So now it’s stupid to do something you enjoy in life, and to make money doing it? Something that doesn’t hurt anybody but yourself, and something that provides entertainment to others as well? Someone call every famous martial artist in existence - apparently, they’re all fucking morons. In fact, that could extend to all professional athletes in general. Right? Utter dolts, all of them.
Get a fucking clue, ratty. At least watch the fucking show before passing judgment. The show’s not strictly about intentional injury - in fact, most of the segments I find funniest involve no permanent injury to any of the cast. I find the show funny for the same reasons described here - because the Jackass guys laugh at themselves. They realize they’re not creating high art - they’re entertaining. And they also realize that what they’re doing is dangerous - and they make a point to impress that on all the impressionable young halfwits out there. I don’t admire these guys because they sometimes injure themselves for laughs; that’s been a valid sub-set of the comedy genre forever. I admire them because they decided to make money doing something they like, and were successful at it. My only hope is that someday I can do the same - albeit doing something less painful.
I am a fan of the stunts where people aren’t laughed at for trying to do something good. That’s why I don’t like the baby on the roof thing. Those people were legitimately concerned, and were laughed at because they tried to help.
HOWEVER, some of their abstract stuff, like Urban Kayaking, is hilarious. Apparently in the movie, one of the guys snorts wasabi, which, for those of you who know what that is, know it would be a very painful experience!
I saw the film and can’t say I’ve ever laughed so hard at a movie. I also can’t say I’ve ever heard a theater get so loud with laughter.
I did want to make one point. As a Japanese-American, I cringe when Americans use the Japanese in humor. I expect buck-toothed, squinty-eyed, people with cameras, in a condescending display of American sterotyping. In Jackass: The Movie they did something called Night Pandas, where they dressed up as panda bears and performed various antics on the streets of Tokyo. I braced myself to be offended by this at first, but I found myself pleasantly surprised. Contrary to my expectations, they pulled off a funny segment that was actually very flattering. The Japanese people on film laughed along with them, played along with their crazy stunts, and were very good sports about the whole thing. They Japanese people were treated with respect and I got the feeling that the Jackass guys really loved it there.
I thought it was great, and I was very happy to see that.
I never noticed anyone being laughed at in those sequences. It seemed to me that the emphasis was on how many people stared but did nothing before someone tried to help.
A friend dragged me to see it last night. I had no desire to, and I wish I hadn’t gone. While a lot of it was funny, and I did laugh, like where the guy got annihilated by a girl or where they put firecrackers in Bam’s dad’s car, or lots of the scenes in Japan; I was sickened by the urine scene and the little car scene. Drinking urine and shoving a toy car up your butt (and showing the results after it comes out) are not funny to me and I’m glad the show got an R rating, but I think that, because kids can still get in to R movies, it should get an NC-17. Just MHO.
Well, technically I only spend about an hour or two a day on the internet. My internet connection sometimes stays on for hours, as I often forget to turn it off. I do some critique work on a different web site, write some emails and such, and use the internet for research. Quite productive, as my mind is always active. Not the same as spending 20 hours a week watching Atomfilms, spanking the monkey, or chatting to 12 year olds posing as 18 year olds in chat rooms.
I only work 40-50 hours a week, like anybody else I guess. I think TV, while entertaining, is wasting time. Like playing video games. To each thier own though.
I guess it is just a personal quirk, but I prefer to be experiencing personal growth in some fashion. I do my mindless fun, but I don’t incorperate it into a regular routine. Once a week perhaps, twice a week on a good one. For the most part, though, if an activity does not advance me in some way, I usually drop it. Too many other things in life to do and experience to waste it watching other people experiencing it.
There’s two kinds of people in this world- people who laugh when a guy pisses on a snow cone and eats it, and people who don’t. It reminds me of what Lous Armstrong said about jazz, “Some folks, if they don’t understand it, you can’t tell 'em.”
Well, good for you. You’re entitled to do that just as people are entitled to be entertained by stupid shit, surf the 'net for 100 hours a week, go to casinos and throw away money- whatever.
Here’s the deal: I like to experience “personal growth”, too. I also love to do stupid shit like watch Jackass: The Movie, play The Sims for hours on end, and chat with my friends. Believe it or not, you can have both in your life- mindless play and personal growth.
Not and become somebody great, something alot of people don’t even bother trying. You think Einstien had hundreds of hours of mindless fun every week? Plah, waste your talent.
Oh lord. I saw it last night and it was hilarious. The scene of him arguing with the rental car guys killed me. “Yeah, I hit a dog”. Then when he grabs the inflatable love dolls from the back of the car and makes a run for it, it was awesome.
Even better was the alligator in Bam’s house, and the fireworks in his parents bedroom. Tom Green can’t even remotely touch Bam for straight up fucking with his parents, TV episode with the hole in the lawn is so freaking funny.
Also, props to them for some of the guest stars, especially Henry Rollins! That man is HARD. CORE.
My only complaint is that “Party Boy” was not even funny the very first time they did it on TV, nor the second or third times, and certainly not in the movie.
P.S. - Bam Margera is fucking hot. No two ways about it.
The greater the mind, the greater the need for the simplicity of play.
–Albert Einstein
I may be misattributing that quote, but here’s another:
If A equals success, then the formula is: A=X+Y+Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.
–Albert Einstein
In other words, all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. In other words, even the smartest people need some time in which they can just be entertained and don’t have to think.
The greater the mind, the greater the need for the simplicity of play.
–Albert Einstein
I may be misattributing that quote, but here’s another:
If A equals success, then the formula is: A=X+Y+Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.
–Albert Einstein
In other words, all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. In other words, even the smartest people need some time in which they can just be entertained and don’t have to think.
