RAZZIE AWARDS 2010

Not one of my favourites, but it was indeed entertaining.

I do like the Razzie Awards concept, but it annoys me that they frequently nominate average to good stuff, simply because the movies are big and popular, instead of just nominating the really bad.

Worse examples are Morricone's "The thing" and "Butterfly" that were nominated for worst scores. These people are more clueless than the Oscars.

Peter

Even if some educated youngster wanted to, which film maker in their right mind would ever do that amidst the ehem...cough, free speech environment of Asian countries today?

Inception is straightforward, and yet it's not. It gives you the feeling you understand the main general idea behind it, and the end in general. But I think there is much more behind it too, which you will not even get after multiple viewings. It leaves a lot of questions unanswered as well, but with multiple answers so that people can fill in their own plausible explanation

Perhaps Inception is so complex that I don't realize it's complex. But yes, I do agree that there's much to take in. I'm not saying I'm clever or anything, as there are many movies I can't follow well at all, but perhaps Inception is just the type of movie my brain handles well.

I plan to see it again soon and perhaps I'll get a more nuanced view of it.

Peter

Inception is only as complex as your attention span allows it to be. You let your mind slip for a microsecond, you're bound to miss something vital to the plot. I let my attention span slip quite often on the first viewing, which is understandable in the cinema, and also because the movie throws so much at you, just like Erik said. At home I was able to watch it more attentively and got better into the flow of the movie.

I wouldn't think that Stallone feels bad about it, so calling it a real shame seems a bit over the top. He probably had a laugh when he heard about the Razzie nomination.

Peter

Maybe it's because you're from Norway, Thor, In my life I've known a number of people who were involved in the war against Japan, including my own father who was in Burma and experienced stuff that is hard to imagine ( only ever told to me by my mother, my dad wouldn't talk about anything serious regarding his involvement to me ) or his friend, our neighbor, who lived next door who spent most of the war as a Japanese prisoner of war who ( unlike my dad ) wished that the Americans had atomically wiped then from the face of the earth, he described the film The Bridge On The River Kwai as 'a holiday camp' a film that was a total joke, one of many who could never forgive them. As far as I know the Japanese authoraties have never given a full apology for their actions during this time.

But you haven't even watched the whole series.

So did I. It's like The Thin Red Line without the philosophical background.

Tim, what did you think of the score and Zimmer's main title theme?