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UPDATE MONDAY: Dealing with the fallout from its profanity-laden MTV Movie Awards last night, MTV issued a statement apologizing for the 100+ curse words uttered from the stage of the show, some of which made it into the live broadcast without being bleeped.
“The MTV Movie Awards is a live televised event known for irreverent comedy and a party atmosphere where our guests speak more freely than they otherwise might,” an MTV spokeswoman said. “While we aired the live broadcast with a delay, we were unable to mute every word that some might find objectionable. All of these words will be muted in subsequent airings. We sincerely apologize to those in our audience who were offended by any objectionable words that might have slipped by for the live airing.”
The always-vigilant Parents Television Council used the opportunity to attack the current cable system that offers basic cable channels in packages. (Cable nets are not regulated by the FCC.) It addressed the MTV Movie Awards as well as the premiere of the new MTV series The Hard Times of RJ Berger that followed it and, for some reason, kept referring to the awards show as the MTV Music Awards.
“Families were assaulted by the content found on the MTV Music Awards and on Hard Times and we should not have to pay for this kind of filth on our cable bills – especially since it’s targeted directly towards our children,” said PTC President Tim Winter. “The fact that both programs were rated as appropriate for 14-year-olds demonstrates the lack of any serious regard Viacom or MTV have for the television content ratings system. A movie with the same amount of profanity as on both shows would (or at least should) garner an R-rating…The Music Awards and Hard Times should have been rated TV-MA.”
PREVIOUS SUNDAY 11 PM: Two words summed up tonight’s MTV Movie Awards: Twilight and f**k. Both found their way into pretty much every segment, with Twilight: New Moon winning every category it was nominated in and the number of F-bombs dropped probably setting a record for a TV broadcast. Here are some pf the night’s highlights:
In his opening, host Aziz Ansari reenacted James Cameron’s pitch for Avatar:
“Cameron: I wanna make a movie about blue aliens, it’s gonna take me 12 years, and it will cost me $500 million.
Studio executive: Wow, that’s it? Do you have anything else?
Cameron: Oh yeah, and at some point a dude is gonna f**k a dragon with his pony tail.”
Later on, Ansari performed a cool music tribute to Avatar that culminated with:
“Its a bummer when nature is destroyed. Which reminds me: Fuck you BP.” (see video)
Tom Cruise reprised his Tropic Thunder character, the foul-mouthed hot-headed studio executive Les Grossman in the opening segment as well as an on-stage music number with Jennifer Lopez. (see videos) Also memorable was Ansari’s taped skit with Zach Galifianakis. (see video)
A lot of people came down on wires, including Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg and Katy Perry, but there was no Sacha Baron Cohen/Eminem moment this year. And it wouldn’t be an MTV’s awards show without a girl-on-girl kiss. This time, it was Sandra Bullock, the MTV Generation award recipient, who made out with Scarlett Johanson.
The weirdest moment of the night: Christina Aguilera’s music performance ended with glowing neon heart lighting up over her vagina. Second weirdest moment: Angelina Jolie getting nominated for a movie that has not been released yet, Salt.
And here are some memorable/awkward lines from the show:
- Presenter Jonnah Hill, talking about the clash between team Edward and team Jacob from Twilight: “Those two teams would never mix. Its like Israel and Palestine.”
- Presenter Betty White: “My ovaries were recently named a national monument.”
- Winner Robert Pattinson: “I want to thank my parents for conceiving me.”
- Peter Facinelli, accepting the best movie award for Twilight, on keeping his thanks to Twilight author Stephenie Meyer clean in his expletive-laden acceptance speech: ”I’m not going to curse with you because you’re Mormon.”
Full list of winners:
BEST MOVIE
• “The Twilight Saga: New Moon” (Summit Entertainment)
BEST MALE PERFORMANCE
• Robert Pattinson – “The Twilight Saga: New Moon”
BEST FEMALE PERFORMANCE
• Kristen Stewart – “The Twilight Saga: New Moon”
BREAKOUT STAR
• Anna Kendrick – “Up In The Air” (Paramount Pictures)
BEST COMEDIC PERFORMANCE
• Zach Galifianakis – “The Hangover” (Warner Bros. Pictures)
BEST VILLAIN
• Tom Felton – “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” (Warner Bros. Pictures)
BEST FIGHT
• Beyoncé vs. Ali Larter – “Obsessed” (Screen Gems/Sony Pictures)
BEST KISS
• Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson – “The Twilight Saga: New Moon”
BEST WTF MOMENT
• Ken Jeong – “The Hangover”
BEST SCARED AS S**T PERFORMANCE
• Amanda Seyfried – “Jennifer’s Body” (Twentieth Century Fox)
BEST BADASS
• Rain – “Ninja Assassin” (Warner Bros. Pictures)
GLOBAL SUPERSTAR
• Robert Pattinson – “The Twilight Saga: New Moon”
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Tom Cruise is the shit.
