Awards for What?
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I remember when I used to count down the days until the MTV Movie Awards. I used to eagerly anticipate the show that finally gave golden statutes, not to the boring, old people who created terribly dull “Best Pictures” like The English Patient, but to the deserving actors and actresses who starred in real movies, box office movies like Dumb & Dumber, movies that I actually watched.
I loved the MTV Awards because they didn’t offend me the way the Academy Awards did. It wasn’t filled with drawn out acceptance speeches or movies that I had never heard of. There was no pretentious academy dishing out Oscars to actors and actresses I’d didn’t know the names of, and no one was undermining my intelligence by having awards named with words I didn’t know the meanings of.
I looked forward to the MTV Awards, because while the Academy Awards often made me feel as though I were at a dinner party with my grandparents and I was under dressed, the MTV Awards made me feel like kid in my PJs (which I was). The show was real to me in a way that no other popular culture award show could be, and I like it that way. Continue reading 'Awards for What?'»
