So before I talk about Jackass 3D, let me preface it with a real life story. So last week, I bared witness to a Jackass-like scenario. My work's office is on the 21st floor of a building in the upper downtown area where my office space is right by the windows, facing Toronto's west. I've got a great view of the city and an even better view of the apartment building that is right beside ours. So last Friday I was sitting at my desk and out of the corner of my eye, I see a bunch of teenagers hobbling on top of the roof. Bad. You see, the apartment building is about 20 storeys high — a long way to fall. And of course, teens are teens, and you know they're up to no good when they're on roofs. So they're smoking what they're smoking, drinking what they're drinking, walking around on the roof without any sense of balance. I ask one of the managers at the office whether we had the number for security in that building. She instead wisely calls the police. When I get back to my cubicle, I see one of the teens, sitting on the edge of the ledge, and he pushes himself off! Thankfully, there is a deck below, about a 15 feet drop, but unfortunately, the fall is padded by concrete. This numbskull of a teen lays there, with either a broken leg or ankle. I tell this to the manager, and she calls for an ambulance as well. Meanwhile a good bunch of us at work are just watching this trainwreck of a scene. Thank goodness the teen didn't land on his head and thank goodness there was this platform below. But really, how stupid can you be?! We all shook our heads but at the same time, couldn't turn away from this scene that was the blackhole of intelligence.
And that brings us to Jackass 3D. Really, there's almost no point in writing about this movie. Chances are, you already know what you're getting into when you cross the line into the theater. Expect human torture, feces, bodily fluids (including the "bodily part"), vomiting and so forth. It's the childish part of me, but I love this kind of comedy. Sometimes it's unbearable and cringe-worthy, but there comes a sense of relief after each "stunt" when the performers walk off laughing... even if they get nutted.
Jackass in general holds a special place in my heart. The first movie came out when I was in my first year of university and it was one of the numerous things that helped me bond with my floormates. Watching dumbasses do dumbass things can really bring a group of young guys together.
There's not too much I can say about the 3D except that seeing shit and vomit in 3D really brings the medium to a new light. At first I was intrigued, but now I wish I could unsee things.
If you love Jackass, then you're going to love Jackass 3D. And if you don't, you probably had no intention of doing so anyways. Til next time, later geeks!
It's time for another edition of Review Haikus; a feature I like to write when I'm too lazy to write out full reviews~!!! The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 Tony Scott schlockfest~! All his movies seem the same. A needless remake. Denzel's a bad-ass. Given up on Travolta. 1 of 2 ain't bad. Public Enemies Well? Disappointed. I expected more from Mann. The pacing felt off. Acting was good though. Man-crush on Depp and Bale. 5 more syllables! Saw VI Yes, another Saw. Harder to tell them apart. Blood, guts, bad story. Why more Saw movies? Each movie makes less and less. End this series now. ====== Later geeks!
It's great to see Sam Raimi back in his form with his latest entry Drag Me To Hell . Simply glorious, it is a horror geek's dream. This is the Sam we all know and love from Evil Dead 2 and Army of Darkness , before he got all caught up in the comic book geek universe of Spider-Man . After 10 years (from the first time I watched Evil Dead 2 ), he has remained my favourite film director... although he did try my patience with Spider-Man 3 . I know this euphoria that I'm feeling now will be short lived, as even as I type this review, Raimi is already at work on the pre-production of Spider-Man 4 (yay?). So what is there to say about Drag Me To Hell ? This is the way a summer movie should be, touching on all those senses that make movie going an actual experience. There were thrills, chills, laughs and cheers; the way things should be! Drag Me To Hell tells a story of a young loan officer named Christine, who in an effort to advance her own career, has to turn down an
I missed The Inglorious Basterds during its theatrical run and it's a shame too because I'm a fool for Tarantino movies. But I finally got to see it this weekend and I'm happy to say that I mostly enjoyed it. I don't think it's his best movie, but it was damned entertaining. The Inglorious Basterds takes place during World War II and tells its story by following three different groups of characters: from Lt. Aldo Raine and his squad of soldiers infamously known as the Basterds, Col. Hans Landa, a Nazi colonel better known as "The Jew Hunter", and from a young Jewish girl named Shosanna, who had her family murdered by Col. Landa. We follow the Basterds in their Nazi killing business (and business is good) as they lay out a plan to take out several high ranking officials all at once. We follow Shosanna as she operates her theater and lays down her own plans in exacting revenge on the Nazis. And of course, the "Jew Hunter" is hot on their trail
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