Glad he’s back.
Everyone is so upset by the MTV AWARDS last night but they should really be upset with the premiere of “The Hard Times of RJ Berger.”
What a piece of cliched’ shit… Nothing original in it… Sorry…
If this is the first thing to come out of the “new Scripted” division then there is no hope for their future offerings…
BTW — Warren the Ape, looks just a cliched and unoriginal…
Chauncy
Twilight and F**k. I can put those two words in a sentence.
Yeah…..Tom Cruise comeback….wait for it…..KNIGHT AND DAY!
hahhahahahahahaha
My god, a whole lot of dumb came out in this thread, from so many angles. Way to go people!
This is the bunch that are telling us who to vote for too.
So, tom cruise can (over)play a money-grubbing foulmouthed hairy jew, but if you say word one about the ponzi cult of scientology, you’re an intolerant bigot.
You can say whatever you want as long as it’s entertaining.
Yes. And if you act like a jew or say anything about jews or Israel you are called anti semetic.
And when was it stated that LG is a jew?
If he were a muslim you wouldn’t twinkle your eyebrow.
By the way….TOM CRUISE IS AWESOME!!!!
Yeah, Twilight and f**k are certainly two words that go together.
Highlights: Worldwide premiere of new trailers.
Lowlights:
Angelina Jolie nominated for a film no one has seen and it hasn’t been released.
Jennifer’s Body winning an award.
A series of not funny, and pretty crass sketches, including stuntmen kids (?)
Curing for no apparent reason
Moment the network hit a low below low: immediately following the awards debut the “Life and Times of RJ” a story of basically a fourteen year old kid in the place of HBO’s “Hung” character, and suddenly becomes a school icon thanks to his huge member. Outside of being vulgar (I really don’t care to see about the sex life of a 14/15 year old as entertainment) the show also had to be bleeped repeatedly.
@John Doe,
“Damn, I remember when MTV used to be good. Now its a haven for Lady Gaga fans and teen girls texting millions of votes for anything Twilight.”
When was it cool? The 80′s? OK, I’ll buy into that specious line of thinking, if you can point out to me one pop group in the past 30 years who had more substance than Lady Gaga (and you’re not allowed to say Bruce Springsteen). And I say this not as a Lady Gaga fan (I personally have no use for her), but as a reasonable adult who has a little thing called “perspective.” I have no idea how old you are, but I would hope you wouldn’t fall into that curmudgeon trap that makes you imagine everything was better in the non-existent “Good Ol’ Days.” It wasn’t. It never is. Leave fetishizing a long-dead fantasy land that never existed (A magical land called The 50′s where man was hard-working, every woman was a wonderful cook who knew her place and no one was gay or Mexican) to the Republicans.
“Why else would a kid from Harry Potter beat Christoph Waltz for best villain? Waltz was the best villain in a movie in years.”
Because it’s a show geared towards dumb teens who just want to have stupid fun and watch a show where celebrities cut loose and act like idiots. They’re serving their audience, and as far as I can tell, doing a good job of it. I’d hate to see how you react to the Kid’s Choice Awards — they probably won’t recognize Waltz either. And I doubt Bill Pope will be receiving an award for cinematography either.
Again, see my earlier comment about perspective.
And then get off my lawn.
Elmore, you are my new hero!
Elmore,
When it was cool the girls were phoning about New Kids on the Block.
Same shit.
Thank you.
Les grossman is so f ng H O T !!!!!!!!!!
Many young people love MTV and love the entertainment it provides. It doesn’t matter how trivial some of it is. Let them have it.
Award shows like the Globes and Oscars are just as perplexing, self-serving and trivial. The lingo is just different.
All of the award shows are ridiculous, but they’re entertaining.
This is our business.
