The Golden Globes- The Most Difficult Year to Predict Yet
2016 was a fraught race between La La Land, Moonlight, and Manchester by the Sea. La La Land took Musical or Comedy, Moonlight took Drama, and Manchester by the Sea took Best Actor.
2015, that was tight- The Revenant, Spotlight, The Martian, and Room were in a tight race.
2014, Birdman, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Boyhood.
2013, let's see- Gravity, 12 Years a Slave, American Hustle.
2012, that was the year of Argo, Life of Pi, Lincoln, Les Misérables, and Silver Linings Playbook.
2011, that was between The Artist, The Descendants, and Hugo.
There's always three movies that are vying to break out.
The Magic of the Golden Globes, like the 74th Annual Hunger Games, is that there can be two victors from the movie category. One musical or comedy, one drama.
I'll grant you, the two competing movies may both be dramas (Spotlight vs. Revenant), so sometimes the comedy win is random (The Martian).
2018's Golden Globes, for film year 2017, are wide open.
In the Best Picture Drama category, you've got Call Me By Your Name, Dunkirk, The Post, The Shape of Water, and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.
I can't decide which one would win.
For political reasons, I suppose The Post could take it. But Guilermo del Toro is due, since 2006 would see Pan's Labyrinth lost Best Foreign Film Golden Globe to Letters from Iwo Jima (and it would lose the Oscar to The Lives of Others.) Thereby The Shape of Water could be a stand in for any story of love prevailing against adversity. Since Darkest Hour missed out on a Best Picture Drama, though, that means Dunkirk stands a hcance. And don't forget Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, which appears to deal with the indiscretion, inaction, and incompetence of law enforcement, an issue that has been at the forefront of the news for six years now. And then there's Call Me By Your Name, which also deals with a love that dare not speak its name.
I predict The Post.... I haven't seen any of these films yet.
As for the Musical Comedy category, we have The Disaster Artist, Get Out, The Greatest Showman, I, Tonya, and Lady Bird.
Of course I'm rooting for Lady Bird. It was a beautiful, simple comedy about coming of age that wasn't afraid to not take itself too seriously.... all the while, I knew that Lady Bird was experencing true and real human growth, figuring out whether she defined herself by her lifelong friends, or the hipster crowd that gives her an in after she falls for the mop top roustabout from the garage band... and as she distances herself from her best friend, Julie, the film avoids admonishing Lady Bird, all the while knowing that this friend is the type who would produce more fond memories tfor Lady Bird thn the ritzy ones, and would be most likely to stick with her for the long hall.
Fitting that Beanie Feldstein is Jonah Hill's sister. I thought of the scene in Superbad when Jonah Hill and Michael Cera get in a big fight, and Evan blames Seth for keeping him from making friends.
On that note, Seth Rogen is back with The Disaster Artist, written and directed by its star, James Franco. Maybe I spoke too soon, smugly calling Rogen as having peaked in 2007, and coasting along making the same type of movie ever since. Okay, I'll give him a second chance. But I won't give him a Neighbors 3rd chance.
Get Out probably has this. Unless it goes to Lady Bird... or The Disaster Artist.
I know that Aaron Sorkin has Golden Globes already for his Social Network and Steve Jobs screenplays. But I would be incredibly proud to see him win again for Molly's Game... though I haven't seen that one either.
Lady Bird, with its nomination sfor Best Picture, Best Screenplay, Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy and Best Supporting Actress is the most dominant film I have seen.
Yeah, I'm happy for Bby Driver getting a nomination for Ansel Elgort for musical or Comedy.
Best TV Series Drama has two of my favorite shows pitted against each other....
Stranger Things versus The Crown.
Then there's Elisabeth Moss, sweet beautiful Peggy Olsen in a dystopian futuristic thriller, The Handmaid's Tale.
I also have seen and liked This is Us.
Not sure if Game of Thrones is really worthy. But I've seen 23 minutes of one whole episode.
I just finished watching Stranger Things, season 1, yesterday. I started watching Stranger Things on a mild morning in February of last year. Will Byers is Missing. I learned that there was some kind of monster that took him. I knew that Nancy was in love with Steve. I knew that Jonathan Byers was secretly in love with Nancy. I also knew that he would do anything, anything, anything in his power to find his missing brother... that's to say nothing of his mom, Joyce, played by Winona Ryder.and so would Michael, Lucas, and Dustin, the three best friends Will could ever ask for. I knew that Hawkins' Police Chief Hopper had lost his daughter at a young age. It was strange and beautiful to put his heartbreak and grief into context when we finally see his daughter in flashbacks, episode 8. I guess I had predicted she might have disappeared, herself a victim of the demigorgan. Not so. She had cancer. And she was terrified of something in the park one day, something I hope that season 2 explains. But that terrified look on her face, knowing that this sweet curly headed blonde little girl had to face something that petrified her in life, it was almost more than I could take to see her have to face death square in the eye in a hospital a few moments later. Hopper reading that book to her in the hospital bed, then crying in the stairwell moments later.
The Duffer Brothers did everything right with Stranger Things. They baited us with the right kind of questions, and just the right scarcity of answers.
By stretching out this adventure over eight episodes, yes, there were slow moments. Yes, it lost its way... like when Lucas disappears to look for Will on his own, leaving Michael to start kicking things in the basement, yes, it was trying too hard to digress from a creepy thriller into a tale of boyhood, friendships and arguments.
But it always found its way back onto the course.
I've only seen an episode and a half of The Crown. But Claire Foy is excellent as Elizabeth II. Jared Harris is exceptional as George VI, same goes for John Lithgow as Churchill. There isn't a false step in The Crown. It's such an assured piece of work.
In other words, flip a coin. I'll take Stranger Things. I'll also take The Crown.
