Ben didn't deserve the Razzie nomination?

SAY WHUUUUUUT?!
kingsley was hilarious in this, it sounds to me like a lot of the people at the razzie awards have a very condescending attitude, it's almost like "oh you never smoked weed? pfft you need to get out more and live a little"
well screw them, kingsley is a solid actor and this was a quirky, if slightly goofy, roll for him to have some fun with

"is that a chinese baby?"
"sure is, japanese to be specific"

I actually fairly like this movie, despite its flaws, but it is chock-full of anachronisms. Every movie has goofs but this movie was really heavy on the time-period sentimentality, which is why so many of the errors stick out. They were also trying to make Luke seem kind of "stuck in the past" by showing him using his battered old NES during a time when the SNES and Genesis were out, and the Sony Playstation had just come out, for one example. He prefers his old cassette walkman to, say, a CD player, even though he could easily have afforded the newest electronics, considering how much dough he was rolling in selling weed. It's also got its goofy moments (I STILL laugh when he says "word" after climaxing...LOL it's so silly ), but not every movie has to have academy award winning qualities to be entertaining. I'm sure that's stating the obvious.

That said, I will admit I cringed many times over Ben Kingsley's performance in this movie. I mean, we're talking about the guy who played Ghandi, for bleep's sake! I know he's playing a very flaky character, but at times he came off as, well, genuinely flaky (as in Ben being flaky, not his character). Ben Kingsley has always come off, to me, as one of those actors who has the propensity to pull off incredible performances, under the right director. Some actors are just great actors, who can pull off almost the worst roles, even with the rest of the cast falling apart around them, and regardless of the director. While other actors, like Ben, need a good director to really pull the performance out of him. When left up to his own devices, he rather fails. Hard. Like Magnum opus said, he came off as very uninspired and misdirected, and I absolutely agree it was likely the fault of the first-time director, who may have felt a bit intimidated by Ben's reputation (not as a threat, just that he was working with a seasoned pro) and sat back & let Ben do his own thing without stepping up when it was needed. At times I often wondered if he really was smoking weed during his performance, that's how dazed, flat, vapid, tired and uncaring he acted. In this case, he really did deserve the Razzie.

I couldn't get past the accent to actually focus on his performance.
What WAS that supposed to be??

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