MTV Movie Nominations
Tuesday, May 3, 2011 at 4:00PM Whenever I hate on the Oscars and their very limited range of movie-love, I have only to glance at the annual MTV Awards to remind myself that some groups have an even teensier worldview. Once again the MTV nominations are a weird mix of movies that are actually good (Black Swan, The Social Network) movies that are super popular despite themselves (The Twilight Saga) movies that whether or not they're good or bad or better than usual or worst than usual it would never matter (Harry Potter) and movies that are deemed acceptable by virtue of either hipness, mainstream popularity, youth appeal or household name ubiquity of its stars (Kick-Ass, Easy A, Inception, Just Go With It) or movies that the MTV viewers didn't see but they like the star so it's okay to nominate him or her (Ryan Reynolds in Buried) and still look sufficiently populist and not like some stuffy film blogger. Mix and match!
Y'all know I approve of weird awards since i do pages of them myself each year so I've always been happy that the awards existed. I just wish they were more discerning. Take Inception. Makes total sense in all ways of looking at it that it would get a ton of nominations with MTV. But the KISS between JGL and Ellen Page? That was ice-water on a scale of hot, like a brother/sister makeout. Nomination that made me the happiest: Amy Adams vs. The Sisters in The Fighter for Best Fight. Maybe it's protecting their own -- SHE'S AN MTV GIRL -- but it's still a perfect decision as nominations go.
I already voted on all categories. Will you?
Harry Potter, Inception, Kissing, MTV, Twilight
Reader Comments (9)
The one thing I'm afraid of is that The Social Network will win, hence meaning I preferred the choice of the MTV Movie Awards to that of the Academy this year.
I don't understand why Twilight is more popular than Harry Potter. I'm a freshman college, so I'm right in the demographic of both (well maybe slightly above it, but close enough). Literally everyone I know is a Harry Potter fan, maybe 15% to 20% of people are Twilight fans. All of the Twilight fans are also Harry Potter fans, but very few of the Harry Potter fans are also Twilight fans. I'm sure this pattern is repeated across the country. The math just doesn't add up.
Ever since Twilight this show has become a complete joke because all their stans force the wins. Ugh...back in the day these awards had some great winners. Total crap now.
RJ -- don't worry. it's too high quality to win at MTV. It'll be twilight or harry potter since they have the über voting fans. kind of the way the tweens control which cute boy wins american idol.
Dylan, I think that one explanation why Twilight keeps winning it's because it's so popular now. I think there's more people who like Harry Potter, but they just like it, not love it or obssess over it like most Twilight fans. Besides, HP has been there for, what, ten years? People are used to it being there, it doesn't scream "new" (I know there are three Twilight films, but they're still quite hot).
I think the reason why Twilight wins is that fans like my sister votes for Twilight every freaking day. Me ... I only vote once.
it wins because it has the most obsessive (and loserish) fanbase that will dedicate many minutes of their lives to voting multiple times. No other fanbase is pitiful enough to do that - Potter fans don't love the movies as much as they love the books. I'm really hoping that Nolan fans will go out on a limb, though. Please, anything, anything except for Twilight.
This post finally inspired me to see Easy A (on Netflix, of course), and I have to say that while the film can't sustain it's own premise and settles for an "easy" ending - Emma Stone was as delightful as everyone had been saying (and miles ahead of the film itself); and I want parents just like Patricia Clarkson and Stanley Tucci. Emma's performance either indicates that she's got a delightful career ahead of her - or that she peaked early and years from now we'll look back and say "why can't she have more opportunities like that?"
I'm hoping it's the former option.
These noms are hilarious, Natalie portman against Kstew and Jennifer anniston... Jesse Eisenberg against Rob Patterson...Its kinda heartneing to see Black Swan get so many noms though, cos it reminds me of how big this movie got.
On that note, if Black Swan doesn't win best kiss, i'm gonna be so pissed, as the rest were boring and sex-less, hopefully twi-hards don't get their way.
The best villain catagory made me barf. Didn't wanna vote for any of them, and in the end I went for the Toy Story guy, even though I haven't seen it, cos it can't possibly be worse.Where was Mal? They could have at least had Voldemort.