I'll try and get through this without stammering, the Producer's Guild of America somehow gave their top prize to The King's Speech, after an absolute strikeout, thanks to the incredible streak of The social Network. This has thrown me and all the other hollywood types for a loop, but ultimately it means absolutely nothing. The Producer's Guild prize does not have the kind of projection the other guild awards do, it's simply another pretentious group trying to give attention to another film so there is SOMEWHAT of a race (how cliché). They did this in 2007 when they gave Little Miss Sunshine the top prize. That seemed like a weak year as well, but if the producer's REALLY wanted to push something, how about Inception? I thought getting David Fincher to do an Aaron Sorkin script was an act of power producing, but Inception made a lot of money and has many still questioning reality, in fact, this whole post is incepting you right now.
Speech was aight, but really nothing to alarm QE2 about. Firth is breaking away in the Best Actor Oscar race, the film's award will be that. I think this was just lashing back from the garage-full of awards that have gone to Social NeTWERK thus far, not surprising, but there is no film that all the detractors can get behind. I thought Inception but maybe not.
PS
I'll be up at 5am for the Oscar Noms announcement, also, a flurry of posts in the events, awards and projections page
We'll see how close I am with the nods.
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