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SWEEPS DAY TWO!! THE MTV MOVIE AWARDS Wants Viewers Creating The Parodies!! Plus?? Learn Who’s Hosting!!
I am – Hercules!!
The real reason to watch “The MTV Movie Awards,” of course, is to see Andy Dick sitting on the Jedi Council and everything else the infamous movie parodies offer.
“Survivor” maven Mark Burnett is producing the show this year – which we’ve just learned will be hosted by Sarah Silverman - and wants you to contribute some of these parodies.
Can you be as funny as Will Ferrell, Jack Black, Vince Vaughn, Owen Wilson and Ben Stiller? Here’s what we’re told:
Beginning April 23, budding filmmakers now have the opportunity to create their own MTV Movie Awards spoof on Yahoo!’s new MTV Movie Awards site, http://mtvmovieawards.yahoo.com. The interactive site will allow users to submit their own original movie shorts parodying films from the past year for consideration in the first ever “BEST MOVIE SPOOF” User Generated Category. The undiscovered talent will be revealed to the world during MTV’s live June 3 broadcast from the Gibson Theater in Universal City, Calif.
Users will also gain access to a variety of footage from New Line Home Entertainment that they can use in creating their spoofs, including “Snakes on a Plane,” “Texas Chain Saw Massacre: The Beginning,” “Take the Lead,” “Tenacious D and the Pick of Destiny,” “Final Destination 3,” and “Code Name: The Cleaner.”
In addition to the movie spoof award, MTV, Yahoo! Movies and Mark Burnett Productions are developing a section on this new interactive site where viewers can create their own culture of sorts – whether it's commenting on the user-generated submissions or posting photos and videos. Content from the site will also take center stage at the awards on a “World Wide Web Wall” that will be integrated into the live broadcast, giving a voice to all the those up-and-coming filmmakers or those who simply like to quarterback from the sidelines.
Submissions are accepted until May 21.
MTV will transmit the show live June 3.
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The Making of Star Wars:
The Definitive Story Behind the Original Film
I am – Hercules!!
The real reason to watch “The MTV Movie Awards,” of course, is to see Andy Dick sitting on the Jedi Council and everything else the infamous movie parodies offer.
“Survivor” maven Mark Burnett is producing the show this year – which we’ve just learned will be hosted by Sarah Silverman - and wants you to contribute some of these parodies.
Can you be as funny as Will Ferrell, Jack Black, Vince Vaughn, Owen Wilson and Ben Stiller? Here’s what we’re told:
Beginning April 23, budding filmmakers now have the opportunity to create their own MTV Movie Awards spoof on Yahoo!’s new MTV Movie Awards site, http://mtvmovieawards.yahoo.com. The interactive site will allow users to submit their own original movie shorts parodying films from the past year for consideration in the first ever “BEST MOVIE SPOOF” User Generated Category. The undiscovered talent will be revealed to the world during MTV’s live June 3 broadcast from the Gibson Theater in Universal City, Calif.
Users will also gain access to a variety of footage from New Line Home Entertainment that they can use in creating their spoofs, including “Snakes on a Plane,” “Texas Chain Saw Massacre: The Beginning,” “Take the Lead,” “Tenacious D and the Pick of Destiny,” “Final Destination 3,” and “Code Name: The Cleaner.”
In addition to the movie spoof award, MTV, Yahoo! Movies and Mark Burnett Productions are developing a section on this new interactive site where viewers can create their own culture of sorts – whether it's commenting on the user-generated submissions or posting photos and videos. Content from the site will also take center stage at the awards on a “World Wide Web Wall” that will be integrated into the live broadcast, giving a voice to all the those up-and-coming filmmakers or those who simply like to quarterback from the sidelines.
Submissions are accepted until May 21.
MTV will transmit the show live June 3.
From Mike Nelson And
The Creators of Mystery Science Theatre 3000!!
