Youth Without Taste

Friends,

I just read that Transformers won MTV's Best Picture Award.

Here's the list of movies also nominated for what I assume is a prestigious honor:
I Am Legend
Juno
National Treasure: Book of Secrets
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Superbad

I have seen Superbad, Juno, that Pirates movie and enough of Transformers to know that I would rather watch Juno with the actual character of Juno sitting next to me and quipping my ears raw than watch Transformers all the way through.

So, I gotta think Superbad is the best movie out of that bunch. Easily. By far. And I wasn't wowed by Superbad either (it was decent...no Porky's, but what is, right?). Transformers is spastic, ADD-causing, eye-spinning, dreck. It's not even interesting...and I grew up watching Transformers. Plus, it's kind of hard to make me not care about something as cool as giant fighting robots...but somehow Transformers pulled it off. I should defer to The Ghost of Nostradamustache for intelligent critique of this movie, but I think it's nothing but horseshit dipped in expensive glitter then flung around at the end of a rope at incredible speeds.

Now, hang on, maybe you're thinking that MTV typically rewards Transformer kind of shit every year for their Best Movie. Well, let's look. Here's the other movies that have won this:

2007 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
2006 Wedding Crashers
2005 Napoleon Dynamite
2004 Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
2003 Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
2002 Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2001 Gladiator
2000 The Matrix
1999 There's Something About Mary
1998 Titanic
1997 Scream
1996 Seven
1995 Pulp Fiction
1994 Menace II Society (this beat out the also nominated Schindler's List, Philadelphia, The Fugitive & Jurassic Park)
1993 A Few Good Men
1992 Terminator 2: Judgement Day

Now, you'll notice that Dead Man's Chest is a horseshit movie, too, but everything else on here is at least entertaining (yes, even Titanic...oh don't fucking roll your eyes at me, you know you saw it in the theater and liked parts of it, even if it was only Kate Winslet's glorious boobs). And I will admit that Wedding Crashers isn't that good either, but it has enough moments to keep a person interested (kind of like Titanic now that I think about it). So, by the looks of it, one or two things happened somewhere between 2006 and 2007.

Either I suddenly became too old for MTV, or the taste of movies of today's MTV watching youth is fucking horrible. And from teaching my fair share of 18 year olds over that same time frame, I gotta say, youth today...they don't know shit. But does that opinion make me old?

viva el mustache