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That was a little bitter making Tom Cruise present in a category his movie didn't make. All told a pretty good list of winners. I'm so happy for Danny Boyle who gambled and won big time. It's an emotional night of underdogs- Mickey Rourke, Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire. And a shout out to dogs, yay!

Good for Slumdog and Danny Boyle. Great film and a great director. Boring presenters though. Good think Sasha Baron Cohen spiced up the place for that brief moment. And when Kate Winslet forgot Jolie's name? Fuck her.

Quite a few open cocaine references as well...

I can't believe I'm seeing this, the Golden Globes didn't fuck up that much. Hooray.

Yay 30 Rock! Boo insomnia!

Ok anyway, hey riffing off that dybbuke thread below, could we ever or have we ever done a thread just on the BEST horror films ever made? I would LOVE some GOOD recommendations. I don't mean torture porn or stuff that would scare a 14 year old. I mean good stuff. Quietly psychologically scary stuff. Movies that actually left you a bit disturbed and shaken. Movies that force you to watch something happy afterwards just to get it out of your head.

Anyone?

AB Some badass horror films off the top of my head (that aren't totally obvious like the Exorcist etc):
Ginger Snaps
Lord of Illusions
Pulse (the original Japanese version)
May
Madhouse
Throne of Blood
I'm sure I could think of more given some time

The Exorcist was the most profoundly scariest movie I've ever seen, to this day I refuse to watch when I'm home alone. Strangely though, I can't wait to get in when it comes out on Blu-ray.

There was also this movie I saw as a kid wherein this scientist turned this guy into a snake, for the life of me I can't remember the name of the movie.

Yay for Colin Farrell, the one movie I liked him in. Boo for leaving Brendan Gleeson out, it's like telling Mario he has to leave Luigi back home when he goes to save the princess. They only work as a couple, ya know, separate them and the mushrooms win!

I could spend hours naming obscure horror films. Not necessarily good horror films, but obscure ones definuitely. Brainscan anyone? Videodrome? Actually, Videodrome is awesome. However, I don't know of any where someone gets turned into a snake. Unless you count Beetlejuice.

Ha. Edward Furlong was in Brainscan. I saw him in a couple of bad B-horrors recently and thought he was slumming it, but now that I think about it that's really been his whole career. He did Terminator 2 and American History X and about 50 bad cheesy horror flicks. Suddenly I have a new found respect for him. He's like a younger version of Robert Englund.

Whoah, Sssssss is amazingly, hilariously bad. Well, maybe it's just bad bad. Yeah. Sucks. But hey- man into snake. What more does one need?

Bring it on Sabrina.

Sabrina you gotta snake?

hmmm...excuse me....I have to go work on a script for a horror film....

Good luck pisaster, don't forget about us when you make it big.

It has now become my goal to get Edward Furlong and Robert Englund to star together in a horror flick. Preferably one with zombies....I...yes...I must go write my masterpiece now....(and I am now officially in that state of exhaustion where my ideas are insane/brilliant.)

Zombie Strippers is a popular title around my place. My brother designed the DVD box and poster and wrote the taglines. He originally wrote "They'll dance for a fee , but eat you for free", but it didn't get past the censors. He had to change it to devour...and he was saddened by the change.

However, he met Jenna Jameson and Tito Ortiz when they came in to look at the artwork. They were pleased and my brother went around saying "I'm one of the only men who has truly satisfied Jenna Jameson"

Yeah....he's still single, ladies......

Yes Pookie, I have a snake. It's a cute little coast garter snake. I named it Sssabrina, which is clearly different than my own name, but for some reason, people usually have a hard time grasping the difference.

OK, not really. I was talking about my penis in a sex tape.

I'm going to be subjected to some Pajiban ire, I suspect, but I thought Winslet's speech after winning for "Revolutionary Road" (utterly, utterly undeserved, if you ask me) was preposterous. I say this as somebody who thinks she's a terrific actress. Kate, honey, the discombobulated, breathless ingenue award receipt is acceptable only if one is a dark horse. You have been repeatedly lauded as THE actress of your generation, so surely you knew it was a possibility you'd win. Forgetting who the other actresses are when there are only five nominees when you memorize lines for a living is equally ridiculous. For once, I actually concurred with Jolie's bitch-face.

I might add that I'm pretty sure they rushed the "Best Television Series" presentation because she went on so long, thus robbing the entire cast and crew of "Mad Men" of their moment in the sun.

I agree with you Samantha, it's debatable if Winslet is truly the actress of her generation, I do believe Vanessa del Rio is the actress of my generation though.

"Forgetting who the other actresses are when there are only five nominees when you memorize lines for a living is equally ridiculous."

I dunno, I memorize lines professionally as well, and you'd be surprised how quickly a Brain Fart can sneak up on you when put on the spot like that. Reading other people's lines is one skill, speaking extemporaneously is a whole 'nuther skill altogether (even if you prepared notes ahead of time). That said, it does drive me crazy when people go over time...

There must have been a typo.
You meant to say...
ABSOLUTELY THE WORST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A TELEVISION SERIES - DRAMA
Anna Paquin, "True Blood"

Also, how did Gabriel Byrne beat Michael C. Hall? In Treatment was so boring. They must be punishing Dexter for marrying Deb.

Yeah yeah, Winslet needs to cut it with the flurried emotion-train act. But how hilarious is calling Angelina Jolie 'the other one'? VERY.

I think of it more like Winslet (Little Children, Eternal Sunshine, Finding Neverland) and really I just like Winslet better in her films. She's a very likable presence. I think she does a fantastic job in every movie she's done and she's captivating. For the record, I was comparing her to Cate Blanchett because Blanchett would be right after Winslet for me.

