golden globes rant

[orangerful]

Why do I even watch the frakkin' Golden Globes? I mean seriously. At least "UP" won.

I hadn't seen very many of the movies nominated but I knew one simple thing - I did not want Avatar to win anything. It's just a special effects movie and not something meant to win a "best picture" award. When they gave Cameron the "Best Director" I was hoping that was it, but then Best Picture? Really? It's only going to encourage the hype machines and hollywood will continue to churn out movies that are based more on FX than actual story/writing/acting etc..

Just...GRRRR!

whatever, at least we know that Ricky Gervais was wrong - apparently you can buy a Golden Globe award if you have a billion dollar box office (btw, that only grossed that much because the damn IMAX tickets are 3x what a normal ticket costs...)

unobtainium....seriously?

*sigh* At least Kristen Bell looked cute in her dress. Sometimes she's hit or miss.

I've also decided the reason that I think Joseph Gordon-Levitt is cool is because my brother looks a lot like him. And my brother is cool. It makes sense. (Hm...I wonder if that's why my brother loves (500) Days of Summer...?)

Paul McCartney came out on stage and I joked that he was my little man whore but then he went and plugged the re-re-release of 'Yellow Submarine' and made my statement true so I LOL'd.

AD and I spent a good portion of the show making boob jokes because you could see a LOT of them.

I don't think I knew Amy Adams was preggers. She's still adorable. She picked a very nice dress to wear too, none of that belly-hanging-out stuff.

Robert Downey Jr. is the man for being such a goof ball. Made for a nice break but once you've been in the business that long, I guess it's probably easy to do.

I need to frakkin start watching GLEE! It's on my Netflix list and the season 1 dvd just came out so I'll have to get that.

after I get Hurt Locker which I want to see sooooooooo bad. The damn trailer gives me goosebumps.

Yay Jeff Bridges. He's the man. Or the dude.

Yeah, I'm going to bed now. Yay for MLK day - I get to sleep in!

Comments

[faeriesfolly.livejournal.com]

I just can't watch award shows. lol. I get all AHHHHHH! haha. I do like seeing the dresses and such though.

Glee is epically awesome. The end. ;)

[vertigozooropa.livejournal.com]

The, "unobtanium," issue has been addressed before, but I think people are failing to note the genre savvy involved. Cameron isn't claiming to have made the name up anymore than he actually claims to be king of the world. He was making reference to something else. In one case, he wrote his scientists referring to an impossible substance as, "unobtanium," in an attempt to be clever in-world. In the other, he quoted from his own film, the film he'd just won an Oscar for, in an attempt to be clever in the real world, telling us that he was feeling really good at the moment. But then some dickhead made it sound like he was bragging unduly (though when you win that many Oscars for one film, you do actually have the right to brag) and claiming to be better than everyone else.

People just don't give the man any credit.