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The 5 Most Egregious Demo-Baiting Nominations Among This Year's MTV Movie Awards

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (18)

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It’s that time of year again, folks, where MTV announces its Movie Award nominations and we all tremble with fear at the prospect of the MTV demo controlling Social Security someday. No. It won’t exist as it is currently formulated. When this generation takes over, only those with the most Twitter followers will receive checks. The rest of us will have to subsist on rations passed out by MySpace’s Tom (bad 00’s joke alert).

Below is the full list of nominations for this year’s awards, but first, here’s the select five most egregious demo-baiting nominations in this year’s MTV Movie Awards:

5. Best Movie: The Twilight Saga

4. Best Kiss: Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson — The Twilight Saga: Eclipse;
Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner — The Twilight Saga: Eclipse

3. Best Comedic Performance: Ashton Kutcher, No Strings Attached

2. Best Male Performance: Zac Efron (Charlie St. Cloud)

1. Most Jaw-Dropping Moment: Justin Bieber — Justin Bieber: Never Say Never

… and here are the rest of the nominations.

Best Movie
Black Swan
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Inception
The Social Network
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse

Best Comedic Performance
Adam Sandler — Just Go With It
Ashton Kutcher — No Strings Attached
Emma Stone — Easy A
Russell Brand — Get Him to the Greek
Zach Galifianakis — Due Date

Best Jaw-Dropping Moment
James Franco — 127 Hours, Cuts Off His Arm
Justin Bieber — Justin Bieber: Never Say Never, Performance Spectacular
Leonardo DiCaprio and Ellen Page — Inception, Paris Café Scene
Natalie Portman — Black Swan, Mutilation: Pulls The Skin Off Her Finger
Steve-O — Jackass 3D, Port-A-Potty Bungee Stunt

Best Female Performance
Emma Stone (Easy A)
Emma Watson (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part 1)
Jennifer Aniston (Just Go With It)
Kristen Stewart (The Twilight Saga: Eclipse)
Natalie Portman (Black Swan)

Best Male Performance
Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part 1)
Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network)
Robert Pattinson (The Twilight Saga: Eclipse)
Taylor Lautner (The Twilight Saga: Eclipse)
Zac Efron (Charlie St. Cloud)

Best Kiss
Ellen Page and Joseph Gordon-Levitt — Inception
Emma Watson and Daniel Radcliffe — Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson — The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner — The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis — Black Swan

Best Line from a Movie
“I want to get chocolate wasted.” -Alexys Nycole Sanchez (Grown Ups)
“There is a higher power that will judge you for your indecency.” “Tom Cruise?” -Amanda Bynes and Emma Stone (Easy A)
“If you guys were the inventors of Facebook, you’d have invented Facebook.” — Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network)
” …A million dollars isn’t cool You know what’s cool?” “A billion dollars. And that shut everybody up.” -Justin Timberlake and Andrew Garfield (The Social Network)
“You mustn’t be afraid to dream a little bigger darling.” -Tom Hardy (Inception)










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Comments

What? No 'Best Line" nom for "Don't FISH eat other FISH? The Marlons and the Trouts?!" from the Social Network?

Oh wait... It's the MTV movie awards. Nevermind. My mistake. Go on with your day, nothing to see here. As usual it's a Twilight throw-down against itself... Ho hum.

Posted by: Lisa Bee at May 3, 2011 1:15 PM

Best Comedic Performance
Adam Sandler — Just Go With It
Ashton Kutcher — No Strings Attached
Russell Brand — Get Him to the Greek

This is what the kids refer to as "Epic Fail"

/old fogey

Posted by: Fredo at May 3, 2011 1:15 PM

Best line? Best line?! God, I hate MTV.

Posted by: RobP at May 3, 2011 1:16 PM

What is this I don't even-

Posted by: Noah at May 3, 2011 1:19 PM

Heh. "Baiting."

*makes wanking motion with hand*

Fuckin' perv.

