#Jackass Forever 2022

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my favorite 2022 films:

aftersun

everything everywhere all at once

nope

decision to leave

the banshees of inisherin

gdt’s pinocchio

bones and all

jackass forever

crimes of the future

bodies bodies bodies

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favorite films 2022

(reupload because i accidentally deleted everything)

(update: hadn't seen puss in boots the last wish til this year, but i think it knocks out incantation for the 10th best spot)

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W ❤ T C H I N G

It's 6 am and I haven't slept from nervousness. I see Amazon Prime has for this included. I'm gonna watch it.

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Honestly I've never really done anything "jackass-like", like some people that made the news or got injured doing stupid things like this.

But considering what pain I've always been in, and then the pain I'm in from just regular injuries and my fibromyalgia pain and stuff like that, or just being 37 and you start feeling your body more than when you were 12 years old.

I do not envy anyone in Jackass. There's no fame worth the the amount of debilitating pain some of them must be in from their 22 years of injuries and "stunts".

My broken down body had been hounding me from a young age, that's enough to make life awful many days. I am so glad it's not worse, considering its already fucking terrible.

Still a fun movie, nostalgia to look back on the crazy "tasteless" shit I would watch with my dad or my friends.

BUT seeing Johnny Knoxville get knocked cold by that bull at 51(?) And learning that he had suffered cognitive impairment for several days/weeks after. That's not worth it. You couldn't pay me enough. That scary. He's not 20-30 anymore. His recovery from a concussion isn't what it used to be. And his brain is going to be so bad when he's elderly.

ALSO: I give Steve-O a huge amount of credit for being sober for almost 10+ years now. Truly an excellent thing. I hope he's clean forever. He's crazy as ever, but he's got a totally different personality even without that shit.

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2022

Ask Any Buddy (Elizabeth Purchell) @ Anthology Film Archives 

Nope (Jordan Peele) in IMAX @ AMC Lincoln Square 13

De Humani Corporis Fabrica (Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Véréna Paravel) @ 60th NYFF

We Met In Virtual Reality (Joe Hunting) @ 2022 Virtual Sundance Film Festival 

The Rehearsal, Season 1 (Nathan Fielder)

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (Laura Poitras)

TÁR (Todd Field)

Crimes of the Future (David Cronenberg)

Skinamarink (Kyle Edward Ball)

Jackass Forever (Jeff Tremaine)

Aftersun (Charlotte Wells)

Avatar: The Way of Water (James Cameron) in IMAX 3D @ AMC Lincoln Square 13

Artists at the Center: Tiler Peck @ New York City Center (curated by Tiler Peck)

The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg)

Pearl (Ti West)

Decision to Leave (Park Chan-wook)

Blonde (Andrew Dominik)

RRR (S. S. Rajamouli)

The Batman (Matt Reeves)

Liquor Store Dreams (So Yun Um) @ 2022 Tribeca Film Festival

Resurrection (Andrew Semans)

Will-o’-the-Wisp (João Pedro Rodrigues) @ 60th NYFF

Orphan: First Kill (William Brent Bell)

There There (Andrew Bujalski) @ 2022 Tribeca Film Festival

Sharp Stick (Lena Dunham) @ 2022 Virtual Sundance Film Festival 

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The African Desperate (Martine Syms)

After Yang (Kogonada)

Ambulance (Michael Bay)

Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood (Richard Linklater)

Babylon (Damien Chazelle)

The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh)

Deep Water (Adrian Lyne)

Disney Channel’s Theme: A History Mystery (Kevin Perjurer)

Halloween Ends (David Gordon Green)

Irma Vep (2022, Olivier Assayas)

Jacaranda Joe (1994, George A. Romero) @ Webinar w/ University of Pittsburgh

Jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy (Chike Ozah & Coodie Simmons)

Kate Berlant: Cinnamon in the Wind (Bo Burnham)

Kimi (Steven Soderbergh)

Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (Dean Fleischer-Camp)

The Munsters (Rob Zombie)

On the Count of Three (Jerrod Carmichael)

Terrifier 2 (Damien Leone)

Top Gun: Maverick (Joseph Kosinski)

Shin Ultraman (Shinji Higuchi)

