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The 74th Golden Globes --> 2017 TV Awards Show Discussion
#26
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#28
DVD Talk Limited Edition
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All in all it was a pretty boring show. Fallon played it safe, but that's not what we expect from the Golden Globes. Safe is for the Oscars. Hope they step up their game next year... bring back Ricky Gervais!
#29
DVD Talk Gold Edition
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Ricky Gervais is really their only hope to make the show great. Tina and Amy are ok but even they aren't in Gervais league when it comes to this type of stuff.
#30
DVD Talk Limited Edition
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Fallon is safe as he won't offend anyone, Tina/Amy are relatively safe as they only take shots at certain people like James Cameron and his womenizing joke they did a few years ago.
#31
DVD Talk Godfather & 2020 TOTY Winner
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I really thought this one last year was uncalled-for and tacky.
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Sure I get that Rickey is friend of Jennifer Garner but that's no reason to ambush Matt Damon.
And this year, with Casey Affleck a likely (and eventual) winner, I'm not surprised they went with someone else.
I liked the opening bit with Fallon (seriously, that was amazing), but after that he was boring, dull, unmemorable. He's such an amateur after all these years in the spotlight. Plus being the Trump-normalizer that he was during the election period, he's the LAST person who should be making any Trump jokes. Seriously, this guy who asked Trump how he didn't get sick shaking so many hands? He has no business complaining about the election results. He's lucky Dame Meryl didn't rip him a new one on stage.
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Sure I get that Rickey is friend of Jennifer Garner but that's no reason to ambush Matt Damon.
And this year, with Casey Affleck a likely (and eventual) winner, I'm not surprised they went with someone else.
I liked the opening bit with Fallon (seriously, that was amazing), but after that he was boring, dull, unmemorable. He's such an amateur after all these years in the spotlight. Plus being the Trump-normalizer that he was during the election period, he's the LAST person who should be making any Trump jokes. Seriously, this guy who asked Trump how he didn't get sick shaking so many hands? He has no business complaining about the election results. He's lucky Dame Meryl didn't rip him a new one on stage.
#35
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It's a stupid awards show so that people like us who love movies (and TV) can root for our favorite pic to win. It should be fun and entertaining.
I love Meryl Streep, but the fact that she or any entertainer thinks their political opinion is worthy of broadcasting to the world makes me shake my head. And it matters not to me whether she was blasting Trump or Clinton or Sanders or Obama or whoever. Keep politics out of entertainment awards shows.
People watch movies to ESCAPE. How easily Hollywood forgets that.
#36
DVD Talk Godfather & 2020 TOTY Winner
#37
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And it really isn't a major spoiler.
#38
DVD Talk Limited Edition
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I don't have Netflix, but I'm able to watch it with my kids when they come over using their Netflix account. In the past 2 months, I think we've made it through the first 3 episodes so far.
#39
DVD Talk Godfather & 2020 TOTY Winner
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This is such a non-issue. Anyone else remember a few years ago when the Emmys showed the final scene of like ten series without any warning? They ruined the end to so many shows like Justified and Nurse Jackie that hadn't yet hit streaming services at all. It was awful.
#40
DVD Talk Limited Edition
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#42
DVD Talk Limited Edition
Re: The 74th Golden Globes --> 2017 TV Awards Show Discussion
It wasn't the time or the place.
It's a stupid awards show so that people like us who love movies (and TV) can root for our favorite pic to win. It should be fun and entertaining.
I love Meryl Streep, but the fact that she or any entertainer thinks their political opinion is worthy of broadcasting to the world makes me shake my head. And it matters not to me whether she was blasting Trump or Clinton or Sanders or Obama or whoever. Keep politics out of entertainment awards shows.
People watch movies to ESCAPE. How easily Hollywood forgets that.
It's a stupid awards show so that people like us who love movies (and TV) can root for our favorite pic to win. It should be fun and entertaining.
I love Meryl Streep, but the fact that she or any entertainer thinks their political opinion is worthy of broadcasting to the world makes me shake my head. And it matters not to me whether she was blasting Trump or Clinton or Sanders or Obama or whoever. Keep politics out of entertainment awards shows.
People watch movies to ESCAPE. How easily Hollywood forgets that.
#43
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#44
DVD Talk Limited Edition
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No doubt it's a free country and she has every right to say what she wants at an Awards Ceremony. But stuff like this shows how out of touch these entertainers are because most people don't want to hear this shit when it comes to award ceremonies, sporting events, etc.
This is an award ceremony where they all dress up in expensive dresses and self-congratulate themselves for 3 hours. So this is the last event where they have the tact to speak to the common person.
And I say this as a strong Trump-hater as I hate him with a passion. But I still don't want to hear about politics when someone is receiving a LIFETIME Achievement Award.
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#45
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I am not denying her right to free speech. She had the right to make that speech, but that doesn't mean I don't have the right to criticize her for it, for the very reasons I gave. I didn't actually watch the show, because I knew this kind of crap would happen. There are plenty of more appropriate platforms for Streep to "use her voice."
#46
DVD Talk Legend
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I recorded the show and watched on a delay.
I cant stand trump either and her speech was out of place long and long. fast forwarded through most of it especially when she started talking about sports.
I cant stand trump either and her speech was out of place long and long. fast forwarded through most of it especially when she started talking about sports.
#47
DVD Talk Godfather & 2020 TOTY Winner
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You know what, this is something that is very important and personal to her. It's probably weighing heavily on her mind. If she saw this inconsequential honorary award as her chance to remind people to hold the new administration accountable and support the free press, then I think she was well within her rights to do so. She's already won eight Golden Globes -- it's not like there are people left to thank. I'm glad she said what she did and it brought some of that discussion back to the forefront, and reminded people yet again what a microscopically thin skin our incoming POTUS actually has.
#48
DVD Talk Legend
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How courageous for this gathering of some of the wealthiest and most pampered people on the planet to take time out from wildly applauding each other to attack and ridicule anyone who dares to not think like them, while ironically reminding everyone how incomprehensibly dense they are for thinking their opinion carries weight because an audience tuned in to watch them hand each other some make-believe awards. I did learn that Trump will probably fail to carry the Hollywood precinct again in 2020, which I'm sure he's losing sleep over.
#49
DVD Talk Hero
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Why are people acting like politics at award shows is something new? And for as much uproar as she's getting, you'd think she did something more than praise foreigners and call someone out for attacking and ridiculing somebody. People seem determined to get pissed off at any diverging opinion from their own these days. Regardless, it was still a boring speech, but most of them were
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#50
DVD Talk Special Edition
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But everything's a political issue these days. Lots of people on the left are ALL about discrimination against the disabled, and then compound that with self-righteous hypocrisy.