Does anyone here think that Jackass movie was funny in any way? [Archive]

jaydub69

11-19-2009, 09:26 AM

When the truck started to drive around with the roller skaters in it, I just lost it. I literally couldn't handle it. I almost puked I laughed so hard.

With that said I found much of it kind of boring. The creative stuff was good, but most was just shock value.

-john

HooBass

11-19-2009, 09:31 AM

Yes. When JA II was in theatres my wife and I had a night where the in-laws were going to be watching the kids, so my wife and I said "Movie Night." To my surprise my wife suggested we go see JA II.

We're both 40'ish. Both highly educated, and I'm doing great in life (knock on wood!). I find some of it laugh-so-hard-you-cry funny. other stuff I can't watch, literally have to turn away because it's so gross or painful looking.

I also know, after about 40 years of observation, that peoples' opinions vary tremendously as to what is considered funny. Therefore I totally respect and expect that many will find it not funny, 100% crass (I think it is but don't have a problem with that), etc.

HooBass

Tuberoast

11-19-2009, 09:37 AM

12-20 year old males are probably the core audience. It probably skews up to age 30.
But then, my wife thinks I'm a goof for loving the Three Stooges, who at least show a sense of wordplay and wit, and are endearing...at least to me, who doesn't love Shemps moves in the boxing ring?

Tony Foran

11-19-2009, 09:44 AM

I can't wait for "Ow! my balls!" to make it to the big screen.

lpfella

11-19-2009, 09:50 AM

I enjoy the jackass movies and films

Loop-Master

11-19-2009, 09:52 AM

Which Jackass movie was it where that dude threw that cobra in the back of that cattle trailer and locked that guy in there?

That was some funny chit!

semi-hollowbody

11-19-2009, 09:53 AM

The first time I watched it was on a guys camping trip...me and a bunch of my buds had been drinking all day, sat down drunk with some nice barbq and watched it....laughed my arse off from beginning to end

watched it again moths later at home with the wife completely sober and thought it was the dumbest movie ever...its all relative

rich2k4

11-19-2009, 09:54 AM

i like the part where they drop through the ceiling of an office, and the black guy starts running out of the building, and down the street.

Dr. Tweedbucket

11-19-2009, 10:02 AM

I agree with this. The target demographic is most likely 12 to 20 year olds, with an IQ of less than 80.

:D ok, I guess I'm out of the demographic. Maybe I should have watched more of it, but taking a dump in the display commode at Home Depot just wasn't funny to me for some reason. :dunno That, and the inflicting pain on one's self ... well, I wasn't laughing much there either :cry:

Mike9

11-19-2009, 10:05 AM

As dumb as it is - I laugh my ass off when I watch the movies or the show . . . must be a carry over from my youth.

Polynitro

11-19-2009, 10:11 AM

yes some parts are funny. Its not as high brow as 'whats up tiger lily' or 'ishtar' but I don't think they were going for that either. It does well to make smart peoples ePenis that much larger by not finding it funny.

donnievaz

11-19-2009, 10:16 AM

I agree with this. The target demographic is most likely 12 to 20 year olds, with an IQ of less than 80.

I'm 44 with an above average IQ, I think a lot of is hilarious! Is there something wrong with me :D

MichelleTele

11-19-2009, 10:19 AM

I laughed hysterically.

I am a simple person with a simple humor.

sws1

11-19-2009, 10:21 AM

I'm 41, IQ over 130, very successful, etc. And I LOVED them. Plenty of tears rolling down my face.

MudPies

11-19-2009, 10:24 AM

I enjoy Jackass quite a bit.

Dr. Tweedbucket

11-19-2009, 10:27 AM

I guess watching people hurt themselves is funny. ok .......

:facepalm

Like I said, I only watched a short bit of it, maybe there was funnier stuff later on that I missed? :YinYang

Polynitro

11-19-2009, 10:28 AM

I guess watching people hurt themselves is funny. ok .......

:facepalm

this has always been funny. Check out Buster Keaton.

Analog Delay

11-19-2009, 10:29 AM

MudPies

11-19-2009, 10:30 AM

I guess watching people hurt themselves is funny. ok .......

:facepalm

Like I said, I only watched a short bit of it, maybe there was funnier stuff later on that I missed? :YinYang

It's ok, you just don't know funny.

:crazyguy

RonH

11-19-2009, 10:31 AM

I guess watching people hurt themselves is funny. ok .......

:facepalm

Like I said, I only watched a short bit of it, maybe there was funnier stuff later on that I missed? :YinYang

Watching people hurt themselves is not funny, its hilarious.

