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All over town, directors and studios are testing footage as they decide whether or not to go 3D. That included Jackass 3. From what I’m told, the filmmakers violated every rule that James Cameron set with Avatar, in which he used 3D to immerse an audience into his film, rather than sending projectiles out at the audience. Insiders say some of the footage displayed how Steve-O, Johnny Knoxville and cohorts doing their usual pratfalls, but the stunt that really won the day was called “The Heli-cockter.” One of the Jackass crew—I believe it was “Party Boy” Chris Pontius—tethered a remote control-operated helicopter to his penis, and sat there grinning as the copter swung in circles, flying out at the spectacle-wearing Paramount executives who green lit the film.
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Jackass and Wildboyz are, unintentionally I’m sure, two of the most honest and culturally immediate programs (of the past decade) that American television has produced, and in many regards these shows put most other current efforts to shame and highlight them as being the anemic and pathetically pandering exercises that they are. I have lectured on fine art at the college level (undergraduate and graduate) and I could delineate this in some detail, but why bother. If you already understand, great, if you don’t, I’m sorry. And by the way, this has nothing to do with Jackass or Wildboyz not being harebrained and ludicrous – they absolutely are! It’s just that right now making a public exercise of such silliness is magnificently reflective of a dying culture. Think of it as doing something completely meaningless – but fun – just before the Titanic goes down. You know you’re gonna die; why not take a swing on the $100,000 chandelier? – And to whom it may concern: Please produce more seasons of Wildboyz! (I watch all other broadcast media and invariably get depressed; I watch Wildboyz and I laugh till I fall off my chair. Chris and Steve, you two glorious morons are my heroes.)
I feel sorry for your ultimately pessimistic view of the world. You think we’re on the Titanic going down? You haven’t been paying attention to the last 100 years of extreme and continuously-upward-spiraling forward progress and evolution.
And it is THAT which makes these guys’ shenanigans embarrassing.
Time to rethink the lectures.
Dear Lament, I am honestly happy for you that you seemingly can focus so tightly on the amazing things that have been accomplished in the past 100 years. I am well aware of these wonderful steps taken and victories achieved – but the good fights won by the noble and compassionate are not what has been destroying America, and unfortunately our nation is obviously and observably not in the hands of courageous and compassionate people (and it hasn’t been for a long time). An economic elite owns this nation (and all of us along with it) and unfortunately they are incapable of overcoming the compulsion of avarice that great wealth and power tends to breed. If you are among those who steadfastly remain optimistic and believe this all can be turned around, I only have respect and admiration for you – perhaps I am wrong, and so please keep up the good fight! But my spirit has been broken. I am not proud of this, but the truth is that what I see is far too ugly and overwhelming. Say, for instance, that one day soon the “excrement hits the fan”. The military and police will not listen to you or I, or even their own conscious (as they should), they instead will blindly obey the commands of their “leaders”. This is wrong, this is dangerous. Someone once said, and rightly so, that a people should not live in fear of the government, instead the government must have fear of its people (meaning that fear can elicit respect, as a child can have some degree of healthy fear of a loving but stern parent). As a sane American I realize I should have no, nor do I require any, leaders or “deciders”. The original charters that are supposed to guide our nation posit that all government officials from the President on down are our (yours and mine) employees, our temporary servants if you will. This approach, this understanding, of our form of government is dead. Those “at the top” view all the average struggling Americans as little more than annoying but necessary cattle. This is a horrible corruption of the American dream.
Please show me ANY society that functions in the manner of your poorly constructed fantasy world. Not now, nor ever in the past, has any society been perfectly free of corruption, greed, deceipt or misuse of power. These things go back to the very core of mankind, at our most basic animalistic instincts. We are an incredibly advanced society capable of limitless possibilities, and to see that as a misfortune, well you are just an idiot. It’s a shame you are in the power to “educate” young minds… you’re a hypocrite and a liar to try and tell people that we’re a doomed society. You don’t need any leaders? Are you that blind? You stand amongst the rest of us as a giant prick in the fabric of society if you really believe everything you’ve said here today.
John, “I have lectured on fine art at the college level (undergraduate and graduate)” too, big deal, you’re a pompous ass with a tin foil hat.
The only rule these guys have violated is not making a film EVERY SUMMER.
Kudos to Knox and the bunch for actually delivering the goods.
Now that’s what I call entertainment!
Yes please.
That may be the single greatest use of 3-D I have ever heard of! Can’t wait to see it!
Now thats how you use 3D to its full potential!!! Ha!!
