Some Thoughts Following the 2008 MTV Movie Awards
Posted on June 1st, 2008 by anthropologist
Self wants to know:
- How could Matt Damon and xxxx assassin not have won for Best Fight? (Instead there were two young dudes in a movie nobody saw -- some boxing movie)
- And how, how could "Transformers" have won Best Movie-- @#!??
- And what happened to the collage of movie spoofs that used to open previous award shows?
On the plus side:
- Self got to see Ed Norton (looking slightly stiff, but still very dapper in a spiffy brown suit).
- Self got to see Johnny Depp accept an award -- twice!
- Self got to thank her lucky stars that she was not Sarah Jessica Parker, who seems condemned to wearing ridiculous designer shoes (see: foot torture) for the rest of her life. Woman, would it really hurt your image so much to be seen in low-heeled shoes for a change?
Since Robert Downey, Jr.'s "Ironman" was honored with "Best Movie of the Summer So Far", here's a quote from The New Yorker review of said movie, which appeared in the May 5, 2008 issue:
In the past twenty years or so, Robert Downey, Jr. has gone through the following stages: a good young actor with a melancholy smile; a good young actor who was also a drug addict, jailbird, and insurance risk; and now, no longer young, an actor who may become the first genuine hipster star since Robert Mitchum and Marlon Brando.
-- David Denby
