'the boondock saints'

oh, boondock saints is kinda funny in a 'rambo' way.

Never seen it. But did see the somewhat fascinating documentary about the egotistical arse responsible. He seemed to be taking it fairly seriously.

this is like the number-one all-time "if a person has a poster of this movie in their dorm room they will be insufferable" movie

totally unwatchable

and yet inexplicably it's certain people's favorite movie of all time

its an irish fight club, that's the explication

things that people from boston like that i hate

- the red sox
- this movie
- the patriots
- clam chowder

i am growing tired of boston shit

damon/affleck's rise, the red sox and patriots becoming winners, and this movie becoming a "cult hit". this confluence of events has to answer for a lot. though i guess damon is ok.

You're forgetting the Dropkick Murphys when it comes to deep shame.

i'm impressed at the way it looks seeing as how its made by a psychotic bartender with seemingly no previous experience in filmmaking (though the doc may have ignored some schooling or previous work). its totally ridiculous and exploitive but made by someone who clearly shares the fantasy. the baffling part for me is why Willem DaFoe took the gay detective role. I'm glad he did, though.

i've never met anyone who liked this movie who wasn't a complete idiot

evidently a lot of people wish they could walk around in sunglasses with their dudes killing people they don't approve of while a gay detective impotently marvels at their power. if they're irish, even better.

its too funny for me to get annoyed though. fight club fans can be more a lot more pretentious about it.

The documentary about the making of this movie is amazing.

When I find out someone likes this movie I immediately begin to ignore everything they say thereafter.

i love how dafoe is gay but he's cool because he calls other gay guys fags and rebuffs their advances. it's like the dude was playing to a very specific crowd here: the irish are gods among men, italians are sleazy, russians are oafish thugs, hispanics and blacks don't even exist except in racist jokes, and women are useless.

i remember enjoying it when it came out and i recently rewatched it (well part of it) and was almost physically ill. enough so, that i'm planning on mastering time travel to go back in time and slap some sense into my previous-self.

master assassin billy connolly deciding the boondock saints are so awesome that he wants in has the same sentimental appeal as when Ogre joined the nerds.

i remember enjoying it when it came out and i recently rewatched it (well part of it) and was almost physically ill. enough so, that i'm planning on mastering time travel to go back in time and slap some sense into my previous-self.

this is how i felt the second time i saw fight club.

i've never met anyone who liked this movie who wasn't a complete idiot

I actually have though! it was this guy I worked with who first recommended it to me. we had found common ground on the topics of booze, rap music and Madden 05 so I was taken aback that this movie was so rong

I didn't even think the dude was Irish. he kinda looked like Paul Wall. but now that I think about it he was a big Notre Dame fan :(

actually probably Madden 02 or 03 .... shit, where does the time go

I like this movie a lot! You all hate me now :( It's not like I watch it and think "Wow, that's so profound, what a great solution for the problems of society," though! I'm shallow and like attractive actors, accents, and stupid violent movies sometimes.

oh it's definitely just supposed to be a cartoon .... for some reason I can't handle this movie even though I liked Snatch, Lock Stock, and a bunch of other similar stuff (maybe this one was the straw that broke the camel's back)

those are post-tarantino heist movies, this ones more vigilante as it goes on

This movie is completely humorless and terrible. The only lol come when Dafoe drops to his knees and goes "There was a fiyah-FIGHT!"

Almost all my IRL male friends love it and it makes me think less of them.

why are you friends with these people

this is one of the few movies i actually would shun people for liking

Is this worse than the movies from Madonna's husband? Cuz my circle of friends took a significant hit when that asshole was popular.

the doc about the making of this was not actually that great. it left soooo many questions hanging. i agree that the story it (sorta) portrayed was fascinating but the movie itself was pretty half-assed.

I saw a few scenes of this, actually, and decided it was time to start stocking soup cans in my bunker.

Guy Ritchie thinks he's funny though, although he's usually not too funny. I can't remember any point where Boondock Saints self-consciously knows it's not a serious film.

I have friends who try to claim it's no different from a b-movie or grindhouse-style exploitation film, but I really don't think that argument holds! I never get the sense that we're supposed to think that any character is obviously parodic, except for maybe Defoe's gay detective, and then he's... well, I think someone addressed that already.