Dr. Tweedbucket

11-19-2009, 10:34 AM

It's ok, you just don't know funny.

:crazyguy

I guess I don't have much of a sense of humor :cry:

MudPies

11-19-2009, 10:36 AM

Aww. It's OK Doc. Not everyone can be perfect.

:hugs:

furry

11-19-2009, 10:42 AM

I'm proud to say that I find both Jackass movies and the TV show unbelievably funny. I totally realize that what they do doesn't take comedic geniuses but the bottom line is it makes me laugh.

Even just the simplest of things where Steve-O has a mini-trampoline in a room and he launches his head into a spinning ceiling fan just kills me every time.

I love Jackass.

I agree. I like indie films, and foreign films and Woody Allen films and Kubrick films, and I think both teh Jackass movie and show are funny as shit.

It's not supposed to be Citizen Kane, fellas. It's man-children taking a dump in a hardware store display toilet and running around Tokyo in a thong.

Calaban

11-19-2009, 10:51 AM

I agree with this. The target demographic is most likely 12 to 20 year olds, with an IQ of less than 80.

I found it hilarious and I saw it in my 30's. I am no dunce, thank you very much.....

People just have different ideas about what is funny. Everybody seems to think "Caddyshack" is the funniest movie of all time. I can't even get a chuckle out of it. Yeah, it's THAT stupid.

Doug's Tubes

11-19-2009, 10:53 AM

:confused:

I watched about 10 minutes of it and had to turn it off :messedup That is definiately bottom of the food chain material. :bong

Not for a second.

Phil M

11-19-2009, 10:56 AM

Only the part in the very beginning with the giant shopping cart.

AR-305

11-19-2009, 10:58 AM

I've rolled on the floor at Beavis and Butthead, Southpark and many what are considered childish and imature comedy type shows but could never sit thru an episode of JA or the movies. Maybe I'm weird.

boogiemink

11-19-2009, 10:58 AM

Man, I teach in a high school and we have so many kids that emulate these guys. Makes me sick that a lot of our kids now have aspirations to make a living doing what those guys do. I'm thankful that they make motivationally challenged teen males ask "Who needs to learn how to use a comma and be average when you can make millions stapling your balls to your leg?"

SlyStrat

11-19-2009, 11:02 AM

I think some Jackass skits are funny. Most are stupid.

I liked one (not in movie) where they were gonna jump a creek with a bicycle. Just as the dude hit the plywood ramp it collapsed and he went head first into the creek. Came up spitting out water. This creek was totally polluted and disgusting.

I also liked when the bull was knocking the crap out of them.

lpfella

11-19-2009, 11:05 AM

Analog Delay

11-19-2009, 11:08 AM

I agree. I like indie films, and foreign films and Woody Allen films and Kubrick films, and I think both teh Jackass movie and show are funny as shit.

It's not supposed to be Citizen Kane, fellas. It's man-children taking a dump in a hardware store display toilet and running around Tokyo in a thong.

Absolutely. And there were actually some things they did on the TV show that required some thinking and planning. I remember one episode where they're on busy city streets where there are lots of people eating at outdoor cafes and shopping. They then have one of the guys get into a parked car and leave a baby carrier on the roof of his car as he pulls out. Of course the people all assume that there is a baby in the carrier when there actually isn't. Seeing the reaction of the people that are eating as they get up and chase the car trying to stop the guy from driving is just classic. I realize that it's kind of cruel but it made me laugh every time.

The Golden Boy

11-19-2009, 11:13 AM

When I was a kid, my folks thought the Dukes of Hazzard was the bottom of the dumb barrel.

I, however, thought it was the greatest show in the history of Television.

They were right.

When I was a kid, MTV was about music and music videos. As I moved out of being a kid, MTV became more about the young lifestyle than music. As a result, I find MTV brain suckingly stupid and moronic.

MTV programming (which is Jackass) is stupid. It's mindless.

I know kids are going to watch stupid shit. It's what kids do. I refused to let Junior watch Andy Milonakis at home. I was an asshole about it, took the remote away from him and changed it- shut off the TV... I don't care. It's not going to be on in my house.

Watching that shit has to suck the intelligence right out of you. Watching dudes kicking themselves in the nuts or stapling their ass cheeks together... not funny. Watching obscenely rich spoiled children planning their 16th birthday party- not entertaining. Watching kid sitting in his living room feeling persecuted for being gay or a good student or a rebel or having too nice hair, or too rich or too poor or ... not entertaining-

**** MTV.

derekd

11-19-2009, 11:14 AM

I typically get a few laughs out of the JA fellas. Not all their stunts are funny, but I find many are.

