These may very well be the ramblings of an aging cynic. But it’s my blog and I’ll do as I please. We’ve all had those moments where some one older than us goes on and on about how “back in my day”. And at some point, we’ve all rolled our eyes. And just as the sun shall rise tomorrow, the day will come when we will lecture in just the same way. If we haven’t already. Over the passed two or three years, my rantings on this very subject have become more and more pronounced. And I shall consider this blog entry as my official step from still kinda-young-cool guy to old fogey.
Believe me when I say that the things I loved as a young man were offensive to the generation ahead of me. My parents would have never approved of a lot of the things I hid from them, and didn’t much approve of the things that they did know about. And the times that my grandparents felt the need to chime in were especially fun. And just as they didn’t understand my generation, I don’t understand this generation. Let us begin with MTV in general. I loved MTV back in my day. See what I did there? I’ve always loved music and the opportunity to SEE the music that I loved to listen to was exciting to say the least. And I totally understood the need to have breaks from the music videos and have an occasional show here and there. But now, there are nothing but shows and no music videos. Most of the shows aren’t even music related. They have crap like The Road Rules Challenge, 16 and Pregnant, and my personal favorite to hate on, My Sweet 16. Do NOT get me started on that show. And the show they do, or did, have showing music videos is a top ten countdown where they show a clip of the video and then have the host make whatever comment or remark that will make the live audience scream their teenage heads off like if they just saw Justin Bieber walk in the room. Don’t get me started on him either. When VH1 first came out, I was all about Team MTV and screw them. Then I started watching VH1 cause they were still showing music videos. And now they’re just as bad as MTV.
Now, on to the Award Shows. So the MTV Music and Movie awards have been the place for the people to vote rather than the critics or the Academy. Granted, the more prestigious award shows are usually right in tune with the general populous, but I think it adds a special dynamic when we as fans know that the votes come from us directly. But the choices being made now a days simply astound me. I could nitpick each category of each show, but for the sake of time I will choose only one to rant about. And the winner is, Best Female Performance on the MTV Movie Awards shown tonight(June 6, 2010). The nominees were Amanda Seyfried for Dear John, Kristen Stewart for Twilight: New Moon, Emma Watson for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Sandra Bullock for The Blind Side, and Zoe Saldana for Avatar. And the award went to… *drum roll*… Kristen “Can’t Act” Stewart. Really? Seriously? It goes without saying that Twilight is garbage, especially when compared to The Blind Side. But let’s put that aside for a moment since this about Best Female Performance and not Best Movie. On what planet does Kristen “Bella” Stewart compare to Sandra Bullock as an actress? Yes, Sandra came out in movies like The Demolition Man. But come on. The Demolition Man was Shakespeare compared to Twilight. Kristen Stewart isn’t even acting in Twilight. She had to play an annoying female… she IS an annoying female. Where’s the talent in that? Sandra Bullock in The Blind Side played a middle class, suburban housewife, which she is NOT. That alone means she deserves it more. Let alone the fact that Sandra is a REAL actress.
I know in the end it’s just me being an old fogey and rambling about “back in my day”, but that’s a right of passage. And I choose to exercise my right. At the very least I can admit where I am wrong, and take the consequences like a man. Any one that wants to bash me for my opinions here, go right ahead. Just please don’t defend Twilight to me. It will get you no where, fast. I won’t even waste my time responding.
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AC
P.S.
Just another quick example: Best Movie nominees were… Alice in Wonderland, Avatar, Twilight: New Moon, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, and The Hangover. The winner, as you may have guessed, was Twilight. Better than The Hangover? Come on. Better than Avatar. Shut the Front Door on your way out. Lame. Lame. LAME!
