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MTV Movie Awards - Gollum's Acceptance Clip
tinderbox writes "Tolkien fansite TheOneRing.net has a Quicktime clip of Gollum - and Andy Serkis - accepting the golden popcorn for Best Visual Performance at the MTV Movie Awards. It's hysterical."
No joking, this is probably the funniest acceptance speech I have ever seen. Yoda had a speech for winning "Best Fight", but it wasn't anything close to this.
Remember when they used to play videos?
The Gollum speach was the best one of the evening. The Yoda speech was lame -- looked terrible trying to do it live, no emotion, even the jokes were flat (not unlike Episodes 1&2, come to think of it).
Every year during my review, I just pray the words "slashdot.org" aren't mentioned.
Finally some real and proper glory to Weeta.
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All you have to do is watch MTV for another day or two... The awards show will be on about 32 times in a week.
it doesn't matter that its a locked in proprietary format? Cmon. Use ASF or WMV. Everything deserves to be open!
I think the editors are launching their own DOS attacks to supplement the Slashdot effect in order to get more people to subscribe. Four posts in and the server isn't even responding.
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I've cached the 8.2MB version (highest-quality) here in my Streamload account:
B band.mov
http://www.streamload.com/steve/gollum_mtvawards_
Now if only I had one of those catchy phrases to use when a site gets /.ed.
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damn. killed it already :(
This is a good complement to the previous spoof of LOTR done in the MTV movie awards last year, that even was included in the Fellowship of the Ring DVD. I suppose that this one will be included in the DVD of the The Two Towers.
That really wasn't all that funny...
With all due respect to CmdrTaco, I find it difficult to see much humor in watching Gollum say "fsck!" and spew a bunch of banal insults. Call me a curmudgeon, but I don't think that speech was very clever OR funny.
Okay, I'll admit I might have let out a slight "heh".
"Molest me not with this pocket calculator stuff."
- Deep Thought
and i know i dont need the karma, but could everyone who already has the vid seed the torrent. Everyone else can start now :D
I wonder if Weta will now go on to win an award for best visual effects in an acceptance speech? :) But seriously, it was an absolute riot and definately worth waiting for. Hope they include it on the special edition DVD of the Two Towers (region 2, please!!!!).
Super fast, thanks :)
When this first came up on the awards, I laughed. But then gollum quickly started cussing up a storm and it ruined the humor and turned it to annoyance. Saying negative things against LOTR I'm sure I'll get modded to hell and back for this ;)
When I started downloading the 8mb file it was running at 25K/sec - it's now down to 4K/sec and still dropping.
:o)
I hope they have a fire supression system in their sever room
Beep beep.
So, what's the "strong language" that they warn about? I'm too afraid to download it since it might sear my delicate ears.
You filthies little slashdotters... you bings the server down... Gollum, gollum!
That was beautiful. I hope they add it to the DVD. Hopefully, it will be uncensored. The Much Music (Canada) broadcast had many of Gollum's comments bleeped out.
"peter jackson, you ****ing hack!!"
:)
ROFL!!
That was great... does anyone have a link to the Yoda acceptance speech?
-- james
yea it was funny seeing gollum argue with himself, but was I the only one who thought that gollum's lips were just moving randomly and barely with the words?
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very fast
Hey, if Elijah Wood says it's awesome, then it must be awesome! ... it reminds me of either a bad commedian or a little kid ... that thinks the only way to liven up a joke is to mix in some swears. Not that the swears make it any better ... it's just a way to set people off balance a bit and perhaps squeeze some laughs out of them.
Seriously though
Funny? I didn't think so. But I would support adding that *beep* feature to all future MTV acceptance speeches.
http://66.209.86.84/gollum_mtvawards_Bband.mov.tor rent
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Rock on. Thanks dude.
http://pr0n.biz/stuff/movies/gollum_mtvawards_Bban d.mov
mirrored 8 meg version on my 100mbit webserver.
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Yoda is no longer cool.