The Blues Brothers played up the whole "on a mission from God" angle so much better, anyway

it proved divisive among viewers, developing both a large cult following, as well as enmity from viewers and critics who have called it a film undeserving of cult status.

lol

My cousin thought this movie was the greatest movie about Irish people ever. His favorite TV show is Two and a Half Men.

Connor and Murphy arrive at the police station to clear their names. Public opinion paints the brothers as vigilante heroes; as for the brothers, they spend the night in a holding cell to avoid the media. That night in the cell, they receive a vision from God telling them to kill wicked men so that the innocent can thrive.

ive never heard of this before but i think you should all reconsider - it sounds amazing

have to agree with maria here - hate on me and call me a complete idiot, but i like shitty, accidentally-funny violent films featuring babes with irish accents.

see I thought it was trying to be funny and was accidentally not

i think it was trying to be 'clever', more than 'funny'

Re. the documentary. It is poorly made and full of gaps. But its also pretty amazing that this guy was so convinced of his genius that he'd let his friends film him acting like a selfish dick. Basically it offers a different angle on the 'I must be brilliant/famous' thing compared to the reality TV stuff. Its compelling in the same way as an X-Factor audition. But unusually it's covering an aspiring rock'n roll/auteur type, and he's personally authorising the capture of every pathetic tantrum and predictable disaster. So whilst it isn't a good piece of filmmaking, it is a stunning document and well worth watching for that alone.

Still, I don't want to see the real film.

I didn't think it was accidentally funny, it's kind of disturbing to read that it was meant to be serious.

the movie is racist garbage, for real

lol, that scene where the italians scare their buddy into using racial epithets while telling a racist joke.

i'm also basically sick of cinema which uses irish people as a bunch of sainted martyrs or plays up bullshit stereotypes, and the worst part of it is these films are usually made by irishmen. or so it seems.

now downloading

there's a joe queenan essay about irish movies, and how 95% of movies about irish people appear to be under the impression that the irish are leprechauns, which succeeds because most irish people appear to believe that they are leprechauns.

bono made me believe in leprechauns

i dont think ive seen another subculture that engages in as much self-mythologizing as irish-americans

his most blarney stone of movies is Brothers McMullen, but he wrote it before this was made.

irish need not apply

queenan's irish, btw

irish-american films are the worst because they just seem to be gangster films or films about how being irish means you go through life feeling guilty. the irish films that end up getting released over here tend to all be about cute little towns or "the troubles" (some of these films are not so bad, though).

irish-american films are the worst because they just seem to be gangster films or films about how being irish means you go through life feeling guilty.

we can broaden this to all catholic culture

true, cf scorsese

who has suddenly become to go-to guy for irish-american gangster films

And let me tell you somethin'. I've had enough of Irish Americans who haven't been back to their country in twenty or thirty years come up to me and talk about the resistance, the revolution back home…and the glory of the revolution…and the glory of dying for the revolution. Fuck the revolution! They don't talk about the glory of killing for the revolution. What's the glory in taking a man from his bed and gunning him down in front of his wife and his children? Where's the glory in that? Where's the glory in bombing a Remembrance Day parade of old age pensioners, their medals taken out and polished up for the day. Where's the glory in that? To leave them dying or crippled for life or dead under the rubble of the revolution, that the majority of the people in my country don't want. No more!

State Of Grace actually cuts between a shootout and a paddy's day parade during the climax, BOTH in slo-mo.

after seeing gangs of new york i decided i never again want to see one of those "aye, yaur father was the best damned fightin' man i ever saw, bless 'im" movies.

Glad to see that lots of others hate this piece of shit movie. I remember the first time seeing it (a rental) with friends, and they all really liked it, and I was the only person in the room who thought it was terrible (perhaps excepting Dafoe--like Walken, he's almost always interesting just to watch).

I have heard of the documentary, would love to check that out. I'm sure the director (oops: visionary...ha ha) must have been a real piece of work.

Worst fucking movie evah.

Much-loved by the world's most lamprey-like douchies, save for Maria, the lovely outlier.

