The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day

[Excalibur]

They shoulda made this movie years ago if they wanted a sequel. It's a bit too late for one and no Defoe

[Jcordell]

Ahhh the movie business. I have a PBS documentary mini-series about Hollywood. It aired approximately fifteen years ago and it's excellent. Many people in the business gave interviews. One of the people to be interviewed was Mr. Heston. He had a great saying about the movie biz. I'm paraphrasing here, but it's still on the mark.

"The trouble with movie making as a business is that it's art. The trouble with movie making as art is that it's a business."

What a great description for what seems to me to be such a Helter - Skelter world. I'm a move buff and a layman so my observations are that of an outsider of course.

[MT2008]

Originally Posted by Excalibur

They shoulda made this movie years ago if they wanted a sequel. It's a bit too late for one and no Defoe

Well, the sequel did pretty well in its limited run...it made over $500,000 last weekend, which sounds tiny, but actually is pretty good considering it was released in 70 theaters. They're going to expand it to other markets next week.

Also, while I agree that Dafoe was pretty important to the original, let's not lose focus of the facts here...the original was a pretty bad movie itself. Reviews I've read so far say that the sequel is better in comparison, but the bar was pretty low to start.

[Ace Oliveira]

The first movie had it's moments but it kind sucked.

[Excalibur]

I thought the first movie was pretty good

[Ace Oliveira]

The lines were just ridiculous.

The first movie could have been a cheesy, tongue in cheek action movie or a serious action film.

It tried to be both. And it failed. Tremendously.

Willem Dafoe was the only good thing about it. That is, because all of his scenes are in the tongue in cheek style. Willem Dafoe is just simply awesome. The underworld scene in Platoon was in tongue and cheek style and was one of the great scenes in the movie. I mean, we got a Grassmask AND a Remington Wingmaster being used as an bong. I mean, come on!

[MT2008]

I enjoyed the first "Boondock Saints", but objectively speaking, it's still a rip-off of "Pulp Fiction" and a whole bunch of other movies.

For me, most of its appeal comes not from the film itself, but from how you watch it and who you watch it with. Some of my best memories from college, freshman year, were watching this film with my roommates when we were all drunk and eating pizza or take-out Chinese (kind of the way that the Saints were in the movie, before they shot the cat). Somehow, the "Boondock Saints" manages to be the perfect film for those kinds of occasions.

[Swordfish941]

Originally Posted by MT2008

I enjoyed the first "Boondock Saints", but objectively speaking, it's still a rip-off of "Pulp Fiction" and a whole bunch of other movies.

For me, most of its appeal comes not from the film itself, but from how you watch it and who you watch it with. Some of my best memories from college, freshman year, were watching this film with my roommates when we were all drunk and eating pizza or take-out Chinese (kind of the way that the Saints were in the movie, before they shot the cat). Somehow, the "Boondock Saints" manages to be the perfect film for those kinds of occasions.

The movie still seems original to me. I say that these "rip-offs" are actually homages to them. Anyway, what university did you go to? I'm planning to go to Norte Damne since my Aunt and Uncle (who are authors) live there.