On the Greatness of The Boondock Saints

<p>Now that we have covered the greatness of Ndbisme/Emsibdn, we move on to the next topic: The Boondock Saints. Please discuss.</p>

<p>Great movie!</p>

<p>and shepherds will shall be
for thee my lord for thee
power hath descended forth from thy hand
so we may swiftly carry out thy command
so we shall flow a river forth to thee
and teeming with souls shall it ever be
in nomine patris, et fili, et spiritu sancti</p>

<p>yes yes yes</p>

<p>This is a movie that is trash. All around. It's such a stupid movie. The writing is horrible, they got so uncreative they just throw in an f word for every sentence. The action sequences aren't even good, there are plenty of better ones in movies. All in all, a crappy movie.</p>

<p>why, how dare you.</p>

<p>how dare I spread the truth?</p>

<p>What do you consider to be a noncrappy movie, then?</p>

<p>What makes Boondock saints a great movie isn't its action sequences (though they are pretty much) or the old man that uses the F-(or any other) word that he randomly thinks of. This is one of the rare movies that make you think, challenges the way something works (police)</p>

<p>Again, you guys fail to create any sort of compelling evidence to make Boondock Saints a good movie.</p>

<p>For Vigilante Movies: </p>

<p>Death Wish -- no other movie fails to beat this, Charles Bronson is awesome. Boondock Saints has NOTHING on Death Wish. </p>

<p>Or watch the Dirty Harry movies about those cops who are part vigilante. </p>

<p>For Action Sequences: </p>

<p>John Woo's The Killer or Hard Boiled.
Michael Mann's Heat. </p>

<p>For films where characters are compelled by God to kill: </p>

<p>Frailty is a good one. It's very similar to Boondock Saints except more intelligent. It's about a father and his two sons, they feel that God has told them to kill demons who seem like ordinary people. It's much more intelligent than Boondock Saints.</p>

<p>All these movies are quite superior to The Boondock Saints</p>

<p>what makes it a great movie is that it is so unconventional. It doesn't make you think and it doesn't challenge the way things work. I mean who hasn't thought of killing all the bad people in the world?
At the end of the movie you just go, "Wow, I can't believe I just watched that."</p>

<p>clsoar, i have to say, I have never thought of going out and killing all the bad people in this world.</p>

<p>that's a pity, brown.</p>

<p>It made me want to be catholic much more than anything a priest has ever said.</p>

<p>It's an abysmally bad movie. Between the ethnic stereotypes (believe it or not, all Russians are not huge, bald, and stupid - not even the Russians in the mafia), to the offensive butchery of Catholicism (and I'm not even religious), similar to the trend among gansta rappers to wear huge crosses (presumably God likes bling-bling), I now have an even lower appreciation for movie makers. There are no profound questions raised by the premise of going out and killing all the 'bad' people. Of course I've thought about doing this - I love the idea of killing certain people - as long as I get to choose. As soon as someone else gets to choose, my life is in danger too. That's why civilization and laws work better than anarchy/the state of nature (I've been reading too much Locke recently). </p>

<p>The movie tries to glorify violence, but does a far poorer job than /The Matrix/. It tries to portray corrupt but sympathetic characters, but fails horribly compared to /The Professional/.</p>

<p>regardless of how many stereotypes it has or whether some deeper meaning is achieved, it's still a ****ing great way to spend 2 hrs.</p>