Film critic Sean Means of the Salt Lake Tribune asks an interesting question while commenting on the weekend box-office victory of that instant classic, Jackass Number Two:
One of those attending [Jackass Number Two] was a coworker here at the Tribune, who was stunned by the amount of anal-related humor and the movie’s undercurrent of homoeroticism. Apparently Mr. Knoxville and Co. think it’s really, really funny to have objects inserted in people’s butts.
And still the question persists: Why did Larry Miller’s theaters – all four of them – find this movie suitable for its customers, but not “Brokeback Mountain”?
Miller, you may recall, had Brokeback pulled from the schedule of his Megaplex Theater chain when he found out it was about gay cowboys.
You ask a lot of questions like this when you live in Utah…
I ask questions like that all the time and I don’t live in Utah. Too bad no one can give decent answers to those questions.
Amen to that, Ann. The double standards of the average movie-going American never fail to amaze me.
I don’t know – it seems like a very easy question to answer: either stupidity or ignorance.
More to Jason’s original point, though, why is a movie about gay cowboys more offensive than a bunch of guys putting rockets in their butts? Not that the answer above doesn’t apply, but I think there’s an extra added component there, relating to just how hung up our society is about anything remotely sexual.
Turns out the vast majority of us never really got out of eighth grade…
That’s a depressing thought, Brian. Depressing, but accurate…