MTV Movie Awards Moves From Spoofs to Shorts
Filed under: Awards, Shorts, Fandom
There are four things I will always love about MTV: the videos from the '80s, Daria, the first handful of seasons of The Real World, and the MTV Movie Awards spoofs. In many cases, those suckers stick in my mind more than the films they were spoofing -- especially 1999, when Alyson Hannigan, Jaime Pressly, Chris Owen, and Charlie O'Connell took on everything from Risky Business to Cruel Intentions. The sight of Hannigan reenacting the whipped cream scene from Varsity Blues is forever burned into my brain.This year, however, things will be a bit different for the awards ceremony. The Hollywood Reporter posts that instead of spoofs, a number of big-name actors are making their own short films for the evening, with the creative control in their hands -- namely, Ben Stiller, Robert Downey Jr., Adam Sandler, and host Mike Myers. Not much is being said about the shorts, but Stiller hired Mike Bender to write his, and Nick Stoller to direct it, while Myers' shorts focus on two new characters he's come up with.
While I love the spoofs, this should be great twist on an old habit -- and as a rabid Downey Jr. fan, I'm itching to see what he comes up with. How about you? Will these shorts convince you to tune in?
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5-27-2008 @ 3:12PM
Erik Davis said...
Here's my question (and maybe this has an easy answer; I dunno, I don't really watch MTV anymore) -- but how can they host a Music Video Awards every year when they don't actually play music videos anymore, and how can they host a Movie Awards when they're, technically, a music television station?
What happened there? Did I miss something?
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5-27-2008 @ 4:32PM
madgamer said...
I think it is just supposed to represent an awards ceremony for that stuff that reflects the taste or mindset of their viewing audience. As long as it brings in viewers I do think they really care if it's stuff they actually show (or have anything to do with) or not. I loved the movie awards shorts for both batman begins and the 2nd or 3rd matrix movie. They had amazing spoofs.
5-27-2008 @ 6:09PM
Mr. R said...
True, MTV is the mother of bad reality TV...like there is a good one!!! :P
Sad because the era of Peter Gabriel and Duran Duran videos was perhaps one of the most creative when it came to artistic multimedia. I like the spoofs too but the rest of the channel is total shait. If this is what the new generations are truly enjoying, I will be glad to be called a decaying old man one day.
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6-02-2008 @ 4:39PM
Uccball20 said...
I'm a big fan of the mtv movie awards spoofs. In fact, i think it's pretty much the only reason i tune in to watch the awards show. That said, i was disappointed this year. Even though it was cool to see Stiller, Black and Downey Jr. do their skit and Mike Myers with his characters, i really liked how they used to spoof movies. Jack Black's Spiderman and Lord of The Rings, Justin Timberlake and Seann William Scott in the Matrix, Jimmy Falloon in Star Wars were all classics in my mind and straying from this style is really a turn for the worse in my opinion.
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