MudPies

11-19-2009, 11:24 AM

One of my favs is when they dress up as old folks and cause problems.

And The Golden Boy, sorry, you're wrong. It's very entertaining. Not everything needs to be highbrow.

:)

Analog Delay

11-19-2009, 11:28 AM

When I was a kid, my folks thought the
MTV programming (which is Jackass) is stupid. It's mindless.

I know kids are going to watch stupid shit. It's what kids do. I refused to let Junior watch Andy Milonakis at home. I was an asshole about it, took the remote away from him and changed it- shut off the TV... I don't care. It's not going to be on in my house.

Watching that shit has to suck the intelligence right out of you. Watching dudes kicking themselves in the nuts or stapling their ass cheeks together... not funny. Watching obscenely rich spoiled children planning their 16th birthday party- not entertaining. Watching kid sitting in his living room feeling persecuted for being gay or a good student or a rebel or having too nice hair, or too rich or too poor or ... not entertaining-

**** MTV.

I can't even remotely put the Jackass guys in the same universe as that Sweet 16 show. Plus, Jackass started on MTV way before any of that horseshit was on that network.

But let me ask you this. Would you find it entertaining if the Jackass crew showed up and pulled some hijinks at a few of those ridiculous Sweet 16 parties, thus ruining the time for all those spoiled douchebags?

I'd love that.

sws1

11-19-2009, 11:31 AM

Gas-man

11-19-2009, 11:31 AM

I generally love jackass, but not the gross stuff.

Dudes jumping in shopping carts, racing them down hills and crashing is just inherently funny.

Analog Delay

11-19-2009, 11:36 AM

I challenge anyone not to be laughing by the end of this section from Jackass 2. I thought this was the funniest thing in both movies. I just watched again for the 10th time, and I got tears running down my face.

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/389825/jackass_2_2/

I love that. Even just that stupid sailor's hat that Knoxville is wearing is funny.

dividedsky

11-19-2009, 11:38 AM

Jackass and Jackass # 2 were both hilarious. I dread the day that I will no longer find someone getting hit in the nuts funny.

The Golden Boy

11-19-2009, 11:39 AM

I can't even remotely put the Jackass guys in the same universe as that Sweet 16 show. Plus, Jackass started on MTV way before any of that horseshit was on that network.

But let me ask you this. Would you find it entertaining if the Jackass crew showed up and pulled some hijinks at a few of those ridiculous Sweet 16 parties, thus ruining the time for all those spoiled douchebags?

I'd love that.

All that shit sprouts right out of The Real World.

Let me ask you this- if someone came to your house and kicked you in the nutz- would that be funny?

Before you answer that- post your address and publicly acknowledge that you will not press charges in any way, shape or form.

MudPies

11-19-2009, 11:42 AM

No, but if I saw someone kick you in the nuts it would be funny. Duh.

Analog Delay

11-19-2009, 11:47 AM

All that shit sprouts right out of The Real World.

Let me ask you this- if someone came to your house and kicked you in the nutz- would that be funny?

Before you answer that- post your address and publicly acknowledge that you will not press charges in any way, shape or form.

That's not even close to the same thing, though. They don't assault any people that aren't part of their crew. They're not committing any crimes. All of the guys in their circle of whackos know what they're getting themselves into and they get paid for it.

But to answer your question, I would not find it funny at all if someone randomly showed up and kicked me in the nuts. I'd be very pissed off.

Mike9

11-19-2009, 11:50 AM

Knoxville's "Big Red Rocket" is a classic -

http://www.flixxy.com/big-red-rocket

jaydub69

11-19-2009, 11:58 AM

I challenge anyone not to be laughing by the end of this section from Jackass 2. I thought this was the funniest thing in both movies. I just watched again for the 10th time, and I got tears running down my face.

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/389825/jackass_2_2/

Yes I thought it was amusing, but watching a bunch of people laugh is always amusing. It's contagious, ya know?

Mike Fleming

11-19-2009, 12:06 PM

I love jackass. Plenty of it is boring, and hurt-yourself stunts can get old fast -- but lots of it is hilarious in many ways. The best skits are like real life cartoons, between the costumes and the concept and the surprise outcomes. Like knoxville on the big rocket (though he totally could have died the first time), or the boxing glove in the wall.

Last night I was watching the one where preston (the big overweight guy) is dressed like a construction worker and acts like his stomach hurts, goes into a porta-john that is right by a bunch of people, then you hear lots of loud disgusting portajohn sounds, then wee man comes out in the same outfit going "whew!!!!" That's hilarious.