;_;

reading this thread is so deja vu
it's like I stepped into a parallel universe where "Gear!" has been replaced by somebody named "omar little"
I swear

this is kind of like me starting another whole thread to make sure everybody who doesn't read computer threads/ILG knows how I feel about sony and microsoft products

and hey seriously guys The Departed is still fucking awesome

http://www.rocktoyz.net/Products/Gear/Gear.jpghttp://www.hbo.com/thewire/img/castcrew/character_season04/omar.jpg

tombot this is a very important issue

think of the children, etc

oh I know it was just seriously confusing me for a minute that I was reading "omar little" making these posts and on top of that only "5 hours ago" or whatever because I swear to god you have said exactly the same things on other film threads when for whatever reason this came up

we're all guilty!

please do however continue the Irish Film Problem discussion though

lol it is true i tend to go on about this sometimes.

"this"

i still want to see 'the wind that shakes the barley' though if history is any indication, films about irish strife bring out the spielberg in everyone.

what "ethnic white" cultural group has the most good films about it:

jewish-americans
italian-americans
irish-americans

italians by miles

yeah thats not really fair is it

jews make way better tv though

basically the irish are about even with bruce lee

and really only because, as noted, an italian came along and made their best movie for them

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKzM8xsQ5-U

There's a youtube from "Prayer For The Dying" but it is looooong. Mickey Rourke's accent is amazing, though.

problem: firefighting and boston are not as cool as racketeering and new york

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwuNzAVUtUo

Deleted Scene: Ma Calls From Ireland (NSFW!)

not sure why the bros had to be nude during the phone call

because the movie is dumb and bad

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i love this movie , its good from the start to the end

these films y'all talking about are crap, but old school irish-american directors like John Ford & Raoul Walsh are grate, even if they too fall for some sentimental bullshit at times </morbs>

oh yeah, william wellman too. 30s & 40s was the golden age for this shit

i was gonna say "this isn't *that* bad" but realized it has been overwritten in my brain by Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

i dont think ive seen another subculture that engages in as much self-mythologizing as irish-americans

-- max, Saturday, 24 November 2007 23:50

ok dude my brown people might put up a fight in this category.

dudes have spent 4 decades yankin it to atzlan fantasies.

also max has clearly never met a jedi

...to atzlan fantasies

Aztlan, hombre.

my tios would disown me for that mistake.

on another subject

i once started a thread on the subject of 'road to perdition' and how it was the worst film i'd ever seen

wait a minute

i think i seriously overreacted to this movie cus due to dorm room walls, friendster favorite movie section, and presence of willem defoe i expected it to be, like, a real movie. i mean it sucks bad but if i'd known it was a straight to dvd affair i would have had a more realistic idea of what i was getting into

totally loling just thinking of there was a FIYAHFIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT though

for real though

you guys realise that irish-american / irish are as different as african-american / african, right?

right?

yes which is why i specific "irish-american" in all of my posts

specified

the "wacky irish humor" bits are the worst thing about otherwise great john ford movies

oirish

you guys realise that irish-american / irish are as different as african-american / african, right?

no what's the difference we don't get it
isn't everybody american unless they're islam or something

i dunno, all you americans look the same to me.

I agree with dccain. The Boondock Saints is a phenomenal film from beginning to end! All the actors in it were superb from Defoe to Flannery to Reedus to Rocco to Connely and all of the ones in between. It is a fantastic Writing and Directorial debut for Troy Duffy and everyone I know who has seen it thinks it is a fantastic piece of cinema! Period. A sequel would be awesome of course! But even without a sequel, The Boondock Saints stands true as one of the greatest films of 1999 and indeed of the entire 20th Century!

Left by CΩRE on August 14th, 2008

ilx is the only place i've ever seen this movie mentioned. i had no idea it even existed until Saturday, November 24, 2007 1:57 PM (9 months ago).

wait... is this the thing shannon dougherty's thug boyfriend did maybe 8 or so years back?

CΩRE

i feel like i've run into people in bars (like, in MT) that claim this as the Best Movie Ever.

i once bailed out of a party when the cops showed up and ended up across the hall in this girl's apartment. lots of candles, and this movie playing on a flatscreen.

