Comments on: Star Trek Nominated For Two MTV Movie Awards – Both For Chris Pine

By: jez

jez — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 13:21:30 +0000

@ T-Mac The Hangover was definetly a 2009 release. and even if New Moon didn’t win I doubt that Star Trek would have beaten The Hangover.

It was the case of “freshest memory influencing the vote”. How else would Alice in Wonderland get past the likes of Star Trek, Angels & Demons and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen?

By: jez

jez — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 16:33:20 +0000

Some of the Best Fight nominees are a joke

Ali Larter vs Beyonce for Obsessed (Obviously Beyonce’s legion of fans must have voted for her.)

Mark Strong vs Robert Downey Jr. for Sherlock Holmes (This was quite a fight. Holmes 2 win.)

Stephen Lang vs Sam Worthington for Avatar (This was a no brainer ever since Avatar became the highest grossing movie of all time)

Hugh Jackman & Liev Schribier vs Ryan Reynolds (Women of a certain age must have voted)

Jake Abel vs Logan Lerman (The freshest memory must have influenced the vote).

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 14 May 2010 19:07:26 +0000

I see paralells to last year’s ceremony in this year’s lineup.

Half Blood Prince:
A dark sequel to a well known film series from Warner Bros. (like Dark Knight)

New Moon
The sequel to Twilight

Avatar
A cool sci fi epic akin to Iron Man

The Hangover
The unexpected Golden Globe winning R rated crowd pleaser (like Slumdog Millionaire).

Alice in Wonderland

A case of Walt Disney Pictures releasing a movie that teen girls went crazy over, and then merchendized to death by Disney stores (much like the PotC franchise and HSM3).

By: S. John Ross

S. John Ross — Fri, 14 May 2010 06:20:23 +0000

#15: “It’s derivative and full of cliches. ”

If this bothers you, how can you survive Star Trek? :)

“The animals attack to save the planet from the EVIL military.”

Greedy and shortsighted corporation, not evil military.

By: Red Skirt

Red Skirt — Fri, 14 May 2010 04:29:52 +0000

#33, you said it! LOL

However, I think its omission form the other categories is telling of its main-stream popularity.

By: Keachick

Keachick — Fri, 14 May 2010 04:03:36 +0000

I hope Chris Pine wins at least one of the awards. He is certainly the best looking of the break out actors and I also think he played young James Kirk very well. Shatner had 79 TOS episodes and several movies to be Kirk, whereas Chris Pine has only done one movie. Give Chris a chance.

I’m not sure Pine/Kirk was such a badass but more as someone who got his ass kicked. But then the Pine/Kirk did know about “talented tongues” if that could be considered being a badass. Now that’s my kind of badass…:)

By: Harry Ballz

Harry Ballz — Fri, 14 May 2010 03:13:30 +0000

“Can’t we all just get along?”

By: ryanhuyton

ryanhuyton — Fri, 14 May 2010 00:51:06 +0000

#30

No one considers William Shatner a “god”. Everyone on this site considers him to be a great man who has his flaws, just like everyone else does, INCLUDING YOU. Maybe he has a big ego; so what? He was a big reason the character of James T. Kirk has become a pop culture icon alongside the likes of Han Solo, James Bond, Batman, Superman, and Indiana Jones. William Shatner is as important to the character of Kirk just as Leonard Nimoy is to Spock. Chris Pine may be the “new” Kirk, but William Shatner will always be the “true” Kirk.

People like you who bash William Shatner have no respect for the franchise for which you claim to be a fan of. You sir, are a “hater”.
And there is no place on this site for haters.

By: Pointing out the Obvious

Pointing out the Obvious — Fri, 14 May 2010 00:04:16 +0000

@27
The show, and the character on its coat tails along with it, has endured for 40 years because of what it is, an idealistic vision of the future that struck a cord with a group of people that lasts to this day, not just because of one man or character, which is a prime example of how infectious Shatner’s egotism is. Again, take the man of the god like pedestal you got him on.

There’s a reason he’s a C-List actor relegated to Price-Line commercials.

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 13 May 2010 21:22:58 +0000

I think Avatar might win Best movie simply because Avatar appealled to everybody.

Half Blood Prince, New Moon and Alice in Wonderland were all driven by simmilar audiences, families with teen/tween girls, and will create a 3 way split vote.

The Hangover was driven by young males and college students.

Add in Avatar’s award season run to it’s box offivce gross and you have a lethal combination!