'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

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

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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