10.29.09 1ST REVIEWS OF BOONDOCK SAINTS 2: PRAYING & SHOOTING
(Prayin’/and shootin’/and drinkin’/and prayin’…)
I feel bad that I always piss off half the people that read this when I rip on Boondock Saints, but the sad truth of the matter is that movie chugs cornhole lint. The sequel is out this weekend (you can see the first five minutes of it here), and that means the first reviews are starting to hit the web. Yay, time to pile on!
This comes across less like “Taxi Driver,” and more like what Travis Bickle might have made if someone gave him a camera. It can be ugly. There’s a vaguely racist subtext to the films, with derogatory phrases used for blacks in the first installment and for Hispanics in the second. Cloaking vigilante justice (not to mention casual racism and homophobia) in religion eventually turns “Boondock Saints” from merely a bad movie to a distasteful one. -Jake Coyle for the AP
Connor, Murphy and their affectionately dubbed “greasy spic” kill wops with the help of Special Agent Bloom (Julie Benz). Together, they aim to settle a score that goes back to the “Saints”’ father (Billy Connolly), who made the mistake of trusting an Eye-talian (Peter Fonda, no less). But seriously, in case you missed the part where Murphy says—in Spanish no less—that Romeo is “with us,” never fear: beaners are all right in the boys’ book. -NY Press
The Boston Phoenix’s review begins and ends with the same line: This is bullsh-t.
John Woo outgrew stylizing movies like this in the ’90s, but Duffy is still chasing his perfect slide-and-shoot, except now with more self-satisfied posturing, awkward pop-culture referencing, casual homophobia and racism, and the most vulgar co-opting of religious iconography this side of Dan Brown. -Village Voice
This installment is mostly a chance for Duffy to pander to his base via regurgitated plot elements (ropes, prayers, gun fetishism, religious chanting and singing) and dully choreographed firefights that aim to exhaust the planet’s supply of slow motion. -Slant Magazine
Duffy orchestrates the resulting carnage like an inebriate spinning fourth-rate Peckinpah tales. Fan-service cameos and a sequel-ready ending (trilogy, people!) feel like groveling acts of desperation. -Time Out NY
Haha, a fourth-rate Peckinpah, take that, Troy Duffy! All the non-film-majors totally understood that burn about a guy whose last movie came out 26 years ago! I have to admit, this schadenfreude would be more fun if most film critics didn’t write like they went to Little Lord Fauntleroy’s School for Albino Hemophiliacs. Reached for comment, Troy Duffy said “Slant Magazine, is that for Orientals a somethin?”
[with help from RottenTomatoes, of course]
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1ST REVIEWS OF BOONDOCK SAINTS 2: PRAYING & SHOOTING
But do they pray first then shoot or shoot first then pray?
Wait, I just remembered I don’t give a f@&k.
My hand tattoos just say “tatas” so the ladies know straight where they’re going.
I’ll still go see this. As long as there are no gays around.
So, we can’t have anymore racial slurs in movies? That’s realistic.
*drops through ceiling, makes 8 perfectly placed head shots into bewildered film critics*
*fries chicken*
*cashes welfare check*
We can have a-murderin’ and a-rapin’ in our violence-fest movies, but if I hear one more guy call another guy a faggot spic, I’m walking right the fuck out of here.
Cornhole chugging is called a fun Saturday night ’round here.
Shooting minorities for Jesus
Cornhole chugging is when you drink moonshine through a hollowed out corncob, right?
*rents furniture*
Casual homophobia is only acceptable on Fridays.
I have never seen this movie. I kind of love me for that.
You know, I kinda want to see it now to find out exactly how racist it is on the Eastwood-Tarantino-Bay scale.
I think it says Dead Mick storage on the side of their house
If I had a tattoo on my left hand it would say “STRANGER”.
In the Kirk Cameron version of this movie, he replaces all the bitches he gotta kill with his wife.
BK-Kirk Cameron also has “banana” tattooed on his hand.
*hangs from the rim for a sec before letting go*
Great Fek, now you shattered the backboard and nobody else can play. Thanks alot Chocolate Thunder!
Needs more zombies.
heh…Slant Magazine
Julie Benz looks hot and even though her character has probably never been able to chase a perp on foot, it’s nice not to see her as that nagging bitch on Dexter for a change.
*drinks grape soda*
I liked Boondock Saints. A lot.
Until I saw Overnight and realized it actually wasn’t a spoof of action movies….that dickskin actually thought he was making a bad ass action movie.
I’ll probably see this one just to laugh at it.
I thought a Troy Duffy was something you got after a Cleveland Steamer or a Rusty Trombone.
why is it if a movie has racist characters that somehow means the writer is racist or “the movie” is racist?
JMoney, Because….the writer creates the characters with his brain, and puts them in the movie?
Not really a problem if the racists are the villains, or bumbling idiots, or Samuel L. Jackson…..but when they are the good guys in the film, the characters the writer identifies with, it kind of suggests something.
No it doesn’t, i can think up plenty of racist characters, that doesn’t make me a racist, it just makes me aware of the fact that those type of people exist.
You know, if you guys really wanted to create a post-ironic mindfuck, you’d be having this argument in an ‘Avatar’ thread.
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