Shit & Champagne (D’Arcy Drollinger) 

Showing Up (Kelly Reichardt)

Starfuckers (Antonio Marziale)

Vortex (Gaspar Noé)

The White Lotus [Season 2] (Mike White)

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Still have a few things to see but this is where I'm at for my faves of 2022

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Rookie-Critic's Top 25 Films of 2022: #24: Jackass Forever/Jackass 4.5 (dir. Jeff Tremaine)

I love Jackass. I love everything about Jackass and I always have. It's not just the gross-outs, the nut shots, the insanity of it all, it's the brotherhood. It's been the magic piece of the puzzle from the very, very beginning of Knoxville & Co.'s humble start on MTV, and never has that wondrous camaraderie been more front and center than in Jackass Forever. Don't get me wrong, the stunts are still as bombastic and hilarious as ever, but they could almost do anything at all and I'd be here for it. The reason I keep coming back is that I love these idiots, and now they've added even more new, young idiots to pass the torch to, and this new cast of daredevils fits the bill and are 100% worthy of taking that torch lighting the closest possible thing on fire with it. I am fully aware of how dumb this all is, I am more than cognizant of how baseline the humor of it all is, but that never stopped it from being the most fun experience I had at the movies last year. The theater wasn't packed, but everyone in there knew exactly why we were all there, and it cast an air of brotherhood over the room that was infectious. The first hour of this movie had me laughing so hard that tears were being forcefully ejected from my tear ducts from the pressure being applied to them from my cheek bones, so much so that my face hurt for awhile after the credits rolled. These dudes create beauty from stupidity, and I can't get enough of it. Jackass Forever is currently streaming on Amazon Prime Video and Paramount+, and Jackass 4.5 is currently streaming on Netflix. Read my full review of Jackass 4.5 here.

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I Like to Watch | The Best and Worst of 2022

by Don Hall

Oh, the controversy! In the latest Sight and Sound Poll, known to be the definitive determiner of the greatest 100 movies of all time, has displaced some of the films seen as canon. Holy fuck, what will we do!

Sight & Sound voters selected Chantal Ackerman’s “Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles” as this decade’s greatest film of all time. It is the fourth film to ever receive the honor, after “Bicycle Thieves,” “Citizen Kane,” and “Vertigo.” But Paul Schrader isn’t sold on the pick.

The “Master Gardener” director took to his always colorful Facebook page to question the logic of the selection and question if the poll’s voters were committed to judging films by their artistic value.

“By expanding the voting community and the point system, this year’s S&S poll reflects not a historical continuum but a politically correct rejiggering. Ackerman’s film is a favorite of mine, a great film, a landmark film but it’s unexpected number one rating does it no favors. ‘Jeanne Dielman’ will from this time forward be remembered not only as an important film in cinema history but also as a landmark of distorted woke reappraisal.”

Doesn't Schrader know that there was a rogue wave that hit a cruise ship and pulled a woman overboard? Is he aware of the fact the democracy is ending... what? It didn't end? What the fuck? Isn't he in tune with the fact that Twitter will completely implode now that Musk has taken over? There are so many more important things to get up in your cups about than a list of the greatest 100 movies voted upon subjectively by a bunch of industry insiders.

Plus, everyone already knows that This is Spinal Tap is the greatest movie ever made.

What about what I think were the best and worst shows and movies in 2022 (based entirely on the films and series I actually saw and not including stuff on Starz because I ain't paying for one more goddamned streaming service).

Granted, 2022 was more about streaming than sitting in a theater. You know, all that wearing a mask stuff gets in the way of snarfing handfuls of overpriced popcorn and tubs of cola. Once things opened up, I caught a few silver screen experiences because, well, few others were sitting in a theater to watch Jackass Forever. Once my life turned to shit, I found that movies and shows on the iPad were of some comfort if for no other reason than a sense of distraction. The second half of the year has become much more involved in viewing so here are my short list of the best things I saw and worst things I endured in 2022.