Goole's Red Shoe Diaries

*reminisces vacantly, strokes crucifix*

i think i remember tep saying he liked this movie or something. the guy's taste (beyond sandwiches) was maybe questionable.

this movie vs. donnie darko

in terms of the movie or in terms of fans of the movie

really shitty not clever movie vs sorta shitty kinda clever movie hmmmm

boondock saints movie & fans are worse, i don't think that's a contest at all

yeah, to compare the two is challopin'

I'm not challopin

ok then duder which is better

I remember boondock saints less so probably boondock saints

Saw the (excellent) documentary about the guy who made it - within a few minutes had decided not to see the film or listen to his band. I'm sorry to say that guy rminds me of someone I actually know.

No-one here, I hasten to add.

the documentary wasnt that good.

i mean the story seemed interesting but it wasnt very well told.

sl0cki, what do you think of the movie itself

the doc about the making of this was not actually that great. it left soooo many questions hanging. i agree that the story it (sorta) portrayed was fascinating but the movie itself was pretty half-assed.

-- s1ocki, Saturday, November 24, 2007 5:18 PM (9 months ago) Bookmark Link

you think i'm a read all the way up there? i'm BUSY

haha oh god.

but ya like i said, it seemed to indicate that there was a fascinating story there but not... "actually"... tell it.

im actually ok with that use

well not really, but i forgive you anyway

actually actually actually ahahahahha come get me maxx!!!!!!

come actually get me i mean

goole more like foole

i pity the goole

April Goole's Day

S1ocki's Goole For Love

*flees*

this movie is total trash. it was recommended to me by people i trust(ed). i bought it cheap somewhere and smoked a huge bowl in preparation for it. i started out with a hopeful smile, which over the course of the next two hours, steadily turned into a pained grimace. i hated this movie so much that i became a self-hating Irish person for two years.

people who loved this movie may also love any or all of the following: Goldschläger, videos of girls flashing people during Spring Break, Domino's Pizza, Insane Clown Posse, Ultimate Fighting Championship, stickers of Calvin urinating on something you disapprove of, and you probably can't decide if The Usual Suspects or Se7en was the best movie ever made.

^^^ thats actually some pretty real talk

do we have to bring the usual suspects into this

the usual suspects is better than boondock saints but it also pretty much sucks

usual suspects = most "DO YOU SEE?" movie evah

brian de Palma kinda pioneered the do you see genre

the usual suspects is better than boondock saints but it also pretty much sucks

-- omar little, Wednesday, 27 August 2008 03:39 (9 hours ago) Link

i mean its def not on some BEST MOVIE EVER shit but i do think it's one of the better crime movies of the late 90s. it's also a fave just cause it's a great cast.

but i also liked road to perdition so wtf do i know

I saw part of this once. It was weird. Willem DeFoe started screaming "AND THERE WAS A WAAAAARRR!!!" and dancing around and apocalyptically freaking out. Is it all that ludicrous?

I sell posters of it to d-bags every day.

when i first saw this movie i thought defoe's performance was kinda overdone in a zany campy sort of way but now i'm pretty sure its overdone in an shitty awful way

there is a creepy walken-esque "this joke is not a joke" thing going on there

people who loved this movie may also love any or all of the following: Goldschläger, videos of girls flashing people during Spring Break, Domino's Pizza, Insane Clown Posse, Ultimate Fighting Championship, stickers of Calvin urinating on something you disapprove of, and you probably can't decide if The Usual Suspects or Se7en was the best movie ever made.

-- rockapads, Tuesday, August 26, 2008 10:20 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

I think what you're trying to say is I sure do hate those frat boys

Half-naked women, their breasts jingling and jangling, perched on the shoulders of football players!

"vagina"

i got no beef with usual suspects, but i also saw it at an age where DO YOU SEE held a lot of water for this guy

i wont lie, DO YOU SEE is still a winning genre for me

I think what you're trying to say is I sure do hate those frat boys

nah, frat boys didn't even enter my mind. i was describing people i know (some who are extended family members), who are basically just white working class (not college educated) dudes who may or may not be cool to hang out with, but have a tendency to latch onto stuff like whiny white guy rap-metal and Boondock Saints.

i don't think usual suspects is in the same league of shittyness as boondock saints btw. it's an enjoyable movie that also happens to be Citizen Cane for steakheads.

usual suspects = most "DO YOU SEE?" movie evah

^lol (best review of usual suspects evah)

my favorite performance in this film is peter greene's and that's only b/c he improvised the tossing of a lit cigarette into stephen baldwin's face.

people who loved this movie may also love any or all of the following: Goldschläger, videos of girls flashing people during Spring Break, Domino's Pizza, Insane Clown Posse, Ultimate Fighting Championship, stickers of Calvin urinating on something you disapprove of, and you probably can't decide if The Usual Suspects or Se7en was the best movie ever made.

