Phosphor Glow
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Post by Phosphor Glow on Jul 6, 2015 12:51:26 GMT -5
And I gotta say, I really don't understand the acclaim for this movie at all. Willem Dafoe was literally the only good thing about it.
The plot was disjointed, but not in an artsy way...it just didn't make much sense. The dialogue was pretty bad. The whole thing felt like a terrible Tarantino flick.
Maybe it was just hyped up too much for me over the years, but I didn't care for it, honestly.
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Jul 6, 2015 12:57:27 GMT -5
Are you a 13 year old boy?
It was great when I was a 13 year old boy.
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Post by Phosphor Glow on Jul 6, 2015 13:07:03 GMT -5
Are you a 13 year old boy? It was great when I was a 13 year old boy. That could have something to do with it, yeah. I might have enjoyed it more if I saw it around when it came out, and I was a much younger person. |
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Post by tigermaskxxxvii on Jul 6, 2015 13:31:29 GMT -5
I love how the movie has three stand up comedians in the cast, but only one of them plays a comedic character (Detective Greenly, the inept Boston cop played by Maine-based comedian Bob Marley). Boston-based comedian Jimmy Tingle plays it pretty straight as a priest (even if he is stuck in a fairly comedic situation of hearing Smecker's confession while held on gunpoint by Rocko). And Billy Connolly plays a complete bad ass in the form of Il Duce!
There's a great documentary on the wild ride The Boondock Saints went from the hottest script in Hollywood to direct to video cult favorite called Overnight.
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Post by RedSmile on Jul 6, 2015 13:35:05 GMT -5
f***!!!! Ass!!!!
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Post by Burst on Jul 6, 2015 13:35:36 GMT -5
Yeah, it's one of those movies that's better when you're in high school. The two best parts of the movie are Il Duce and Willem Dafoe's character. Pretty much the rest of the protagonists I find insufferable nowadays.
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Post by Phosphor Glow on Jul 6, 2015 13:39:38 GMT -5
Yeah, it's one of those movies that's better when you're in high school. The two best parts of the movie are Il Duce and Willem Dafoe's character. Pretty much the rest of the protagonists I find insufferable nowadays. I will admit that Il Duce was fairly cool, though that was probably helped by the fact that I love Billy Connolly in general. And Willem Dafoe was predictably fantastic. It's just everything else about the movie that did nothing for me whatsoever. |
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Jul 6, 2015 13:45:24 GMT -5
It does have a few pretty classic moments, especially the bit about needing a rope.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2015 13:49:47 GMT -5
In 1999, this movie was pretty hot shit, but I can pretty easily see how it wouldn't hold up. Plus its definitely one of those films you have to watch a VERY specific time in your development as a person for it to really resonate.
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Jul 6, 2015 14:59:12 GMT -5
It's a lot of fun, but it's definitely a cheesefest. Some tend to act like it's more than that, which is weird.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2015 15:06:01 GMT -5
THERE WAS A FIREFIGHT!
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Post by Phosphor Glow on Jul 6, 2015 15:06:39 GMT -5
It's a lot of fun, but it's definitely a cheesefest. Some tend to act like it's more than that, which is weird. For me, it's definitely been talked up as something really deep and meaningful, which I suppose you could attribute to the courtroom scene, but even that was pretty average. It was worth watching for the bit where Dafoe's character is walking the other police through what happened at the scene and he's there alongside the brothers. That was pretty neat. Best scene in the movie by a country mile. |
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Post by Ashy Larry on Jul 6, 2015 22:10:53 GMT -5
I feel the same way about Natural Born Killers to an extent, despite everyone loving it. The director's cut is far better than the theatrical release as I've seen both. The director's cut is far more linear in story. It's the XPW to Pulp Fiction's ECW, as soon as I saw Pulp Fiction after The Boondock Saints, I found out that Troy Duffy was one of the many knockoff Tarantino-clones.
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Post by agent817 on Jul 6, 2015 23:15:07 GMT -5
It's a lot of fun, but it's definitely a cheesefest. Some tend to act like it's more than that, which is weird. That is how I usually look at it for the most part. Don't get me wrong, it has that whole cheese factor and I found some parts funny and thrilling, like the shootout with the two brothers hanging upside down and blasting those mobsters away. However, I remember years ago, I saw how it gained cult status to the point where we saw T-shirts being sold, whether it's the one with the two brothers holding their guns, or the pendants of the chain with the Celtic cross or even one with the prayer written on it. I own both this film and the sequel on Blu Ray, but I still have yet to watch the extended cut of the sequel to that movie. I remember I saw the sequel, in theaters no less, before seeing its predecessor. They're entertaining movies. I can see that. But I don't really buy into the cult status that it had gained, but then again, it seemed more popular among emo types than anything, along with The Nightmare Before Christmas, or Health Ledger's Joker, I could go on. |
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