Boondock Saints

[Rushmore]

The rasterbation thread had so many of you nice young gentlemen gushing about this movie, that I decided to Netflix it.

Good lord, what dreck.

Awful, awful...awful.

Believe me, I know a little bit about movies, and I think I can say with some certainty that this film is pretty awful.

All style, and no substance can be OK.

But all bad style and no substance is just plain bad.

Dumb writing, bad acting...blecch.

Even poor Willem Defoe looked like an imbecile trying to pull something out of this mess. Her came off like a cross between Dennis Hopper's Frank Booth and Gary Oldman's cop character from The Professional, only, uh, gay and, well, overacting horribly.

I want to say that I did not enjoy this film, and I want someone to tell me what I missed.

Is it just that there were a lot of guns and blood and cool stuff like that? Is it that there was a quirky twist--the avenging angels thing? Is it that I am just too high tonight?

What am I missing? You guys generally don't steer me this wrong.

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Is it just that there were a lot of guns and blood and cool stuff like that?

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Yes.

[TruFloridaGator]

I think it's vastly overrated, but the social commentary is obviously what gives the film any value it has and that's why a lot of people like it. I figure you realize this but you didn't mention it in your OP. Maybe you are just too high [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

I actually like Defoe in the movie but every other acting job is horrific. I can't stand any scene with Rocco in it, he brings the movie down a ton. The action isn't very good and very unrealistic which would be bearable if many parts of the action didn't try to be realistic.

[nath]

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the social commentary is obviously what gives the film any value it has

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What social commentary is that? "It's okay to become a murderous vigilante if you do it in the name of Catholicism"?

[TruFloridaGator]

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the social commentary is obviously what gives the film any value it has

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What social commentary is that? "It's okay to become a murderous vigilante if you do it in the name of Catholicism"?

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No, just raising the question of whether people should play God or take the law in to their own hands. I think the ending credits really hurt it with the retarded interviews, basically spelling it out for anyone who didn't get the meaning of the movie.

[Pudge714]

I agree with Triumph. When I saw this movie first at the age of 12-13 I thought the social commentary was awesome. I realize now that it is an entertaining B-action movie and that is about it. The reason why a lot of people hate this movie is because people think it is a brilliant social commentary and massively overrate it.

[Rushmore]

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the social commentary is obviously what gives the film any value it has

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What social commentary is that? "It's okay to become a murderous vigilante if you do it in the name of Catholicism"?

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No, just raising the question of whether people should play God or take the law in to their own hands. I think the ending credits really hurt it with the retarded interviews, basically spelling it out for anyone who didn't get the meaning of the movie.

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Ah yes--the closing credits...

Bad.

Of course, it gave them an excuse to put some black folks in.

Seriously, I just hated this movie. It was so cute and fun and poignant and artistic and heartfelt-yet-irreverent, and...

I hated it.

Even Morris sucked.

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No, just raising the question of whether people should play God or take the law in to their own hands.

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Wait, I thought we settled on "No" for that one. Is it back in debate enough that the question needed to be raised?

[AE6]

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the social commentary is obviously what gives the film any value it has

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What social commentary is that? "It's okay to become a murderous vigilante if you do it in the name of Catholicism"?

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yeah dude, all you have to do is say something badass in latin and then it's all good

[econophile]

btw in case you are wondering i have seen it

the writer/director famously got an unheard of amount for the script because the studio wanted to rush something like "pulp fiction" to market