Jackass 3D grossed $50 million over the weekend, making it the biggest September-October opening ever, more than doubling its $20 million budget. The previous record holder was Scary Movie 3, with $48.1 million. Of course, tickets to 3D movies cost more, so in terms of actual attendance, Jackass didn’t break the top ten. And now you know why Hollywood makes 3D movies. But it was still a bigger opening than the last two Jackass movies, and good for them. I saw it, I loved it, and I could watch Bam getting hit with that giant hand at least 500 more times. However, I’m not a stuck-up c*nt, so to me, this news doesn’t spell the end of Western Civilization like it does for a lot of the rest of the internet. Assorted comments from Deadline:
…And we wonder why our country is going down the toilet…
…Can’t wait to hear how many morons wound up in the hospital or the morgue the next day after seeing this garbage.
…THE REALLY funny thing about this movie … Is that it IS actually a movie! That’s what everybody is laughing at. Crap isn’t funny – but the fact that they let this crap exist on a big screen … Now THAT”S funny!
…And the fact that they find Jackass’ faeces jokes amusing just shows they are not even picky about what constitutes ‘entertainment’.
Stupid people tend to forget that film didn’t start as a narrative medium. The first things people saw in theaters weren’t stories, it was “hey look, a big train coming at your face!” That is to say, it was a spectacle. So if you’re one of those people who can look at a guy willing to get run over by a buffalo for your amusement with a frown on your face and your arms folded, it doesn’t make you some great defender of a grand tradition, it just makes you an *sshole*.
Sidenote: Is it just me, or does this Jackass 3D ad from Facebook look like it’s for a gay party line?
[via BoxofficeMojo]
| TW | LW | Title | Studio | Weekend Gross | % Change | Theater Count / Change | Average | Total Gross | Budget* | Week # | |
| 1 | N | Jackass 3-D | Par. | $50,000,000 | - | 3,081 | - | $16,228 | $50,000,000 | $20 | 1 |
| 2 | N | Red | Sum. | $22,500,000 | - | 3,255 | - | $6,912 | $22,500,000 | $58 | 1 |
| 3 | 1 | The Social Network | Sony | $11,000,000 | -28.8% | 2,868 | +97 | $3,835 | $63,119,000 | $50 | 3 |
| 4 | 3 | Secretariat | BV | $9,503,000 | -25.1% | 3,072 | - | $3,093 | $27,517,000 | $35 | 2 |
| 5 | 2 | Life as We Know It | WB | $9,200,000 | -36.6% | 3,150 | - | $2,921 | $28,865,000 | $38 | 2 |
| 6 | 4 | Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole | WB | $4,235,000 | -38.5% | 2,502 | -723 | $1,693 | $46,002,000 | $80 | 4 |
| 7 | 6 | The Town | WB | $4,040,000 | -37.0% | 2,368 | -352 | $1,706 | $80,574,000 | $37 | 5 |
| 8 | 5 | My Soul to Take | Uni. | $3,161,000 | -53.8% | 2,529 | -43 | $1,250 | $11,907,000 | $25 | 2 |
| 9 | 8 | Easy A | SGem | $2,650,000 | -38.2% | 2,314 | -533 | $1,145 | $52,334,000 | $8 | 5 |
| 10 | 7 | Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps | Fox | $2,350,000 | -48.9% | 2,045 | -784 | $1,149 | $47,882,000 | $70 | 4 |
*PROVING MY POINT UPDATE: Some guy on twitter retweeted this post with the comment “we are culturally bankrupt.” Same guy, two tweets earlier: “OMG law and order SVU!!! Love it! Too bad I have to go out!!”
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JACKASS is the pinnacle of artistic achievement.
I dunno Vince…I don’t know what ads for gay party lines look like.
*toot toot*
Is there 3D Party Boy?
Don’t get me wrong, I love him, but I don’t think I wanna see that banana hammock in 3D.
So is Armond White going to review this or not?
Georges Melies space ship into the moon’s face was very Jackass, come to think.
Nineteen ought two, if I’m not mistaken. Except for the two world wars and multiple genocides it was a… aww fuck, yes, I know, Pajiba is thataway ————>
That’s not a gay party line. This is a gay party line.
*points to crotch*
Wait, forget I said that!
And the fact that they find Jackass’ faeces jokes amusing…
Wait what, they hit each other with sticks and axes?! Admit one plzkthxbai.
With the amount of male nudity in the Jackass movies why not reach around to the gay demographic?
“Jackass 3D: Come for the 3D cocks, try not to make a mess everywhere though”
Myself, I found the film to be quite analogous to the oeuvre of both Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin (on acid!)
@inkyPee, I have no doubt that Heigl’s latest wet queef of fury would have been improved immeasurably, had it involved her being hit in the face with fasces.
I don’t care about Deadline commenters. But so help me God if those Pajiba commenters bash this movie…
Same guy, two tweets earlier: “OMG law and order SVU!!! Love it! Too bad I have to go out!!”
…Brett Ratner?
@ceRi–I think you mean, in the faece with fascists.
OMG vagina!!! Love it! Too bad I have to come out!
Jackass does not signal the decline of Western culture, because The Social Network has already done so.
I’ll go watch just about anything if it involves Bam Margera getting hit with something. A giant hand, a fish, an 18-wheeler, a bullet, I’m not picky.
You want me to pay 10$ and wear ugly glasses so i can get johnny knoxville’s 3D greengoblincock waved around in my face? And you really think I’m going to want to give you a blow job after 2 hours of that.