Golden Globes This Sunday

This Sunday NBC will be airing the Golden Globes to what is likely going to be an empty audience. No, there isn't another strike on the horizon, but never before have a felt such a lack of interest in the Globes before. Granted, the Globes are always the bastard child of the awards shows, but people usually tune in to at least see actors get drunk. This year though is different: People actually care about the movie awards. All of them. I've talked to people at work who haven't cared about Oscar in years, but they are paying attention to every guild nomination, every win, because there are movies that people actually want to see in the running. In this regard, the Globes blew it. Big time. By leaving out such important films as "The Dark Knight," "Milk," and "Wall-E" in favor of lesser fare like "The Reader" and "Revolutionary Road" shows just how out-of-touch the Globes truly are.

So out of touch are the Globes, that this is the first year I can think of where everybody wrote off the Globes as having much of an effect on the Oscars just because of the nominations. When discussing Oscars the Globes don't even come up in conversation. Why? Because people aren't taking them seriously this year. So much so, that I wouldn't be too surprised if the ratings for the Globes are actually lower this year then previous year (you know, the year with that pathetic "show" because no one would show up due to the Writers Strike). But watch it I will, and we'll see if it effects anything at this point.