The Girl from Speed and the Drinking Movie are Nominated?

It’s like they’re advertising that this award show is a big jokey mess…

Sandra Bullock in ‘The Proposal’

As long as we’ve been around to see them, the Golden Globes have always been positioned as the ‘fun’ version of the Oscars - which is just a euphemism for the ‘joke red-headed stepchild version of the legitimate awards show’.

Well this year, they’ve stayed true to form by nominating Sandra Bullock for her riveting performance from 2009’s, The Proposal playing the hardass executive who is, of course, Canadian - a definite candidate for immediate deportation.  In order for her character to stay in the country, she has to pretend to marry Ryan Reynolds and visit his family in the far off world of Alaska.  Along her journey, she fights off dog-snatching eagles and inches her way into Grandma’s heart by breaking into an impromptu performance of Lil’ Jon’s ‘Get Low’. There were really NO OTHER Musical/Comedy performances that were better than this?

The next eye-roll of a nomination came for Todd Phillips’s The Hangover, which managed to snag a nomination for Best Picture Musical/Comedy.  Just to recap, this film:

Theatrical poster for Warner Bros. ‘The Hangover’

…is nominated for a major industry award for the past year.  No further explanation should be needed.

Now this isn’t to say that we won’t be watching the awards live and on the edge of our seats for our favorites to take away the awards they deserve…but we also can’t ignore the fact that the Hollywood Foreign Press might as well just give up sooner rather than later.