BEST

Barbarian Director: Zach Cregger

As I wrote:

"This is a truly imaginative, risky film. The script is great, the performances (especially Campbell) are stellar, and nothing about this smart, idea-driven monster movie is anything but outside the box. I finished it and, instead of then moving on to another movie or streaming show, I just wanted to sit with it, stewing on the concepts, reliving the moments I didn't expect (one of my favorite scenes involves Campbell, having escaped and calling the Detroit police only to have the cops look at her as if she were on crack or nuts rather than rush into the breach like movie cops usually do—her shock at their disbelief feels like reality which is always a solid surprise in a story of fantastical twists), and wishing I could rewatch it for the first time."

WORST

The 355 Director: Simon Kinberg

Kinberg gets five of the most exciting and talented actors available to him (Jessica Chastain, Penélope Cruz, Fan Bingbing, Diane Kruger, and Lupita Nyong'o) and creates a genuinely dull and overcomplicated spy film.

Anything with Chastain and Nyong'o that leaves you looking at the clock to see how much longer is this thing going to play is a miscarriage of justice and deserving of riots in the streets. I mean, where's Antifa when you need them?

BEST

Andor Created by Tony Gilroy

A wonderfully slow burn series that combines the galaxy far, far away with the grittiness of Bladerunner,Gilroy's follow-up to the also excellent Rogue One has Diego Luna reprising his role as Cassian Andor prior to his full buy-in to the Rebellion against the Empire.

Both serious and fun, the series brings back the fight against the Empire as central to the story. Not about Jedis or the Force, Andor takes the very reason for the Skywalker clan to engage in a battle against the domination of an authoritarian regime.

WORST

She-Hulk: Attorney at Law Created by Jessica Gao

Gao started her career as a writer on the Nickelodeon shows The Mighty B! and Back at the Barnyard. She continued to work for the network on shows such as Big Time Rush and Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness, before leaving to freelance on other shows such as Adult Swim's Robot Chicken, Cartoon Network's The High Fructose Adventures of Annoying Orange, and Disney XD's Lab Rats. Gao has also written for HBO's Silicon Valley, the French series Zip Zip, Seeso/Pluto TV's Bajillion Dollar Propertie$, and Comedy Central's Corporate. Also Rick and Morty.

Certainly a talented writer, nothing in her repertoire indicates she'd be qualified to write in either the superhero genre or the legal sitcom genre and this show demonstrates her lack of cred. Neither a truly satisfying storyline involving a super-powered lawyer nor an interesting or credible story of a lawyer who happens to be the cousin of the Hulk, Gao bricks it thoroughly.

Trust me—I wanted to love this show. I ended up finding it tedious to just keep up with the episodes. And given both Tatiana Maslany and her Hulk counterpart are super hot, that is saying something.

BEST

Nope Directed by Jordan Peele

Peele's Get Out made it on that venerated list of 100 Greatest films but, for my money, this is his best work to date.

A sweeping story involving aliens, a quest, the racism of early Hollywood, and a murderous chimp from a widely loved sitcom, Nope is his most complex film and is, a personal favorite of mine, a movie about making movies. The performances are wonderful, the alien is completely unique (because, c'mon, the idea that aliens will somehow be humanoid is some pretty arrogant stuff after it's all said and done), and the questions asked but not answered make this one of those movies that demands watching over and over again.

WORST

Moonfall Directed by Roland Emmerich

I'll buy aliens coming to invade the planet, the second ice age, the end of the world based on the Mayan calendar, even Mel Gibson as a Revolutionary War guerrilla fighter, but the moon is a giant spaceship sent to spark human evolution and is being attached by an alien AI?

Fuck yourself, Roland.

BEST

Three Thousand Years of Longing Directed by George Miller

Tilda Swinton. Idris Elba. A movie about storytelling and stories. A strange and wonderful love story.

I loved this film.

Adapted from AS Byatt's novella, The Djinn in The Nightingale's Eyes, Three Thousand Years of Longing is a profound, contemplative romantic reverie about a literature professor and a djinn telling stories to one another. Whatever George Miller's fans might have been expecting after Mad Max: Fury Road, they weren't expecting that.

It's lovely and sad and beautiful.

WORST

Till Directed by Chinonye Chukwu

I suppose it's reasonable when making a movie for people who don't remember Ronald Reagan or Gilligan's Island you gotta go with the obvious but I already knew about the lynching of Emmet Till, the open casket viewing for America, and the trial. Given the marketing was about his mother, I expected to get some insight about her work moving the needle towards passage of the 1957 Civil Rights Act. Sadly, no. This is just a retelling of the crime through her eyes.

