You are so right...
Please note that this award is connected and set up by the Hollywood FOREIGN press members. That's 'foreigners' folks and media, to boot! Do you think they represent the mainstream audience in the USA?
@#$% NO!
This is another jokey award show like the hundreds of others. Maybe one of the oldest but to win you only have to have the majority out of 100 or so votes possible.
Does this sound like a mouse or lion size public award vote?
Mostly mousey or more like it foreign rat.
I'd say that any award show for a movie is lame. Even the Academy Awards was originally just a publicity stunt to garner anti-union sentiment against SAG (or whatever it was called back then).
My advice: You think a movie is going to be decent, go see it. If you think it's not going to suit you, then don't see it.
I've made mistakes using this method, but it generally works.