Afro-Samurai: Director's Cut * Baa Baa Black Sheep Vol. 2 * Banacek 1.x * Battlestar Galactica 2.x Value Pack * Beauty and the Beast 2.x * The Closer 1.x/2.x * Coach 2.x * Deadwood 3.x * The Dead Zone 5.x * ER 7.x * Eureka 1.x * Extras 2.x * The Film Crew: Hollywood After Dark * The 4400 3.x * Gunsmoke 1.x * Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law 3.x * House 1.x/2.x Value Pack * The Incredible Hulk 2.x * Jason of Star Command: The Complete Series * Kathy Griffin: My LIfe On The D-List 1.x * Land of the Giants: The Complete Series * Mission: Impossible 2.x * The New Adventures of Batman: The Complete Animated Series * The New Adventures of Superman: The Complete Animated Series * Mystery Science Theatre 3000 Vol. 11 * The OC 4.x * The Office 1.x/2.x Value Pack * The Practice Vol. 1 * Psych 1.x * Rescue Me 3.x * The Rockford Files 4.x * Roots: 30th Anniversary Edition * Scrubs 5.x * Seinfeld 8.x * Star Trek: Captain's Log * Tales From The Crypt 6.x * Voltron Vol. 3 * Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea 3.x Vol. 1 * Weeds 1.x (Blu-ray)
The Making of Star Wars:
The Definitive Story Behind the Original Film
Users will also gain access to a variety of footage from New Line Home Entertainment that they can use in creating their spoofs, including “Snakes on a Plane,” “Texas Chain Saw Massacre: The Beginning,” “Take the Lead,” “Tenacious D and the Pick of Destiny,” “Final Destination 3,” and “Code Name: The Cleaner.”
In addition to the movie spoof award, MTV, Yahoo! Movies and Mark Burnett Productions are developing a section on this new interactive site where viewers can create their own culture of sorts – whether it's commenting on the user-generated submissions or posting photos and videos. Content from the site will also take center stage at the awards on a “World Wide Web Wall” that will be integrated into the live broadcast, giving a voice to all the those up-and-coming filmmakers or those who simply like to quarterback from the sidelines.
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Awwww, the poor, pathetic MTV writers don't want to do their job? Or does MTV not want to pay their poor, pathetic writers to do their job because it would cost money?
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BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! The last time Owen Wilson was funny was....uhm....not I, Spy, not Shanghai Noon or Shanghai Knights, not Meet the Parents, not Night at the Museum....oh yeah.. It was Zoolander.
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wow, that's actually not bad, 10x better than Fallon at least
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It's Surefire Winner.
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Which is a laugh a minute...
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Which is somewhere between "Mommie Dearest" and "Valley Of The Dolls".
I'm sure to win. -
I work for VIACOM and MTV is hemmoraging viewers as their increasingly younger audience has begun to embrace the internet and mobile content and turned their backs on the channel. TRL has been reduced to 2 shows a week, no one gives a rat's ass about The Real World any more, and the Movie Awards and VMA's continue to drop in ratings every year. They are scrambling to do anything that will make them relevant again. Meanwhile VH1 has become a D-list reality tv wasteland and is in grave danger of losing any and all identity they had developed over the last decade thanks to their "we'll air anything reality based" coda. It's a company being run by 50 year old+ white males who have no idea where the televsion/entertainment industry is heading.
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I'll just make a sequel to whatever parody sort of worked last year, but do it way worse, with different actors filling the roles because they didn't want to ruin their carreers in this drivel. People will love it all the more because it has a recognizable namebrand and it won't matter that it's not as good as the previous incarnation that wasn't so great either!
If it can work for the Mask 2, it can work anywhere! -
That's a pretty good idea actually. I'd use that!
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great job of summing up the problems with those two channels.
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Tell them stiff white males over 50 that they are also ruining BET.
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She's never done much for me as comedian. She's overrated by the fanboys. She's been likable in the films I've seen her in although she seems to play the same character.
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four more times.
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than the Oscars...what a pile of shit that was
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I have no idea who Donnie Simpson is, well I 've heard of him, butI was to young to even care about music when he was on the show or station. I do miss Jackie Reed and Ed Gordon.
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I'll give MTV props for getting someone with acutal comic-talent instead of another pretty-face and/or a flavor-of-the-month celebrity. But Christ, you know Silverman's going to be censored. I don't see why they don't air the ceremony live like the VMAs! Professor Falcon, your rant was 100% on the $$$!
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What? They're really filming that as the actual movie?!
DAMN YOU, TIM STORY!!!
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A compilation of the spoofs from the MTV Movie Awards. Remember these:
- SEVEN, starring William Shatner
- INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE, starring Adam West and Frank Gorshin
- SPEED, starring Danny Bonaduce, Shirley Jones and Dave Madden ("Mom, you're not gonna believe this, but Mr. Kincaid's extorting money from us!" "Come on, Danny. After all, he IS our manager.")
