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The 2011 MTV Movie Award Winners and When Did MTV Turn Into Nickelodeon on Red Bull?

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Miscellaneous | Comments (24)

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I don’t think I’m wrong in thinking that MTV was once geared more toward adults, even after they’d moved away from music videos. The first few seasons of “The Real World,” particularly the first one, for instance, dealt with more mature individuals. Crazy? Yes. But not in a take-my-clothes-off-and-fuck-a-bedpost kind of way. “Beavis and Butthead” contained adult humor. As did “Daria” and “Aeon Flux.” MTV News was a smarter, more dominant force: Kurt Loder Tabitha Soren, and John Norris put music news into the context of larger cultural issues.

If we had to find a culprit for the tweenification of MTV, it’d probably be Carson Daly and “TRL,” in addition to Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake and the second iteration of boy bands (MTV, I thought, weathered the New Kids on the Block years with some success). That’s when it turned, right? Or is that just when I grew out of it? Or was it always as idiotic as it is today? Now it’s just Nickelodeon plus three years and minus the green slime.

Here are your 2011 MTV Movie Award Winners (and if you missed the show, Courtney’s live-blog provides all you need to know in delicious nugget-sized snark).


Best Movie: The Twilight Saga: Eclipse.

Best Male Performance: Robert Pattinson, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse.

Best Female Performance: Kristen Stewart, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse.

Best Comedic Performance: Emma Stone, Easy A.

Best Breakout Star: Chloe Grace Moretz, Kick-Ass.

Biggest Badass Star: Chloe Grace Moretz, Kick-Ass.

Best Villain: Tom Felton, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1.

Best Kiss: Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse.

Best Fight: Robert Pattinson vs. Bryce Dallas Howard and Xavier Samuel, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse.

Best Jaw Dropping Moment: Justin Bieber, Justin Bieber: Never Say Never.

Best Line from a Movie: “I want to get chocolate wasted,” Alexys Nycole Sanchez, Grown Ups.

Best Scared-as-Sh*t Performance: Ellen Page, Inception.










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Comments

Well, that's disappointing. How do you give Miss Moretz "Best Bad Ass Star" and then ignore her breakout scene in "Kick Ass" for best fight scene in favor of... what was that entry... oh. Wait. I see. Nevermind.

I am Lubeg's giant bag of rock salt.

Posted by: lubeg at June 6, 2011 10:09 AM

I seem to remember being younger and having a vague appreciation of what was "best" in a way that didn't totally contradict what the "dorky" adults thought. My dad and I both loved "Braveheart" and Tim Burton's "Batman". We watched Star Trek: TNG as a family. I knew some of the things I liked weren't "critically acclaimed", but I also knew that those things were not to be taken as seriously.

Sarah Palin fans and Twilight fans share many remarkable similarities. Discuss.

Posted by: J Byrd at June 6, 2011 10:22 AM

Tom Felton was barely IN Deathly Hallows part 1. Helena Bonham Carter was the primary villain and she rocked that shit. WTF, tweens?

Posted by: TylerDFC at June 6, 2011 10:25 AM

I'm assuming these are based on fan votes, because I find it hard to believe that anyone who isn't a shrieking tween would vote "Twilight" for every fucking category.

Posted by: Craig at June 6, 2011 10:28 AM

Sarah Palin fans and Twilight fans share many remarkable similarities. Discuss.

Posted by: J Byrd at June 6, 2011 10:22 AM

I can't. I'm laughing too hard while I beat myself over the head with a portion of my cubicle wall.

Posted by: lubeg at June 6, 2011 10:34 AM

If the Lord of the Rings movies swept all the major awards every year the Oscars would be pretty fucking boring.

It's the same look, doesn't anyone else see that? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills here.

Posted by: Yossarian at June 6, 2011 10:36 AM

You're wrong about Palin and Twilight Fans. These are the same clowns that became Obama Zombies in 2008.

Posted by: Diggerjohn111 at June 6, 2011 10:51 AM

Diggerjohn111 -- suck it.

Posted by: Maryscott O'Connor at June 6, 2011 11:02 AM

I don’t think I’m wrong in thinking that MTV was once geared more toward adults, even after they’d moved away from music videos.

Maybe more "adultish"? At best, it was towards early twenty-somethings. There was a three year span where the Best Movie Awards went to Menace II Society, Pulp Fiction, and Se7en, but that was fifteen years ago. Also, where did I leave my dentures?

Posted by: branded at June 6, 2011 11:15 AM

Yes, but Twilight invented the romantic vampire film! What have you done, Yossarian? You've done nothing!

Posted by: MelBivDevoe at June 6, 2011 11:19 AM

Four awards for Twilight...

Well, it's official, MTV has never been LESS relevant to the world in which I live.

Happily, I can continue to ignore it for the next 10 years as I have ignored it for the LAST 10 years.

I do miss Beavis & Butthead and Daria though. Those were great shows. Happily, Netflix exists and I need never watch my TV again while still enjoying the very best, without commercials, at whichever time I choose.
*happy sigh*

As a total non-sequitur though, I do like that one Dairy Queen ad I saw a while back while visiting family. Old Fashioned Shavin' Bunnies are one of the best ideas I've heard of since Quilting Bees.

Posted by: Uncommoner at June 6, 2011 11:39 AM

Ellen Page won ???

Posted by: carrie at June 6, 2011 11:39 AM

MTV has been on my fucking lawn since the late nineties!

Posted by: admin at June 6, 2011 11:40 AM

If we're honest, Dustin, I think a good deal of MTV's material was always just a bit immature. (You're not going to tell me that Remote Control, Yo! MTV Raps or Headbanger's Ball was for adults).

