Screw the irrelevant Golden Globe Awards and their boring winners

Andrew Garfield, Jean Sensible, Will Smith and Ariana DeBose have been the winners on the uneventful 2022 Golden Globes.
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As an ardent defender of the normally enjoyable and flighty Golden Globe Awards, which didn't air on NBC or stream Sunday eveningresulting from a variety controversy a few lack of black members, I’m altering my tune.

The Hollywood International Press Affiliation’s 2022 picks have been inconsistent and foolish. Who the hell cares about these European drunkards’ style?

Generally they leaned pretentious — like selecting the boring and overrated “Energy of the Canine” for greatest drama (completely no regular at-home viewers like this snooze of a film) and greatest director (Jane Campion) — over the much better “Dune” and “Belfast.”

After which at different moments they couldn’t care much less about nose-up trade peer strain. They shoved apart the lauded Kristen Stewart for her good portrayal of Princess Diana in “Spencer” in favor of the controversial Nicole Kidman as Lucille Ball in “Being the Ricardos.”

Jane Campion’s “The Energy of the Canine,” starring Benedict Cumberbatch, took dwelling the highest film prize on the 2022 Golden Globes.

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The Globes will predict the Oscars about in addition to my good friend’s cat can.

Actually, that is in all probability the final 12 months we’ll focus on the Globes with any actual seriousness anyway. It’s arduous to consider NBC will ever air them once more — the scores are abysmal — and most different award exhibits aside from the Oscars are getting smaller and smaller within the rearview mirror.

The Globes did make a uncommon few good selections. Will Smith’s efficiency as Venus and Serena Williams’ dad in “King Richard” is the A-lister’s greatest displaying in a few years.

Will Smith beat Denzel Washington, Javier Bardem, Mahershala Ali and Benedict Cumberbatch for his huge Golden Globes win for “King Richard.”

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And “West Facet Story” (Finest Movement Image — comedy or musical), whereas nowhere pretty much as good as Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Licorice Pizza,” is interesting to the typical viewer — even when the typical viewer has averted it on the field workplace just like the plague. Ariana DeBose (who gained Finest Supporting Actress) and Rachel Zegler (Finest Actress — comedy or musical) are terrific.

However for many who care (all 12 of you) and watched in the one approach doable (on freakin’ Twitter), you couldn’t assist however really feel this once-fascinating and defiant awards voting ceremony has succumbed to dullness and a shrug.

I actually don’t care in the event that they air on NBC subsequent 12 months or ever once more. In truth, I’d somewhat they wouldn’t.

Yet another break day for me.