While Danielle Deadwyler is a beautiful woman and a fine actor, a solid thirty minutes of this film is centered on long close ups of her face looking forlorn. I don't know anything about Mamie Till-Mobley but I know every fucking pore on Deadwyler's face.

The worst thing you can do with such a powerful story is bore. And this is a well-meant snooze.

BEST

Prey Directed by Dan Trachtenberg

Twenty-five years after John McTiernan’s Aahnold 80's classic introduced us to a high tech race of predatory aliens, the Predator is back hunting another group of warriors. Trachtenberg’s Prey takes us back 300 years to the Northern Great Plains of 1719 flipping the premise on its head and expanding the world to tell an entirely different story. In Prey, he follows a young Comanche woman named Naru (Amber Midthunder) and makes a film about the perception of power and the reality of strength.

The Predator is less advanced but just as bloodthirsty and dare anyone to not stare in wonder as it fights and kills a grizzly bear. Midthunder is remarkable in every single scene. Spectacular franchise building here.

WORST

Thor: Love and Thunder Directed by Taika Waititi

While the world may be oversaturated with too much MCU, I'm not. I am, however, thinking Waititi might need a break. He is almost the MCU Joel Schumacher. I was looking forward to this fourth Thor film but not quite as enthusiastically as I have been in the past. This has less to do with Taika or too much Marvel and more to do with why I love this universe in the first place.

I love the MCU because I learned to read with Marvel comics. I read them all with The Fantastic Four being my all-time favorite. At some point as I went from latchkey kid hoarding pulp magazines to the new kid who carried around copies of Moby Dick and I, Robot, I stopped reading comics. The switch came as Marvel expanded things and moved further from those superheroes who could be me if I was saturated by some radiation or born with a mutation to magical heroes and aliens. In the post-Endgame, Phase 4 MCU, I prefer Falcon and the Winter Soldier and Hawkeye over Wandavision and Loki for that very reason. Thor was never gonna be my go-to.

Thor: Love and Thunder made me laugh throughout; it also left me a bit sad. Waititi is crossing over from that beautiful balance into outright nose-thumbing at the more serious side of the stories. Sure, he introduces Jane Foster having Stage 4 cancer but it feels low-stakes. No one—NO ONE—with Stage 4 cancer looks like a slightly sleep-deprived Natalie Portman. The butt of so many of the gags is that, rather than Thor evolving from his earlier pain and incredible loss, apparently he's just stupid. A buffoon like Drax rather than, you know, Thor. Korg has gone from funny side character who is oblivious and cute to insufferable.

I recognize that watching people in LARPing costumes is sort of silly but previous films and streaming shows use color saturation in such a way to de-emphasize the fakeness of the uniforms. Taika films it so that Thor looks like he's wearing an obviously plastic breastplate with a velour cape purchased from a Halloween store. No Thor-nipples on the costume yet but I can see them coming.

In Thor: Ragnarok, Waititi adds a hysterical moment with a theatrical troupe spoofing theatrical troupes and playing out the glorification of Loki. It's a short bit, it's pretty funny, and it forwards the story by underscoring the fact that Loki fucked over Odin and replaced him and Thor needs to make that right. In Thor: Love and Thunder the same troupe, the same gag, gets three times the screen time to do nothing for the plot except to mock the serious moments in the previous film.

That's why this movie left me a little less thrilled, a little less entertained, a little less. It felt lazy and self-congratulatory rather than an earnest approach to the characters. It felt like Joel Schumacher came in and said "Hey. I know the stuff Burton did was good but I really have zero respect for any of that shit. Let's get funny! Let's get a fat Zeus who speaks in broken English and take the opportunity to show Hemsworth's naked ass. Right? That shit is hysterical!"

BEST

Jackass Forever Directed by Jeff Tremaine

Some people like the Marx Brothers. Others prefer The Three Stooges. I'm a Stooge man.

Thus, when I watched Jackass Forever in the theater, I laughed so hard, for so long, I felt weakened when the lights came up. I hadn't laughed that hard in ages. Knoxville and Co. introduce some younger versions of themselves and grown people getting the shit knocked out of them for no reason but to laugh is golden.

