Rants, raves, and thoughts about my midlife.

Its that time of year again. The MTV MA are among us and you know what that means. Calloused fingers from fan girls everywhere. Yup, the voting has begun! Officially today you can vote for the MTV Movie Awards in categories like Best Picture, Best Kiss, Best on screen cast, best dirt bag, best on screen transformation. Yeah, I'm still questioning that one myself.

 This year the rules have changed. MTV wants to be taken more seriously in the awards arena. They plan on doing this by changing up the line of nominated categories. For instant gone are the Best Villain, Best Scared-as-Shit Performance, Best Jaw Dropping Moment, Biggest Badass Star, and Best Line from a Movie categories. They have also included a panel of industry insiders made up of actors, producers, agents, etc. to determine who wins nominations in this years categories. There will also be a new Break Through Performance category that will be voted on my directors.

The changes came about to make the MTV Movie Awards seem more serious as well as to "lend some credibility to an event that has been criticized as merely a venue for Hollywood to promote its summer blockbusters." Now back to the fan girls. Yesterday the nominees were announced and it seems that with a change in the rules comes a change in the fandoms. In years past the MA's were dominated by all things Twilight with Harry Potter running a close second. Winning though was still a Twilight arena. 

Not this year. The winds of change are coming through the MTV offices and TwiHards are not happy about it. There's a new kid on the block and his name is The Hunger Games. You could hear the hate being spewed on Twitter around the globe. The Hunger Games is nominated for a whopping eight categories while Twilight's Breaking Dawn Part One is only nominated for two, Best Kiss and Best Movie of the Year. And boy howdie are fans upset. #MTVWEHATEYOU was trending last night on Twitter in a matter of minutes after the nominations were reviled. Tweets like:

THG might have made a lot of $ but no one cares about its cast. Def a mistake to completely disregard your most passionate fanbase -- @mtv

The best Robsten bubbles are at the @MTV movie awards and we wait ALL year for it and they've taken that from us. #MTVWEHATEYOU

#MTVWEHATEYOU seriously crying.

Don't think that WHATS DONE IS DONE! We can make a change if we stay united! #MTVWEHATEYOU

And that is just a sampling of what was being said. Over at Imdb there were threats of a boycott and all levels of butt hurt because Robert Pattinson and Kristen Steward were not nominated for Best Performances. I'm guessing those actors, producers, agents and other panel members just don't know what they are talking about when the don't nominate Pattinson and Stewart for best performances. Damn them for being all professional and serious.

 This morning as voting is not open those registered members at MTV.com, seems to be a little more tame. Fans are voting their "fingers to the bone" as one girl tweeted. Yes, you keep voting until your fingers bleed. You show MTV just whos boss by making sure that Pattinson and Stewart can win Best Kiss. Again. And not actually kiss on stage. Again. You show 'em. Because THIS is how it's done.  Go you.

Just a reminder of what winning the Golden Popcorn for The Best Kiss is supposed to look like. Fans are NEVER going to see Pattinson and Stewart do anything close to this



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