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Jackass
2000 · TV series · 25 min episodes · 3 seasons
Created by Jeff Tremaine, Johnny Knoxville, Spike Jonze
Join sadomasochistic superheroes Johnny Knoxville, Bam Margera, and the rest of the Jackass crew as they terrorize your TV screens and everyone that gets in their way (especially themselves) with their own sick and twisted interpretation of physical entertainment. Their brand of pranks, goofball antics, and unabashed brutal comedy are sure to bring new meaning to the phrase "Don't Try This At Home!"
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> Do movie theaters let kids under 18 into an R rated movie without ID?
I mean, yes? At least in the Netherlands they do, I just went to see new the Jackass movie last week and half the theater was kids without parents present.
Also this is a bad comparison because a theater (or bar or whatever other venue checks IDs) doesn't store those IDs forever in perpetuity, and they definitely don't share it with one of their 9000 "legitimate interest" partners who do lord knows what with the IDs.
You missed the documentary angle. Getting rid of jackass would be a move in the right direction (and all of the jackass derivatives).
Sure once you have seen a couple of skits from the Jackass crew you shouldn't be surprised anymore, you know what their shtick is, nonetheless everyone is always surprised and tunes in for the next unbelievable episode of mayhem.
Ever watch the Jackass movies? I know plenty of MFA-toting snobs that think it's high performance art. And I don't disagree.
I read the PDF; profit wasn't on the list of KPIs. In fact there was quite a lot of invective against it; he'll kill expensive projects just because he didn't think the quality was good enough. Of course $$ is related, but the focus really is on the eyeballs.
I worked in porn for a while. I found the work fun and meaningful. Not every mission involves saving the world.
Well hey, I'm on the same page. I don't pay for cable these days, nor put up with adblockless YouTube in the first place. But content on YouTube - particularly popular content - is a race to the bottom worse than Keeping up with The Kardashians ever was. I've watched Mr. Beast videos (at the behest of my ex) and haven't found anything except hyperactive filmmaking married to absurd and ill-considered ideas. It's deconstructed short-form entertainment in ways that TikTok is probably envious of. Truly, they've cracked the marketing code for an ADHD-addled era of content consumption.
And therein lies "the problem" - this shit is garbage. I like some YouTube content too, but holy fucking cow is it worse than everything that came before it. TVFilthyFrank was just doing the same thing Jackass did with fewer safety considerations and lower production value. Historians making documentaries are basically recouping the task of The History Channel on a smaller budget with fewer regulations on construing truth. At the end of the day, as much as I hate cable television, I cannot honestly say anything on YouTube comes close to the production in an episode of Top Gear or Game of Thrones. It's garbage all the way down, supported by marginal advertising, kept out of Google's Graveyard by horrific levels of rentseeking and AdSense monopoly abuse, and ultimately propelled by sensationalist and meaningless content tailored to offend as few people as possible. Content on YouTube is terrible in new and terrifying ways.
Degeneracy is positioned as "tolerance" while traditional morality is repositioned as "hate".
"Reality TV" shows like "Ridiculousness" (hour upon hour of groin-shots) resemble what the movie "Idiocracy" portrayed in 2006 ("Ow! My Balls!").
When "hits" like "Jackass" are given platform and marketed toward youth who partially identify with Steve-O and his band of drop-outs, even though they aren't shown as heroes the emphasis is on the humor of their hijinks not the disastrous consequences of having given themselves wholly to wanton self-destruction.
"The Bachelor/Bachelorette", "Married at First Sight", "Real Housewives of [place]", etc - play on the commoditization of intimate relationships, reducing life partners down to nothing except the degree to which they approximate the standard as presented within the media - a status symbol: as either a Sex Object or a Success Object, and only to the degree that it fits with one's need for narcissistic validation.
I didn't see "Cocaine Bear" but I have heard of "Straw Man" - maybe it's the same thing.
In a free country, yes, anyone has the right to do so. Not my place to judge if I'm going to continue watching Jackass movies.
But I'm not a fan of people like this guy vaguely shaming those who don't like to take lots of risks. I'm not a daredevil, if I got on a plane I would expect it to be safer than the trip to the airport.
The FAA, and the elevator industry, are two of the groups that actually do things the way I like to see them done. If there is one single crash, they will train pilots and update firmware or even retrofit hardware to stop that one specific scenario.
If there's a near miss, and someone could have crashes, they might do the same.