Quoting Yoda will no longer result in (5,funny), but instead (-1, Offtopic)
Appropiate Gollum quotes should now be used in place of Yoda quotes.
...must everyone stick to a single format? Some of us don't like QuickTime.
sigh.
They should have had the Crew of the Osiris there with a Sentinel and a Flying Bomb. and Digital Jada Pinket-Smith.
"Your Popcorn gives warm sustenence for your vessle... hand over your popcorn. WE DEMAND IT."
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you can download it off kazaa if you'd rather do that. just search for videos with the name gollum
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works aok, fast too.
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A lovely little thinker but a bugger when he's pissed.
I am a mirror. Click on me. It's in .mov format, by the way.
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Thanks for that... I can't play it though. Better get the latest codec. Why is it that these stupid codecs have to change every other week?
If construction was anything like programming, an incorrectly fitted lock would bring down the entire building...
slashdot is not an english speaking country
I see there are already a couple of mirrors, but in case they don't hold up here is a BitTorrent: Gollum%27s%20MTV%20Acceptance%20Speech.torrent
Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way...
It wasn't very creative. Slagging Dobby was funny, but going on like that was over the top.
On the other hand, there are probably many real people who say very similar things after such award ceremonies...
I still think that although Gollum was a cool effect, the character was over-acted. They were pandering to the masses. Just imagine if Boromir had scenes where he were talking to himself about how much he wants the ring. It would be utterly stupid.
I would have been suprised if somebody tried to write an acceptance speech which would have been in-character and didn't draw on the crowd pleasing split personality scene.
Oh well. I'm not saying Gollumn was done poorly, I think he was done as well as can be expected. I just don't think the character is anything spectacular.
was in the middle of downloading the 8mg .mov when they change the link on me :-(
The real question is, who has the clip of Tatu's performance? 100 women in schoolgirl outfits...OUCH!
Comedy is when you say fsck, tragedy is when I say fsck.
watched it... typical mtv crap...
gc@a20p gc $ rm gollum_mtvawards_Bband.mov
Hell has frozen over. The BitTorrent server's slashdotted too!
Too many connections? What the hell is the point of bittorrent if you can have "too many connections?"
Sorry, I didn't notice Gollum because there was 100 HALF NAkEd LESbianS IN ThE WAy!
got it yesterday:
s _Bband.mov
http://www.calcgames.org/site/pub/gollum_mtvaward
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Remember when we'd beat the crap out of D&D and LotR
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This may be flamebait, but I've never understood why saying fuck has to be censored with bleeps and all that.
Maybe everybody has just gotten used to it through all the years of censoring, and have forgotten to ask themselves why? I mean, you know what he's saying right?
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I honestly can not imagine Weta digital producing such an animation if they were not 100% sure they were going to win. Additionally, I can't imagine them doing it overnight.
I know I have a suspicious mind, but this sure smells like MTV setting up the 'contest' and letting WETA know they'd win quite some time in advance.
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http://www.mtv.com/onair/movieawards/ma03/clips/
Clickable link
None of us are as dumb as all of us.
Does anyone have a direct link to Daveigh Chase's acceptance speech? (She won for best villain as Samara in the ring)
every time you /. a bittorrent site, god kills the server
Better get the latest codec. Why is it that these stupid codecs have to change every other week?
Worked fine with Crossover and I haven't updated it in like 6 months.
That mov file is not Gollum! I think that was some sort of lifetime achievement award for Steve Buscemi.
I'm especially glad they did a short intro to the speech with Andy Serkis thanking everyone. Probably most of MTV never saw the man behind gollum and I'm glad they have now.
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I downloaded the hi-res version and sent it to 8 friends on Kazaa...so there should be enough copies to download.
http://pr0n.biz/stuff/movies/TATU_MTV_2003_MA.tar Tarred so you bastards dont try and stream it. 64meg avi off Kazaa, please dont start my server on fire.
None of us are as dumb as all of us.
Good going! Thanks for the mirror - I thuroughly enjoyed it thanks to you :D
(karma whoring? hell no! just appreciating the effort!!)
