Golden Globes Ring In A Not Especially Brilliant Year Of Movie Magic
And they're off? Millions fell asleep as the awards season officially began with the ever questionable Golden Globes the first to do its thing. It's all panned out quite predictably too, with all the ingredients of a good but not great awards show. Champagne flutes were toasted to the names of a year of unexceptional but deserving winners. The host was traditionally drubbed by stars and media alike for being rude and an all round naughty boy. Meanwhile, ladies turned up in formal dresses that could be neatly summarised into 'hot and not' columns and Cher was still everyone's least favourite person in the world. Oh, and animation got snubbed because it's the annexed state of cinema.
Controversy surrounded the inclusion of a film that contained two of cinemas worst C words: Cher and Christina Aguilera. Burlesque seems at first glance the token musical in the 'comedy / musical' category, but that gives this critical and box-office failure far too much credit. But tokenism alone wasn't enough to secure this turkey a nomination: it emerged that Sony flew the Judges to Las Vegas to see Cher on an all-expenses paid trip. Even then you'd have had to refill a lot of Wine Glasses to make Cher in any way appealing to the Judges. It worked on Sonny after all. Though to be fair to this terrible, terrible movie, this was a terrible year for comedy and musicals alike. 'The Tourist' received a nod, 'Scott Pilgrim' received blank faces and Animated Comedy Musical 'Tangled' had the misfortune to be animated
This controversy died a swift death with the announcement of the winners, and not just because the winners actually made sense. Delivery of the bombshells was mastered by Ricky Gervais, whose 'biting' quips were called 'Cruel' by the stars they were aimed at. Frankly, they're an insular bunch of lovies and they're pathetic to be insulted, though the fact remains that a lot of Gervais' material came straight out of whatever run of South Park the Brits have got up to. Popular lampooing subjects included (but were not limited to): Sarah Jessica Parker's face, closeted scientologists and the 'dimensionality' of visuals and characterisation in contemporary film. When he mysteriously disappeared off stage for an hour, it was assumed that Russel Crowe was beating him up backstage. Occasionally he came across something worthy of a smile (so long as you weren't a Hollywood insider). "Welcome to a night of partying and heavy drinking. Or, as Charlie Sheen calls it, breakfast" he quipped. Still, hardly worth sending him some complementary decanters.
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