I'm Declaring October 25th "Get Really Fucking High and Go See This Movie" Day - The Stranger | Comments

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1

I love that they call it "Jackass." It lets me know in the title that I shouldn't go see it. It really saves me some time.

I'm not kidding. I have a certain respect for any movie whose strategists would prefer a smaller but more satisfied audience to selling as many tickets as possible. I call it the Dude, Where's My Car? effect.

DRF on August 30, 2013 at 12:01 PM

2

This will be 90 minutes of well spent but completely wasted time. I'm in.

carnivorous chicken on August 30, 2013 at 12:03 PM

3

Do I get presents?

ArtBasketSara on August 30, 2013 at 12:05 PM

4

get high and have sex, then eat sandwiches and popsicles instead.

on August 30, 2013 at 12:08 PM

5

I prefer to get high and watch something more intellectually challenging, like the collected works of Buster Keaton.

MacCrocodile on August 30, 2013 at 12:12 PM

6

Is it bad that I watch the trailer and all I can think of is how much unwarranted stress the "stunts" in this movie introduced into the lives of ordinary bystanders?

Indighost on August 30, 2013 at 12:18 PM

7

Did a Slogger (who's been absent for long enough to film that) just get inadvertently outed??

I'm now 86 but this thing won't work so I can change it.

rob! on August 30, 2013 at 12:20 PM

8

Well... certainly getting high would be the only possible way to enjoy this movie. I'll give you that.

Reverse Polarity on August 30, 2013 at 12:20 PM

9

I will get high and see this movie with you.

Kelly O on August 30, 2013 at 12:24 PM

10

If you want to get high and see a movie, you should probably do it at home. Watch Labyrinth stoned and your mind will be blown.

delirian on August 30, 2013 at 12:26 PM

11

ditz. the stranger is in decline

on August 30, 2013 at 12:26 PM

12

@6 Do we know for reals that stunts were filmed in front of unwitting bystanders who were not paid extras? If so, the trailer was pretty slick. All those shots looked pretty well directed. I guess they'd be on the permanent shit-list of every liability insurance company, too. Can you still wildcat footage like that and live to survive civil court?

Brooklyn Reader on August 30, 2013 at 12:32 PM

13

I would not watch that if you paid me to. Well, I guess it depends on how much you're willing to pay. Make me an offer.

I will pop a couple of Percs that day, though. Because hey, why the fuck not?

Fifty-Two-Eighty on August 30, 2013 at 12:43 PM

14

The "Toddlers and Tiaras" moment was a rip-off of Little Miss Sunshine with added bonus of crossdressing a kid just for the creepiness of it all. The trailer made me laugh in a couple of spots, but does it make it better that I felt bad about laughing? Also, I suspect that all the best moments are in the trailer.

dtc on August 30, 2013 at 12:44 PM

15

I just got drunk as shit and watched The World's End. This would be a decisively cheaper thrill but I take my thrills anywhere I can get them. I'm in.

lolorhone on August 30, 2013 at 12:47 PM

16

Wait a minute. Labyrinth? You're joking, right? Yeesh.

Fifty-Two-Eighty on August 30, 2013 at 12:49 PM

17

Looks like Johnny Knoxville's finally going to get that Oscar.

Gern Blanston on August 30, 2013 at 12:51 PM

18

I'm in. I've never sat through a Jackass movie without splitting a gut a few times. Sometimes a low-brow comedy is just the ticket.

debug on August 30, 2013 at 1:09 PM

19

YouTube teased me to watch the trailer for About Time.
That looks so much more appealing to me.

NotSean on August 30, 2013 at 1:37 PM

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@16: Have you ever seen it completely drunk or stoned? You will just have to trust me on this. It may be the greatest movie ever made--the problem is that nobody was ever stoned enough when they reviewed it (or remembered it when they woke up later).

delirian on August 30, 2013 at 2:07 PM

21

I consider myself well educated, a bit of erudite, and well read, but I am a complete sucker for the Jackass films. I was crying laughing from the previews.

Even though both are very low brow and puerile humor, I do think the difference between Sacha Baron Cohen's mockumentaries and the Jackass films are the bystanders are the butt of the jokes, but there are a couple of crazy moments and taking advantage of people like the beauty pageant contest, which is just an easy laugh.

Bad Grandpa, I will probably see, without the use of recreational drugs, which shows how much of a sucker I am to these low brow films...

ferret on August 30, 2013 at 2:07 PM

23

Maybe I spent too many of my young years as the person who had to clean up the mess other people made, for very low pay, but watching somebody make a big mess just does not strike me as funny. It's just boring and stupid.

And yeah, Little Miss Sunshine rip off there.

agony on August 30, 2013 at 5:04 PM

24

I'm not gonna get high but i'll see this movie. (maybe not in the theatre though)

sirkowski on August 30, 2013 at 6:00 PM

25

@20 - Just fear me, love me, do as I say and I will be your slave!

Pridge Wessea on August 30, 2013 at 6:05 PM

26

God I'm old. Fuck no.

wine-o on August 30, 2013 at 7:46 PM

27

@3 I don't think I'm getting presents :(

ArtBasketSara on August 30, 2013 at 10:13 PM

28

1. Labyrinth is one of the worst films of all time. You were a child when you saw it and it blew your mind. It is terrible.

2. I didn't expect to like that trailer but laughed throughout. The kid on stage was a bit too creepy for me though. I won't be seeing it in theaters, that's for sure.

Gou Tongzhi on August 31, 2013 at 2:47 PM

29

Love Jackass. Will see it, even if it sucks. The trailer itself was hilarious. I'm happy to relive those moments and maybe pick up a few more. Yeah there was a send up Little Miss Sunshine in there, but it went a lot further and that made a difference.

know-it-all on August 31, 2013 at 4:44 PM

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