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That's awesome. I completely lost it at "those pixel pushing pin dicks at Weta Digital!"
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WHo watches these sissy movies ? AM glad that I haven't seen any of this fantasy crap. Welcome to the real world and take the red pill.
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the server got screwed and sent the clip to me like this: âkmÃÂ¥ÂÂÂK!... I was still able to save it and watch the clip though!
All I heard was bleep bleep bleep.
What's up with this bleep thing? Can't we evolve a little? All the kids know more dirty words then mature people anyway. The only thing they have to do is catch an episode of Southpark that I miss. This bleep thing just shows how big of hypocrites we all are. On the second hand maybe the bleeps got so much into life that we always assume the worst when we hear it and that's what really turns us on.
Does anyone have a text of the speech without the bleeps?
Since the main one seems to be down, I've put up a tracker on my server. Here's the .torrent file.
Why do they still censor television in the United States? This is a ridiculous practice and it totally detracts from the intended meaning. It's almost as bad as seeing a fullscreen movie over a widescreen one.
Ahh well, at least in Canada I have my uncensored Osbournes and Sopranos. GFG lame ass MTV.
GOOD one! Crash the Two Towers, now we have to grep *.* morder and find --all "golem"!. My Gods people, I think even Golum had more patience than this.
sorry here it is as a link: here
right click save as blah blah so your browser doesn't try to open it instead...
and playing some good stuff
... to be able to watch one of Tolkien's timeless characters turned into a whore for MTV.
I wish they'd never made the damn movies.
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With all due respect: Taste differs. I don't there is something that everyone thinks is funny - there's nothing wierd or insightful in that, IMHO.
Personally, I found that clip absolutely hilarious - I just wish I could get hold of an "non-american" version because all those stupid beeps kinda ruins it IMHO. It's not like there's a lot of people that don't know what he's saying anyway, so what's the point? I'm glad they don't edit everything like that here.
Another question: What exactly is he saying in the last sentence?
The .mov is also on eDonkey/eMule at gollum_mtvawards_Bband.mov
Yessssss, my precioussss! Wese haveses a nasssssty time on MTV! Wantssss fishhhhhh! Wants fishhhhh NOW, and keepssss those nasssty chipses! Gollum hungry. Gollum will ssssneakses up on MTV producer goblin and eatssss it!
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
Isn't one media player enough? Isn't there some .mov codec that I can download?
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Actually I doubt an unedited version "exists", simply because the point of the short is to be censored for a TV audience (I haven't watched it in forever, but the last MTV LOTR parody w/ Jack Black I believe contained some bleeps, which carried over to the FOTR extended DVD).
Plus, sometimes vulgarity's funnier when it's just a string of bleeps. It highlights it more. And like you said, it's not like we don't know what he's saying anyway.
why? forty-two.
Seriously... tell us how you really feel.
This is the Internet. You can say "fuck" here. - AC
... start playing commecials, they were for intertaining products like "Punker Punch" (which I'ver never seen in any store) or MadBalls. Ahh, MTV - down the crapper.
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It plays just fine with mplayer 0.90 as well. :)
Thanks for the link, that eliminated a lot of DL'ing pain.
An alternate viewpoint:
Tolkien hated Hollywood. Now I understand why. It's like Peter Jackson decided to just rub it in.
I never realised I cared about the LOTR legacy until I watched this clip, and decided that it was disgraceful.
Agreed. J.R.R. Tolkien would have been horrified at this outburst. Then again, it's also generally acknowledged that Tolkien also would have hated the films. Oh well.
garethw
Anyone else notice this?
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Just listen to the audience.
Scooby Doo
*applause*
Dobby
*applause*
Yoda
*louder applause*
Kangaroo Jack
*total silence*
Gollum
*thunderous applause*
Gee, I guess the people won't choke down any old crap that Hollywood puts in front of them afterall.
