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So in the UK Boondock Saints is not a big movie, I've never been in a dorm room with the poster and I'm too young to have experienced any of the initial excitement around the film. I watched it when I was 14 entirely because it is a movie where Billy Connolly shoots people. I'm Scottish and he is a legend so that was fun to see. That was my entire context for the film until hearing Patrick H Willems describes it as the worst movie he has ever seen. As there is a crossover audience and I vaguely recall David Sims agreeing I'm wondering why a pretty fun movie elicits that response from people?
Carmine vs Robert Freeman was where I first noticed it, and not actually in the character design so much as actually the mouth animation. It's hard to explain, but there's a certain style of lip animation that really made me think it must have had the same animator.
Now, okay, pretty loose connection, right? At first I was like, huh, that's... weirdly familiar, but then we get to the one that REALLY did it.
The Bastard vs Ed Wuncler, Sr. have literally THE SAME FUCKING EYEBROW EDGES TO THE FOUR POINTS AND ALL. Additionally, I swear Jason Marnocha (english VA) is 100% basing it off Sam McMurray's performance down to little voice cadence details.
Like, I tried to find some kind of correlation to explain this, and it feels like I'm taking crazy pills, but I SWEAR they're lifting animation/character stylization from that show. Someone please watch, idk, The Itis episode (episode 10) and Count Orlock (episode 9) and tell me you can't see so much more similarity than those pictures- it's in all the movements, the expressions, the voices, and it's driving me NUTS because there seems to be absolutely no correlation between these studios as far as I've researched, yet at times those animation profiles are just absolutely 1-to-1.
Edit: They also use similar soundbites too, don't have copies of those, but if you watch it you'll hear em.
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I'm watching the film for probably the third time, but the first time in a while. All I keep thinking is where is the Irish mob???
I love mob/mafia/organized crime content. I'm no expert by any means like some who post on r/mafia. However, I feel like I'm very sure that Bostons dominate criminal element was always Irish, Winterhill Gang, Whitey Bulger. Etc.
Of course there was an Italian presence in the North and closely in Providence. But especially in South Boston where the film is explicitly set, all the crime was Irish.
So in the movie you have two good Irish catholic boys going John Wick against the evil Italians and Russians. The only thing I can think is that the brothers' motivations against the vices and sins of the other ethnic groups might not play as well if their own people are shown doing the same things.
However, I just see it as either a huge oversight or more likely a really odd omission/creative choice. I know the film is supposed to be very ethnocentric and rah-rah let's go Irish. I'm Scotch-Irish myself and really get up for that kind of thing so I love it. It just seems like anybody who knows anything about Boston might watch this film going okay what about Whitey Bulger and co.?
I feel like it would play just as well if the film showed the brothers attacking Irish gangsters for crimes against their own people in South Boston, betraying their good Irish Catholic roots, etc. I could be completely off like I said I am no expert. It's also possible that this has already been addressed or explained elsewhere, and if so I apologize. However I googled for a whole ten minutes and searched reddit before posting
Thanks for reading. Any thoughts or input would be dope.
2000's had the weird repeat effect of movies that got no attention in theaters, but later blew up on DVD. What were your favorites?
(My podcast is doing a series on 2000s Nostalgia, and we've covered Boondock Saints, Van Wilder, and next week, Donnie Darko on this topic. Check it out. https://apple.co/3zrTfNG )
They always had a story to discovering them. Harold & Kumar led to a 100 mile drive to the closest White Castle. Napoleon Dynamite populated my entire school's vocabulary for 8 months.
Things I liked about it:
- Willem Dafoe’s character is a mostly pointless narrative device and a gross homosexual stereotype, but he DOES give a good performance in it
- the chemistry between the two brothers is believable. I could buy the idea that they were actually brothers, and they did their best with the material they were given
- the rule of thumb joke at the beginning (ought to be rule of wrist) which was the inspiration for this post so in that regard I was wrong
- the dead cat
- two of the songs with Irish pipes on them
- Billy Connolly. Enough said
Things I didn’t like about it (pretty much everything else):
- David Della Rocco is simply not funny. I can’t imagine who would have called him the funny guy because he didn’t make me laugh once. His character is stupid, short-sighted, and generally not likeable
- the cinematography is cheap and dim, like bad television from this era. There are scenes where the backgrounds are more brightly lit than the characters faces, which is what you’re supposed to be looking at
- the screenplay reads like a first draft by a 90s frat boy who just saw Pulp Fiction and Snatch for the first time. The really annoying trope is that the story keeps cutting ahead to Willem Dafoe telling the audience what happened when the brothers killed gangsters on 3 separate occasions. It kills the pacing and doesn’t let the audience think for itself
- the rampant racism and misogyny that is supposed to be played for laughs
- the entire message of fighting evil with violence is undermined by glorifying the violence committed by the brothers. It’s like watching some slow-no fantasy by someone who heard violence in movies was bad but didn’t have a point of reference for it
- that I second-guessed myself and spent nearly 2 hours watching a movie that I knew was shitty in an attempt to be open-minded
TL;DR The Boondock Saints has about 6 things I liked in it but not enough to redeem it as a work of cinema, and I feel vindicated af
Ruckus can be a surprisingly complex character. Does he know deep down that he's a self-hating black man? Or does he genuinely believe he has revitiligo (the opposite of what Michael Jackson's got)
The house is 45 minutes from a major city so it will be difficult to identify good ones of either who service my area. Looking for advice/stories from old house homeowners who have dealt with this.