Anywhere else, we just say "Yeah, we know this kills X people a year, but if ya wanna be safe don't get up".
Innovation is largely overrated. A lot of the useful stuff seems to be held up on the basic science rather than willingness to do hands on experiments.
If there's tech to save fuel, they'll do it because it's cheap. If there's tech to make it safer, the FAA will probably require it.
If there's some really clever trick that does neither but makes it simple and cheap and interesting, I'm quite happy for it to just remain in the experimental stuff.
Whenever people talk about innovation being more important than safety it always sounds like typical hacker ethos "I want a world full of lots of different random technical ideas that are simple and can be understood"..... "love of ideas" more than love of engineering progress in the modern sense.
We've had rotten, live leak, GNAA last measure and friends for decades now. Sure, we shared that as kids, but the majority of the internet is not horror gore, you have to really seek it out. We would troll each other with it and then move on.
Same for porn. I'm sure I could find that stuff if I wanted but it's not even close to being a default. It was all on limewire or whatever 15 years ago too. I remember trying to download Jackass episodes and getting BDSM gay midget porn. Nice one.
And yeah, like the other poster, I grew up with this stuff (late 20s early 30s now) and if anything it made me more conservative and use porn in moderation. The extreme stuff looks like hedonistic bollocks, "everything is ok as long as someone agrees", exactly the opposite of what I need to have a happy and healthy life, relationship and family.
> Why assume this one Russian weapon actually works, if all others turned out to be shit?
I haven't seen the new Jackass movie. Is this the plot?
Google would destroy "Liberty Leading the People" for depicting violent content if they could.
What's the line here? A scripted video depicting one friend punching another gets taken down, but MMA fights, movie scenes of executions, and Jackass clips stay up?
It's dangerous how much of our culture is in the hands of private companies who can restrict or deny your ability to view that piece of culture. They do so on a whim and you have no recourse.
Maybe that's why I didn't really like the Jackass films compared to the show - especially in some moments it was too staged, too acted and well-produced.
Unfortunately asking users doesn't usually work out well. My favorite example is from Netflix. They asked users, "What movie needs to be on the service for you to consider it a good service with good movies that you would want to see repeatedly". A lot of people answered "Schindler's list". But when you looked at those same user's actual viewing, they never once watched Schindler's list, but they watch Jackass multiple times. So what they really wanted was Jackass, but either were too ashamed to admit it, or didn't actually understand their own preferences.
The Jackass gang were, in their own way, quite brilliant I think.
It’s been a long time since I last watched them, but there was something special about the show and the movie.
It wasn’t simply people doing dumb things to hurt themselves.
It was more like, experiments to see what kind of crazy stuff they could pull off without hurting themselves too bad. That’s how I see it anyway.
It was also an insight into skateboarder culture.
And they were quite a creative bunch of people, often coming up with new things to try.
And on top of that they were good entertainers too.
Have you heard of the American TV Show Jackass? Debauchery and indecency is well celebrated in American culture.
Regardless of "strategy", algorithmic content delivery is going to be used for propaganda, period. What's really fascinating is it kind of happened over night, when Instagram and Twitter were updated to not display content in chronological order. Personally, I took for granted how much bigger than a "UX change" this was.
When I said "Bush-era", I was talking more of the national zeitgeist during Bush's presidency and not so much about how Bush himself was perceived.
The Bush era—or rather the core of the era, from about 2002 to 2007 (i.e. after the dust from 9/11 settled and before the housing crisis), was a boom time, and much of the future situation feels like it comes from "what if this boom lasts forever?" (i.e. society becomes wealthy enough to automate everything, so people just sit around and watch Ow My Balls and drink Brawndo every day instead of having to work). Something made nowadays would probably start with a premise that comes from "Millenials can't afford anything".
Mainstream culture during the Bush era was also before the sudden explosion in nerd culture. Superheroes hadn't eaten the entertainment industry yet, nostalgia wasn't yet a driving force in pop culture, and it was still uncool to admit that you enjoy RPGs or reading comic books or doing whatever else nerds do. A parody of modern cultural memes would resemble Ready Player One more than Idiocracy, and Ready Player One wasn't even intended as parody. Instead, Idiocracy spends a lot of time lampooning shock reality TV (e.g. Ow My Balls), which was a huge thing in the mid-00s with shows like Jackass and Fear Factor but isn't big anymore. And the general culture is different. Like, you had people saying things like "you talk faggy", which sadly was common in real life during the mid-00s, and as such it was a ripe target for parody, but would be completely taboo now. Even in bro-culture you wouldn't see that in 2018 (I mean, there's still a lot of homophobia around, but you don't see those slurs dropped casually anymore), and so a parody of modern bro-culture probably wouldn't even mention it. TBH, a parody of modern bro-culture would probably involve MRAs and redpillers and pseudo-intellectuals who worship Jordan Peterson.
