Golden Globes

I just started watching Homeland two weeks ago, and I breezed through them all already. Great show.

 

Just noting . . . if Clooney isn't the biggest modern all-time pet of the Globes, he's right there.

 

Sounds like Gervais was a lot of hype and failed to deliver on the snark.
All-in-all a pretty boring and lame show.
The only reason I would have tuned in was to see Gervais skewer the attendees.
Glad I skipped it.

 

The only reason to watch this event is to check out which celebrities say the hell with it and just get kneewalking drunk. Jeremy Irons won that award for me this year. When the camera caught him, he was having trouble making his hands meet when giving his polite nominee announcement claps prior to losing to Kelsey Grammer. Since that award was presented at approximately 6 p.m. PST, Irons must've tuned in to the Ravens-Texans game with a double Bloody Mary and gone on from there.

 

Drive was better than Ides of March, and I liked both films a lot. The problem with Drive is there are as many people who hated it as there are who thought it was one of the best movies they saw last year.

 

Yeah, the Globes is pretty much the "we don't give a shit" show of the year. I love the speeches, and the drinking, and the fashion.

 

In case you missed it's here's Ricky Gervais's opening monologue. Thanks to HC for sending me this.

 

I almost always miss it because of football.

 

Nothing to do with Gervais; it was all about NBC and the Globes. They bring Gervais back for the hype, so people would wait for him to say something controversial and hurt poor celebrities' feelings. Then Gervais appears twice in like an hour and 15 minutes. What lame marketing.

 

I think NBC got what it wanted. It got a ton of hype for bringing back someone who most thought they never would and then they got him to play nice. (I'm saying that based on what I read, since I didn't see the show...)

 

Golden Globes of my youth, for sure.