Monday, January 15, 2007

The HFPA was stupid this year

Sometimes they're good, other times not so much. My biggest gripes:

- Babel was 1/10th as good as the Departed.
- Leo didn't win anything cause he split his votes with himself! Poor pretty man.
- Ugly Betty is not funny.
- Nothing was funnier than Borat.
- Cars was terrible.
- Everything was as most pop culture-ites / critics predicted - no surprises, how boring.
- Volver or Pan's should have won Best Foreign Film ... stop allowing Hollywood-produced movies to be included in this category just because they have subtitles. You're the foreign press association for god sake!

Ugh.

2 comments:

Kimota94 aka Matt aka AgileMan said...

Stupid = not the same as your tastes. Got it!

Anonymous said...

The HFPA was formed, and still exists, to promote American films in other countries. In fact, that's the first item on their mission statement:

"To establish favorable relations and cultural ties between foreign countries and the United States of America by the dissemination of information concerning the American culture and traditions as depicted in motion pictures and television through news media in various foreign countries"

Because American films do so poorly in the rest of the world, you know.