Downey Jr wins Golden Globe for HOLMES...

By Matt Holmes / June 25, 2011

It's amazing really how anyone can take the Golden Globes seriously when they awardRobert Downey Jr's amusing but all-in-all lighthearted comical performance in Sherlock Holmes as Best Actor in the comedy/musical category over the likes of Matt Damon's intelligently crafted corporate whistleblower in The Informant, or Michael Stahlberg's quite genius, and fearless portrayal of a jew trying to be A Serious Man. I mean if you asked Downey Jr himself, I'm certain he would likely tell you he hammed it up purposefully in Holmes just to have fun, and yeah it worked for the overall tone and it damn sure made it a more agreeable two hours to sit through but come on, this wasn't a performance of such ludicrous originality like Jack Sparrow - this was basically a crazed, doped up detective who could fight. Fun yes, but surely by anyone's number it was Stahlberg's award all the way. I mean is it April 1st yet, or what? Ah no. The real joke would be Globes actually awarding the best movies and the most intelligent performances of the year. Them awarding Robert Downey Jr and Sherlock Holmes means the world is as it has always been, and we pray the Oscars in March will save us, like they so often do. Downey Jr wins it for his culmative comeback, because he can turn up to an awards speech looking and sounding like a movie star, and because he's a likeable guy who can appear on Letterman and sell box office tickets. Michael Stuhlberg doesn't win because too few tuned in to see a guy they never heard of win the award, for a performance they didn't see, in a movie they barely knew existed. If A Serious Man was the Coen Brothers telling us that God doesn't exist and the world screws good, hardworking people over... then the Globes re-affirmed it last night. The Hangover wins over 500 Days of Summer... jeez.