You starting off your rebuttle against me by saying “WRONG” just shows what your problem is; you think your opinion is infallible, and anybody who forms a different one than you is surely just misinformed and prejudiced.

PS: Before, additional comments to posts I’ve commented on would pop up in my e-mail, but not any more…what gives?

The Golden Globes are a bunch of crap based on who has the biggest star power, not who did the best acting or directing job.

@foreign guy: In defense of the author, I am willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. If there is a chance that this article may be viewed as pro-American/anti-foreign, there’s a chance that he can be taken out of context and I think we can just assume that his concern is about nationalist bias, just like Olympic judges or the exclusion of countries from voting for their own competitors in international competitions.

I’ve already written off the HFPA for its lack of integrity and professionalism and can’t take their nominations seriously simply on that basis. But I do agree that it is inappropriate to create conspiracy theories simply because of dissatisfaction with the nominees or winners. The whiners who cried foul and cited homophobia over Brokeback Mountain’s loss to Crash last year fro best picture is just sour grapes in the worst way.

I won’t argue whether its more predictive or influential, probably the later, you’re right.

The point is: if this post is not a right-wing patriotic one, it sure sounds like it. Why are the globes supposed to be completely unbiased? Aren’t the oscars biased? Don’t the foreign press members have different sensibilities, backgrounds?

You just have to reduce these award ceremonies to the importance they have, and try to refrain from writing right-wing looking posts when you’re not pleased with the results. That will sound like simple lack of fair-play.

Is there a reason why anyone (even the average movie-goer) should give a rat’s tush about this?

I don’t mean to rain on anyone’s parade because I’m a film lover as well. But, honestly, something like the Golden Globes just doesn’t bother me at all. It may be flawed; it may be biased; it may even be wrong. I’m having trouble seeing why it matters, though.

I’d venture to guess that the HFPA isn’t so much a predictor as much as an influencer. Even the members of the Academy can be swayed if persuaded convincingly by the false perception of legitimacy on the part of the Foreign Press.

Miramax could be said to be a marvelous predictor for who will get the most prestigious nominations (including Best Picture) at the Oscars, but the fact is that they lobby hard for the nods they get, deserved or not and they’ve managed to get votes for some pretty inexplicable nominations (eg. Chocolat? Shakespeare In Love? Secrets and Lies? Puh-leeze).

Julian Schnabel as best director? Shocking! And to think they could predict the oscars director winner in 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007…

The Golden Globes have risen to receive a level of unmerited prestige that questioning their integrity is absolutely proper and needed. If this organization were properly exposed, they would finally return to their proper position as an obscure organization of sub-par writers looking for self-aggrandizement. If you’re not interested in the truth, then you deserve to be duped year after year.