Comments on: Semi-live blogging The Golden Globes

By: Dagnabbitt

Dagnabbitt — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:21:43 +0000

Like the live blogging. Do it more often. Do it during the Academy Award broadcast for sure.
B.O./popularity affecting award voters? Uhm, since “Titanic”?
How about “Shakespeare in Love” (also influenced by Miramax marketing) or “Gladiator” or “Lord of the Rings: the Return of the King” (albeit also the best nominee that year)?
HFPA is comprised of less than 100 members, and the broadcast, like most award shows, manages the devil’s bargain of trying to balance actual film critique with television viewership demands and its debatable reputation as a Oscar harbinger.
With this much inherent bias, the results should be surprising to no one.

By: cftoto

cftoto — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:30:18 +0000

Ha! Great line, Grofe.

Yeah, the ribbonpalooza always bugged me.

And why now, all of a sudden, do the award voters care about a movie’s box office?

By: Grofe

Grofe — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 13:20:44 +0000

For a moment, I thought Harrison Ford was going to moan ‘brains’ and climb into the audience.

By: Heidi

Heidi — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 04:47:13 +0000

One more question. If I don’t wear a red ribbon does that mean I don’t care about Haiti?

By: K

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 04:45:32 +0000

Well, conservatives are always bitching about popular movies not winning the Oscar. Here’s Hollywood’s chance to show that isn’t the case. As long as the movie is anti-American and left leaning they have no problem at all with picking the money movie.

By: Heidi

Heidi — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 04:15:57 +0000

I have a question. Why can’t celebrities hold their own umbrella? Do they have weak arms??