But I think you're right in when the divide can be found: right around the late 90s-early 00s when "TRL" came into being. It's as if the entire MTV braintrust decided to tailor their channel's line-up to tween/teen girls. So you had TRL and Laguna Beach and The Hills all appear out of nowhere.

MTV now is like the teen Bravo now.

Posted by: Fredo at June 6, 2011 11:49 AM

It was always like that. You just grew up.

Posted by: MillyQPublic at June 6, 2011 12:16 PM

Justin Bieber is a "moment"?

Posted by: Todd at June 6, 2011 12:21 PM

Kid culture, or at least rebellious teen culture used to try, ineffectively to be subversive and dangerous. But from that sometimes came an awareness of the world, and a calibrated skepticism, occasional independent thinking and the rare commitment to a goal.

Kid culture now just wants to be taken care of. It's the difference between rejecting whatever your parents would get you because they got it, and demanding that your parents get you the latest cool thing, while the parents play along trying to be cool & the kids keep them out.

Think in terms of South Park. MTV used to be an escape valve for the likes of Kyle, Stan, Kenny as they navigate encounters with the real world. Now, the tween-tards have become Cartman every bit as parentally-enabled as he is.

I knew we were lost with the rebels-just-ask-them of the Internet (1.0) with their battle cry You just don't get it! went to company-sponsored parties, spouting manufactured lines about the new, new thing. They were manipulated into being little cash machines, each trying to be the most "bought in" to the now conventional rebellion that pays well. They went straight to Gray Flannel Suit land while thinking themselves edgy.

The Twihards are just as manipulated by the same hook. They want to be important, and individual (normal adolescent stuff), so they're looking to be told how.

Posted by: BierceAmbrose at June 6, 2011 1:13 PM

Are y'all even ready for how old I am? We were one of the first families in my suburb to get cable way back in early 1981. At the end of the summer, this new channel was put on the lineup (back then cable consisted of only HBO, Showtime, The Movie Channel and Showtime, if I'm remembering correctly). Anyway, we heard it was going to be "a TV channel of music." I was 11 and my brother was 9 and we both agreed that was the most ridiculous idea EVER. Our dad said if he wanted to hear music, he'd play his record albums and I rolled my eyes and said I'd listen to the RADIO.

So we tuned in on the first day of this weirdo MTV thing. Video Killed the Radio Star was the first one. We were MESMERIZED. Songs set to little short movies?!?!? THIS WAS TOO COOL! Soon we realized there weren't a lot of videos, so they showed some repeatedly all day long. We had little dance parties in the living room for the next few years. You learned to write down the artist and song/album info quickly on a song you liked. I can still remember quickly scribbling "ZZ Top, Velcro Fly" when I was 15.

ANYoldlady, it was kind of fun to watch back then. The VJs came on quite quickly after it started and by the time things like Headbanger's Ball came along, my brother was the perfect age for it.

Now my daughter is 16 and she was surprised to learn recently that MTV ever aired music videos. Yeah. Weird.

Posted by: Snuggiepants at June 6, 2011 10:53 PM

"Yes, but Twilight invented the romantic vampire film!" You say that like its a good thing.

Posted by: clancys_daddy at June 6, 2011 10:53 PM

Are y'all even ready for how old I am? We were one of the first families in my suburb to get cable way back in early 1981.

Posted by: Snuggiepants at June 6, 2011 10:53 PM

Damn kids... I predate cable. We had 2 antennas (technically, it's antennae, but both are widely accepted) on a mast. We received a grand total of 3 channels. But I don't want to be an old crank, so you can stay on my lawn.

Posted by: Uriah Creep at June 6, 2011 11:32 PM

I'm so glad I'm not the only 30-something who's baffled by MTV has become. But you know what? MTV WAS cooler when we were teenagers. It had Headbangers Ball and 120 Minutes, and a lot of that music has and will stand the test of time. "Jeremy" was in heavy rotation...Soundgarden...Nirvana. We're not just thinking that it was cool, I promise. And we're not just being old fogeys by thinking that it's terrible now. It really is terrible. I saw "Twilight Eclipse". I gave it a chance. I even paid money to see it (we won't get into particulars as to why, thankyouverymuch). It's crap. CRAP. The big vampire movie based on fiction, when we were teens? "Interview with the Vampire". Not crap. Granted, Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt are sort of...well..you know. But Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson make them look like thespians of the highest degree. And Anne Rice, as compared to Stephenie Meyer? Well, all I can say is that I feel horribly for Ms. Rice to have to be compared at all to such a hack writer.

All I know is that when all you're presented with is terrible, how are you ever going to know that there are higher-quality movies, literature and music out there? Teenagers these days would have to be really savvy to find the good stuff, because MTV is not promoting it. When they get older, they'll figure it out. I hope.

Posted by: amanda at June 6, 2011 11:45 PM

Uriah: I was born in 1970. I definitely remember antennae on the chimney and in Dallas we had NBC, ABC, CBS and a PBS station, the end. Hell, I can remember our phone line still being a damn party line when I was about six or seven. But for some reason, our area was one of the first to be offered cable and my dad jumped on it. Movies in our house whenever we wanted! WHAT???? ;)

Posted by: Snuggiepants at June 7, 2011 8:26 AM

Snuggiepants

I didn't expect any reply, so I'm glad I checked back in here. I grew up in small-town Canada, so the only American TV shows we had were the ones carried by our Canadian broadcasters, although we did end up getting a lot of the good ones (oh, Carol Burnett, where have you gone?) We too had a party line when I was a kid, and when we finally got a real line, the number was THREE DIGITS. People still laugh at that.

Anyway, I'm still, um, considerably older than you.

Posted by: Uriah Creep at June 7, 2011 10:36 PM

No Kathy Griffin Award for Tyler Perry?

Well I'll be damned.

Posted by: googergieger at June 11, 2011 3:43 AM