It’s Meryl Streep’s world, apparently. We just live in it.
The 59-year-old actress landed two Golden Globe nominations this morning - one for “Doubt,” the other for “Mamma Mia!”
“Doubt” also rang up four other nominations, though “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” and “Frost/Nixon” earned five noms as well.
And how many for “The Dark Knight?”
One. Heath Ledger as Best Supporting Actor.
Need further proof of the disconnect between award ceremonies and actual film quality?
(Photo: Meryl Streep sings her heart out in “Mamma Mia” en route to a Golden Globe nomination, while Pierce Brosnan waits to see if his stiff performance will earn him a Razzie.)
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And that is exactly what The Dark Knight should receive. Heath Ledger deserves to be awarded a nomination for his performance which was wonderful, but the film was overlong and very mediocre. I was very disappointed. Whereas, Mamma Mia was a joy to watch.
This doesn’t surprise me. Comic book movies always have been, and always will be, the cinematic Rodney Dangerfield- they get no respect at all. TDK is the best movie I’ve seen so far this year, but it’s still a Batman movie, and as such will never get the acclaim it deserves.
That it’s a Batman movie will likely doom it …
Christine, I must respectfully disagree on the Dark Knight/Mamma comparison, but Knight could def. use some trimming!
ok i’m not one bash people because everyone is entitled to their opinions but ‘Mamma Mia’ a joy to watch and ‘The Dark Knight’ too long and mediocre. first off let me say that i had to go see mamma mia with my wife and mother in law and i thought the music was good but as a whole the film did not work for me.
the dark knight on the other hand is as close to a perfect film as your gonna get within the confines of a superhero/crime story. if the film was shorter it would suffer all the plot points would be under developed. while watching it in the theatre i didn’t feel once that it was too long at all.
As a film buff and comic collector this is just about the best adaptation of a comic that you’ll find it is rooted in realism but also maintains the world of the comic and has a nice balance between the two. Now i don’t know if it should win best picture but it is certainly worthy of all the praise that it has garnered.
There’s the rub, Ronn. The Oscar voters like films that feel, sound and smell like Oscar bait — think “Changeling,” which is all of the above except it’s not a very good movie. That likely stands a better chance of getting a best pic nom than Dark Knight, which will suffer because it’s a comic book movie at its heart.
Oscar viewership is down, in part, because the voters tend to pick the same type of movies over and again … the same actors, the same biopics.