This Disgusts Me...

[TheHitcher2]

First read this...

"It was a big night for little gnarled CGI guys. At Saturday's MTV Movie Awards, ''The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers'' took home four prizes, including Best Movie and two trophies for Gollum: Best Virtual Performance and Best On-Screen Team (shared with hobbits Elijah Wood and Sean Astin). Gollum beat Yoda for Best Virtual Performance, but the wizened Jedi won Best Fight for his duel with Christopher Lee in ''Star Wars: Episode II -- Attack of the Clones.'' ''Grateful am I to this award receive,'' Yoda said, apparently live via satellite. ''To win, I did not expect. Promise myself cry I would not.''

Among humans, the top prize winners were ''Spider-Man'''s Kirsten Dunst (Best Female Performance and Best Kiss for her upside-down liplock with Tobey Maguire) and ''8 Mile'''s Eminem (Best Male Performance and Breakthrough Performance Male). In a pretaped acceptance speech, he continued his feud with Mariah Carey, joking of his Breakthrough award, ''I can’t believe I beat Mariah for 'Glitter.'''

Other winners of the ceremony's golden popcorn buckets included Mike Myers (Best Comedic Performance for ''Austin Powers in Goldmember''), Daveigh Chase (the little girl from ''The Ring,'' for Best Villain), Jennifer Garner (Breakthrough Performance Female for ''Daredevil''), and the Helms Deep battle from ''Two Towers'' for Best Action Sequence. The awards show, hosted by Seann William Scott and Justin Timberlake from the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, will air on MTV on June 5."






And now this:

Which movie awards matter most to you?

45% The MTV Movie Awards
32% The Oscars®
18% My own top ten list
2% The Golden Globes
2% Film fest awards (Sundance, Cannes)

(From AOL Polls)






This is why so many shitty movies get put into theaters...the retarded public and pop-culture fiends love the bullshit!

[Jon Lyrik]

People care more about award shows than what they think? Suprising.

[Puckat22]

This Disgust Me

I'am not sure why you even made this thread. I mean come on, If you think hard enough if it was not for the and I quote "the retarded public and pop-culture fiends" are what make hollywood. If these people did not watch these shows or sit there ass's in the seats come summer time hollywood would make no money. And if hollywood is making no money then these great independent films that get backed by someone or some company affiliated with a big hollywood mainstream company would never exist. These so called crappy pop-culture movies are what people demand and without them hollywood our movies in general would not exist. I know it sucks but some of them are good and some suck but it is what hollywood is all about and without them this rant, rant, rant forum would never exist. So lets just sit back hold hands and prey that one day not to to far from now that the world will change and expensive action packed popcorn movies are replaced with coffee house slow paced yet very very deep movies......But until then grab the GF and get a hummer during the slow parts of 2Fast 2Furious because there is nothing else you can do!

Now that is just my opinion so (In the words of my man B-Rad Malibu's Most Wnated Y'aaal) Don't Hate

[free]

Originally posted by TheHitcher2
This is why so many shitty movies get put into theaters...the retarded public and pop-culture fiends love the bullshit!


To quote Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls:


I'm sorry, how selfish of me. Lets do all the things that YOU wanna do."

[Fulci_Fan]

I'm glad a bunch of crap is being produced nowa days... It makes me feel hip and smart that I can talk about Independent Films and good movies while people around me think that I am actually smart for 10 minutes....

Just kidding.

But yeah it is pretty lame.. I like watching it still, just because you get to see some pretty funny acceptance speeches.

[Haddonfield]

While Watching Harrison Ford in an interview on HBO this weekend...he said something that stuck with me....Celibrity is Business now.

[Sugar_Kane]

Well I think that award shows like the MTV awards are just for entertainment which is what people like. I don't think that they should all be taken so seriously. As for the shitty movies being put out, they are very popular and will keep being put out to make money.

[The Postmaster General]

Yeah, these movie awards are for entertainment. The problem is when people don't see them for what they are. I mean, they are lots of things, but not the end all word of what's good out there.

It's all in good fun, and I don't care if people see the movies they want to see. It isn't like it hurts me in some way when a crap movie is made.

Then again.... My knee has been bothering me today, and there are a bunch of stinkers getting ready to open....

[AgentSmith]

Pathetic and disturbing..

The MTV Awards are better than Oscars???

[Jim H]

I gotta ask... Who votes on the MTV movie awards?

If I had been 9 years old, I wouldn't of thought Kirsten Dunst gave the best female performance of that year..

[Grebdron]

I don't think the MTV awards are any better...or worse...than the Oscars. They're all the same meaningless hype, IMHO.

[Lyle Waggoner]

Originally posted by Jon Lyrik
People care more about award shows than what they think? Suprising.
You took the words right out of my mouth.

Anyhow, as to the rest of the subject - there seems to be some idea that things are getting "worse" in regards to the amount of Hollywood pap out there. I don't believe it's true at all. I do think that there are peaks where film has had more quality than other eras, but just look at the 50's for evidence of a cheap, tacky glut of disposable crap for unsophisticated audiences (which is not to say that there wasn't some brilliant film-making that decade, either). The fact is though, that it doesn't matter how much of this material exists (I even like a fair bit of it) - whatever films are made are made, and we'll enjoy some of them, and some of them we'll hate. In my opinion, there are still more than enough films being made to interest me.

And if a majority of people at an AOL poll (of all places) like the MTV Movie awards more than the Oscars, good luck to them. I can see why there's anxiety over the Oscars because it can affect career opportunities for those that win and those that don't (for better or worse), but I can't see the point of being anxious over the fact that the MTV awards shares the same wide consumer appeal that the films that win their awards do. I think you can relax in the knowledge that hardly anybody remembers who won "best breakthrough performance" at the 1998 MTV Movie awards.

[Pootie]

I would've guessed that much. The general public are usually oafs it seems. Or mabey it's me.

[AgentSmith]

Originally posted by Pootie
I would've guessed that much. The general public are usually oafs it seems. Or mabey it's me.

No it isn't you..

21 and under giving Pearl Harbor an A+ is embarrassing to my age group!

[Jim H]

Wait.. Who gave Pearl Harbor an A+? Even my semi-retarded friends who LOVE movies like Gone in 60 Seconds HATED Pearl Harbor for the most part. I don't know anyone who actually thought the romance was well-done, and yes, I know a few females...

[Trinity]

Originally posted by TheHitcher2
B]Which movie awards matter most to you?

45% The MTV Movie Awards
32% The Oscars®
18% My own top ten list
2% The Golden Globes
2% Film fest awards (Sundance, Cannes)

[/B]
What the hell, I'll rank 'em:

1. My own top 10 (well, duh)
2. Oscars (love them even when I think they're unfair)
3. Globes
4. SAG (and other guild awards)
5. BAFTAs
6. Indie Spirit Awards
7. Festival Awards
...
...
...MTV Awards (they can rot in hell for all I care, and I LOVE movie award shows).

[the p&j experiance]

The only thing that matters to me is my own top 10 list (or my top 20/100/200 etc.) The only thing that matters is what you thought about the movie, not if it gets any fuckin' awards. One of the most overrated movies in my opinion is "A Beautiful Mind" and it won Best Picture.