Good effin' times. And I'm not too crazy about Sarah Silverman, either. -
The first few years of this award show was fun! Back when they had many more awards, with lots of fun categories, even unannounced ones. I always thought that was the coolest part. Now, they give too much time over to musical acts that have no relation to the movies at all. It's all just an excuse for celebs to be seen, and to be certain when they present they're introduced with "from the upcoming movie blah blah blah." But you can really tell MTV is showing its age when it's now got people saying, "Back in my day, MTV meant something, dammit!"
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...scale, when you can have a bogus contest and wannabee film geeks will provide content for free.
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...funny parodies at the Movie Awards again? Because after the Jack Black/Sarah Michelle Gellar show, everything was lame. So maybe the viewers will make it better. I hope. I really do!
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PLAY MUSIC!!!!!!!! And have the balls to play something completely un-commercial from time to time! And we all know that Hip Hop is huge at the moment, but please play more Mos Def and Jurassic 5 instead of 50 Cent and Ja Rule over and over again! Or the sum it up:
BE MTV AGAIN!!!!
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Last week there was a lengthy talk back regarding Quint's article about movie theater behavior. I think that the MTV movie awards, which seem to almost has a disdain for movies at the service of being hip, help to fuel that. I think one of the main reasons why movie theater behavior has gotten so bad is that most moviegoers don't respect film. Award shows like this seem to kind of encourage that mindest. That being said, I think MTV or VH1 could put on a hipper awards show than the Academy or the Golden Globes that could be more in the vein of the Independent Spirit Awards.
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Hey,why don't we have a "contest" where we have the viewers submit content for our show because we have officially run out of original material and/or can't come up with funny shit on our own. You see this more and more, let's farm it out, commericals, movies, TV shows, etc.
And plus, the people who actually create this content will get paid squat while the producers/companies putting on the show rake in the money. If your going to go this route, at least pay the people who are making this content for you what it's worth. -
Boo Fuckin' Hoo! I can't find a job where I make $60,000-$100,000+ a year anymore! I can only make $10 an hour!
There are a lot of people who make far FAR less than your former salary. Be happy you made it while you did. I'm sick of rich bastards crying when they have to get a normal salary. -
was in The Way of the Gun where she played herself. How much of a useless pissflap are you when fucking Ryan Phillippe is compelled to bust your nose. Oh wait, he was married to Reese Jizzlobber.
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The movie awards sadly haven't been since 1997. Isn't that when these useless golden popcorn statuettes first issued. To the guy who works for MTV and Viacom, please tell everyone that works there they are are a bunch fucking retards for screwing up every nook and cranny on the cool meter that was once MTV. That TRL was cool back in the day when it was viewers who made the show. Now it's a laughable joke that only 12 and 13 year olds adore. In fact, tell everyone at MTV to kill themselves, on air talent included. It's the only vindication for subjecting us to shit like "Sweet 16" and incomplete and terrible music videos.
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... So you don't have to. Whatta fuckface. Anyways, thanks for the info about MTV guys, it is nice to see what is going on there once and awhile. This little bit here, is pathetic. Burnett's On The Lot turned out to be a total sham, only interviewing under 200 out 12,000 people, and now they are doing this and giving no incentive whatsoever. Just another fuckface.
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She is the most unfunniest woman comedienne this side of Marget Cho, Ellen Degenres, Rosie O' Donell, and Carrottop.
Having her host solidifies a flop. Mark Burnett should just jump ship and focus on another reality show, really. -
Did I just read that Andy fuckin Dick (drag name: Kathy Griffin) was the "real reason to watch" something?
Andy Dick? The real reason to watch something?
I'd rather stick my penis in an ant farm than watch a show that depends on the talents of Andy Dick to be funny. MTV is obviously in serious trouble. -
how much money?
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we talking 10 grand, 20 grand?
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I'll keep this brief and be done with it. I shouldn't have worded my post as a personal attack, and for that I apologize. That being said, I am just completely shocked with how out-of-touch with reality you are. $60-$100k/year is actually "the middle", and SHOULD be considered "low"?? Wow, I wanna live wherever YOU live!
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Wow, haven't written here in a while. But, like SK229, I too was wiped clean of the great Valentine's Day MTV Culling. Hell, they got rid of the entire production team in my department.
