I have seen the film three times and each time I view it come up with the same question. Kim Basinger was nominated for a Razzie for this??? While I don't think her performance was anywhere near as powerful as her oscar winning role in LA Confidential, I don't think she did a bad job at all in this film. Anyone else agree?
shareI agree....I loved this movie so much....and Kim did a good job.
Razzie's are not always fair....look at Angelina's nominations......or Fay Dunaway's nods.
Razzie is hilarious. They want to piss off every beautiful actresses but they don't know anything about acting. Kim is amazing in this movie and also in Bless the Child. She is one of the greatest actresses of her generation.
shareUmm, Bless The Child stank.
shareumm that's an opinion, not fact.
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it was unfair. I agree with you. She shouldn't have been nominnated for that.
shareI thought the movie itself was not that great, but KB's performance was marvelous!
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It was like watching Gidget address the Reichstag.
Here, here. Bravo for your remarks. Well said.
shareIt's like when Megan Fox was nominated for both Jennifer's Body and Transformers 2. Jennifer's Body might not have been bad at all, even if it wasn't successful, but the Razzies just lumped it together with the other, crappy movie.
shareWell deserved nomination, the movie was a critical and financial FLOP scoring only 10% on Rotten Tomatoes
(Blessed the Child only scored 3%)
http://splicedwire.com/00reviews/blesschild.html
Coming off an overly-earnest performance in "I Dreamed of Africa," Basinger continues to prove her Oscar win for "L.A. Confidential" was a fluke, bringing a lot of whining but zero charisma to the lead role here.
https://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0910/p14s01-almo.html
An overly earnest, shrill Kim Basinger doesn't garner any audience sympathy, either.
http://www.sptimes.com/News/050500/Alive/Dreaming_of_a_good_mo.shtml
This film is too earnest about conservation issues it barely explores. Kuki cringes at the sight of butchered elephant and rhino carcasses like anyone else, but what makes her take the steps described in the postscript? Africa certainly doesn't do her any favors, so why does she pledge her allegiance in the end?
Basinger is interested only in cultivating her image as a serious actor, and Hudson is happy to be working 19 years after his first, best film, Chariots of Fire, which was fairly dull. Africa is their prop, not their purpose, like it must be for the real Kuki. Meryl Streep is safe, Hudson gets paid, and Kuki Gallmann probably does more good in one minute than this film does in two hours.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPcap/2000-09/22/109r-092200-idx.html
That's only one problem with "Bless the Child," a not very thrilling supernatural thriller about a child (Holliston Coleman) with extraordinary powers who's the subject of a cosmic custody battle between the forces of good on the one hand, led by her aunt (an overly earnest Kim Basinger), and the forces of evil on the other, led by the child's drug-addict mother (Angela Bettis) and her new husband, a self-help guru whose drug treatment organization is a front for Satanic worship.
http://splicedwire.com/00reviews/africa.html
Almost entirely scenery and labored melodrama, "I Dreamed of Africa" is a terribly earnest effort at making a weepy women's Event Picture.