-- rockapads, Tuesday, August 26, 2008 9:20 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

^^^ thats actually some pretty real talk

-- gbx, Tuesday, August 26, 2008 9:38 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

I'd have a beer with these people, and then I'd ask WHAT DO YOU THINK OF AMERICA SO FAR

and then they'd say IT'S NICE, I'M JUST GLAD TO BE OUT OF THE ARMY FINALLY

btw you guys i think dafoe is totally camping it up. come on.

THERE WAS A FIYAH-FIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT!

The New Cult Canon: The Boondock Saints:

I never thought I'd say something like this, but The Boondock Saints is a movie for people who think Tarantino is too cerebral.

I always thought for films that are not intentionally camp (John Waters style), it's not camp to have a character hamming it up, it's just pathetic. I know you could see the movie as a whole as camp, but it'd only work if the whole thing was played up as uber-serious so the Dafoe character blows it.

GUESS WHAT PRESS RELEASE JUST CAME THROUGH ON THE Ol' WORK EMAIL????

I wanted to follow up regarding the theatrical release of THE BOONDOCK SAINTS II: ALL SAINTS DAY from Sony Pictures – the highly anticipated sequel to THE BOONDOCK SAINTS, which burst into pop culture solely based on word-of-mouth from fans in 1999. But the original film also was surrounded by controversy with the overnight success of bar tender turned writer/director Troy Duffy. Duffy returns for this sequel which opens early November (exact date TBD), along with most of the cast members returning along side new characters played by Clifton Collins Jr. and the only-female character played by Julie Benz, from TV’s Dexter and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

I understand November books are closing soon, but wanted to see if you’ll consider the film for any Fall/Winter Movie previews or round-ups. Below are a couple fun round-up ideas for THE BOONDOCK SAINTS franchise, along with the synopsis for your reference. Looking forward to your thoughts.
A roundup of the most tatted-out movie characters. (The Saints’ tattoos have always been part of their core characters and they’re decked out with even more in ALL SAINTS DAY.)
A top ten list of the most gun-loving action stars. (The Saints get a kick out of selecting new hardware in the new film).
Breaking into the boys club: when a female star kicks action ass alongside her male counterparts (Benz’s SAINTS character more than holds her own with both with a gun and her wits).
A roundup of the top vigilante justice films of all time, including the BOONDOCK franchise.

Thank you,
Alice


SYNOPSIS
In the decade since the MacManus twins (Sean Patrick Flanery, Norman Reedus) became Boston’s notorious and often-celebrated vigilantes, the brothers have been in deep hiding in the quiet valleys of Ireland with their ailing father (Billy Connolly), far removed from their former lives or modern technology. When word comes that a priest has been slain and the crime scene set up to implicate the brothers return to Boston, accompanied by a new accomplice (Clifton Collins Jr.) to mount a violent and bloody crusade of justice, discovering a deeper plot rooted in their own family’s legacy of violence.

awesome, an only-female character!

actually the pitches would make a good poll

In the decade since the MacManus twins (Sean Patrick Flanery, Norman Reedus) became Boston’s notorious and often-celebrated vigilantes, the brothers have been in deep hiding in the quiet valleys of Ireland with their ailing father (Billy Connolly), far removed from their former lives or modern technology. When word comes that a priest has been slain and the crime scene set up to implicate the brothers return to Boston, accompanied by a new accomplice (Clifton Collins Jr.) to mount a violent and bloody crusade of justice, discovering a deeper plot rooted in their own family’s legacy of violence.

Everything about this is wrong.