I haven't even seen any of Season 2 of Stranger Things yet, and on the basis of season 1, I would be happy to see it win.Best Series Drama, and also for David Harbour!
2015, that was tight- The Revenant, Spotlight, The Martian, and Room were in a tight race.
2014, Birdman, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Boyhood.
2013, let's see- Gravity, 12 Years a Slave, American Hustle.
2012, that was the year of Argo, Life of Pi, Lincoln, Les Misérables, and Silver Linings Playbook.
2011, that was between The Artist, The Descendants, and Hugo.
There's always three movies that are vying to break out.
The Magic of the Golden Globes, like the 74th Annual Hunger Games, is that there can be two victors from the movie category. One musical or comedy, one drama.
I'll grant you, the two competing movies may both be dramas (Spotlight vs. Revenant), so sometimes the comedy win is random (The Martian).
2018's Golden Globes, for film year 2017, are wide open.
In the Best Picture Drama category, you've got Call Me By Your Name, Dunkirk, The Post, The Shape of Water, and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.
I can't decide which one would win.
For political reasons, I suppose The Post could take it. But Guilermo del Toro is due, since 2006 would see Pan's Labyrinth lost Best Foreign Film Golden Globe to Letters from Iwo Jima (and it would lose the Oscar to The Lives of Others.) Thereby The Shape of Water could be a stand in for any story of love prevailing against adversity. Since Darkest Hour missed out on a Best Picture Drama, though, that means Dunkirk stands a hcance. And don't forget Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, which appears to deal with the indiscretion, inaction, and incompetence of law enforcement, an issue that has been at the forefront of the news for six years now. And then there's Call Me By Your Name, which also deals with a love that dare not speak its name.
I predict The Post.... I haven't seen any of these films yet.
As for the Musical Comedy category, we have The Disaster Artist, Get Out, The Greatest Showman, I, Tonya, and Lady Bird.
Of course I'm rooting for Lady Bird. It was a beautiful, simple comedy about coming of age that wasn't afraid to not take itself too seriously.... all the while, I knew that Lady Bird was experencing true and real human growth, figuring out whether she defined herself by her lifelong friends, or the hipster crowd that gives her an in after she falls for the mop top roustabout from the garage band... and as she distances herself from her best friend, Julie, the film avoids admonishing Lady Bird, all the while knowing that this friend is the type who would produce more fond memories tfor Lady Bird thn the ritzy ones, and would be most likely to stick with her for the long hall.
Fitting that Beanie Feldstein is Jonah Hill's sister. I thought of the scene in Superbad when Jonah Hill and Michael Cera get in a big fight, and Evan blames Seth for keeping him from making friends.
On that note, Seth Rogen is back with The Disaster Artist, written and directed by its star, James Franco. Maybe I spoke too soon, smugly calling Rogen as having peaked in 2007, and coasting along making the same type of movie ever since. Okay, I'll give him a second chance. But I won't give him a Neighbors 3rd chance.
Get Out probably has this. Unless it goes to Lady Bird... or The Disaster Artist.
I know that Aaron Sorkin has Golden Globes already for his Social Network and Steve Jobs screenplays. But I would be incredibly proud to see him win again for Molly's Game... though I haven't seen that one either.
Lady Bird, with its nomination sfor Best Picture, Best Screenplay, Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy and Best Supporting Actress is the most dominant film I have seen.
Yeah, I'm happy for Bby Driver getting a nomination for Ansel Elgort for musical or Comedy.
Best TV Series Drama has two of my favorite shows pitted against each other....
Stranger Things versus The Crown.
Then there's Elisabeth Moss, sweet beautiful Peggy Olsen in a dystopian futuristic thriller, The Handmaid's Tale.
I also have seen and liked This is Us.
Not sure if Game of Thrones is really worthy. But I've seen 23 minutes of one whole episode.
I just finished watching Stranger Things, season 1, yesterday. I started watching Stranger Things on a mild morning in February of last year. Will Byers is Missing. I learned that there was some kind of monster that took him. I knew that Nancy was in love with Steve. I knew that Jonathan Byers was secretly in love with Nancy. I also knew that he would do anything, anything, anything in his power to find his missing brother... that's to say nothing of his mom, Joyce, played by Winona Ryder.and so would Michael, Lucas, and Dustin, the three best friends Will could ever ask for. I knew that Hawkins' Police Chief Hopper had lost his daughter at a young age. It was strange and beautiful to put his heartbreak and grief into context when we finally see his daughter in flashbacks, episode 8. I guess I had predicted she might have disappeared, herself a victim of the demigorgan. Not so. She had cancer. And she was terrified of something in the park one day, something I hope that season 2 explains. But that terrified look on her face, knowing that this sweet curly headed blonde little girl had to face something that petrified her in life, it was almost more than I could take to see her have to face death square in the eye in a hospital a few moments later. Hopper reading that book to her in the hospital bed, then crying in the stairwell moments later.
The Duffer Brothers did everything right with Stranger Things. They baited us with the right kind of questions, and just the right scarcity of answers.
By stretching out this adventure over eight episodes, yes, there were slow moments. Yes, it lost its way... like when Lucas disappears to look for Will on his own, leaving Michael to start kicking things in the basement, yes, it was trying too hard to digress from a creepy thriller into a tale of boyhood, friendships and arguments.
But it always found its way back onto the course.
I've only seen an episode and a half of The Crown. But Claire Foy is excellent as Elizabeth II. Jared Harris is exceptional as George VI, same goes for John Lithgow as Churchill. There isn't a false step in The Crown. It's such an assured piece of work.
In other words, flip a coin. I'll take Stranger Things. I'll also take The Crown.
I haven't even seen any of Season 2 of Stranger Things yet, and on the basis of season 1, I would be happy to see it win.Best Series Drama, and also for David Harbour!