The 69th annual Golden Globes held by the Hollywood Foreign Press were held recently. Unfortunately for them the movie race this year is fairly dull. No one is really rooting for one movie over the other and most people agree that “The Artist” and “The Decedents” are the two big movies of the year that will fight over the Oscar prize. From a TV perspective, it has always been difficult to really care about the Golden Globe awards because they are so reactionary to what is hot right now and since they come in the middle of the season we don’t always know what they are judging the results on. As this year they didn’t nominate “Breaking Bad” and went with the very popular “Homeland.” instead. For comedy I actually expected them to go with “New Girl,” but I think the break in episodes due to baseball killed its momentum and that is why they went with the dependable “Modern Family.”
But let’s take a look at the ceremony itself. The Globes have always been stripped down, with no musical numbers and until recently they have not even had a host. The entire ceremony this year centered around, “What would Ricky Gervais do?” Honestly, last year I didn’t think he was that bad, just funny. But then again he wasn’t making fun of me. People say he was kinder this year but that’s because he was fighting an uphill battle. People knew what was coming and were prepared with jokes about him. I was so tired of everyone having a quick shot at Ricky I was happy when Portman just ignored him. It’s funny once, but not every time.
Of course the stars were glamorous, but the big star of the evening was George Clooney. He is true Hollywood Royalty. He is what I imagine the stars of the 30’s and 40’s were like. They knew how big they were and they did what they want when they want and that is how the Cloon-meister rolls. He proved that last night and if you don’t believe me check out his acceptance speech online. They should get him to host the Oscars when he gets tired of making movies.
Overall I found this year’s Golden Globes a little boring. But this is just a warmup to the Oscars and it gets 2.5 out of 5 stars.
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