Finally: Boondock Saints - All Saints Day (trailer)

[leemajors]

I can't speak for critics, but for me, the stylization of the violence was so ridiculously over-the-top that it bordered on self-parody, but it wasn't funny enough to qualify for that.

Same with Willem Dafoe. He was just really, really bad. "Mommie Dearest" bad. It was like he was playing a practical joke on the producers.

I'm just surprised that so many people love this movie, and not even in a hipster/ironic sort of way.

this.

[Cry Havoc]

I can't speak for critics, but for me, the stylization of the violence was so ridiculously over-the-top that it bordered on self-parody

Again, how does this differ from Fight Club? Inglorious Basterds? 300? Gladiator?

I'm not saying Boondock Saints is better than any of those movies... but why (especially with QT) when violence looks slick, everyone stats that it's the greatest thing ever, and in this case it's a horrific portrayal of death?

[monosylab1k]

I'm not saying Boondock Saints is better than any of those movies... but why (especially with QT) when violence looks slick, everyone stats that it's the greatest thing ever, and in this case it's a horrific portrayal of death?

Nobody is saying that.

[monosylab1k]

And the "stylized violence" in Boondock Saints wasn't even that great. The camera work was so amateurish it made everything look worse. Just because you set a shootout in slow motion with chanting monk music in the background, it doesn't make your violence "slick".

[Cry Havoc]

And the "stylized violence" in Boondock Saints wasn't even that great. The camera work was so amateurish it made everything look worse. Just because you set a shootout in slow motion with chanting monk music in the background, it doesn't make your violence "slick".

But having a couple of guys whip out Tommy Guns and mow down nazi's in slow motion is something that's worthy of SO much praise? Really?

[Spurminator]

Fight Club's style was fresh. The violence was raw and believable.

I haven't seen Inglorious Basterds.

I thought 300 sucked.

Gladiator was a bit over the top at times, both in terms of score and the violence. Not a favorite of mine.

But all of these movies have something in common that puts them above Saints... No Willem Dafoe making an ass of himself.

Seriously, I can't get over how awful he was.

[CubanSucks]

Not exactly.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/boondock_saints/

http://www.imdb.com/ le/tt0144117/

for tat . I'll take IMDB anyway.

[monosylab1k]

But having a couple of guys whip out Tommy Guns and mow down nazi's in slow motion is something that's worthy of SO much praise? Really?

I could cook you a steak, and Gordon Ramsay could cook you a steak. One of them is going to be significantly better than the other one. How the is that possible?

[JMarkJohns]

Whether or not the first flick was good (it was), or whether or not I enjoyed it (I did), this trailer looks like garbage. I can live without the "here we go again" jokes. It's kind of cool that those making the flick aren't taking the film too seriously, but I don't need what looks to be a film with constant comedic references to the original.

And I agree with the poster who said that without Rocco this film will suck. I have a feeling they'll try to hard with this film, and I don't want to tarnish my enjoyment of the first film by watching this one. They didn't need a sequel, let alone one a decade after the original.

[Cry Havoc]

I could cook you a steak, and Gordon Ramsay could cook you a steak. One of them is going to be significantly better than the other one. How the is that possible?

Ah. Shooting people with a gun is analogous to cooking a steak. So gratuitous violence in one movie is abhorrent, in another it's genius. Got it.

[Fpoonsie]

i thought william dafoe was hilarious in the first one

So did I. I mean, sure, he played his character a bit over the top, but I kinda figured that's what the roll called for. [shrug]

[slayermin]

The do entary about the making of Boondock Saints is worth watching. But the movie itself is just bad.

It was like watching Desperado without the great editing skills of Robert Rodgriguez. Desperado was at least visually appealing.

It was a jumbled, repe ive story with A-list actors who turned in lousy performances.

[Trainwreck2100]

i like billy connelly but the involvement of julie benz almost guarantees failure

[bostonguy]

Overnight was a very good do entary, and I recommend it to anyone who would like to take a close up look of what goes on in Hollywood if you get a movie deal. The director/screenwriter of Saints was a class A prick, and deserved what happened to him, but, the simple fact that he went through all of the Hollywood BS, and 10 years later is coming out with a sequel to his first film says he has what it takes to survive amongst sharks.

Why did the director get black listed exactly? For being a to everyone? I still don't fully understand that side of the story.

[Sense]