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MTV Movie Awards Snubs Director Jonas Mekas Yet Again

I see no one had made any comments about the MTV movies awards, which is fine by me.  It's not really worth anyone's time.  But I did just see the greatest articles I've ever seen in The Onion.  Check it out.

http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/mtv_movie_awards_snubs

MTV Movie Awards Snubs Director Jonas Mekas Yet Again

LOS ANGELES—Eighty-five-year-old Lithuanian avant-garde filmmaker Jonas Mekas, director of more than 50 movies including Zefiro Torna and the five-hour diary film As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses Of Beauty, was again overlooked by the MTV Movie Awards Sunday.

This marks the 17th straight year in which Mekas, known for his signature single-frame style and a penchant for interrupting scenes with several seconds of black space, has failed to join the pantheon of such past winners as Lindsay Lohan, Jon Heder, and Chewbacca. "It is a travesty that Mekas' stark vision of elegiac melancholia has not been rewarded with the coveted Golden Popcorn statue," Boston University film studies professor Ray Carney said. "His [1997] film Letter From Nowhere—Laiskas Is Niekur No. 1 should have easily walked away with Best On-Screen Duo, or Best Kiss, or at least Best Ass." While Mekas expressed regret at the selection committee's refusal to recognize his work, he said he was moved after winning the Nickelodeon Kid's Choice Lifetime Achievement Award in March.

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Jonas Mekas

Re:MTV Movie Awards Snubs Director Jonas Mekas Yet Again

Risselada:

I see no one had made any comments about the MTV movies awards, which is fine by me.  It's not really worth anyone's time.  But I did just see the greatest articles I've ever seen in The Onion.  Check it out.

http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/mtv_movie_awards_snubs

MTV Movie Awards Snubs Director Jonas Mekas Yet Again

LOS ANGELES—Eighty-five-year-old Lithuanian avant-garde filmmaker Jonas Mekas, director of more than 50 movies including Zefiro Torna and the five-hour diary film As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses Of Beauty, was again overlooked by the MTV Movie Awards Sunday.

This marks the 17th straight year in which Mekas, known for his signature single-frame style and a penchant for interrupting scenes with several seconds of black space, has failed to join the pantheon of such past winners as Lindsay Lohan, Jon Heder, and Chewbacca. "It is a travesty that Mekas' stark vision of elegiac melancholia has not been rewarded with the coveted Golden Popcorn statue," Boston University film studies professor Ray Carney said. "His [1997] film Letter From Nowhere—Laiskas Is Niekur No. 1 should have easily walked away with Best On-Screen Duo, or Best Kiss, or at least Best Ass." While Mekas expressed regret at the selection committee's refusal to recognize his work, he said he was moved after winning the Nickelodeon Kid's Choice Lifetime Achievement Award in March.

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Jonas Mekas

 

Funny!  I was eventually going to compile some MTV Movie Awards lists, but those just don't hold my interest anymore.  Maybe I'm just old, but is MTV still relevant in general?  Anyone can feel free to respond!

Re:MTV Movie Awards Snubs Director Jonas Mekas Yet Again

pippin06:

Funny!  I was eventually going to compile some MTV Movie Awards lists, but those just don't hold my interest anymore.  Maybe I'm just old, but is MTV still relevant in general?  Anyone can feel free to respond!

Well it's certainly relevent to a certain group of people with certain criteria for what makes a good movie.  Usually as long as it has certain elements like a "best kiss" or "best fight" and the actors in it are attractive by standards portrayed in major media outlets and all of the traditional banal, simple, and hedonistic values of the most base American values are supported, then MTV movies awards are probably quite relevent to groups that want that.

I just like how an award can mean absolutely nothing if you are judging on different assumptions.  The thing about assumptions is that by definition they are rarely even identified or referred to.  When you are put off by certain assumptions of other groups it's amusing to insert other incongruous assumptions side by side and see how much they stick out.

Re:MTV Movie Awards Snubs Director Jonas Mekas Yet Again

Risselada:

pippin06:

Funny!  I was eventually going to compile some MTV Movie Awards lists, but those just don't hold my interest anymore.  Maybe I'm just old, but is MTV still relevant in general?  Anyone can feel free to respond!

Well it's certainly relevent to a certain group of people with certain criteria for what makes a good movie.  Usually as long as it has certain elements like a "best kiss" or "best fight" and the actors in it are attractive by standards portrayed in major media outlets and all of the traditional banal, simple, and hedonistic values of the most base American values are supported, then MTV movies awards are probably quite relevent to groups that want that.

I just like how an award can mean absolutely nothing if you are judging on different assumptions.  The thing about assumptions is that by definition they are rarely even identified or referred to.  When you are put off by certain assumptions of other groups it's amusing to insert other incongruous assumptions side by side and see how much they stick out.

Well, of course the awards aren't relevant.  They're really just, I don't know, bubble gum.  What's with me and gum lately?  Chew it up and spit it out.  In the past, they had some funny skits.  But even these bubble gum awards don't mean anything because they're all voted on by a certain age group that still gives a rat's you-know-what.  It's definitely hogwash, but I like to hold them up against the Academy because they are so different.  Half of the movies that go up for the MTV awards I don't even watch or have no interest in seeing.

I was actually driving toward whether the network was still relevant.  I don't even know too many tweens and teens who watch it the way I used to do, back in the olden times of, say, the 90s.

Most awards mean nothing, really.  Like you said, it's all about assumptions, mainly the assumptions of who believes the award means something.  They are all superficial at best, but sometimes, a little superficiality (is that a word?) is fun.  Though MTV's version is just a little too superficial for my tastes anymore.