Worried these people are the next generation of professionals?
Let me dig up some of the completely moronic stuff my generation was into in the late 70′s and you’ll find people never really change.
see also “Network Battle of the Stars” … nothing can come close to the doltery of that!
Les grossman cool;
however Sandra bullock is sickening.
If she’s so classy what was she ever doing
with jes ; he was married with kids.
Let me just do the honors for everyone once and for all:
Fuck Twilight.
The only thing I didn’t like about all the F-bombs was that it was too hard to understand what the people were actually saying
Aziz Ansari >>>> Russell Brand
People still watch the MTV awards??? Fascinating! Quite honestly, this coverage of the “F-bomb” event of the decade is the exact thing wrong here. This is not nearly as important as our politics, or environment, or economy. MTV should be a release and if you don’t like what’s happening on there, change the station and move on with life.
MTV has nothing to offer. So, like a car wreck, they’ll do anything to get somebody to watch. But all the cussing is just the beginning. Nudity will be next, followed by whatever else they can conjure up to get a few more rubber-neckers.
My WTF moment was the god awful scene from the Twilight trailer they showed!!! Was that real or a parody of itself? The acting and dialogue were just horrible. Either all three of those kids need acting lessons or the director totally missed the ball.
it’s “dropped the ball,” but whatever, this conversation is dead anyway.
Tom Cruise was awesome…
did anyone hear aziz give the shout out at the end to “older, still famous stars”? let’s count all the older “still famous” stars nominated, presenting, or present at the awards show:
cruise, diaz, p diddy, snoop dogg, will smith, sandra bullock, sandler, spade, schneider, rock, kevin james, betty white, jackie chan, samuel jackson, the rock, scarjo, eva mendes, jlo, and christina aguilera, angelina jolie, peter facinelli
with the exception of samuel l jackson, betty white, and jackie chan, all of the other “aging” celebrities on that list (yeah, not OLD – try whiny self-important gen xers) were trying so hard to be relevant to the beiber/gaga/twilight set. i could almost hear them saying “like me! like me! like me like your parents who are now 30-something did when they were your age.”
i tip my hat to betty white – she could say 100 f-bombs and make it classy. it’s called aging with grace.
I am sooo disappointed in Robert Pattison. The MTV Awards were an excellent opportunity to thrill his fans at another big event. He could have at least worn a fitting T-Shirt and a pair of dark pants. His appearance was a slap in the face to fans!
His difficult “kiss” with KStew was inexplicable. Why couldn’t they have had an old-fashioned Scarlett and Rhett embrace?
That’s what the fans were longing for. That’s who MADE them. Would it have been so world-wearying to oblige?
I kept commenting to my wife… “He’s got his feet on the seat!” Money can’t buy you class.
God, are you some sex-starved 40-something mom? Rhett style embrace? Vomit.
Obvious diss to Avatar, or was it Cameron himself? Not much to appreciate this past year in film anyway. Salt? Waste of time.
Didn’t we all love Avatar? What the hell happened? The lemmings attention span for lack of another word, retarded. Avatar, Avatar, Oh my, Avatar is riveting. You see, it sucked! I told you it would disappear quickly from our conscience. Why? Because the story was terrible. Without story there is no real movie. Avatar was a ride. It was a five minute commercial for technology. Cameron should have stood on a stage like Jobs and introduced it. We didn’t need to sit through that garbage. Thanks kids for forgetting to vote. You went to see this crap two, three times and still you didn’t vote for it in any way.
Thank you.
if you’ve ever seen the movie Private Parts about Howard Stern they say, “his target group listened for an hour and the people that hate him listened for 2 hours.” so , to all of you complaining about how bad the MTV Movie Awards were, think about this. You still watched it, they got more ratings, and they made their money. So, honestly, Shut the fuck up because if you were truly mortified by MTV then you would have turned it off. Don’t sit there and complain if you are perpetuating exactly what you are bitching about.
Why the eff is MTV apologizing? That was one of the funniest awards shows in a LONG time. Peter Facinelli was hilarious because it’s so “out of character” for him – he’s involved in so many childrens’ charities and Jennie and is paired up with a lot of family organizations and whatnot – so it was just hilarious to hear him let loose like that.
This isn’t a show for kids – deal with it. Parents need to get over it and do what I did – waited til the kids went to bed to watch it.