must rant

OK so I watched the Golden Globes the other day. The movie awards are divided into two categories: "Drama", and "Musical or Comedy." And because of the order they give them out, you know that they give the drama one a bit more weight.

Walk the Line, the Johnny Cash bio-pic, was nominated in the "Musical or Comedy" category (and ultimately won). Now why is it a musical? I know Johnny and June sing...it's a movie about singers. But it's hardly a musical. A musical uses songs to advance the plot; the action takes place through a variety of song and dance numbers. Walk the Line is pure drama. Drama ABOUT musical people, people who sing. But it's really NOT a musical. And that bugs me. Because it seems to give less weight to the movie - makes it seem fluffy and it's not. The two leads both won in the acting categories for "Musical or Comedy" - let's be serious here.... they're difficult, emotional, dramatic roles; they deserved the nod as dramatic actors. (Joaquin Phoenix actually made a joke about it and he's right).

Admittedly, I was actually kind of happy that Brokeback Mountain won in the drama cataegory. And that Felicity Huffman and Phillip Seymour Hoffman got the acting awards in drama (interesting, meaningful, breakthough performances for both). And it does set it up to be a bit of a duel at the Oscars (which don't make the ridiculous distinction). So Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Actress will all be interesting and surprising. Which is good.

But the Golden Globes thing still bugs me.