Stike

11-19-2009, 12:16 PM

I also know, after about 40 years of observation, that peoples' opinions vary tremendously as to what is considered funny. Therefore I totally respect and expect that many will find it not funny, 100% crass (I think it is but don't have a problem with that), etc.

Wait a minute, posts like this aren't allowed on TGP are they?:rotflmao

furry

11-19-2009, 12:19 PM

looks like we've got some sort of litmus test going here, gents...

I guess I won't be going out for beers any time soon with The Golden Boy.

drod2045

11-19-2009, 12:21 PM

to the OPs thread title/question:

i saw it years and years ago and yes. Saw parts of it a coule years ago and still yes. toilet humor at its best

The Golden Boy

11-19-2009, 12:31 PM

But to answer your question, I would not find it funny at all if someone randomly showed up and kicked me in the nuts. I'd be very pissed off.

But that's even funnier.

Kind of like Tom Green's poop on a stick.

Smakutus

11-19-2009, 12:37 PM

I laughed my ass off at both of them, some of you guys are old farts. <g>

Just laughed at the red rocket bit again.

Jeff

The Golden Boy

11-19-2009, 12:44 PM

I guess I won't be going out for beers any time soon with The Golden Boy.
Oh, we'd have fun, as long as you like getting kicked in the nutz, having me laugh at you, then we'd go and push some nuns down the stairs, and then knife some kindergartners.

cooljuk

11-19-2009, 12:48 PM

Not even slightly. I only feel dumber for having watched it.

lpfella

11-19-2009, 12:59 PM

I only feel dumber for having watched it.

I love when someone says this..."I feel dumber for having done something." It hints that the person who said it has a sense of their dumbness before engaging in whatever it was that made them feel dumber than their current state of dumb. Or should I say their previous state of dumb since it was lowered by, in this case, watching a movie.

MudPies

11-19-2009, 01:04 PM

Oh snap!

donnyjaguar

11-19-2009, 01:29 PM

Well, I find Weekend At Bernies to be funny so not surprisingly I love the Jackass movies. The JackAss European road trip was lame though as it didn't leave a lot of time for clowning around.

furry

11-19-2009, 02:02 PM

Not even slightly. I only feel dumber for having watched it.

speaking of dumber, I'll bet you Jackass haters didn't think Dumb and Dumber was funny either...

Analog Delay

11-19-2009, 02:08 PM

Well, I find Weekend At Bernies to be funny

Weekend at Bernie's was a classic. When I saw the preview I thought it was gonna be awful, but it turned out to be very funny.

Gas-man

11-19-2009, 02:10 PM

speaking of dumber, I'll bet you Jackass haters didn't think Dumb and Dumber was funny either...

Dumb and Dumber is pure genius.

Top 10 "films" for me.

Although usually guys that call movies "films" would never cite D&D as one of their faves.

furry

11-19-2009, 02:16 PM

Dumb and Dumber is pure genius.

Top 10 "films" for me.

Although usually guys that call movies "films" would never cite D&D as one of their faves.

Jim Carey's finest moment

twinrider1

11-19-2009, 02:20 PM

I saw the first Jackass in the theater and I laughed so hard I was hoping for a bad skit just so I could catch my breath.
Although I was there with my fellow coworkers that had just been given our 60 day notice (canned). We decided we needed a laugh and took the rest of the day off.

Dr. Tweedbucket

11-19-2009, 02:28 PM

I found it hilarious and I saw it in my 30's. I am no dunce, thank you very much.....

People just have different ideas about what is funny. Everybody seems to think "Caddyshack" is the funniest movie of all time. I can't even get a chuckle out of it. Yeah, it's THAT stupid.

Oh I like movies like Caddyshack, What About Bob, Teh Blues Brothers ..... that's what makes me laugh. :) I guess I'm just weird. :Devil

RichSZ

11-19-2009, 02:35 PM

but taking a dump in the display commode at Home Depot just wasn't funny to me for some reason. :dunno

Holy Shit (literally)...that was funny. Don't tell me you've never thought of doing that? You lie if you say no. :crazyguy

Lution

11-19-2009, 03:03 PM

I agree with this. The target demographic is most likely 12 to 20 year olds, with an IQ of less than 80.

couldn't be more wrong. :(

40 yo here.

IQ is 130+

I own all the Jackass stuff and think they're pretty damn cool! Some of the things I can't watch - the really gross-out stuff, but the rest is greatness!