When word comes that a priest has been slain and the crime scene set up to implicate the brothers return to Boston,

i read this 4 times and i'm still not sure if there's a missing phrase or what

the only-female character

According to wikpedia, she's a "sexy FBI operative."

"far removed from their former lives or modern technology"

what?

ok fuck this

lolsogyny

the boondock taints

"far removed from their former lives or modern technology"

I would forgive this movie if there was an actual leprechaun in it that wasn't a hallucination, who ends up killing everybody. Warwick Davis busy at all?

this movie shits the bed. hate it so fucking much.

will not be seeing the sequel

http://gracenews.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/ireland-valley.jpg

They're all down there right now in that happy farmstead, lovingly beating the shit out of each other with cans of baked beans and merrily flinging hot Dunkin Donuts coffee in each other's faces.

Seriously cannot recommend the doc about the making of BS enough.

Remember,Ned, they're far removed from modern technology like Dunkin Donuts.

can't wait for the new line of affliction-styled movie merch

Don't be ridiculous Hoos, Dunkin Donuts was brought over in 1620 by the original Mayflower pilgrim Seamus O'Gillybarty, who discovered the secret of it by sitting on a green hillock and farting at a fairy thrice.

I used to regular a bar named after the movie and the movie played on loop (muted) on one of the tv's in the bar. I never actually saw it from start to finish or heard one line of dialogue but it was still pretty clearly a shitty movie. The place was opened by two Irish ex-cops, one of whom was a pretty good dude and the other of whom was a complete and total douchebag who would run regular customers away by getting into fights with them.

can't wait for the new line of affliction-styled movie merch

Okay now I hate you for putting this vision into my head.

A sensitive artist!

http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2009-10/50138451.jpg

" 'Boondock' was a cult success," Duffy, 38, explained between bites of a super-melt and sips of Guinness in a mid-Wilshire district Irish pub. "The word 'cult' cuts both ways. The reason people thought 'Boondock' hadn't done well is because it was out there doing its thing quietly. There was no fanfare. But as soon as it touched fans, it did it on its own. Whoever you talk to, you get the same story: 'My buddy strapped me to a chair and said, "You're watching this movie." Two hours later, you got another 'Boondock' fan."

Although my favorite bit might be:

"It's the blue-collar 'Twilight,' " said Apparition's CEO Bob Berney, name-checking the juggernaut teen vampire romance. "It's like a Springsteen crowd that comes to this movie."

The only friend of mine who liked this movie was into trance music. He was a waiter, whatever collar that is.

I think I watched the documentary on this at a free screening once, was pretty good - then downloaded Boondock Saints to see if it was half decent, but it looked so bad even for my tastes that I ended up deleting it unwatched.

I've just realised what a cheapskate the above post makes me look. (^_^)

Oh, and the other reason I deleted it was because I was running out of harddrive space, and didn't want to buy a bigger harddrive, or buy some DVDrs. lol.

Just youtube the firefight sequence. Tells you all you need to know, imo.

BDS could be the worst movie i have ever seen

This sequel might top that.

there's a joe queenan essay about irish movies, and how 95% of movies about irish people appear to be under the impression that the irish are leprechauns, which succeeds because most irish people appear to believe that they are leprechauns.

― da croupier, Saturday, November 24, 2007 6:49 PM (1 year ago)

lol

got to go to the ny premiere. sequel is totally retarded and yet i didn't hate it mostly for the same reasons listed above for the original. it's a lot gigglier than the original, like a tenth year high school reunion. i just can't be humorless about this guy despite his obvious macho bravado and all the poisonous shit around it because he has this amateur lust for movie-making that makes the viewing experience different than, say, a michael bay movie.

SPOILER totally unbilled but willem dafoe has a dramatic surprise appearance at the end of the movie, complete with a slow turn to the camera that the audience applauded hardcore. for all it's gay-baiting the movie seems weirdly reverent of open homosexuals.

end totally sets up for Boondock III, fair warning

Clifton Collins (as their mexican sidekick Romeo) makes this face for the whole movie.

ihttp://www.cinemablend.com/images/news_img/14618/14618.jpg

http://www.cinemablend.com/images/news_img/14618/14618.jpg

That's kinda amazing.

