This really is becoming an annual post for me to do, but each year it bothers me so much that I’m compelled to do basically the same article again and again… this year especially.
The annual MTV Movie Awards went off last night, and you can see a list of the winners on Rodney’s post down below. The most notable of which was the big award for “Best Movie”. I hear There Will Be Blood and No Country For Old Men came really close to winning (note sarcasm), but the winner this year was the obvious choice… TRANSFORMERS!
Now, if you go back, you’ll notice that I actually predicted just under a year ago that Transformers would win best movie at the 2008 MTV Movie awards. Why did I predict that when I hadn’t even seen the movie yet at that time? Because last year Paramount and Transformers paid SOOOOO much money to MTV that they not only had Transformers commercials, promotions and spoofs running through the whole damn show, they also made up an award for it just so they could win something. They made up the “Most Anticipated Movie” award. MOST ANTICIPATED?!?! And clearly they won. They paid so much, I knew it guaranteed them the top prize this year too.
But it’s not just Transformers. Everything that happens on that show is bought and paid for with the exclusive purpose of promoting upcoming films.
Why do you think Mike Myers was hosting? (ANSWER: Love Guru)
Why do you think they gave the lifetime award to Adam Sandler? (ANSWER: Zohan)
Why Do you think half the presenters and skit participants are there? (ANSWER: The studios buy them a spot on the show to promote upcoming projects)
Then they throw in a couple of nonsense categories for people to actually vote on (best kiss, best fight and then any excuse to get Johnny Depp on the show).
Look, we all know the MTV Movie awards are completely corrupt and fake and irrelevant and just a marketing tool. It’s a 100% staged show (and please… no brain dead comments trying to compare this to the BAFTAs or the Oscars or the Golden Globes… yes they each have their problems as well… but that would be like comparing some cheating in the NFL with WWE Wrestling), but at least there was some comfort in the fact that they at least TRIED to make it look like it wasn’t totally fake and staged. Over the last couple of years, even they just stopped caring and now practically flaunt it… almost mocking us for how much they actually control us. It’s kinda sad.
Everyone knows I LOVED Transformers… but come on… even I, its biggest cheerleader know it’s a damn joke to even pretend it should be mentioned as even a nominee for Best Movie… this was bought and paid for and we all know it… and MTV knows that we know… and they don’t care.
