68th Annual Golden Globe Ceremony

Hey guys, hope you had a great weekend...comin up now is my review or my thoughts about the Golden Globe Ceremony. For those of you, who haven´t seen the show and recorded it, do not read this article, cause it will contain a few spoilers of who won an award!
So first of something general about Award Shows, I personally love them, they are thrilling and those shows have a huge amount of glamour surrounding them coz of all the celebs around! Only thing I do not like is the obvious reading from a telepronter during a award presentation, I mean you are a PROFESSIONAL actor! You get paid a couple of bucks to act in a certain way on screen and you can´t present an award with excitment and WITHOUT letting everyone know that you are just reading a script? There were certain presenters that showcased their actor ability by really doing a good job presentating the awards! Tina Fey and Steve Carell did a nice and funny job, Robert Downey Jr. had his speech well prepared, Kevin Spacey seemed to read the pronter but with his pronounciation he did a good job of hiding it, and Tom Hanks was good as well! Cruel for me to watch were Swinton and Rush, they seemed so out of place here. So obvious just reading the pronter...I mean they are actors one of them was also NOMINATED for an actor award and they can´t do a better job presenting an award than Justin Bieber? Seriously?
At least they both seemed awake, not like Robert Pattinson who seemed so bored, they I can´t imagine why he is presenting the award other than an easy way of getting a paycheck!
Some other notes on presenters, Halle Berry and Eva Longoria looked stunning! And Hailee Steinfeld was doing a good job on her first presenter job!

Another general thing about Award Shows...they NEED a comedical host, there is absolutly NO alternative for a professional comedian to host. Everytime I watched an Award Show and it´s hosted by a comedian I enjoy the show for example the Oscars last year presented by two comedic actors, last two years of Emmy Awards a comedic Late Night Host and a comedic actor! And of course last two years of Golden Globe Awards with Ricky Gervais! Only exception to this rule was Hugh Jackman two years ago doing a good job hosting the Oscars but also he did it with quite some humor.

Now to the specific show! Ricky Gervais opening created some buzz both negative and positive. In my opinion he did a great job with his hosting performance and hey...you invited Ricky Gervais to host your show, you have to expect black humor so why be upset later? The Charlie Sheen-Jokes where nicely done and the I really laughed about the 3D comments he did with the characters in THE TOURIST! Good opening but I always enjoy a music number prior to the first funny opening! Just my preference!

In Christian Bale we had a GREAT and well-deserved first winner of the night! I thought it was strange tho starting with the supporting actor award and not start of with the least important award but I guess you want ratings from the beginning! For me Bale was a logical choice based on his performance in THE FIGHTER, allthough I would have loved to see Jeremy Renner taking home this award for his great perfomance in THE TOWN!
At that time during the speech of Christian Bale I thought it was funny to see the music being played to show the winner that it is time for him to shut up! Guess the HUGE clock that you saw in a couple of angles wasn´t enough!
Later on the show THE FIGHTER got a second award for supporting actress with Melissa Leo for her role of the family-focused mother of Micky Ward and Dickie Eklund! She played the role great with a great intensity that she was the deserving winner out of that film! She outplayed Amy Adams, who wasn´t bad but not as great as Melissa Leo!
Another deserved winner of a Golden Globe Award was Chris Colfer. He plays Kurt so great in GLEE, he has a great voice and he is a good actor. I think for him GLEE is a career highlight that will elevate him to a great theatrical/musical career if he chooses to!

One complain that I had about the show and I think the Oscars did it as well last year, was the lack of clips showed when actors were nominated! I don´t get it why you do not show clips from their role that they got the nomination for. I mean the actor is nominated but not for a certain role, so just show a small clip for what role exactly, show a punch-line or whatever and roll on!

Steve Buscemi and Boardwalk Empire getting the Award for best actor and best drama series was nice to see! It was a young show, that just started with huge expactations and it is nice to see that the press realizes what great work and effort is put into the show! I don´t know if I am the only one curious about that but HBO seemed to be all over the place. In a couple of winning speeches HBO was named and a couple of series nominated where on HBO! So a great performance by HBO to get that kind of talent and potential to their network!

I don´t wanna say anything about TOY STORY 3! It´s a great movie and for me one of the best movies of the year - hands down!

Ricky Gervais announcing Robert Downey Jr. with the porn films and so on was hilarious...that little brit has no fear even badmouthing actors that are actually comin next. Think it was a great job hosting!

Al Pacino sure got old, but it seems like he still has the fire! He seems to love what he is doing as an actor appearing in a TV-production! Just a great actor and one of the greatest of all time. I was actually thrilled to see him got nominated and to see him win was actually even better!

Jane Lynch...she is something. I think it´s not only deserving that she got the award for Sue Sylvester in GLEE but it is always great to see her winning because her speeches are ALWAYS refreshing. She is not standing there mumbling about how unprepared and shocked she is...she is just straight to the point and adds a little bit of humor everytime she gets an award. Thats the kind of speech I am looking for!

The highlight of the show for me, as a huge Robert DeNiro fan it was great to see him getting the Cecil B. DeMille Award for his outstanding career! Usually those lifetime-achievement awards are kind of a brag about how great someone is and so on, but this time I actually enjoyed it because it was well-rounded and well-done! Matt Damon was not in a state of AWE that he can present that award, the actually was playing it down a bit which I really liked! The Videopackage of great movies DeNiro starred in was awesome, always been a fan of those type of things, because 2 minutes of different movies can give you a great inside of what this person has done! And then the speech of DeNiro...I loved it, he was not saying "HEY I AM AWESOME!" he had the class to admit that LITTLE FOCKERS was actually not a great movie, he talked like a normal person, with a few jokes and overall with an attitude that was really great! Just a great person, an ICON and I hope he will be around for a long time.


The best actor and best actress in a drama motion picture will be discussed seperatly because I haven´t seen Portman in BLACK SWAN and I haven´t seen Firth in THE KING`S SPEECH yet!

Last but not least I gotta say something about the BIG WINNER of the 68th annual Golden Globe Award...and it was THE SOCIAL NETWORK! They won 4 awards that night one of them being best motion picture! It is just a great movie and it has everything I like about movies. It got the best original score award with a score that is not outspoken but fluently and driving in the back! It got the best original screenplay by Sorkin who has done a good job with nice dialogues...I mean just the opening scene of the film with Zuckerberg talking nerdy to his girlfriend is awesome!
With the Best Director award for David Fincher, he proved all his critcs wrong. They all said that he can´t deliver two good movies in a row...after his first sucess with SEVEN came the mediocre GAME, followed by the  big sucess in FIGHT CLUB, then two not that good movies with PANIC ROOM and ZODIAC and again a criticaly acclaimed movie with BENJAMIN BUTTON, this time directly followed by the next major successful movie with THE SOCIAL NETWORK! He proved himself worthy! Hopefully he can deliver the third straight success with THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO!

The last major award for Best motion picture Drama (I skip the musical comedy thing cause it was a no-brainer with THE KID´S ARE ALL RIGHT!)  THE SOCIAL NETWORK stole the show for good. A lot of critics stated early that a movie about an internet phenomenon can´t work but they way they did it with aspects like friendship, success, betrayal, greed, envy and the general lifestyle of this generation it can work! I can not confirm finally that it is the best drama coz I haven´t seen 2 out of the 5 nominated films yet, but for me THE SOCIAL NETWORK beat INCEPTION and THE FIGHTER...so now it comes down to those other two movies or SN wins!

Overall a good show with a few weak links but I guess that is fairly normal for a 3 hour show!