Bad Grandpa.5

(As Knoxville as Irving realizes how many church ladies are there as he leaves following a chase from black male strippers): "...Baptists!"

Firstly, as an independent filmmaker myself, I can tell you the whole "Is the window up or the window down" confusion for Irving in the car happens so so so very much when setting up scenes and shots. I know there's funnier things in this .5 doc/reel of additional scenes, but that made me laugh the most (especially when Knoxville just looks at the camera like WTF).

There is so much here that is totally fascinating about the process of this movie (which is not the best of the Jackass movies but is far from anything being so lesser as it's reputation kind of is now), from the technical process of how and where (and specifically not where) to put the cameras and how long operators have with them in a day (do the ladies get a bottle only to pee, too?); to Gloria, aka Spike, and the director's big idea to have a sex scene that was perhaps slightly ill-fated, but God bless Jonze for going for this Bigger than Life raucous old lady (he's an underrated actor in general and that diner scene is super); to how Knoxville just delighted in keeping bits going for as long as he could and if only longer, like the jerk with the penguin outside the restaurant (which wasn't even his place, albeit he kept pitching his own) It's maybe the most interesting BTS of all the .5's simply on the ground of so many of the scenes getting necessary context.

And to finally answer my own pondering from the movie proper.... ohh, so that's who Catherine Keener played! Holy mackerel. And she is sensational in that Funeral Pre-Planning scene and very good in the casino, in particular with the cat food(!) She managed to be a true secret MVP for the production, even if she wound up on the proverbial cutting room floor for the theatrical cut. I especially love the last funeral director and how she points out the "sexual depravation" and send that email. Well, ::chefs kiss:: and props to Spike Jonze for bringing her in.