Why don't these things happen when I'm at home? Geez ... go away for a few days ... mutter, mutter, mutter ...
Boondock Saints 2 is currently shooting in my home town - not even ten minutes from my house, actually - and word is out that they are looking for hundreds of extras for a big crowd scene to be shot in the afternoon of Monday, November 10th.
Troy Duffy isn't blacklisted anymore? Didn't Weinstien put out the hit for him a few years back?
The original could have been made by John Woo on his prime, and it will still be a piece of shit.
Not to be all "me too" and everything, but BOONDOCK SAINTS is utter crap and even if they were paying I still wouldn't be an extra in the sequel. And if it came from a Hong Kong director, it would almost certainly be less smugly impressed with its wack-ass self. But it would still suck, make no mistake.
I see a lot of "it sucks" but not a single reason why.
Is it really nessecary to illustrate why Boondock Saints sucks? It's a smug, homophobic, fascist piece of horseshit. All macho BS posturing, guys screaming "fuck" while jumping in the air in slow motion with opera music in the background to somehow make it poetic. It's kinda like the opening scene from Resevoir Dogs stretched out for 2 hours.... Oh, but it doesn't have Harvey Keitel, it's got some no names who are too busy struggling with their accents to act.
It's a really vile film with no sense of humor. Well, the humor that is there is mysoginisitc, like that of some asshole 16 year drunk. Dark humor demands a certain sense of wit, this film ain't got it.
Having guys be blown away while jerking off and then having characters hanging out, casually talking while soaked in their blood..... Might work if the dialouge were good. But it's not. Again, Resevoir Dogs this is not. More like, sophomore year high school writing workshop.
In film school, you come across 6 different types of students. You have the one who wants to be Tarintino, the one who wants to be Speilburg, the one wants to be Wes Anderson, The one who wants to be Kevin Smith, the one wants to be Sam Raimi, and the rogue artist type who does experimental work.
Troy is obviously the Tarintino kid which I think I like the least. There's no interest in story, the style is borrowed from Hong Kong but lacks the complicated and disciplined choregraphy and graceful camera work. The dialouge is all fuck, cocksucker, and fag. And someone, the creator thinks this makes them creative or edgy or provactive.
Then you have the random and simplistic religous symbols and references with classical music thrown in to fool idiots into thinking there's substance when it's all really just big dick swinging. I don't always mind big dick swinging. A little Hoo Haa is fun from time to time, but there's just something "dumb" about Boondock. It's ironic. People who love this shit also love Fight Club without relizing that Fight Club is the ANTI- Boondock Saints.
The scene with the two brothers lying naked, side by side, having rain water drip onto their chests while they wiggle around in pain in slow motion with lightning strobe effects and bombastic music playing in the background? Really? Kinda homoerotic and incestuous if you as me. Yet, all the homophobic slurs and cross dressing nuts would suggest Troy finds gays disgusting.
And sorry, if you cast Ron Jeremy, your film can't be taken seriously. Stunt casting can work if your stunt actor can at least act on some level and is staring in a role befitting his casting. Ron has as much chemistry as dirt, he was cast cause Troy that it was cool. Again, very Tarintino. Difference is, Tarintino at least knows talent. Pam Greir and Robert Foster can actually act. Quite well actually.
The music and editing, everything about the film is plain old amateur. But it isn't campy or fun. The film goes for gritty and dark, but without any brains, the violence becomes grueling. There's not much to seperate this from any other crappy shoot em up you'd find on USA or Spike TV on a mid Saturday afternoon.
So it's bad, and rather forgettable. But why do people love to hate it? Because so many people LOVE IT!!!! And it's creator really is an asshole. I don't want to see this guy succeed.
"Boondock Saints is awesome bra, I fucking love that crazy fag Dafoe plays, it's fucking hysterical. Movie's got Ron Jeremy in it and it's bloody as shit dude. But it's also got, like , this deep religous message right. Like, killing is ok if it's in the name of god. This movie makes me proud to be irish and all. Well, yeah, I'm a quarter irish, but ya know, I really related to the characters. Yeah man, let's go get blazed and hit up a strip club, bra."
ugh..........
The Boondock Saints is the big pile of dumb shit that "indiemaker" described and more, it's one of the few films i have seen in my life that i can safely call a "dangerous" film. The main characters are killing every "bad" guy (and random hobo) they found because they are doing "god's will", and teenagers and all the kids that love this awful film see no problem in this logic. They even think that it makes "sense" and that it's cool and what not. It's simmilar to how Mel Gibson's "The Passion" can get away with being one of the biggest wank/gore fests ever made because it's suppose to be based on "real events" and because it's based on the life of Jesus. Again, this is dangerous filmaking in every way possible.