Snubbed Comedies of 2010

After watching the Golden Globes last night it was really hard not to think there was some vote rigging when it came to the nominees for the best musical or comedy.  The two suspect nominees were The Tourist and Burlesque, which both were given 2/4 stars by Ebert and received 20% and 37% positive reviews on Rottentomatoes.com.  Maybe if one sneaked through no-one would suspect anything, but both?  The worst thing is that there were some pretty damn good comedies that got screwed out of the nomination. 

The number one film screwed over was Easy A.  I just saw this one the other day and really liked it.  Emma Stone was  perfect as the non-adulterous adulterous, and very deservingly nominated for best actress last night - they got something right at least.  It's a really funny high school comedy that's a sort of loose re-telling of The Scarlett Letter - kinda like How to Loose a Guy in 10 Days' retelling of The Taming of the Shrew. 

Two other screwed over movies were Get Him to The Greek, an over-the-top Russell Brand/Jonah Hill unlikely buddy comedy, and Dinner For Schmucks, a really good Straight Man/Funny Idiot routine played by Paul Rudd and Steve Carell.