Dave’s Top 5: Sandra Bullock Movies

I can not believe that The Net only gets a 36% Rotten Tomatoes score with no consensus on how good or bad it is! Bullock is great as Angela Bennett, who does detailed computer work from the comfort and safety her home. It's a conspiracy movie. It's kind of an action picture, too. It's pretty suspenseful as an early techno-thriller. Bullock made a couple of other great action thrillers, like A Time To Kill and Demolition Man. The Net is where she took the lead, almost like Bruce Willis in Die Hard or Schwarzenegger in Terminator.

1994's Speed was Die Hard on a bus, with Keanu Reeves cast as the Bruce Willis action hero type. There were a number of films like Die Hard in the '90's. Steven Segal made a couple of Under Siege films - one on a navy air craft carrier and the second, with Izzy from Grey's Anatomy, on a train. What sets the first Speed apart, and earns it a 93% score at Rotten Tomatoes, is the combination of co-stars Bullock as Annie with surfer dude cop Keanu Reeves.

Although The Proposal only gets a 44% Rotten Tomatoes score, it's a pretty funny romantic comedy. Bullock is Margaret Tate, an obnoxious publishing executive. From Canada. About to be deported. Ryan Reynolds is her assistant, and her solution. Wackiness ensues. Bullock is supposed to come off as stiff. Together, their pretty funny. Throw in Betty White, and Craig T. Nelson from Coach (remember Coach?) and you have a movie that aims for a wacky version of When Harry Met Sally.

Although, Michael Oher is not a big fan of the film biography of his life, I don't think the movie is really about him. It's more about Bullock's Leigh Anne Tuohy, Oher's adoptive mother. My wife and I adopted three kids, so I enjoy the story of a blended family. But this is Bullock's story all the way. Country star Tim McGraw is along for the ride, along with her other co-stars. 2009's The Blind Side, based on Michael Lewis' best-selling novel, only earns a 66% score on Rotten Tomatoes. The story is pretty formula, but everyone in it is pretty good.

I think 2013's Gravity is her best performance. It's like Tom Hanks' Cast Away, but set out in space. With no soccer ball. She plays Dr. Ryan Stone, a brilliant medical engineer on her first space walk, when - BAM! - disaster strikes. The entire movie is spent making her way back to civilization. From. Deep. Space. Take as long as you need with that. Don't know about you, but I have trouble remembering my name and what planet I'm on when the alarm goes off first thing in the morning!