Like, the _idea_ of a movie about the future being full of stupid people would still be relevant in 2018 (and you can thank Trump for that), but it wouldn't be Idiocracy because Idiocracy was more about parodying mid-00s pop culture than anything else. I'd imagine a late-10s Idiocracy would involve some combination of nerd culture turned mainstream eating the world, '90s nostalgia (with "only '90s kids remember" somehow being reiterated over and over 500 years in the future), avocado toast, and nobody being able to afford a house.
Call me sick, but I really love reading post-mortem reports I wasn’t involved with. I feel like you can learn so much from other people’s pain.
...it’s almost like watching the TV show Jackass
Autopilot is like the steering wheel, brake, stickshift, etc. You don't get to blame an accident on it. Airplanes have autopilot as well. We live in a world where movies like jackass are made, based on real people and their attitudes. It's not reasonable to suggest that safety labels or terminology can fix everything. Some people are plain irresponsible and foolish.
That's a pretty good point - sounds like the movie Jackass, which did pretty well across the board, critics and users alike.
ok so they squeezed some more battery life for watching jackass the movie.
How about they figure out the combination that leads to consistent kernel panic when plugging in/out external monitors.
IMHO, what hurt western civilization the most is reality shows like Big Brothers,Survivor, Jackass, Celebrity show X or Z. Somehow these shows reward narcissism, individualism, greed, anti-social behavior, sexual, moral harassment and exploitation.
When MTV started to broadcast Jackass I knew a paradigm shift had happened.
People like to blame anything sort of things for our decline, but for me broadcasting that crap and accepting it as moral absolutely shaped the modern west.
Friends was just a funny sitcom that actually talked about friendship which is something positive, no matter how bad it handled that theme.
> nobody watches people getting into a crash and becomes convinced to try it themself.
The disclaimer at the beginning of every episode of Jackass must have been for drama then.
http://images2.fanpop.com/images/photos/2800000/Jackass-Disclaimer-jackass-2854785-300-225.jpg
I don't blame you, I should have tried that myself.
I'm still trying to figure out how that could be a legit code. Jet skis, of course. But ... ah, while trying to see if anyone else had a brainstorm, I found a better one that eliminates a lot of possibilities:
V90.27XA: Drowning and submersion due to falling or jumping from burning water-skis, initial encounter
Got that from http://skepticalscalpel.blogspot.com/2011/09/icd-10-codes-drowning-and-submersion.html, which suggests:
I have come up with an answer. Someone, possibly an actor from the Jackass series of movies, sets up his water skis on milk crates in the back yard. The skis are positioned over a kiddie pool. He mounts the water skis while an accomplice sprays them with gasoline. The skis are lit, and the man jumps or falls from the burning skis, submerging and drowning himself in the process. Luckily there is an ICD-10 code for that.
Maybe we're being trolled? You know, there are trolling motors, but they're (all?) slow, battery powered ones to avoid disturbing fish, not at all suitable for water skiing.
If so, please defend your position, when such an act may lead almost directly to serious injury and perhaps death.
Almost any speech more threatening than a mild children's book could legitimately be suppressed by these criteria.
Action film? Might encourage people to act violently.
Jackass and other prank/stunt shows? Might encourage people to take stupid physical risks.
Video games? Might normalize violent behavior and actions and cause people to act violently.
There's a reasonable argument for age restrictions in 'adult' material. Children or feeble-minded individuals might not 'get' that comedians joking about rape doesn't make it OK, or violent acts in video games aren't to be emulated by amateurs. But restricting speech that might have 'consequences' has the potential to restrict all speech, as long as a bureaucrat can come up with a wild story about how a long chain of cause-effect from that speech might eventually cause harm.
I think that's a funny movie (and just brought it up at work last week), but I don't actually believe we're getting dumber. I think there is a societal "anti-smart" sentiment right now (nerd, geek, etc), and that the media portrayal of idiocracy is more entertaining (or perhaps more lucrative - Jackass, Swamp People, etc).