Posted by: Kballs at May 3, 2011 1:24 PM

Most Jaw-Dropping Moment: Justin Bieber

I knew it!!!

Posted by: Kballs at May 3, 2011 1:25 PM

(bad 00’s joke alert)

Too late, and now I will never be able to forget that joke.

The Justin Bieber thing seems appropriate enough. My jaw drops to the floor every time I remember that kid is a famous "musician." He's got to be the weakest singer I've ever heard who was actually a recording artist, and I'm including the likes of Britney Spears in here.

And wow, those are the best lines of the year? Some of them are so bad, I'm surprised they weren't outright cut from their respective movies.

Posted by: Socrates_Johnson at May 3, 2011 1:31 PM

Wait - all of the "best lines" are from the movies' previews. It can be fairly and simply argued with available evidence that those who "nominated" these movies didn't even see them.

Posted by: Byrd at May 3, 2011 1:44 PM

Are "Best Kiss" and "Best Line" a real thing? Not made up as the sarcastic parody component of this post?

Dear God!

Posted by: PaddyDog at May 3, 2011 2:00 PM

Best Kick in the Audience's Nads (1 nomination):
The 2011 MTV Movie Awards.

Posted by: The Wanderer at May 3, 2011 2:06 PM

The other day my stepdaughter's cellphone went off and it was some awful auto-tuned train wreck of a song. I told her how and why it was awful and she remarked that "It's better than Justin Beiber at least." I proceeded to actually defend the young Canadian demon spawn due to the fact that at least he sang. He didn't use auto-tune, which as a musician I find to be right up there with the nuclear bomb in terms of destructive inventions. As soon as I realized that I had, in fact, argued FOR the talent of Beiber, I softly wept. For myself and music in general.

Posted by: Paultera at May 3, 2011 2:43 PM

When I was of the age/demo that this is clearly pandering to, MTV wasn't pandering to my age/demo. What has happened in this world?

I was about to dissect the entire list of nominees, but it's just not worth the brain power involved to put the analysis into cohesive sentences. And by analysis I of course mean list of unanswerable questions.

Posted by: SJ from SJ at May 3, 2011 3:16 PM

Most Jaw-Dropping Moment: Justin Bieber — "Justin Bieber: Never Say Never" in the scene where Justin Bieber's testicles drop. "Raw" and "brutally honest film making," said critics.

Posted by: Rob at May 3, 2011 3:25 PM

I propose a new category: Best Half Smile, a.k.a. The Katie Holmes.

Posted by: Sofia at May 3, 2011 3:44 PM

The MTV Movie Award nominations confuse me when they slip in a few nominations corresponding to real films with the other populist crap. They should just keep all the nominations crap so that no one has any illusions about what's going on here.

I don't even get that Tom Cruise joke. People in high school right now actually think he's cool or actually reference him? One of my pet peeves: movie dialogue spouted by characters that are way too young for it to be plausible dialogue.

And that Inception quote strikes me as a blatant reminder of one of my chief problems with the movie: far too little exploration of what you can do given the freedom of a dream. Without that gun he magically conjures, it's a restricted universe. With it, I'm left wondering why they didn't pull stuff like that a lot more often.

Posted by: DarthCorleone at May 3, 2011 5:10 PM

I smell burned toast.

Posted by: Uriah Creep at May 3, 2011 9:46 PM

Harry Potter and Hermione didn't kiss...

See what happened there? A little tension in a scene between 2 characters in an extreme situation; throw in some Nick Cave, and BLAM! The little monkeys at MTV wanna slobber all over its cock and give it an award.

Posted by: PissBoy at May 4, 2011 8:52 AM

The other day my stepdaughter's cellphone went off and it was some awful auto-tuned train wreck of a song. I told her how and why it was awful and she remarked that "It's better than Justin Beiber at least." I proceeded to actually defend the young Canadian demon spawn due to the fact that at least he sang. He didn't use auto-tune, which as a musician I find to be right up there with the nuclear bomb in terms of destructive inventions

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