Golden Globe nominations were released today and, as always, there were surprises and snubs. Especially heinous was the Best Motion Picture- Comedy/Musical category. The nominees were...
a. ALICE IN WONDERLAND
b. BURLESQUE
c. THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT
d. RED
e. THE TOURIST
This list remains especially curious, not just because practically none of the movies were, by any stretch, good but because most of them are neither comedy nor musicals. However, now knowing what the Hollywood Foreign Press was looking for, a few replacement suggestions.
Alice in Wonderland- if Tim Burton's Lord of the Rings-ripoff take on Alice in Wonderland can be nominated, then why not disappointing sequel Iron Man 2, the yet-to-be-seen Tron Legacy, and the effective beginning-of-the-end Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1? At least with the latter people didn't leave the theater asking, “have the filmmakers ever actually read Harry Potter?”
Burlesque- if the almost universally despised Cher/Christina Aguilera rags-to-riches, Rochelle, Rochelle tale Burlesque earned a nomination, then Get Him to The Greek and Scott Pilgrim vs. The World ought to have been considered. Music played a major role in both of those films and they were actually good and funny. For that matter, why not Country Strong? Aren't they supposed to fawn over Gwyneth Paltrow and dramas where “real” actors sing?
The Kids Are All Right- I can understand this one, but why not Greenberg? At least nominate Ben Stiller and Greta Gerwig for their pitch perfect performances of awkward losers lost in the world.
Red- The best thing I can say about Red is that it was bland and forgettable. Of the multitude of team-on-a-mission movies that came out in 2010, only one was actually good and genuinely funny: the dreadfully underappreciated, Jeffrey Dean Morgan-led The Losers
The Tourist- If the universally despised The Tourist can be nominated for best comedy/musical than this category should be open for Coen Brothers western True Grit, lackluster conclusion to the Millennium trilogy The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest, Mark Romanek's tale of living a meaningless existence in dystopian Britain Never Let Me Go, and Ryan Reynolds claustrophobic thriller Buried.
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