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It's official...Generation Y is definitely brain dead

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Its the MTV Movie Awards not the Oscars.
I find the OP's comment silly considering the audience this particular awards show is targted at.

It would be as if I was surprised that the Sunny Acers Retirment Society Movie Awards named Bucket List best movie of 2007.
 
Captain Craig said:
Its the MTV Movie Awards not the Oscars.
I find the OP's comment silly considering the audience this particular awards show is targted at.

It would be as if I was surprised that the Sunny Acers Retirment Society Movie Awards named Bucket List best movie of 2007.
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Once again, we're not contesting the validity or the grandeur of the award, but that the target demographic/selectees are so braindead, out of it, and easily entertained that they found this movie to be so great and awesome. That gives us pause.
 
biotech said:
This thread just makes some of you sound like a bunch of grumpy old men.

Is there another thread somewhere were we talk about how good music was 20 years ago and now its just noise?
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It is just noise now.

But, to be fair, it was mostly just noise twenty years ago, too.

Wait another twenty years, and you'll see what I mean.
 
I saw Transformers, but I'm not sure exactly what I witnessed. I was to distracted by the horrendous orange pallor of most of the cast, and the fact that I couldn't tell any of the robots apart.
 
Trekker4747 said:
Once again, we're not contesting the validity or the grandeur of the award, but that the target demographic/selectees are so braindead, out of it, and easily entertained that they found this movie to be so great and awesome. That gives us pause.
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It was fun and entertaining, and clearly the enthusiasm for the movie, its product and the ticket sales showed that people enjoyed it. I'm not saying it was high art (except perhaps some of the fx) but I don't think it's particularly cool to insult people because they enjoyed something you didn't.
 
God Magnus said:
Trekker4747 said:
Once again, we're not contesting the validity or the grandeur of the award, but that the target demographic/selectees are so braindead, out of it, and easily entertained that they found this movie to be so great and awesome. That gives us pause.
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It was fun and entertaining, and clearly the enthusiasm for the movie, its product and the ticket sales showed that people enjoyed it. I'm not saying it was high art (except perhaps some of the fx) but I don't think it's particularly cool to insult people because they enjoyed something you didn't.
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Exactly. I hardly claim that it was the best movie ever or even my favorite--two different things BTW. However, I still enjoyed it as a fun, enjoyable romp, just as I enjoyed Independence Day. But I don't get my proverbial panties in a twist just because somebody else didn't. Insult the movie all you like, but insulting people who enjoyed the movie is over the top.
 
Some posts got me thinking, a Pirates of the Carribean cartoon might have worked. Actually there's some designs out there for it, would have been called Swashbucklers, looked kind of cool, alas...


Where else would you be able to see this?
 
FreezeC77 said:
Yea, it's not really fair to classify what movies MTV viewers voted for. We're talking about the majority of the people voting in the movie awards are those who watch MTV.

If you're willing to watch Tila Tequila's reality show, The Hills, or whiney 16 year old girls getting a bajillion dollars spent on their sweet 16 then you probably are brain dead. It's not really fair to say an entire generation is because of what MTV viewers picked though.
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With this I concur.
 
Crash said:
I saw Transformers, but I'm not sure exactly what I witnessed. I was to distracted by the horrendous orange pallor of most of the cast, and the fact that I couldn't tell any of the robots apart.
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I felt the very same way. Granted, I didn't see much of it, though. I could see why some would enjoy it, though, but it just isn't my type of film.
 
sidious618 said:
Crash said:
I saw Transformers, but I'm not sure exactly what I witnessed. I was to distracted by the horrendous orange pallor of most of the cast, and the fact that I couldn't tell any of the robots apart.
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I felt the very same way. Granted, I didn't see much of it, though. I could see why some would enjoy it, though, but it just isn't my type of film.
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Usually this is my kind of film, but this one just stinks!
It gets annoying after three minutes when each and every shot/camera move just screams: 'Look! This is a Michael Bay movie!'

There was one shot... it starts on top of a building, goes right down to the street level (on the pavement), up up up the lead actor's leg ... just to show us that he holds something in his hand (of which we already knew that it was in his hand!).

What was cool in The Rock, Armageddon, and even Pearl Harbor stylistically was no longer bearable because it was just too over the top (I for one couldn't make heads or tails of any of the battle sequences).
 
Transformers was far from a piece of crap. It was entertaining and visually spectacular. A little thin in the plot department, true, and it certainly wasn't the best movie out last year, in my opinion. That said, it was certainly the coolest. The MTV awards are all about "cool".

As for Shia LaBeouf, I really don't see what everyone seems to have against him. I find him humorous and likable. As for acting ability, the script and story didn't give him much to work with, but he certainly pulled off the role he was given in spades.
 
Wow I looked at the list of past winners on wiki and A Few Good Men won the MTV movie award in 1993. :wtf:
 
With only a few exceptions here and there, Transformers has never been about anything other than giant robots smashing the shit out of each other. If you went into the movie knowing that, then you'll be able to shut down your higher brain functions and enjoy yourself. That does not make it the best movie ever, but it makes it fun in its own right. Realize that not every single piece of entertainment that exists is going to be Serious Business for the Enlightened Few. Perhaps more of it should be, but that doesn't mean that we can't have movies like Transformers too.

The amount of shitting this movie gets around here is astonishing, considering how often supposedly "high brow" sci-fi movies and TV shows insult your intelligence.
 
If the MTV Movie Awards had more pull, more credibility in the industry, then there'd be more cause for concern. But... I doubt they've ever been seen as anything other than a party on TV. The only time I ever watched them was when "The Two Towers" came out, and I wanted to see what they'd pull out for the spoof. It was there Gollum acceptance speech, which was a side-splitter.
 
Neroon said:
If the MTV Movie Awards had more pull, more credibility in the industry, then there'd be more cause for concern. But... I doubt they've ever been seen as anything other than a party on TV. The only time I ever watched them was when "The Two Towers" came out, and I wanted to see what they'd pull out for the spoof. It was there Gollum acceptance speech, which was a side-splitter.
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Yea, I haven't watched them in a few years so I'm not sure what they're doing for some of those unique awards... But I think my two favorite moments are the gollum speech and the Chewbacca lifetime achievement award.
 
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