Golden Globes over. My movie of choice (Pan's Labyrinth) did not win the Best Drama award. Of course, it wasn't nominated, so that wasn't too surprising. I WAS surprised to see that no Clint Eastwood movie was nominated for Best Drama, even though he made two - I thought that was illegal for US film awards - but then I saw that Letters From Iwo Jima is under best foreign-language film. Naturally. Because they always have to pair the Eastwood flicks against movies I strongly want to win things. (I haven't seen Letters and it may very well be fantastic, but I heartily dislked both Mystic River and Million Dollar Baby so I'm not holding my breath.)

Does anybody else think it's silly that Musicals are paired with Comedies by default? I mean, sure, Singin' in the Rain belonged with the comedies (if they had Golden Globes back then), and Chicago probably did as well. But Ray? Walk the Line? Dreamgirls? Last I checked, these were pretty dramatic. Seems unfair to pit them with the Little Miss Sunshines and Borats, thus basically removing the one big-name award comedies ever have a real shot at. (Though Ray didn't win, apparently, so perhaps my argument is less water-holdy than I thought, Sideways definitely falling under "comedy" in my head)

Of course, I'm still wondering why Lost in Translation was in the Comedy/Musical category all those years ago, so what do I know?

I don't understand why all the Running With Scissors noms were in the musical/comedy category either. The movie has a funny title, but other than that, it's straight melodrama.

Does anybody else think it's silly that Musicals are paired with Comedies by default?

I suppose, but I'm still more concerned with the fact that the Globes have followed in the lame footsteps of the Oscars in giving animated films a separate category. If it's hard to field five nominees, give the category a rest, especially at the GG where there is the Comedy/Musical category so that they don't have to compete with "serious" films.

Yeah. None of the movies were spectacular this year - so why should they get a reward? I mean, The Lion King won the Comedy/Musical award the year it came out, and so did Toy Story 2. The Golden Globes has been pretty good about awarding good animated flicks in that category.

We didn't do it!

A high-definition format movie has made its way onto BitTorrent. A pirated copy of the hit science fiction movie Serenity has been ripped from a HD DVD disc and made available to users of the popular P2P file sharing protocol.

It's the signal, mei mei.

The one that can't be stopped?

I like this part:

the hit science fiction movie Serenity

HIT.

Is this the first HD movie to be pirated? Is that like an award?

It is, Zenkitty. Whedonesque has been following the story. I'm not sure if it's a laudable occurrence, but it certainly gets the name out, and people are taking the thematic connotations very seriously.

Has this been linked to here? A great interview with Del Toro: [link]