I could tell you why Boondock Saints sucks till I’m blue in the face, but you can’t deny that even 10 years later the film has one of the most rabid cult followings in all of film fandom (Oh my God, bro, Irish dudes kill bad guys and then pray?  It’s like the War and Peace of comically self-important Punisher ripoffs!).  The long-gestating sequel, Boondocks Saints II: All Saints Day, will supposedly have a theatrical release November 1st (I’ll believe it when I see it), and writer/director Troy Duffy premiered the trailer at Comic-Con over the weekend.  Shortly afterwards, /Film was able to capture some reaction footage of the rare species known as the Boondock Saint fanatic in their natural habitat (the state of irrational excitement).  I could ridicule them for their crunchy hair and abundance of man-jewelry, but I sort of respect their willingness to let their freak flags fly.  They’re like the film version of Juggalos.  Duffalos, say.

PS – Anyone else find it weird that the white-looking dude is named Javier and the Latin-looking one is named Brian Sawyer? [more on the film over at /Film]

via QuietEarth:

“The boys and their father Il Duce have been living in seclusion, deep in Ireland on a sheep farm, away from everything, when Il Duce’s brother comes to tell them that a priest was murdered in Boston and it was set up to look like it was done by the Saints.

The boys rush back to deal with it while their supposedly ailing father stays on the farm. As soon as the brothers land, they start picking off anyone who may be tied to this framing.

Why does their Irish father have an Italian name, you ask?  Well, there’s an interesting story there, but the gist is that Troy Duffy’s a dipshit.  Anyway, this sounds like Godfather II but with more pointlessly killing people in slow motion.  (more on why Boondock Saints sucks after the jump) Read the rest of this entry »

If you’re not a stoned frat guy from Santa Barbara, you may not have realized that Boondock Saints is the best movie ever.  But don’t worry if you missed the boat the first time, because the sequel is on its way.  Not only that, self-appointed super genius Troy Duffy is video blogging the entire process (the T-Dog V-Log?).  He’s a little hard to understand, because he seems to communicate in some sort of dickweedian shorthand.

“Day f-ckin 4.  It’s Fight Night.  Today we’re at full f-ckin Boondock.  Yesterday was a dream come true, alright, fine, I been waitin for that.  3 shot.  Romeo, and the brothers, our new f-ckin Saints lineup, right, for 10 years. Had a little bit of a sniffly moment there, in between the middle of the take.”

Yeah, I didn’t really understand that.  Maybe re-shoot it in super slow-mo with some Catholic imagery?  Anyway, Troy’s got a whole series of these.  Here’s one where he says they’ve got a Boondock Saints video game and a graphic novel series coming out.  Boy, I can’t wait.  Irish guys, guns and pennies, okay good.  Ezekial, 52 pick-up, got a bit of a hard on, cut.  Storyboard, I’m important, let’s print it.  Squibs, light meter f-ckin pissed my pants last night. Willem Dafoe balcony seizures, Massachusetts.  Party time.  Best boy, gaffer, gay crush.  Feelin f-ckin misty.

[via /Film]

To me the best thing that came out of Boondock Saints was the documentary about what a blowhard writer/director Troy Duffy is.  Four months ago Duffy announced that a sequel had been “officially greenlit”, which, coming from Troy Duffy, could just mean he did a couple lines with a guy who said he was a producer.  In any case, Duffy was recently a guest on WJFK 106.7 in DC, and he revealed some plot details.  And by details I mean a play-by-play of the entire thing. Sorry for all the words, but this is Troy Duffy speaking after all.

“You kind of wonder what has happened to the brothers [Editor’s Note: No I don’t] … They have been living way back in the valleys of Ireland with their father on a family run sheep farm, way beyond the reach of technology or men. Way out there. It’s been sort of a bucolic existence, hard working pioneer-esque type stuff. They have long hair and beards, and stuff like that. You get the sense that they’ve been hibernating to come back. And there is an event that transpires in Boston. A priest murdered in a church and the body is rigged to make it look like the Saints did it. The one guy that the brothers and father have contact with is Il Duce’s brother. So he gets the first notion of this, puts his jeep in gear and tells the brothers what happened. And without even thinking of it the boys are up and out of there … they cut their hair, dig up their rosaries, strap on their guns, and they’re gone! [Cue annoyingly self-important slow motion montage sequence] And Dad has to stay back because something is wrong with him, and you can tell he doesn’t have much time left. So when the brothers smuggle themselves back to the US, back to Boston, in a very understandable way. And one of the guys they meet along the way is a Hispanic American named Romeo. And Romeo ends up becoming like the third brother or saint, fourth I guess if you’re gonna consider Billy. He’s a lot more of a bad ass than Rocco was. But his comedy is that he wants to be a lot more a part of this. So there is a lot of humor that comes from that. He’s hopefully going to be played by a friend of mine named Clifton Collins, who was in Capote and Frankie Flowers in Traffic.”

Anyway, blah blah blah.  You can read the rest over on /Film, but considering what an overrated hunk of shit Boondock Saints was, I’m guessing that if this ever gets made it’ll just be a bunch of slow-motion, over dramatized action sequences that you never had reason to give a shit about in the first place.  OMG, time to put your Boondock Saints poster back up!  You’ll be the coolest guy at the post-rave afterparty!  No way, the shooting and the praying was my favorite part, let’s be fake friends!

[Thanks to Robo for the tip]