MTV Movie awards

So MTV had one of their two annual "look at me" award shows last night, this one for movies. No low budget flicks anywhere to be seen here!
But if you read the winners, you'd think there were only 3 movies (Harry Potter, Twilight, Hunger Games).
When I was younger I would watch this show as Jim Carrey won an award, and say what a great idea this show is "We'll gather a bunch of top name celb's, give out some gold, and anyone who doesn't show up will look ungrateful!" They tape the show days in advance, and film in an order that seems to pander to these super-weathly snot rags just so they don't have to spend the entire time frame in their seats for the whole show (life of the Rich & Famous must be tough). Then with the powers of an editing god, they put together something that looks like it went live-to-tape.

Now I'm old enough to be outside of the viewing demo, and honestly, I think everything on MTV is pure crapola. Don't even get me started on the fucking Jersey Shore.


This is the harder of the 2 award shows to criticize, since the other is for music videos, and we all know what MTV did to those. I gave up on the channel not when they stopped playing music videos, but when they stopped Liquid Television, and Ren & Stimpy. I should had gave up after they stopped Remote Control.
While the most part, these awards are mainly main stream movies, while the Oscars are more about the art of film making, but even they tend to be political skewed, or lean low budget lovers.


The "MTV Generation Award" is something of a kiss of death with the past winners going into some kind of Hollywood Limbo. Tom Cruise, Jim Carrey, Mike Myers, Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller, Sandra Bullock, Reese Witherspoon. All won & haven't had career ending movies, but they were not seen the same since which scares me a bit because they gave it to Johnny Depp this year.

Plus how seriously can an awards show be if the gave one to Kristen Stewart, 3 years in a row, for acting?