Iffy Golden Globes Nominations
I wasn’t overly surprised by the nominations for this year’s Golden Globes as a whole… but there were definitely some that stood out like a sore thumb.
Sandra Bullock
First and foremost, we have Sandra Bullock. Now, I love Speed as much as the next person (“There’s gum on my shoe. Gum.”), but Sandra Bullocks acting always leaves much to be desired. Excepting, maybe, her role as a uppity, racist bitch in Crash, she’s mostly turned in flat, forgettable, one-note performances.
And 2009 was no different than any other year in Bullock acting: two predictable, fairly cheesy movies in the The Blind Side and The Proposal. We’ve seen her play these characters before, and they’re no better this time around. Yet, they both garnered her a Golden Globe nomination.
Yep, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association have nominated her not once, but twice this year. She gets the nod in both major acting categories, Drama and Musical/Comedy. I find it very hard to believe that there weren’t any other performances worthy of nominations to replace at least one of her nominations.
Meryl Streep
Listen, we all love us some Meryl Streep… but once again we have an actress with two nominations. This time, it’s in the same category. Streep is an incredible actress, but it’s a bit ridiculous that the HFPA have ignored many other great female performances and nominated someone who has already been nominated umpteen million times.
She may deserve it for one of these comedies, but my heart tells me that there was someone else just as deserving for at least one her noms.
Avatar
Of course, I haven’t seen this film yet, so I cannot make any real comments about the film. I guess I just get annoyed when films that haven’t even opened (and ones that really don’t look that great) get nominated over films from earlier in the year that really deserve some attention and love.
James Cameron just may have gone and made an incredible film with a terrible trailer. And maybe I will enjoy the heck out of Avatar when I finally do see it. But there are a lot of other films on my list that I will be seeing before I settle in and watch this sci-fi epic that clocks in at 2h42m. I didn’t even enjoy the trailer, so we’ll see how it goes.
