Golden Globes, What's the Deal??

Now I have not seen close to half of the films nominated for Golden Globes, but I have seen enough to consider myself eligible to complain about the nominations.

Let's start with Best Lead Actor - Drama. I haven't seen any of the nominated performances, but I have seen "Moon" starring Sam Rockwell. And I use "starring" with it's strongest meaning. He's the only actor in the movie. He even plays the same character twice. Not making sense? Go see the movie!! It's terrific.

And as happy as I am to see "The Hangover" nominated for Best Musical or Comedy, it has a snowball's chance in hell of bringing home the Gold. I think "Up" should be considered for that honor. It was one of the best pictures of the year.

I am more dumbfounded that Julia Roberts was nominated for "Duplicity" than I am at the fact that I paid to see that movie. I seriously can't believe that of the "(500) Days of Summer" couple, Joseph Gordon-Levitt was nominated and Zooey Deschanel wasn't. Gordon-Levitt is very deserving, but I think Deschanel is slightly even more so. I can't think of another actress who could have played Summer. She should have Roberts' slot.

I wanted Woody Harrelson to be nominated for Best Supporting Actor so badly. Unfortunately he's nominated for the wrong movie! OK so this complaint is a bit indulgent on my part, but if you're going to nominate Roberts for "Duplicity" and Sandra Bullock for "The Proposal," it shouldn't be such a stretch to nominate a "2012" performance. Harrelson's character is one of the most entertaining I have ever seen. His character is unbelievably ridiculous, ludicrously outrageous, and he steals EVERY scene he's in.

It really saddens me to write this next part. My favorite film of the year was overlooked twice. "Ponyo" the heart-warming Miyazaki film is, in my opinion, "Up's" biggest competition for best animated film and it wasn't even nominated. I believe that in any other year "Ponyo" would be the best animated film, but "Up" is really good. "Ponyo" is so beautifully animated and powerfully narrated that it can melt even the coldest of hearts. It was also overlooked for Best Foreign Language Film (though it was released in America with English dubs so I don't know how that works). Please, do yourself a favor and see "Ponyo."

My finally complaint is with Best Original Song. Editor's "No Sound But the Wind" is hauntingly beautiful. I want to see "New Moon" just to see how they use the song. It's too bad that it has to be a film's signature song or "single" that gets nominated for these. So if any from "New Moon" were to be nominated it would be "Meet me at the Equinox" and I'm glad that very average song wasn't nominated. But I still love that Editors song.