In recent years, Hollywood has turned more frequently to European and Asian films for material to remake. Many of these films are met by groans of disappointment from fans of the original and those more well-versed in foreign film. In 2010, we have already seen remakes of Death at a Funeral, The Dinner Game and Let the Right One Inwith film fans asking the question, “why?”
As most of you are aware, Jackass 3D is far from the first of its kind. Most people are familiar with the name made (in)famous by the MTV show in the early double-ought years. What they may not be as familiar with are the videos that preceded it, put together by the then much younger Bam Margera, Ryan Dunn, Brandon Dicamillo, and Raab Himself starting in 1999. With no budgets, or even quality equipment, they devised stunts some of which are still some of my favorites in the ten years that this jackassery has been going on. The collection is known as CKY, or Camp Kill Yourself.
Jackass 3D hits theaters Friday to much anticipation, at least on my part. Seems only logical to make a list of my favorite stunts from the first two films in honor of this memorable event, wouldn’t you agree? Please feel free to comment with your own favourites.
Jackass 3D hits theaters Friday to much anticipation, at least on my part. Seems only logical to make a list of my favorite stunts from the first two films in honor of this memorable event, wouldn’t you agree? Please feel free to comment with your own favorites.
Predict which five movies will place in the top five of this weekend’s U.S. domestic box office. It’s that easy. I will make my own predictions here and explain them to you each week to give you some sort of reference point. It’s then your job to enter a comment with your top five.
Sure they might smell like urine and denture cream but this bunch of geriatrics could still pound you into the ground. In honour of the comic book adaptation RED, featuring more than its share of aging ass-kickers, let’s grab our walkers and take a blood-soaked trip down memory lane with the greatest over-the-hill, but not in-the-ground action stars.
Continuing our slow decline of big-name trailers we first look at the clip for Sundance darling Blue Valentine starring Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams. We then find The Way Back with Colin Farrell, Ed Harris and Jim Sturgess in the prison escape drama. Next is the low-budget remake of the equally low-budget 1970’s thriller And Soon the Darkness and finally, yet again due to a lack of new clips, we take a look at a pissed off Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson in the second clip for Faster.
We’re going to run away from Life as We Know It and the cookie-cutter films of the like, axe the baby and its various discharges (feels weird typing that), and focus on a more interesting and original take on strangers that fate has brought together. That would be Mike Nichols’ Closer of 2004.
Move over, boys. The girls are taking over, and this isn’t just any group of girls. These are the ones who demand your attention, who don’t take “no” for an answer, the ones you don’t want to mess with. You know, tough girls.
1. You read this post. 2. You leave a comment at the bottom predicting which five movies will place in the top five of this weekend’s U.S. domestic box office. 3. You wait to see if you were right on Sunday. 4. You get excited about it and do it again next week. It’s that easy. I will make my own predictions here and explain them to you each week to give you some sort of reference point. It’s then your job to enter a comment with your top five.
