maybe that is kind of the point. so, you know. but her performance is great and it is a stranger than fiction story. absolutely. so it does hold your attention, yeah. yes. so. jackass forever. now, this is a decade afterjackass sd, and 20 years after the tv series ended with the first feature film. so that was the end of it, and two decades later, they re still doing it, remnants of the old gang with some newer arrivals. the stunts as ever revolve around bodily functions with particular emphasis on downstairs . so, underwaterfarts, there s a lot of that, there s vultures picking raw meat out of somebody s underpants. there sjohnny knoxville getting knocked unconscious by a bull and being shot out of a cannon, a tribute to the flight of icarus. here s the thing i actually rather enjoyed this. i thought it was quite sweet, and i haven t been a fan of jackass up until now. one of the things that s interesting about it is the film industry is so much about objectifying women, it is very
she s played in the film byjessica chastain who embraces the role entirely. here s a clip. 0k, do you want a little remover? oh, no. that s it. that will be all. they re permanently lined. 0h. and my eyes are permanently lined and my eyebrows - are permanently on so. there s not a whole lot you can do. my goodness. i didn t know. have you never done pictures without those eyelashes? no, no, and i neverwill, - because that s my trademark and, you know, if i take that away, then it s not me. and no one s going to want to look at me with my trademark, - so i hold onto that. even if we soften them up and kept. no, no, you can do anything - you want, but my eyelashes stay right where they are. that s really you. mmm. yeah, this is who i am. now, you can see from that, i mean,
of inspiration behind this is sharknado 2. this is like if somebody gave the makers of sharknado 2 $160 million and said, go knock yourself out. it s a film which as you watch, it s notjust that it defies the laws of gravity, it defies the laws of drama and everything else. the script appears to have been written by alexa, which somebody said, alexa, write me a terrible movie script, all that has to happen is it has to have moonfall in it the moon has to fall. i actually.| could feel my iq reducing. my iq s not very big at the beginning. by the end of it.it was. i mean, i actually really enjoyed it because it was like, ok, this has gone so far beyond stupid, it s like intergalactically dumb, and the best thing about it is it s gotjokes in it, so there are bits that are meant to be funny and then bits that are just. . .stupidly funny. also, it s the kind of film where, which, in the middle of a shoot out, a character turns to another character and goes, they re shooting at us.
there s vultures picking raw meat out of somebody s underpants. there sjohnny knoxville getting knocked unconscious by a bull and being shot out of a cannon, a tribute to the flight of icarus. here s the thing i actually rather enjoyed this. i thought it was quite sweet, and i haven t been a fan of jackass up until now. one of the things that s interesting about it is the film industry is so much about objectifying women, it is very interesting to see a film in which it is the male body that is completely on display and is utterly ridiculed and seen without any form of squeamishness, and there is something oddly subversive about that. also, there is a scene we do have a woman taking part in this who gets stung on the lips by a scorpion as a scorpion botox thing, which you could see as a comment on the ludicrousness of a society in which which embraces the idea of botox. there s a thing at the end which says no animals were harmed. the same cannot be said of the cast who endur
apparently she spent several hours in make up every day, because there s also prosthetics work. the way thatjessica chastain described it, she said it ave her a long runway every day to build up to the performance, because it s a big performance. the story is really fascinating, not least because if you don t know it already, the fact that she went from being somebody televangelists generally come from the evangelical religious right, which we all know a lot more about in the more recent years, but her embracing of people with hiv/aids and her becoming an lgbtq icon is really not what you would ve expected. i think her performance is great. i think the rest of the movie isn t as good as her performance. i think the movie itself i mean, the story is really mind boggling. the film itself, it felt a bit televisual, and maybe there s a kind of thing going, because obviously, i mean, it s based on a documentary, and in a way, it s kind of nothing can match up to the fact, you know, fi