And that's my list. It isn't Sight and Sound but I call 'em as I see 'em, gang.

Rock on!

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Best of 2022 Movies #12: Jackass Forever

Johnny Knoxville can still make us laugh all these year later.

Him and his crew (Minus 2) still can push envelopes.

The Bear and Vomitron especially.

SUM 22: Pure fun is never in doubt when Johnny Knoxville and creative Kaiju openings begin every Jackass outing.

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Screen One's Top Movies Of 2022

Screen One picks its top 10 movies of 2022. The list is right here and you can check it out now! #Top10 #Movies #2022

With 2022 now in the rear view mirror and we move onto 2023, it’s time to look back and list Screen One’s top picks for the year that was 2022. 2022 was a tremendous year overall, with the long awaited sequels, superheroes everywhere and multiverses smashed wide open. Thrills, spills and more than a few tears shed along the way. Listing from number’s 20 to 11 in brief fashion and then there is a…

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Top Movies of 2022

My thoughts on my top 3 new movies of this year. I've missed a lot and there are others that I saw and loved (Mad God, for instance, is incredible), but these 3 really hit the spot for why I go to the movies.

3. Nope - Jordan Peele

Sci-fi and horror, two great tastes that taste great together. Movies love to be about movies and for good reason. Peele invites us to observe the world he makes, insisting that observation is consumption and consumption is destruction. Daniel Kaluuya and Keke Palmer deliver perfect sibling dynamics, living in the love and frustration of people who have known each other forever dealing with everyday and otherworldly tragedies. Yeun is given only a few scenes, but his monologue about the defining event of his life is delivered masterfully and serves as a warning to our protagonists about the dangers of their business, even if the character delivering it can't see it.

2. Jackass Forever - Jeff Tremaine

America's greatest living showman, Johnny Knoxville, assembles his crew 12 years after their last outing. Some faces are missing and new faces are brought in, but the formula remains as potent as ever. Jackass has always been a sadomasochistic, sensual love letter to the body's resilience, and that is felt even more seeing the faces we know show their age. Knoxville is of course king of the crew, and he holds the crown by being willing to take as hard of hits as anyone else. He's just as happy (if not more so) to laugh at his own suffering as his crew mates', pushing aging bodies to their limits and bringing in new faces to carry the torch. Of the old crew, Danger Ehren shines brightest, enduring some of the harshest torture for our pleasure. And newcomer Rachel Wolfson is a charmer every second she's on screen. A swan song, victory lap, and rebirth all at once, Jackass Forever is proof that a movie doesn't need a plot to be perfect cinema.

1. Crimes of the Future - David Cronenberg

The person who gave me the most hope about humanity's ability to survive the climate crisis died this year. She was my friend, fiercely intelligent, endlessly clever, and maybe the funniest person I'll ever know. I don't know if she ever saw Crimes of the Future but it makes me think of her. 79 year old David Cronenberg returned to body horror this year to show us the future we're barreling towards: a ruined environment, people anaesthetized, trying to survive and find meaning in the new when the old bits of joy just don't work anymore. This exploration comes via Vigo Mortensen's Saul Tenser, an uncomfortable artist who has surgery as performance art when he isn't being catty about other artists and shifting around uncomfortably. Tenser and his partner Caprice, played by Léa Seydoux, use his bodies adaptations to our ruined planet to explore humanity, even as outside forces try to regulate Tenser and his ilk and deny their right to exist. The climate change aspects are at the front and center of the film but as the hostilities towards trans people by right wing ghouls continue to ramp up it's hard not to feel that Crimes of the Future is as much about now as it is about later. As gross as it is tender and hopeful, Cronenberg's latest shines the future in our face, inviting you to find and love pockets of warmth as the world grows cold.

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#87: Jackass Forever (2022, dir. by Jeff Tremaine)

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Jackass 4.5 (Jackass Forever)

(2022) Rated TV-MA - 1hr 30m

Through outrageous, never-before-seen footage, witness the making of the Jackass crew's last go at wild stunts.

6.5/10 - IMDB

View trailer || Add/Watch on Netflix