James Cameron didn’t set any rules, he just established a new model to the old in-your-face 3D. Which works when drawing an audience into your fantasy world, but what do you do with a story or premise that is supposed to be confrontational? No one wants to enter Borat’s hotel room while he’s wrestling with his manager, and no one wants to sit on a pool table with the Jackass crew while they take turn electrocuting each others’ chodes. If you’re gonna go 3D with that, you have to reach out into the audience. Frankly, I think they coulda slapped those studio execs’ faces with more than just a tethered toy…
the Jackass series could get into grand guignol territory as they move into advanced capped, scabbed, scarred and stumped middle age. If there isn’t two Jackasses/ one cup (in 3D) this time, I will withhold my voting dollar.
lol…this will be huge. “The Heli-cockter”… classic.
yes please!
As indifferent as I am to the Jackass franchise, I refuse to recognize James Cameron as a tastemaker or golden standard; he makes cliched, overdone stories set in fantastic worlds/environments and everyone acts like he’s discovered fire.
Pass on all of the idiots.
Thanks for speaking up. Not enough of us who actually tell the truth. Cameron is a talent ie; Terminator, Alien, Titanic. Unfortunately Avatar sucks. It’s a 10 minute fx showcase but not a true film. The story was terrible. The characters were terrible. More people need to speak up on here and stop kissing his ass. The people spoke when they voted anonymously and he won no awards.
Thank you.
Sadly, this is the kind of garbage that gets greenlit nowadays, while lots of good scripts go unproduced. Forget art, it’s all about bucks.
Define art. (Does it really need to be elitist? Isn’t art about redefining boundaries in the first place?)
“redefining boundaries”
You consider taking a shit in a toilet at home depot, kicking another man in the testicles, and a obese man in dirty underwear chasing a midget in dirty underwear, redefining boundaries? Come on, I loved “Jackass” when I was in middle school, but I’m not crazy enough to believe it is or ever was art.There isn’t anything elitist about seeing some for what it is, and Jackass is just dumb guys doing dumb things.
Let’s talk about this again in fifty years.
Well jackass actually was born out of the skater videos like blind from the late 80′s & early 90′s that brought you jason lee and spike jonze. In the grand finale Johnny actually shot himself in the chest with a bullet proof vest on and voila an iconic subcultural moment. Jackass speaks to the experience and ethos of that subculture. This is really evolutionarily no different than graffiti and performance art, or hip hop or punk rock moving downtown and evolving into commodities that are profitable. These guys were lucky enough to be around to cash in on a cultural revolution of sorts they actually helped to create. If you are willing to watch vapid attractive people on the real world drink margaritas at 2pm on a wednesday or you sat through ‘p.s. I love you’ or ‘catch and release’ then you can’t really complain about jackass. It’s not amores perros or citizen kane, but it is wildly entertaining and the pubic hair beard from jackass 2 still makes me cry laughing.
If you don’t know the things these people did, in exactly the same way, maybe evern worse, before these movies started,then shut up, please.
You’ll note that the shot was in 3-D and not 8-D.
Haha, people are taking it way too seriously. I think this is hilarious tbh. Its almost as funny as Dave England taking a shit in that miniature toilet in Number Two. Good on em I say
That toilet actually wasn’t a miniature. Many people are shocked to hear this, but Dave England’s ass, like Bam Margera’s nipples, is surprisingly much larger in real life than it appears on screen – you only really get a glimpse of its genuine enormity when you see it in a realistic context.
this shit is fucking awesome
Perfect example of material that works great on TV but has no business in the feature world. Plenty of great scripts on the Black List waiting to be made. Oh yeah, forgot that most of America is too stupid to appreciate quality material.
From one Black Lister to (presumably) another, 90% of the script on the Black List are god awful. They’re just better than the garbage that doesn’t make it.
In the words of Tommy Callahan (RIP)… “I could take a shit in a box and mark it ‘guaranteed’ but all that means is that you’ve got a guaranteed box of shit.”
Yep… that about sums it up.
Jackass is Dada-ism at it’s finest.
It IS art.
I for one am excited to see the heli-cockter
LOL, wwell I’d see this use in 3d overclash of th titans, lol, if I had to pick one.
One thing I can say for certain, that this movie is going to be so much fun and entertaining than that silly Avaturd!
Bring the boys back to the big screen..it is about time someone entertain us. While at that, the Academy should give them the Best Picture Oscar cause they deliver the goods….:-)
Art!ART!eucational more like cox’s fiflthy acts, and not a dada more like a dodo to blame another do your own ads…..bye !
Y’all know you wanna kick back with some brews and enjoy this….laugh for a while people.
What’s everyone’s problem with Jackass? Okay so it’s not art or ground-breaking but who really gives a shit? It’s been a very long time since we’ve seen anything good in terms of entertainment, there’s not alot else people can do. Comedy’s comedy, and these guys do it at a fantastic level. Don’t get up your own ass about it, don’t look into it, just take it for what it is, comedy for the sake of comedy, just some guys having fun to make you laugh.
No one here can deny watching a guy fly a RC heli around on his dick wouldn’t make them crack a smile.