It's a sad state of affairs, the entire company is pretty much run by freelancers hired out for a couple of weeks and then dropped like a bad habit. And he's right, nigh impossible to get a job in the field, what with prices going down due to a legion of people set free on the market all at once. I guess this is just a way to a) cut back on costs and b) try to tap into that Youtube vibe the kids are into these days. A desperate cry for relevance if ever I heard one. SK, which department were you laid off from if you don't mind me asking? -
...I didn't know they only interviewed 200 of 12,000 applicants. Knowing Burnett, that sounds about right. The problem with that concept is they claim to want to find "talent," but they're a reality TV show. So they're going to want the clich characters found on said shows (i.e. flaming homo-sexual, bitch, token black-guy, etc.) They need those types to
provide the show with the "outrageous" moments that viewers turn to reality TV for. What gets lost in the mix are the talented young filmmakers they claim to be searching for...which is why I did NOT submit any of my short-films to the series. -
I remember a while back when MTV was fairly hot (1999 or so) and I interviewed with them for a position with online. They seemed to like me and came back with a salary offer that was about 60% what I was expecting. I mentioned that this kind of money wasn't competitive in the industry and they replied that they don't have to pay as much because of the clout of working at MTV. I proceded to turn toward the nearest wall, start moving my legs in circular motions (slowly at first, and then so fast they became blurs, all the time still standing in place) then I shot off like a rocket toward the wall leaving a hole shaped as my own likeness and a cloud of dust in my wake. Suck it, MTV, nobody is so good they can get away with treating hard working employees like crap.
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I know a few people at MBP and the fact is if you sent in an app, and you were a female, you were almost assured a spot because the ratio of guys to girls was like 400 to 1, and they studio/producers wanted it to be an even split so that it would not appear "sexist".
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At all. But it's still better then Billy Crystal.
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or any other average American. Still, it must kind of suck to have your cool, hip, well-paying gig pulled out from under you and be forced to compete with English majors for the assistant manager position at Borders.
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My best-friend (also a young filmmaker) agreed with me. But his take was totally on the $$$ "Why would people want to spend 13 weeks watching a bunch of egotistical/asshole dorks make short-films?!? Didn't PROJECT: GREENLIGHT teach Burnett anything? I guess it's a 'brillant idea' b/c he's doing it and Spielberg's name is involved!" Even the Bearded-One has admitted that he doesn't have THAT much involvement in the series.
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What the fuck are you talking about? $60-100k a year is NOT even close to rich?! And in the entertainment industry it's not like you work 40 hours a week. You work fucking 24/7. $10 an hour is $20k a year?! That's poor as shit. Where the fuck do you work that you think that's ok? Walmart?! $10 an hour is for jobs that any retarded person can do. Let me repeat that... ANY RETARDED person can do. If you make $10 an hour and you aren't in school you are a idiot. I'm sick of retarded fuckers like you who are the reason this country is full of dumbshits instead of intelligent ambitous people who want more to life than working and sleeping and fucking and getting drunk. Fuck you. It's not whining to want a better life especially when you have worked your ass off to be more than just a fucking cog in the wheel. RICH fuckers you should be mad at are the ones who are selfishly ambitous and fuck over everyone like these assholes who buy out MTV and rape it and evetually will sell it off again for shit.
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on the planet!!!!!!!!!!I'll bet she's a tiger in the sack. And filthy as well.
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The words: "independent contractor" are words I'm sick of having applied to me. There's no obligations, no benefits, and no social security matching. Employers want American labor at foreign prices, and unfortunately, they're able to get it from us.
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...where are these "BJs for next to nothing?" Uh...a friend wants to know.
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"Where's the music?"
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and lets also stop encouraging MTV in general.
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Barry Williams and Susan Olsen talking about Islam and Heroin addiction. With shots of a Dissaproving Spike Lee clucking his tongue in the audience. Hilarious.
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I'm starting an online petition right now. The Galactus Cloud would be a great host. It would be like "UPS: We want to race the truck" "FF:ROTSS...We Want the Cloud to Host."
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Ugh, yeah, post your own videos and become famous! Yay for viral video!! Ugh. This is getting old.
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Thats coming out next week.
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me! FUCK YOU L.A.: the whole country is not gonna work for you for free. hey, i guess i do give a shit.
