on TV it might have been a sizable hit if it was released theatrically. Thanks for the vote, comment and share, always appreciated.

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      1. Hey Steve….thanks for the mini-review on Bird Box…I have not seen that one yet….seems it has no middle ground….most either love it….or most strongly dislike it. Glad to add your video to her page.

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   2. Gosh! The Master is dead! Long live the Master! Even HE might have been unnerved though by the savagery of that attack in the first half of WH’s post.

      In a way however in his thoughts on Minions WH is simply reflecting my own attitude to the computer animated films in general. I have long seen them as technological triumphs that are simply an enhanced modern way of presenting the themes that dominated black and white children’s programmes when television was in its infancy.

      They are great for kids but for me none of them are as artistically satisfying as the best work of the likes of Hitchcock, John Ford and Howard Hawks that exemplified the greatest films of Old Hollywood

      Unlike the seemingly rather aloof Oracle himself I am not dismissive of the tastes of my fellow patrons of the movie house: I would never have castigated as “nobody” the droves that flocked to see Desiree for example, though Brando’s performance as Napoleon aside I would agree with The Great One’s views on that movie.

      But I do feel that the proliferation of the computer-animated product, especially with the likes of Toy Story and Shrek repeatedly ripping off even themselves, is artistically robbing mainstream cinema of a lot of its originality so that I regard a great deal of it as monotonous and increasingly look to the minority-attended art houses for potential emotional and intellectual stimulation from my movie-going.

      I would not concede that the fact that the computer-animated movies are watched by massive audiences dilutes my entitlement to a personal view of their worth, because after all as WH says even Minions s made a “boatload of money” – over
      $1.2 billion in Bruce’s table.

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      1. Hey Bob….my kids love computer animated movies….I would bet 50% of the movies I see in theaters are computer animated. My last two movies seen in theaters….computer animated…Toy Story 4 and Secret Life of Pets 2. If there were a combined total of 10 trailers for those two movies…8 were more computer animated movies that are coming. Not thinking this genre is going anywhere anytime soon. Our computer animated page is now up to 170 movies…I have seen over 145 of those movies….so I feel….pretty comfortable in saying Minions….was a stinker. You make good points in your comment. Sorry if the first part of my Bullock You Tube comment came on too harsh….especially since I like her and most of her movies. Good feedback.

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         1. HI BRUCE Yes, you have overall been very kind to Sandra, in particular ranking her a high 12th on your 1950-2010 Legendary Actresses list.

            I was interested in the history of your own attention to computer animated movies, so thank you for sharing it. I will accept that you are more representative of the modern moviegoer than I am and as MY final word on that subject specifically, I can only draw on some well-worn clichés:

            1/” When I became a man I put away childish things.” That said last night [encouraged by good reviews in that Audie murphy book that you kindly sent me] I watched a TV rerun of an Audie 1953 B western Gunsmoke, the sort of product that usually appealed to me only in the distant past when I was a small boy/teenager.

            2/” One man’s meat is another man’s poison.” That one maybe also explains why Joel Hirschhorn and I keep locking horns – no pun intended!

            See also Part 2

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            1. Speaking of Hirsch I am reminded of a general entertainments historian years ago who seemed a malignant kindred spirit of Joel. That historian opined that whilst Hollywood had produced a vast quantity of work that was TECHNICALLY very proficient and enormously entertaining “politically Imprisoned” Tinseltown had never added much of intellectual worth to the sum of entertainment.

               The historian added that to experience the latter we normally have to rely on great [then] modern literature such as Bogie look-alike Albert Camus’ novels [A Happy Death, The Fall, The Plague, The Outsider] or Jean Paul Sartre’s works [The Condemned of Altona, The Age of Reason, Nausea – if you have not already done so and ever decide to read the latter, keep a large bottle of Aspirins and plenty of drinking water beside you – or be like me and simply give up!]

               The historian – I forget his name – did concede that some foreign language films had considerable deep cultural value and referred to such movies as Ingmar Bergman’s The 7th Seal, regarded as a great classic by film historians generally. I had to laugh when I recalled the mention of that one though because Max von Sydow plays a game of chess with Death in it and Steve was recently wondering if too many of Max’s films were in the Swedish language for Max to be suitable as a Lensman video subject.

               The historian whom I mentioned was writing well before the computer animated cycle came into being, but if he is still alive I wonder what he is making of the “intellectual” qualities of the movies involving Buzz Lightyear, Woody, Doc Hudson of Cars – and Big Bug Man!

3. Love her.

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   1. 1 Along with Julia Roberts, Meryl Streep, Cameron Diaz and Barbara Streisand, Bullock is one of the most consistent female box office stars of the modern era.

      2 There are of course big female stars who straddle both the classic and modern eras such as Jane Fonda and Shirley MacLaine.

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      1. Hey Bob….I think you have the best box office actresses covered in your comment. Bullock is so far one of the few actresses still statistically doing better after age 39 than before…it will be curious to see how long she can maintain that success. Crisis Is Our Brand did not help that statistic at all.

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         1. BRUCE:

            1 Sandra, Streisand, and Barbara Hershey are my favourite actresses among modern stars.

            2 Until Wife of C did her project it never struck me how relatively old Sandra was.

            3 Alas Julia Roberts also seems to be fading. Her last run of films have all been serious flops whereas once she was untouchable at the box office. If my instant memory is correct Julia’s last 100 million (at least unadjusted/stand-alone ) grosser was Erin B in 2000 .

            4 By the way Sandra made a big flop a few years ago with Hanks called Extremely Loud and Seriously Close I think. At the time her agents put out a statement saying that she wasn’t the STAR of the film and shouldn’t be blamed.

            5 However Gravity was massive worldwide though I wonder how much that was due to George’s pull?

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   2. Hey Candice…..glad you found our Sandra Bullock page.

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4. Now this was a nice find on the internet.

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   1. Thank you BPS

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5. Thumbs up. So you do requests? How about Richard Widmark?

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   1. Hey LTD1WK….I have a Widmark page already done….I have not flipped it over to this page but you can find it at http://cogersonmoviescore.com/richard-widmark-movies-best-to-worst.html

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