Here's a thing – have you ever met anyone that's actually liked either of the Pirates Of The Caribbean sequels? No, us neither – but that fact didn't stop Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest from winning an MTV Movie Award last night.
You know all about the MTV Movie Awards – they're chosen by the fans, so you get the idea that overlong, bone-dry examinations of the state of the British monarchy following the public's reaction to the death of a princess probably won't be winning anything. Instead, the MTV Movie Awards are all about movies that people actually went to see – movies like Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, which scooped the best movie of the year award even though a new Pirates Of The Caribbean movie is already out and every single person who ever went to see either of them basically ended up wanting to drown Keira Knightley and Orlando Bloom after about ten seconds of seeing them on-screen.
There's a very distinct awards season in Hollywood, where about 12 billion film-related award shows are all lumped together in the space of six weeks to enforce the idea that all sorts of depressing films that nobody wants to see are Important Works of Serious Art, and the only real fun comes when Eddie Murphy spazzes out because he didn't win anything. But the MTV Movie Awards have no time for boring rubbish like that – the MTV Movie Awards are all about fun fun fun, or at the very least, just handing out prizes to whoever won People's Choice Awards a couple of months ago.
So just as Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest won big at the People's Choice Awards this year, it also won big at the MTV Movie Awards, scooping the Best Movie award and earning Johnny Depp a Best Performance nod for his progressively less and less funny 'gay pirate who runs funny' shtick. IOL reports:
Depp joined Pirates producer Jerry Bruckheimer to accept the Golden Popcorn trophy. “This is the man who did it all right here, Johnny Depp,” Bruckheimer said at the ceremony in Universal City, California. “Without him, we wouldn’t be here.” “I’d like to thank this man and Disney for not firing me first,” Depp quipped.
Sacha Baron Cohen was also in demand at the MTV Movie awards. Not only did he win Best Comedy Performance for Borat: Cultural Learnings Of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation Of Kazahkstan and Best Kiss for his smooch with Will Ferrell in Talladega Nights – which he accepted with Ferrell in a speech that culminated in a floor-rolling snogging session – but also nobody repeatedly punched him in the face, which is something to always be thankful for.
Other MTV Movie Awards were won by Jack Nicholson (Best Villain), Gerard Butler (Best Fight) and Mike Myers (MTV Generation Award, presumably because it takes him an entire generation to actually make a film that has nothing to do with Shrek these days).
So there are your MTV Movie Award winners for this year, and don't even think about questioning them – because if you can't count on the network that fills its schedules with nine hours of My Super Sweet Sixteen every day to know about what makes a good movie, who can you count on?
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Moni says
Well now you’ve met someone who liked the second POTC. I haven’t seen the third one yet.
Dylan says
You’ve met another one who liked Pirates 2 and 3.Your article sucked.I am actually a Kiera and Orlando fan.If you liked the Pirates 1-2 then you have to see Pirates 3.
Billie Briggs says
I am sorry you and the people you meet are incapable of enjoying a good movie and having a good time. It definitely is all about the fans. Can you imagine awards being chosen by the fans by the way I think that is why movies are made for the fans to enjoy.
Strings Valdez says
There is a reason why Pirates of the Caribbean was a great movie, in all three. It was Funny, and only grew funnier, The Acting was at its peak, and The Animation was Phenomenal. Yes, after a while the love between Bloom and Knightly did grow old, we knew it was going to happen between them two. But never the less, It deserved to be noted as a great movie around the world. All three of them. Each just as good as the other. Always a different adventure.