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.. it's an uncensored version. I'm know americans are pretty fucked up in this area, but censorship on the CD's are too damn much - put up a sign first or something so the scared parents have time to hide the DVD. Scheesh!
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What annoyed me was the censorship. But he did say goodnight ;)
If Google really cared they would fix Android Chrome to reflow text, instead of discriminating
It increases the load on the master server, rather than distributing it over a mirror - and it means that the hosting site (TheOneRing.net) doesn't even reclaim any money through ad banners to pay for bandwidth of the slashdotting effect itself! grrrrr....
"With all due respect: Taste differs. I don't there is something that everyone thinks is funny - there's nothing wierd or insightful in that, IMHO."
As for the last sentence, here is what it sounds like to me:
Well, while it is silly to say "I don't find this funny, therefore it is not", there are things that the vast majority of people find funny, and others that they do not. Some British researchers have actually looked into this. Their findings have been discussed here before.
As somebody else said, bleeping out cuss words at least works for comic effect. It makes it seem naughty. I noticed they didn't censor out his hand when he flipped off the audience. It was pretty fast though.
Gollum: "Frankly, nothing can compensate for the long hours and low pay, and miserable experience we've had making this f----ng movie. And if you think a sh---y little tub of gold popcorn is going to remotely make up for everything we've suffered, you're SADLY F----NG MISTAKEN!
YOU'RE ALL BASTARDS! MTV SUCKS! WE HATE YOU ALL!"
Smeagal: "Goodnight".
The greatest bit is that, when they cut over to Elijah Wood (aka Frodo Baggins) at the end, you can clearly read his lips saying "That was f***king awesome!"
Well, MTV2 is alot like the old MTV, you know playing videos. Following its parrent channel, it seems to be more of a series of shows rather then, "Hi the next song is...". Right now on MTV2 is "Def Jam Uncensored". More of a documentary then songs. :(
Though next up is "Hip Hop Countdown". Does that really sound like underground music to you?
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Fun you, earhole!
Up yours, money-funster.
This speech was by far one of the best of the evening. I actually laughed out loud.
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Thank you, that is the funniest thing I've seen on this site today. I needed that.
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Sweet. Going an order of magntidue faster than the official site. Nice one.
Why slashdot gave gollum billing over the skimpily clad dancing lesbians that shortly followed is beyond me. This is news for nerds, after all.
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(note at the time I'm writing this post, parent is modded 0 flamebait)
Suntse is posting an opinion about how commercialism has ruined, or at least tarnished, a great literary work. Many of regaurd Tolkien's work as, if not sacred, at least worthy of respect. Many of us will also agree that commercial exploitation is a bad thing(tm) So why is this flame bait? Because the user cursed? Are we that juvenile that we can't handle crude language? Or was this modded down because the moderator just likes the movies and didn't consider the message behind the post? Moderater, if you read this, please email me with the responce, or better yet, reply (this will undo your moderation if they havn't changed the rules).
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Don't you mean
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or
find ~your -name '*base*' -print0 | xargs -0 chown us
http://www.talker.com/john/mov/gollum_mtvawards_Bb and.mov
Yeah, it's not an href. Suck it up, Sally.
It also looks like it has a space in it. Dunno why it's done that.
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I note some moderator had enough grasp of Irony to mod MY post up as underrated, not what I was asking for really. I hope he/she also modded up the parent :)
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> Don't you mean "find ~your -name '*base*' -exec chown us {} \;"
:)
No way man, all your real bases are in your base(/home) directory, duh
I believe Taco and Co. are infatuated in a perverse way with the Gollum thing.
Get over it, it was lame acting, good pupeteering.
IANAL but write like a drunk one.
Yoda might not be cool anymore, but Boba Fett is still bad-ass, just like Jet Li, or Knight-Rider.
i think eminem had the best speech when he just kept sayin I GOT MALE ...no one got that but its from a skit on crank yankers adn it was really funny.
I thought the yoda speach at the mtv movie awards was a good idea to add to the show. It was cool to see a character act out of character...if that makes any sense.