Boondock Saints has to be the WORST movie I have ever seen in my life! 馃憞
And I'm not exaggerating!
The directing, acting, writing, screenplay were all horrendous!
Willem Dafoe should shoot his agent for this!
How embarrassing!
It's absolutely atrocious!
I couldn't stop laughing, not because the movie was funny, because it was so horribly awful!
Willam Dafoe in drag will forever haunt my dreams! puke
Well there's one mans opinion.
Actually Dafoe chose to be in it without recommedation by his agent. Its pretty interesting really, this is pretty much how this became a movie:
The guy who wrote it was sitting in a bar with the screenplay and William Dafoe sat right next to him. Dafoe asked what he had and he said it was a screenplay so Dafoe asked to read it. He loved it and couldn't believe that they weren't making a movie about it. Billy Connelly came in because he was meeting Dafoe at the bar. Dafoe had him read it and he couldn't believe it wasn't going to be a movie either. They then started joking about how it would be fun if they did make it a movie and Dafoe was the good guy (usually bad) and Connelly was the bad guy (usually good). Connelly right then and there called his agent and told him to get a hold of whoever necessary to make the screenplay into a movie.
Originally posted by Myth
Well there's one mans opinion.Actually Dafoe chose to be in it without recommedation by his agent. Its pretty interesting really, this is pretty much how this became a movie:
The guy who wrote it was sitting in a bar with the screenplay and William Dafoe sat right next to him. Dafoe asked what he had and he said it was a screenplay so Dafoe asked to read it. He loved it and couldn't believe that they weren't making a movie about it. Billy Connelly came in because he was meeting Dafoe at the bar. Dafoe had him read it and he couldn't believe it wasn't going to be a movie either. They then started joking about how it would be fun if they did make it a movie and Dafoe was the good guy (usually bad) and Connelly was the bad guy (usually good). Connelly right then and there called his agent and told him to get a hold of whoever necessary to make the screenplay into a movie.
how do you seriously figure that it is overated? I know alot of people are just now discovering the film which makes it seem like it has been re-released in theaters. Now that is annoying to me, but just because thesepeople think they found a diamond in the rough when they were probably forced to wathcit by friends. but it had horrid reviews and died out into back shelf rentals that spawned a small cult following.
There is no reason for a sequal, it should just stay as one of those anti-hollywood flicks that have a flare of humorous violence
Isn't flaming supposed to be sort of "curbed" in this forum ("ass-muncher" and so forth)?
Anyway, those who hate "Boondock Saints" have a right to, just as we enjoy that film, "Taxi Driver", "Death Wish (1 and 2)", "Walking Tall" (1973) and half a dozen other decent vigilante movies. Granted, there have been a few others that have been opiates for the masses, like "Walking Tall" (2004) and "Death Wish 3, 4 and 5", and some that were at least marginally entertaining, if dated; "Fighting Back" (1982), "Joe" (1970) and "Vigilante" (1983) are examples. There are even those that put vigilantism into superhero movies, i.e. "Robocop", "Batman", "Spider-man" and "The Punisher", just to name a few.
Suffice it to say, this type of movie, just like any other, can have its faults, its chestnuts, its lack of a second act. I would just rather its detractors go into some reasonably well-thought-out detail about WHY it's a bad film, not just letting the board know how stuck for adjectives they are by blurting out "It sux for real" or some such sentiment.