after hearing about bruno's entrance i figured i'd check out the mtv movie awards. in the past they've done a few good parodies (matrix reloaded and mission impossible 2 spring to mind) but overall it just feels like a big corporate advert and opportunity for all the 12 year old girls to scream about the dick from twilight or the twat from high school musical (this got real annoying, real fast). don't get me wrong i knew going in this wasn't gunna be the oscars but seriously your doing a (rigged) text vote (is there any other kind these days?) for best movie between the dark knight, slumdog millionare, iron man, high school musical 3 and twilight? maybe it's just my opinion but the first three are kind of in an entirely different league.
make even more annoying by the numerous stupid sponcers messages before the actual adverts. after plugging the best movie text vote it cut to a group the stereotypical dumb "sweet 16" girls voting for twilight all from the same t-mobile phone (one of the sponcers of the show of course). obviously the 12 year old girls prevailed and twilight won best movie. the whole thing just felt so staged and fake. awards shows shouldn't be like this.
that said it wasn't all bad. i thought the host adam samberg came off pretty well (so to speak - not to be confused with jizz in my pants) and i loved hot rod so he seemed a good choice for a host. i loved the idea of using keyboard cat to rap up speeches that overun - this should become a rule for all speeches everywhere in my opinion.
the "cool guys don't look at explosions" song featuring will ferrell was pretty good too and jj abrams keyboard solo was great, and should feature somewhere in the last season of lost.
ben stiller's award introduction was pretty funny with kiefer sunderland breaking down but i was a bit disappointed with triumph the insult comic dog. he just felt uber toned down and out of character really - more auto-cue fakeness i guess, which should actually be the tagline of the show.
always good to see kings of leon live, but they did seem like an odd choice for the target audience of the show which i felt pretty alienated from what with all the twilight bullshit. maybe they were just trying cover all their bases.
as for the whole eminem/bruno thing it was the highlight and probably the funniest bit of the show even if it was all staged which is pretty much guarenteed judging by the rest of the show.
so overall that was the mtv movie awards and to me the shittness pretty much outweighed the good stuff so i can't really recommend watching it unless the dick from twilight makes you moist/jizz in your pants. otherwise watch the highlights and invest the rest of you time doing something more constructive. like burn the rope.
