for the academy to oversee a "performance of a lifetime" for Mr. O neal is devastating. i thought his acting was a solid 9.5/10 and he deserved the best actor
kazaam was also a riveting movie and was a nice 9/10 in my book
In a today's Hollywood, Shaquille O'Neal had no chance of winning a much deserved Academy Award for his performance in this movie. Discrimination has come a long way in Hollywood. First with Sidney Portier, then last year with Hallie Berry, but there is still a long ways to go. As we all know, Hollywood discriminates against tall people. Shaquille O'Neal would have been the tallest person to ever even be nominated. The Tom Cruises and Dustin Hoffmans and Selvester Stallones and Billy Crystals of the industry with Napoleon complexes would never allow such an event to ever take place. In the years to come, as our society becomes more tolerent of tall black men, Shaq will surely recieve due credit for his roll in this movie, in which he plays a rapping genie that lives in a boombox.
shareyour kidding right?
shareI don't think he is, and I find myself completely concurring with this man. I am not kidding when I say that Shaq deserved that oscar. Geoffrey Rush did a terrible performance in "Shine"; what a waste of an award. I hear that when Shaq found out the news of Geoffrey's winnings, he was so furious that he raided Mr. Rush's house, ripped up his couches, and buried the Oscar in the backyard. It was uncovered in the following week, next to a fountain. Perhaps this was Shaq's way of symbolizing his tears in the form of flowing water. Genius. Well anyways, no, I do not think he was kidding, and neither am I.
Shaq = Marlon Brando of our time.
Shaq = Marlon Brando of our time.
I think you're getting truth confused with sarcasm...
Keep up the good work.
Absolutely brilliant film. It speaks the voice of heaven.
shareYou are my new best friend. :)
shareI hope this a joke topic.
shareWith the appetite of a lion and the heart of the tooth fairy, Shaq is brilliant as Kazaam. I cannot say enough good things about Shaq’s performance. He smiles, he listens to music, he makes little kids happy, he grants wishes and most importantly, he smiles. The man is genius. He’s a real genius though, not like most of the people that are called genius nowadays. Shaq picked Kazaam and he made it into marvelous art. So there are two indicators of his genius: 1/ because he was intelligent enough to sort through all the scripts he receives (probably millions a week, especially after blue chips); 2/ because his acting talent transformed what could have been a typical genie film into one of the greatest films ever made.
When I watch my special edition dvd of Kazaam every morning (it motivates me), I completely forget he ever played basketball. He grasps the character of a genie so well, that one really starts to believe genies live in household appliances and electronics.
And one other thing, there is something wrong with the ranking system at imdb.com. I think somebody is tweaking the numbers; I think there is some funny business to expose. Kazaam has a very low rank and this just isn’t possible. What’s going on? Maybe it’s all a big misunderstanding. Someone could have thought a 9.0 was a 2.0 and accidentally mis-ranked. I hope this is the case. Kazaam deserves better and, in the name of innocent children who need a Kazaam, so does Shaq.
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Damn right. Shaquille O'neal, the true epitome of "GENIUS." I mean the man (if one could truly call him that, he's actually more of a God or at least of a Hercules-type character) absolutely radiates with brilliance; his aura of genuine intellectual and emotional superiority allows him to transcend the confines of normal acting and uplifts him into a realm of no other--one in which a 7 foot, gargantuan, Burger King-eating, Crunch bar-advertising, Shaft-imitating, pro-ball playin', comedic, funny, heavenly handsome, man shatters older and outdated images of acting legends such as Marlon Brando and Orson Welles, and is placed into a new category, "THE GODS OF ACTING." I still sit sometimes and wonder why the world isn't inundated with innumerable shrines dedicated to this man capable of oscar-winning performances in every role (Hello, anybody see 'Steel'?). Wow......
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The world wasnt and isnt ready for what shaq can do, the fact that he can act and be really tall, both at the same time, is just one of those things no other actor can really compete with. His acting is natural, in kazaam you believe hes actually a genie, in steel he WAS steel and in shaq-fu he WAS your average basketball player that just so happens to know karate and also happened to get stuck in an alternate dimension, it happens to the best of us but only shaq could make a game (incredible at that) out of it.
shareI really hope most of you are being sarcastic.
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i just re-read this post and realized that we all made the same dumb joke over and over and over again. we should be as ashamed as the director of kazaam.
shareThat man has nothing to be ashamed about.
shareand the joke continues...
shareYou know, I was feeling kind of down this morning until I read this post. After reading all of this sarcasm, I really got a good laugh. Thanks everybody! I figure that everybody's either smoking some serious weed, or you all are just taking this joke too far. Seriously, thanks for the laugh!
You can't hold me!! Get off me!!
I second this comment, you guys really cracked me up with your comments, by creating this never ending climax of sarcasm.
shareThe director has absolutely nothing to be ashamed of. Do you know who he is? It's Starsky, man! Look at his page! Starsky directed Shaq in this, the performance of our times.
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