Finally rented this. Not being a fan of the TV show, I’d mostly heard about Jackass from friends at my last job. It’s not really a movie, so it’s hard to judge whether it’s “good” or not. The stunts range from gut-bustingly funny to unwatchable, with the majority somewhere in between. Watching it by myself was obviously not as much fun as it would have been with a whole bunch of frat boys, but I still laughed. Brooke flat-out refused to watch it after the first 5 minutes. I guess this kind of humour is strictly a “guy thing”. Strangely, the only thing I could not watch was the paper cuts stunt.
I can’t really pass judgement on this kind of thing, even though it is dumb. There’s something inside all of us (guys, anyway) that just can’t help laughing at stupidity. And if these guys want to risk their lives, or at least their private parts, they’re welcome to it. I’m sure they made an obscene amount of money from this movie, too. But after watching almost 90 minutes of this stuff, I’d had enough. And for a few of the unfortunates in the movie, I suspect they’ve had enough, too.
It was interesting to note some of the surprising (and not-so-surprising) participants in the movie, like Spike Jonze, Lance Bangs (maker of the “Slow Century” documentary about Pavement and married to Sleater-Kinney’s Corin Tucker), Rip Taylor, Henry Rollins, and Tony Hawk.
I’m sure you just couldnt help but cry at the scene where they were in the hardware store. =P
Tony Hawk knows Bam, who is a skater. Perhaps you played THPS?
I think I speak for all men when I say this, but at some point, those who do extremely stupid things, and survive, end up earning a certain level of respect from other men. Street Cred if you will. If you’re willing to get in a fight with Butterbean, heavy-weight boxing champion, then by all means you too must be some kind of badass. The celebrity cameo’s aren’t all that suprising to me, considering that by now, the guys in this movie run in the same circles. Jonze directed it, but certainly has some association with MTV who produced it. Tony Hawk, as someone pointed out is friends with Bam Margera, both pro skaters. Henry Rollins is the only one that sticks out as odd to me, but then again, he’s a serious badass himself. Another strange connection: Larry Flint, owner of Hustler also runs a Skateboarding mag called Big Brother which made the first big push to get Jackass on MTV.