Anyway:

http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2009-10/50157984.jpg

it's a lot gigglier than the original, like a tenth year high school reunion. i just can't be humorless about this guy despite his obvious macho bravado and all the poisonous shit around it because he has this amateur lust for movie-making that makes the viewing experience different than, say, a michael bay movie.

sounds....great

i never said it was great, dude

clifton collins deserves a better fate than stuff like this and crank 2

i agree, but apparently dude is like troy duffy's bff or something, begged to be in this.

have never seen the first one, but i'm netflixing it RIGHT NOW

nooooooooo

lol one crazy dude I used to cook with loved quoting this movie: "you insignifiCUNT little fuck" :/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59BHNYpKx2A

lol wait a dude just punched a lady in a meat-packing plant because she was a feminist???

I'm going to wait until the next time I'm really down on myself to watch this second one as self-punishment

the press materials for the sequel are pretty rich, mostly for the descriptions of Julie Benz' performance.

'A new FBI contact, who Duffy describes as a 'super-sexy Georgia Peach' named Eunice Bloom...the character is whip-smart, wily and uses her looks to intimidate and machinate...as the first and only female castmember in the Boondock world, Julie Benz adds a much-needed flare and breath of understated sexuality the sequel undoubtedly needed to set itself apart from the beloved cult original. [She's] tough, sexy and great at her job.'

I went with something more like "impersonating Nicole Kidman impersonating Renee Zellweger" in the review.

there is a hammer and sickle on the end of his desert eagle

this movie is so weird

RON JEREMY

this movie is so weird

― how rad bandit (gbx), Friday, October 30, 2009 2:12 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

it never makes sense tbh

willem is actually mincing?

Was so sad to find out Willem isn't in the sequel...he was the only passable thing in the first one.

But...he is. da croupier said:

SPOILER totally unbilled but willem dafoe has a dramatic surprise appearance at the end of the movie, complete with a slow turn to the camera that the audience applauded hardcore. for all it's gay-baiting the movie seems weirdly reverent of open homosexuals.

Right,,,,,,....I mean as a main character. Not that I plan on seeing it. It just made me sad. But that da croupier's revelation makes me less sad.

Author: dee.reid from United States
I guess it'll take a while for the effect to where off. I saw the unrated edition of "The Boondock Saints" two days ago and I'm still reeling in from the experience, which is surreal, to tell you the truth. Quite frankly, a movie that is this sharply written, acted, and directed is a true rarity these days. Writer-director Troy Duffy dives into the murkiest depths of the "law," and its apparent futility in modern times, and how it takes two Irish fraternal twin brothers, Conner and Murphy (Sean Patrick Flanery and Norman Reedus - both of whom are a little too convincing in their roles), to stir up enough debate about vigilantism to become media heroes. The release of "The Boondock Saints" was sidelined in 1999 because of the Columbine massacre and the plot about Conner and Murphy being on a mission from God draws some eerie parallels to the motives of Columbine killers Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. As the film opens in Boston after St. Patrick's Day, Conner and Murphy get into a bar-room brawl with a couple of Russian toughs and said toughs are discovered the next morning in an alley in piles of their own blood and guts. FBI agent Paul Smecker (Willem Dafoe) shows up on the scene to show the local cops a thing or two about criminology and theorizes it was a revenge killing. Soon enough, both injured brothers waltz into the police station and claim self-defense. They're let off after a night in jail (plus experience a cathartic jail-cell baptism) and no charges filed. But soon, more bodies turn up, and Smecker learns that Conner and Murphy (and a third, David Della Rocco) may be the ones behind the mayhem on the streets. Duffy's film is a bloody one (most of the gruesome violence is extended in the unrated special edition), with a cackling screenplay that includes 246 uses of the f-word and assorted Irish-Euro-slang, and has earned a fearsome reputation in recent years and has been embraced as a cult phenomenon. (It's easy to see why, if one is a fan of relentless violence and bloodshed. P.S.: The action is so balletic in its style and excess that it's almost reminiscent of a John Woo picture.) I can't believe I stood away from this movie for so long, darn it! The opening moments don't prepare you for what comes up next and even though the action (which there is quite a bit of and, as stated earlier, is extended in the unrated version) is quite bloody, there's a morbid sense of humor running throughout the carnage and I fell out laughing on more than one occasion during this picture. And still, there is a sense of beauty and tragedy underlying much of the action in "The Boondock Saints," and its ending will certainly leave a bitter taste in the mouths of some. Lastly, I would recommend reading up on as much about the controversy surrounding "The Boondock Saints" as one possibly can; it'll make the experience much more hypnotic.