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David Granger, Esquire - "...the far more insidious force is the all-powerful democratizing force of the internet. It's not just the YouTube phenomenon, in which you are allowed to program an entertainment outlet for the Google boys so that they may sell advertising against it and inflate their stock price and get even richer. No: Now, as we saw during the Super Bowl, you get to compete for the right to create television commercials for giant companies. We've lowered the bar for what kind of unreachable dream we're settling for. It used to be riches. Now, we're settling for the "honor" of having our efforts recognized. Doritos got a thousand submissions for its Super Bowl talent contest, and all the winner got was nominal prize money and a trip to Miami. Come on! Where's the million bucks? Here's the thing: The sense of well-being and possibility that this faux democratization creates causes us to ignore the fact that while we do the work, the rich rake in the fruits of our labor. The new opiate of the masses is the illusion of participation in the culture, even as the underpinnings of a good life- money, mostly- are stripped away and handed to the filthy rich." not to mention, that for something to be "successful" on the internet, it has to be a sensation. something that everyone sees or searches for. that means that a) you have to be something that satisfies everyone (the definition of the lowest common denominator) and/or b) you have to be a curiosity or shocking i.e. stuffing a firecracker in your asshole. they're things that anyone can do. and when anyone can do them, they're worthless. the size of the screen and the use of the frame is in direct relation to the value of the art. there are exceptions, but if it's 40 ft. tall, chances are, it's saying something. if it's 1 minute and 2 inches by 3 inches on my computer screen it is disposable. i don't know. this whole "contest" guise is a way to get people to commit to a full-time job for the CHANCE of recognition, and even then, they're doing it for free.
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"MACHINES!!!!!" ....... Yes, I laughed pretty hard at that. But then again, Kurt Russell said it was OK.
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that had mtv going back in its heyday. I remember all the kick ass rock videos and when Headbangers Ball was a huge deal. Now its all hip hop garbage the few times they even play music. I think Mtv had a huge hand in turning it that way.
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despite your questionable statement about large art (come on out to union square, nyc and i will show you the largest and most pointless piece of "art" ever hanging on the side of the virgin megastore) im glad im not the only one here who sees through this bullshit. fuck mtv and this whole 'web 2.0' HORSE SHIT.
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http://tinyurl.com/246bab
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That monstrosity in Union Square is an eyesore, not art. And fuck MTV Networks, too. I produced a bunch of those I LOVE the (insert decade here) shows for them a few years back. Then they got rid of us all and started the reality show bullshit that they farmed out to third party companies they could pay cheaper. Fuck them.
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http://tinyurl.com/3c5zpd
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and i concur w/the virgin megastore monstrosity. i work just below union sq.
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We probably have 3 or 4 different MTV channels, but when they show music, they will show hip hop on all of their channels at the same time. I don't consider hip hop to be crap, but it really isn't my music either. Even if it was, why program against yourself? Other times it seems they aren't showing any music at all on all of their channels. Thats probably been the joke about "M"TV for over a decade, but their splinter stations were supposed to correct that, and did for a very short period of time. Its funny that the videos are actually free to MTV, but they would rather pay for programming that drives away viewers. I think I stay away from MTV completely just to aviod accidentally seeing bullshit like "The Hills" and having my retinas burned out.
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...with users making self movie parodies. I hope someone sends a movie about the cable network who used to play just music videos.
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Well said!!!!!
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I'll second that. Um....wait a second.
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MTV now cater to a select group of people... and that all started when they abandoned playing all kinds of music. Pop. Rock. Metal. Rap. 120 Minutes 24/7. They whine about how they need to change their programming to maintain viewership... but they actually alienate more than they keep people around. They're execs think short term viership. VH1 started out okay... then took a nose dive. The same went for MTV2.
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You're full of shit. VH1 doesn't employ assistant editors. Now get your ass back to Boystown, chump. Maybe if you try really hard some day you'll be a real editor.
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He was pretty fucking hilarious. I mean, he's clearly nuts, but I dunno, i think he does good work, and in person he seems a little more calm.
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Is that shit still on? Fuck those assholes and EVERTHING they air. They destroyed music and moved on, Borg-like, to destroy TV too.
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And fuck that tattooed dwarf Rikki Rachtmann or whatever they fuck he called himself. I don't need a little poseur twerp to tell me about METAL!!!!!
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MTV makes people dumb. Their shows suck. The people they promote suck. Their VJs suck. The only things of MTV that didn't suck were Headbanger's Ball with Vanessa Warwick and MTV's Most Wanted with Ray Cokes. And that was eons ago. Now MTV is just utter shite.
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