# Boondock Saints **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 11, 2003, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boondock-saints/194351 "2003-08-11T11:24:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ambiguous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3e96dc/32.png) [@Ambiguous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambiguous)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2003, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boondock-saints/194351/1 "2003-08-11T11:24:01Z")
My first post excellent movie… its a mix between pulp fiction and godfather with a bit of frailty maybe its a bad image its good if your into action can’t believe no one talked about this one before here’s the link [Boondock Saints](http://www.theboondocksaints.com/) ---
**Author:** ![dalovindj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/65b543/32.png) [@dalovindj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalovindj)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2003, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boondock-saints/194351/2 "2003-08-11T15:56:10Z")
Kickass flick. Powerful stuff. I got chills the first time: > [@](#): > > Now you will receive us! We do not ask for your poor or your hungry, we do not want your tired and sick. It is your corrupt we claim. It is your evil that will be sought by us. With every breathe we shall hunt them down. Each day we will spill their blood until it rains down from the sky. Do not kill, do not rape, do not steal, these are principles that every man of every faith can embrace. These are not polite suggestions, these are codes of behavior and all of you who ignore them will pay the dearest cost. There are varying degrees of evil. We are lesser forms or filth not to push the bounds and cross over into true corruption, into our domain. But if you do one day you will look back and see we three on that day you will reap it. And we will send you to what ever god you wish. Best vigalante flick _I’ve_ ever seen. DaLovin’ Dj ---
**Author:** ![MegaDave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/db5fbb/32.png) [@MegaDave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MegaDave)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2003, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boondock-saints/194351/3 "2003-08-11T16:45:20Z")
I loved this flick. I never understood why it wasn’t a mainstream production with a script like that. ---
**Author:** ![dalovindj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/65b543/32.png) [@dalovindj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalovindj)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2003, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boondock-saints/194351/4 "2003-08-11T17:16:48Z")
Yeah, very few people have ever _heard_ of this movie. It is Willam DaFoe at his best. The scene where he screams out “There was a GUN FIGHT!!!” as he re-creates the attack on the poker game (as if he were a conductor leading a symphony) with his hair flying all over the place and then he fires a couple of shots into the air in slow motion. What a sequence. Then the “joke man” gives him the finger - and then the movie gets REALLY interesting. The last 20 minutes take this from “Good” to “Amazing”. Also, best use of a toilet in any movie ever . . . DaLovin’ Dj ---
**Author:** ![dalovindj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/65b543/32.png) [@dalovindj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalovindj)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2003, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boondock-saints/194351/5 "2003-08-11T18:20:16Z")
Checking my sources around the web - it looks like a sequel is in the works. It seems it will be minus DaFoe (he is busy in film and on stage - and his character’s arc was complete anyway). I’ve seen 2 titles referenced: [Boondock II: The Second Coming](http://www.celebrity-fansites.com/celebrity_links/marley_shelton_11825.html) [Boondock II: All Saints Day](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0330083) I like “All Saints Day” better. Hell, even without calling it Boondock II. They could make this film so that you really don’t have to see the first one pretty easily. I really hope they don’t fuck this up. Wonder if it will be straight to video (as I think the first one ended up being)? DaLovin’ Dj ---
**Author:** ![Treviathan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/838e76/32.png) [@Treviathan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treviathan)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2003, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boondock-saints/194351/6 "2003-08-11T18:47:16Z")
This might be sacriligeous, but I didn’t really like the movie (and I’m usually a fan of the genre). Didn’t hate it either, but parts of it (Defoe, some of the action scenes) were too self-consciously stylish, and I felt that those aspects distracted me from the story. ---
**Author:** ![dalovindj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/65b543/32.png) [@dalovindj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalovindj)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2003, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boondock-saints/194351/7 "2003-08-11T18:58:57Z")
Kill him. ---
**Author:** ![dalovindj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/65b543/32.png) [@dalovindj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalovindj)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2003, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boondock-saints/194351/8 "2003-08-11T19:00:55Z")
For God, I mean. . . ---
**Author:** ![Ambiguous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3e96dc/32.png) [@Ambiguous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambiguous)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boondock-saints/194351/9 "2003-08-12T01:37:10Z")
The film never made it to mainstream (I heard this from another forum IMDB) because of the columnbine (sp.?) incident and that this film would get alot of bad pubilicity. As for the sequel, I really hope they can seperate the 2 movies I am not a great fan of sequels only ones I ever enjoyed watching (sequels i mean) are the first 3 star wars, LOTR, and Terminator 1 and 2 (the last one i never liked but oh well) sequels kill the original movies. Sequels tend to be about money more then trying to introduce a good story line. ---
**Author:** ![Rabid\_Squirrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Rabid\_Squirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rabid_Squirrel)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boondock-saints/194351/10 "2003-08-12T01:44:26Z")
It is a bit of a wonder why it wasn’t widely publised. I only saw this by randomly grabbing videos one weekend. ---
**Author:** ![Fred](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/db5fbb/32.png) [@Fred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fred)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boondock-saints/194351/11 "2003-08-12T01:56:00Z")
I didn’t like it that much. Trying too hard, I think. That, and, I thought it was kind of a stupid premise. ---
**Author:** ![Ambiguous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3e96dc/32.png) [@Ambiguous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambiguous)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boondock-saints/194351/12 "2003-08-12T01:56:35Z")
I think if we were to tell our friends and anyone we know about it I bet it would get some positive feedback and maybe some credit for being such a great film. I never knew about this movie until I watcch it at his house which was only about 2 months ago. ---
**Author:** ![Orual](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/779978/32.png) [@Orual](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orual)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boondock-saints/194351/13 "2003-08-12T05:08:47Z")
I think of this movie every time I walk by the Copley Plaza Hotel, or ride the Red Line over that bridge. Fav Lines: “So you’re Chekov, huh? Well, this here’s McCoy. Find a Spock, we got us an away team.” “So now we got a Huge Guy theory and a Serial Crusher theory.” “Oh, is that right, Rambo?” “Television is the explanation for this. You see this in bad television.” “We’re sorta like 7-11. We’re not always doin’ business, but we’re always open.”