i really had no idea this was even a thing until i cam to ilx. i may not have even heard of it til then...

xpost -- I thought A. O. Scott had a paying gig.

looooooooooooooooooool this made $500,000 over the weekend

bet it will do fine in the DVD market

i would watch 2 hours of willem dafoe going THERE WAS A FIYAH FIIIIIIIIIIGHT

how many theaters was it in?

3

$462,000
(#16 rank, 68 theaters, $6,794 average)
% of Total Gross: 100.0%
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Widest Release: 68 theaters
In Release: 3 days / 0.4 weeks

not bad tbh

haha the original made $30,000 domestic TOTAL.

lolololololololololol amazing

http://laist.com/2009/11/03/laist_interview_troy_duffy_the_boon.php

So in writing a sequel, for me, you can’t just rest on the laurels of the first movie and do some polished up version of Boondock I. I wanted to give them a whole new story. There were a lot of curveballs and new aspects in there. The humor, we pushed that further. Higher body count, more gun fights. We went into period piece flashbacks to 1950’s New York to explain El Duce’s history. Boondock fans are not used to this type of thing. We’ve got a Mexican in there. We’ve got a female lead in Boondock II. That hit the fan base like cold water in the face when they heard that one, but now they can’t live without her from the three screenings that I’ve seen with about 1,300 kids. It’s a way to give them everything they loved about the first film, yet throw a brand new plot and story line at them that they could never have predicted. To show them the new thing we’re gonna make cool.

a flashback! a Mexican! a female!

i lold super hard @ "a Mexican"

throw a brand new plot and story line at them that they could never have predicted.

i never would have predicted A Mexican

hoos is in boondock saints

sweet dreams into remarkable realities

Romeo: Who ordered the whup ass fajita?
Murphy MacManus: What?
Connor MacManus: Whup ass fajita?
Murphy MacManus, Connor MacManus: That's fuckin' stupid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGyxcbthoWc

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i've seen worse ... i've also seen better.

still haven't met anyone thinks they're a leprechaun you paddybashing fucks

max what in the hell is wrong with clam chowder

gonna post this entire thread to 'is this racist' then ad-hom at contenderizer about it tbh

Dear America: Please Get Over Ireland and Italy Already

for some reason, boondock saints reminds me a bit of the other Tarantino-esque rip-off from 1999, namely go(with the future Mrs Tom Cruise). go was the better film, but that's not saying much is it?

the only thing that was OK about this film was Willem Dafoe -- in fact, i have no idea why he agreed to do this film in the 1st place and i assume he just "went with it." his character's "lol i'm gay but i like calling other gay people faggots" schtick was pretty off-putting though -- i imagine that the filmmaker fancies himself "enlightened" b/c he doesn't hate gays altogether, only "faggy" ones.

i can see what both the haters and the fans see in this film. personally, i don't think it's worth getting worked up either way ...l then again, i'm a bit older than the target demographic, and i'm neither Irish nor from Boston.

go was tremendous, gtfo

"we have a deep cesspool of creativity here"

"you are the first person to take a vested interest in me"

the malapropisms in this are amazing

http://www.tagtele.com/videos/voir/72702/

the weinsteins are heroes for fucking this guy over

^^ "overnight" is so good

i actually thought it was a pretty crummily put together documentary but it's fascinating/intensely depressing to watch that guy's ego metastasize to the point where it kills everything he loves

a girl I was dating got me this movie as a birthday present. i realized this epitomized how little she knew me and took it as the clearest sign we were not to last much longer (one month later, this was thankfully realized)

I do believe I just found the worst combination of words.

'Boondock Saints' Director Troy Duffy Developing Racially Edgy Comedy "Black Ghost" https://t.co/qmS8PJWZWw pic.twitter.com/ExzbDYgraQ

— The Playlist (@ThePlaylist) June 28, 2017

Oh dear