It is finally time, Clouds, to do what we’ve been itching to do—get over to MTV.com and give Rain a HUGE thumbs-up for his superb portrayal of “Raizo” in Ninja Assassin. Online voting started at noon EST today and will go until June 5th. Let’s help our Ji-Hoon get what he so richly deserves: the » 2010 MTV Movie Awards title of Biggest Badass Star. Anyone who has the sheer strength of will to transform himself from stage performer into a zero-percent body fat killing machine, and can hold his own against Sho-sama (a shinto jinen martial arts master and head of his own institute, who has been in practice for 57 years) in any capacity should wear that crown for life. Seriously.
» MTV’s voting page for Biggest Badass Star is now up, and right HERE. The Rain clip they chose is of that unique and ultra-cool Ninja chase through Berlin traffic, something we haven’t seen in a ninja movie until now. We like.
» The “About The Show” page has also been updated, and states: Final nominees are now in! Vote for your favorites nominees to help determine who should go home with the coveted Golden Popcorn. Which is exactly what we’ve been waiting to see… FINAL nominees. Not what has been posted there before today, which was: And now it’s our turn to tally up your choices. Once your nominee frontrunners are established, the winner voting pool will open on May 12… Which meant: MTV was still counting votes. And: Voting for nominees is closed. But don’t let that stop you from browsing through some of this year’s eligible actors. Which meant we could look through the people who were “eligible” for the final list. That page full of actors was not the final list. (We saw how some fans tried to explain that to other fans here and there, but were ignored.)
Up until today, there was nowhere on the site that said final. There was nowhere on the Internet where MTV themselves had said final, nor anywhere that MTV had been directly quoted or sourced, just other sites, other media, other people. Which is why we didn’t put the “Rain and Lee Byung Hyun officially nominated for MTV Movie Awards” story here—that wasn’t what the site said at all. But good grief, that story was everywhere you looked, and poor Byung Hyun is the one who suffers for it in the end because as everyone can see now, like Rain, he was “eligible” but not officially nominated yet (though he darn well should have gotten in for Best Fight… are they kidding us, him not being in his final five for Storm Shadow? WTH?)
Someone “in the know,” when the official five Badass nominees were chosen, probably let the cat out of the bag this week, and J.Tune may have gotten a call for a statement. Thus, their recent announcement that Rain was indeed a finalist. We are speculating here, but that is certainly a possibility.
In any case, things have worked out wonderfully for Rain. He is indeed the first Korean national to be nominated for an MTV Movie Award, and we are so stoked! This is where our support becomes critical, Clouds, so let’s do our best. Let’s help Rain to victory and bring him to Los Angeles. Aja fighting!
— Stephe ^@@^ and Terri :-}
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