Johnny Knoxville | A Screenwriters Perspective: Current and Past Movies.

The new movie “I Want Your Sex” was another example where I was tricked into seeing a bad movie for this blog due to the high reviews on Rotten Tomatoes. I am at a loss as to how a movie this bad could be getting any good critical reviews. I also wondered if this film had anything to do with George Michael’s 1987 hit song – which it did not.

“A young man lands a job working for a controversial artist, only to become an unwilling participant in a dangerous game where he is her employee and at the same time being coerced into being her unwilling sexual experiment”. This movie is supposed to be some kind of dramatic comedy, but there is nothing funny here.

The owner of an art studio Erika Tracey(Olivia Wilde), creates insane sexual art, including one involving a drawing of a female private part, where both customers and employees stick gum on the drawing, the hardest-to-believe exhibit in this movie. Erika hires Elliot Bell (Cooper Hoffman) as one of her employees, and almost immediately this relationship degrades into coerced sexual experimentation that Erika forces on her financially challenged victim. There are meaningless side stories that include Elliot and his very angry girlfriend, Minerva (Charli XCX), and Elliot’s other female (and equally broke) friend, Apple (Chase Sui Wonders), with several inserted police interview scenes with Detective Zem (Johnny Knoxville) and Detective Zola (Margaret Cho) – primarily to make this 30-minute nightmare film into close to two hours.

This is the kind of film that only shows up in older arthouse theaters, is very low budget, and will be out of movie theaters in about two weeks.

My rating for this disaster is 0%, and a recommendation to shred the DVD as soon as it is released.

For the promised very last, “Jackass: Best and Last” movie, it is as disgusting, stupid, dangerous, and idiotic as all the other films, with scenes from previous Jackass movies, and new scenes created for this current documentary of the stupidest and most dangerous stunts any group of insane people has ever produced. Due to the ridiculously high 86% Rotten Tomatoes rating, I was fooled into seeing this movie, mainly for this blog.

Given that this latest Jackass is not really a movie, it is difficult to review, even as a bad documentary. Like all the previous five Jackass movies released in 2002, 2006, 2010, 2013, and 2022, this one is once again a series of insane and disgusting stunts, with almost all of them having the potential to permanently injure and kill any number of cast members. At the end of every stunt, the entire cast laughs hysterically, even though another cast member is lying on the ground in extreme pain.

One of the most dangerous is when a cast member is strapped to a red plastic rocket and shot into the air over a lake, only to fall off as the rocket almost lands on the unfortunate passenger. By far the most disgusting is when cast member Steve-O flies into the air strapped into a porta-potty – with the obvious horrific trauma filmed inside.

The injuries the cast members have sustained during the filming of these six movies, starting with Johnny Knoxville, include 14 severe injuries, including a brain hemorrhage, multiple concussions, and numerous broken bones. Knoxville’s worst injury was when he was attacked by a bull in “Jackass Forever” (2022), and sustained a brain hemorrhage, concussion, broken wrist, broken rib, and loss of consciousness. Steve-O has sustained third-degree burns and multiple broken bones, numerous concussions, chemical burns, and has a pellet permanently lodged in his chest. Considering so many years of surgeries, non-stop pain, and risk of life, one has to wonder how much this group of insane people has been paid to make these ridiculous movies, while trying to figure out if all those stunts were worth it.

The Rotten Tomatoes of 86% is crazy, even for the most rabid fans of this movie franchise. My rating is 5% and a big pass.