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The Big Picture · Discussion · Roundtable
Netflix’s Big Movie Year, ‘Jackass Forever,’ and the Five Greatest ‘Jackass’ Stunts of All Time
February 4, 2022/ 63 min/ Sean Fennessey · Chris Ryan
Sean Fennessey and Chris Ryan pick over Netflix's 2022 movie slate, then talk through 'Jackass Forever' and count down their favorite stunts in franchise history.
33 films across 3 segments.
AI-generated This episode was transcribed and analyzed with AI models. The matches aren't perfect — expect the occasional misheard title or a link to the wrong film.
Netflix's Big Movie Yearthe 2022 slate trailer
The Gray Man 2022
The Russo brothers' first big swing after 'Endgame,' with Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans. Sean is legitimately looking forward to it; notable mostly because the media-averse Gosling, who hadn't made a film since 'First Man,' is shilling for it in the trailer.
First Man 2018
The last Gosling film before he 'peaced out' for five years.
Cherry 2021
The Russos' post-'Endgame' detour, named alongside it as their recent output.
Avengers: Endgame 2019
The Russos' benchmark; 'The Gray Man' is framed as their return to scale after it.
The Power of the Dog 2021
Cited as an exception to Sean's complaint that Netflix films all share the same flat gray-blue palette.
The Irishman 2019
The other exception to the house-style gripe.
The Mother 2023
The Jennifer Lopez one: an assassin comes out of hiding to protect the daughter she left behind. Chris jokes it's based on his wife.
The Mothership 2023
A Halle Berry film with a confusingly similar title to 'The Mother.'
Red Notice 2021
The reference point for Netflix's mash-up-of-famous-people style of filmmaking.
Only God Forgives 2013
Invoked in a running bit about doing a Nicolas Winding Refn double-feature pod; 'the other guy is from Only God Forgives.'
The Place Beyond the Pines 2012
The proposed second half of the imagined five-hour Refn/Gosling 'crying pod.'
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio 2022
One of the animated titles Sean actually cares about.
Wendell & Wild 2022
Henry Selick's stop-motion film made with Key and Peele; Sean is excited for it.
Day Shift 2022
Jamie Foxx fights vampires while posing as a pool cleaner.
The Adam Project 2022
A Ryan Reynolds project they tease discussing at length on an upcoming episode.
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery 2022
The trailer's capper. A sequel with Dakota Johnson, Kathryn Hahn, Kate Hudson, and Ethan Hawke, glimpsed for eight seconds of people boarding a yacht. '$300 million well spent.'
Knives Out 2019
The Rian Johnson original the sequel follows.
Falling for Christmas 2022
The 'Lindsay Lohan Christmas movie' in the montage, part of the same gray-blue house look.
'Jackass Forever' and the Franchisetwenty years of dependable IP
Jackass Forever 2022
The fifth movie, in thousands of theaters. New blood (Zach Holmes, Jasper Dolphin, Poopies, and Rachel Wolfson, the first woman in the series) alongside the OGs. Bam Margera was fired and is absent; the film is dedicated to Ryan Dunn. Knoxville suffered a brain hemorrhage on a bull stunt that may end his stunt career. Sean and Chris both love it unreservedly.
Jackass: The Movie 2002
The first film, born when Paramount decided the MTV show (2000-2002, co-created by Jeff Tremaine and Spike Jonze, starring Johnny Knoxville) should become a movie to survive the moral-panic backlash.
Jackass Number Two 2006
The scary one. Chris notes Steve-O was deep in addiction during filming, giving it a genuinely off-the-rails, dangerous feel.
Jackass 3D 2010
Sean's pick for the funniest of the three: higher production value, most of the guys sober, a deliberate up-our-game entry.
Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa 2013
The hidden-camera prank spin-off, cited as the model for any hypothetical future 'old man' Jackass.
The Five Greatest 'Jackass' Stunts of All Time five apiece from Chris and Sean
Picked by Chris Ryan
Fire hose rodeo
Chris's No. 5. Dave England rides a whipping, dangling fire hose for a solid 90 seconds, then falls, breaks his tailbone, and is left bleeding and crying in the mud. Knoxville's verdict: a Jackass first, rectal bleeding.
Picked by Chris Ryan
Electric Avenue
Chris's No. 4 and Sean's No. 5, from 'Jackass 3D.' Knoxville plays a warden releasing 'prisoners' who must crawl a tire hallway strung with tasers, cattle prods, and stun guns. Nearly the whole cast; produced for about the cost of the tasers. Watch for Bam's furious face at the end.
Picked by Chris Ryan
High five
Chris's No. 3. A giant spring-loaded hand mounted on a retractable bar ambushes people filing into the production office; each victim gets recruited into the next hit. Culminates with Bam getting antiqued when bags of flour are strapped to the hand.
Picked by Chris Ryan
Knoxville vs. bulls and buffaloes
Chris's No. 2, admittedly a cheat: the whole compilation, Roller Buffalo, Toro Trotter, running with the bulls, the blindfolded bull, and the Invisible Man paint stunt. A simple guy loves watching a man get run over by buffaloes.
Picked by Chris Ryan
Riot control test
Chris's No. 1, from 'Jackass Number Two,' a sequel to the single-beanbag shot in the first movie. Knoxville, Bam, and Dunn stand in front of an anti-riot device firing hundreds of .45-caliber pellets. Dunn walks out, then comes back because 'it's footage.' Bam is left crying; Dunn's chest is pulverized.
Picked by Sean Fennessey
The bee stunt
Sean's No. 4, from 'Jackass Forever.' A Steve-O stunt involving bees and genitals; that's all Sean will say. He felt like he was vibrating and about to explode into particles watching it.
Picked by Sean Fennessey
Wasabi snooters
Sean's No. 3, from 'Jackass: The Movie.' Barely a stunt, more a demonstration of how messed up these guys are: a minute of Steve-O snorting a soy-sauce-and-wasabi mix like a line of cocaine at a sushi restaurant.
Picked by Sean Fennessey
Jet engine
Sean's No. 2, from 'Jackass 3D.' Inspired by the Maxell ad, a propulsion jet blasts Ryan Dunn's hair back, then hurls objects, including a football that drops a leather-helmeted Knoxville 'like a draped skeleton.'
Picked by Sean Fennessey
Toro Totter
Sean's No. 1, from 'Jackass Number Two.' Pontius, Bam, Knoxville, and Steve-O ride a four-way teeter-totter in a bull ring. Beautiful and terrifying; Knoxville won't get off even after everyone else has bailed.
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