Wedding Crashers Wins Some MTV Popcorn Awards

Remember when everyone was getting all excited about films like Sin City, Wedding Crashers and Brokeback Mountain? We can't, since our MTV lifestyle has left our attention span in shreds.

But, weirdly, the only place where people are still getting excited by films like Sin City, Wedding Crashers and Brokeback Mountain - films which have all been out on DVD for so long you can probably buy the lot for a tenner - is MTV. All those films won vaguely prestigious MTV movie awards over the weekend, even though they came out so long ago that they've all melded together in our minds into a single, nightmarish movie about a blonde, oddly-nosed man dressing up as a gay cowboy and doing some sexy pole-dancing at a wedding.

Awards, like sports and the planet Earth's periodic changes in meteorology, have seasons. Awards season usually takes place at the start of the year, because choosing the best films of the year is usually a bit easier if you actually do it over one year. And all the big awards - the Golden Globes, the Oscars, the Baftas - are all lumped quite close together. This is because if you spread them out, people stop thinking that Crash was a work of genius, realise it was a bit boring, then start to question why such a fuss is being made about a bunch of films, and Hollywood is torn apart.

The MTV movie awards doesn't adhere to such rules and regulations, though. Because - even though MTV is mostly responsible for destroying attention spans so much with all its hype and flashy bang bang that we actually lost interest in this article after three words - the MTV movie awards have only just decided to look back and celebrate movies from 2005. That's a year which ended a full six months ago, by the way.

And the MTV movie awards wanted to celebrate Wedding Crashers the most. Remember Wedding Crashers? It was like The Break-Up, but with Owen Wilson more or less playing the Jennifer Aniston role. Anyway, Wedding Crashers won the MTV movie awards for Best Movie, Best On-Screen Team and Best Breakthrough Performance for Isla Fisher, who has already broke through so many times in Home And Away, Scooby Doo and being engaged to Darren Day that we're already really quite bored of her.

Brokeback Mountain was another big MTV movie awards winner, as it nabbed the Best Performance award - or at least Jake Gyllenhaal did - and the Best Kiss award. Monkey-loving Jessica Alba won Sexiest Performance for the ten seconds she spent wriggling around a pole in Sin City and Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt won the Best Fight award for Mr And Mrs Smith, although they didn't attend the ceremony since they were probably too busy trying to think up a stupider name than Shiloh Nouvel.

Batman was also named Best Hero, while Darth Vader, or rather Hayden Christiansen dressed up as a sulky teenage version of Darth Vader, won the Best Villain MTV movie award, even though the only award he deserves is Most Overacted Reading Of The Word "No."

Finally, Jim Carrey won an MTV Generation award and paraded around the stage backed by a choir of angels. Thing is, we don't even know if he was being ironic or not.

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Wedding Crashers Crashes MTV Awards - E! Online

[story by Stuart Heritage]