Want to See An Epic Fail?

[InformationGeek]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_MTV_Movie_Awards

Take a look at what won best movie of the year for 2010, best actor, best actress, gobal superstar, best... ah hell with it!  Look at who won and look at a lot of those nominees.  I'm getting flashbacks of what happened last year...

Anyways, got any epic failures or fails that you would like to share?

[The Burgomaster]

Looks like MTV lost any shred of credibility it might have had.

[Jack]

I could understand if those were one person's nominations, but the really sad part is it was probably voted on by a group.

[Trevor]

Anyways, got any epic failures or fails that you would like to share?

Here you go:


Haircut, teeth and underpants fail. 

[diamondwaspvenom]

I weep for society's taste in movies.

[El Misfit]

I weep for society's taste in movies.

does this include death metal?

[The Gravekeeper]

Looks like MTV lost any shred of credibility it might have had.

Well, the problem with your statement is that MTV awards never really had any credibility to begin with. MTV as a station lost all credibility when it stopped playing music videos and mostly stopped showing TV shows about people who make music.

An epic fail in my neck of the woods is the Alberta environmental act. It had promise, but it looks like the government's going to buckle to please the oil companies again (they asked that the wording of one bill be changed so that they wouldn't actually have to do anything to restore the essential wetlands that their activities damage/destroy). But then, Alberta's environmental policies have been a joke for years. When your province's tourism ads rely on depicting a beautiful, pristine mountain wilderness you'd think that actually keeping the area like that would at least register a blip on the radar, but alas...

[Cthulhu]

I weep for society's taste in movies.

does this include death metal?

Movies. How does death metal comes here?

[Rev. Powell]

I weep for society's taste in movies.

The good news is that list doesn't represent society's taste in movies.  It's MTV's audience's taste in movies.  Obviously teenage girls, and DarkSider's wife, make up a large portion of that audience. 

[ulthar]

The list does not surprise me considering the source....

I spent the last four days on a trip with a 12 year old girl who I could see voting that list into being.  Furthermore (perhaps this helps explain that list), she does NOT read.  Anything (well, except text messages on her phone).  She loves Steven King MOVIES and really dug PET SEMATARY.  Her aunt and I both tried to convince her that if she liked that movie, she would REALLY REALLY dig the book, which we both thought was MUCH spookier than the movie.

No joy.  She won't read it - won't even give it a chance.  She has absolutely no interest in reading.

She even stopped reading one of the Twilight books because it was "too boring."

Now, I've always been an avid reader as well as a movie buff (as I think many here are), and I'm having a hard time getting my mind around this active aversion to reading.  But here's our future.  The MTV generation can vote now (and this 12 year old will be soon enough) and will be running things before ya know it.

Have a happy day chewing on THAT one ...   

[Mr. DS]

I weep for society's taste in movies.

The good news is that list doesn't represent society's taste in movies.  It's MTV's audience's taste in movies.  Obviously teenage girls, and DarkSider's wife, make up a large portion of that audience.  

Happy to say when it comes to Eclipse I've put my foot down...for now.  I told the wife, go alone and enjoy it.  I simply don't care about the story or any of it's characters.  I just hope the lure of writing another scorching review won't  make me change my mind.  Apparently the last book is just beyond silly.

I'm sorry to all Twitards out there who believe this story to be the best (est) ever,  get real, Twilight Saga IS the most weakest story ever written. Keep in mind, I gave this story a chance!!!  Hell I kind of understand it's appeal to certain age groups but as a whole, it belongs next to the 99 cent cheesy romance novels with Fabio on the cover at the supermarket checkout.  And yes, I've told my wife all this who insists I'm just "being and @sshole".  But honestly, when it comes to not caring about what happens after giving the first two a shot (and not to mention reviewing them) I give up and just don't care.  

You can wrap up the whole series into one sentence; "Supernatural teens act very whiny in the woods".   It is an absolute crime Stephanie Myers is a gozillionaire from writing such tripe.  

[Jim H]

The list does not surprise me considering the source....

I spent the last four days on a trip with a 12 year old girl who I could see voting that list into being.  Furthermore (perhaps this helps explain that list), she does NOT read.  Anything (well, except text messages on her phone).  She loves Steven King MOVIES and really dug PET SEMATARY.  Her aunt and I both tried to convince her that if she liked that movie, she would REALLY REALLY dig the book, which we both thought was MUCH spookier than the movie.

No joy.  She won't read it - won't even give it a chance.  She has absolutely no interest in reading.

She even stopped reading one of the Twilight books because it was "too boring."

Now, I've always been an avid reader as well as a movie buff (as I think many here are), and I'm having a hard time getting my mind around this active aversion to reading.  But here's our future.  The MTV generation can vote now (and this 12 year old will be soon enough) and will be running things before ya know it.

Have a happy day chewing on THAT one ...    

The one thing we can be happy about is the rise of some of the recent teen series like Twilight, Harry Potter, and others.  Quite few teens and pre-teens read this book, then read other books, and for some of them this definitely spills over into a continuing lifelong interest in reading.  Not ALL of them, of course, but I know from first hand experience some kids who were basically dragged into reading books like these and ended up enjoying it so much they kept on reading other stuff.  I have no actual data on it, but it appears to me more kids of the younger half of my generation (millenials) read books than the ones actually my own age.

That said, while the MTV awards have always been crap, it seems to me the audience's taste has only gotten worse.  Consider the most recent five winners versus the first five winners.

First five:
Terminator 2
A Few Good Men
Menace II Society
Pulp Fiction
Seven

Recent Five:
New Moon
Twilight
Transformers
Dead Man's Chest
Wedding Crashers

Or maybe the best blockbuster films (which is what dominates all the wins) were just better in the early 90s than now...

[InformationGeek]

That said, while the MTV awards have always been crap, it seems to me the audience's taste has only gotten worse.  Consider the most recent five winners versus the first five winners.

First five:
Terminator 2
A Few Good Men
Menace II Society
Pulp Fiction
Seven

Recent Five:
New Moon
Twilight
Transformers
Dead Man's Chest
Wedding Crashers

Or maybe the best blockbuster films (which is what dominates all the wins) were just better in the early 90s than now...

Well at least Wedding Crashers is a good movie compared to the other and at least the choices they picked for 2005 are all good movies so I would have been fine with any of those choices.  Dead Man's Chest didn't have much compedition except Little Miss Sunshine, so I could buy it winning.  Transformers winning is where I see some problems become very rampant, with better choices like Juno, Superbad, and I Am Legend.  With Twilight winning, which beat Slumdog Millionare and The Dark Knight, it is apparent the people who are voting have no clue on what is a great film.

What really scares me is who Fantasy Film at Spike TV's Scream Awards.  That went to Twilight, which beat out Caroline, Watchman, Up, and Harry Potter 6.  They took Best Fantasy Actor and Actress.  Bulls**t.  I also take offense that Bruce Campbell didn't win Best Horror Actor, but that is a whole another argument.

[Jim H]

Well at least Wedding Crashers is a good movie compared to the other and at least the choices they picked for 2005 are all good movies so I would have been fine with any of those choices.

My opinion, Wedding Crashers is not only the worst film that won the award, but is my pick for the worst film amongst the winners AND Nominees combined..  Pretty much agree with you on the rest though.  I enjoyed all three Pirates films, and my favorite of the trilogy is actually Dead Man's Chest.  Main thing though...  Is that films like Pulp Fiction or Terminator 2 are much better than, say, Twilight.  I think anyone with a Y chromosome can pretty much agree with that assessment.  :)