The Hollywood Foreign Press Association could have catered to the socially conscious-inspiration fiends and chosen Precious — if only to see how many tears M'o'nique had left. The shadowy organization full of bros this reporter has never heard of could have also pretended it was 2k7 all over again and chosen the darkest film of the lot, The Hurt Locker. Finally, the foreign bros could have given maltstream Hollywood (formerly known as middle-brow or Spielberg/Hanks-ville) what it wanted and rewarded quality, personal filmmaking via Up In the Air or Inglorious Basterds.
Instead, they "chose" everyone's favorite blue-alien-billion-and-a-half-dollar behemoth, Avatar as the best movie of the year. Make no mistake, award shows exist to value "relevance" over "authenticity" and "positive" films over "meaningful" ones. This could have been another opportunity, as in years past, to turn mainstream bros onto at least somewhat authentic art like Atonement, Babel and The Aviator. With the choice of Avatar, however, the HFPA (worried that this acronym sounds like a disease) have yielded the informed opinions of aging film criticism bros to the almighty power of the box office. Perhaps next year, the Golden Globe should be announced via an RSS feed from Box Office Mojo.com.
Who do you all think should have been rewarded with this second rate award?
Did the HFPA reward the "totally" trippy experience of viewing a 3 dimensional film?
Did the copious reaction shots of Sigourney Weaver in the audience foreshadow the win?
-Vman
Who do you all think should have been rewarded with this second rate award?
Did the HFPA reward the "totally" trippy experience of viewing a 3 dimensional film?
Did the copious reaction shots of Sigourney Weaver in the audience foreshadow the win?
-Vman
1 comments:
I've never heard of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association either. It's creepy knowing there's an underground group of journalists who organize events like this, but it is interesting that Babel, Atonement, and the Aviator all won Golden Globes in their respective years, and there was absolutely NO carry-over of enthusiasm to the Oscars. That might be due to the fact that there's a healthy in-between-period separating the two ceremonies, or it could have more to do with the voting process (likelier), but it definitely bodes well for the middle-brow dealies. It's a shame how political these award shows are....
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