Streep's much better than both if you ask me though. Although, I don't think people really argue with that assertion.

I'd put Blanchett, Winslet, anybody against Emily muthafuckin' Watson for "best actress in the whole wide world" (though I put little credence in such titles).

I agree! I'm dying to jump in on a list of good horror films!Even though two of my top five (at least) would be more then, like, twenty years old, that's a list worth making! And, I'd even love to do a list on the BEST recent horror films!

When I do not know I ask questions, how do they seperate supporting from lead actor? I look at Ledger's performance and while Bale is the title character, their screen time was almost equal as is their significance to the movie.

I didn't see the ceremony (Sky Movies is too expensive for me). I did catch some of the Sky One Red Carpet coverage, with Fern Britton and the execrable Andi Peters. Talk about an amateur gush-fest, they constantly mugged to camera, and told everybody that they 'really really loved' their film/show/whatever.... ugh.
But I had to crack up when Ricky Gervais abandoned them mid-interview, to go fanboy-drooling all over some of the Dexter actors!

I absolutely do not think Winslet purposely forgot Angelina - she seemed embarassed and flustered about it. However, Angie looked like she wanted to run up there and beat poor Kate over the head with that award, which was hilarious.

I still think Kate's ridiculously adorable, and in my opinion, she's just as talented as Cate Blanchett. Streep is a different generation, isn't she? She's about sixy.

my scariest movie list:

1.) kids
2.) communion
3.) faces of death (1 thru uh... all of them)
4.) the anniversary party

for some reason i really felt like having a slurpee while watching the Golden Globe awards last night, not sure why.

And, why did they hold the Golden Globe awards in somebody's basement?

Because I only let the Oscars use my living room.

I find Kate Winslet's vaunted actress status mystifying. The only movie I've ever seen her in was Titanic, and that's just because I went with a group of friends to watch James Cameron sink a ship the size of an aircraft carrier. It took him way to long to get to the part where the ship sank. And then some of the horribly shrill irritating characters didn't even have the decency to die in the giant ship sinkage. The movie was three hours and seventeen minutes, and they could have cut about three hours of it.

although it does amuse me that people forget Winslet forgot Anne Hathaway's name as well...

Did she? I was snorting so hard over the Angelina thing; I didn't forget, I just missed it.

All the Kate Winslet bashers seriously need to shut the fuck up right now. No, I am serious. I will cut you.

Not least because the complaints don't make any sense. Feigned surprise? Look, maybe you people don't follow the industry, that's fine, not everybody has to and it's probably wiser not to know the water cooler talk of it so you can enjoy things more. But for this year, up until last night, the Oscar races for actresses' awards were essentially pre-decided already: Anne Hathaway was going to win Best Actress for Rachel Getting Married and Penelope Cruz was probably going to win Best Supporting Actress for Vicky Cristina Barcelona and if she didn't win it then somebody else who wasn't Kate Winslet - maybe Viola Davis, maybe Marisa Tomei - would.

Because as good as Kate Winslet is - and she is one of if not the pre-eminent actress of her generation, the generational successor to Meryl Streep's undenied greatness - this wasn't supposed to be her year. The Reader and Revolutionary Road are both decent movies, but neither one is particularly great, and Winslet's skill in both roles isn't particularly showy, she's just her usual level of excellent. Kate Winslet's nominations were essentially her nominations for being Kate Winslet. Sorry, Kate, see you next year. Except the foreign press people decided "no, fuck this, we have had enough of letting Kate Winslet wait around in line like she is Susan fucking Lucci or something," and gave her the recognition she fucking deserves.

And really, calling her speeches overwrought? What the fuck, people. Here is a list of all the major awards Kate Winslet has won: a SAG award for Supporting Actress for Sense and Sensibility, which was over a decade ago. That's it. She has five Oscar nominations under her belt and has won zero of them. Prior to this year, she similarly had five Golden Globe nominations which didn't pan out either. She has never won an Independent Spirit Award either. She has been nominated for MTV Movie Awards, People's Choice Awards and god knows how many other stupid awards and routinely doesn't win anything. When she said, in her speech, that she was used to not winning things - that wasn't hyperbole.

So she is allowed to be flustered and fuck you if you don't like it and fuck Angelina Jolie if Angelina Jolie gets offended that at a glorious moment in Kate Winslet's life, it took Kate an extra second to remember who the fifth person in her category was, seeing as how they're not friends and don't know each other and she could have gotten away with just thanking the other nominees as a group quite easily, but Kate wanted to try and be nicer and thank them all individually and bobbled it a bit. Because Kate Winslet is a nice person, dammit, and a great fucking actress, and people like that should win awards every goddamned year and usually it's somebody like Halle Berry or shit like that, and although Kate has a shot right now at winning an Oscar, the Golden Globe wins might still not be enough to get her one when Hathaway and Cruz have billions of (deserved, frankly) award wins under their belts already for their respective performances.

So let her have her fucking moment. Jesus.

yes! kate finally won. I disagree with colin farrell winning...mhh..maybe not...the problem is with the movie itself.
Anyway my favorite moment was the speech of mickey rourke...when the director showed his middle finger hahaha

Well, let's say I didn't LOVE it. Many people in this website did...I like to be the freak
;)

ANd I just remembered something: what's with all those famous that didn't show up? In every single category someone was missing! If even they don't care about the award, the golden globes are really in troubles. (hence the ratings)

Tracy Morgan was hilarious during the 30 Rock acceptance speech.
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