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[trinityvixen]

I forget how it strayed into my path from Netflix, probably from one of my friends' recommendations, but The Boondock Saints is a surpassingly good movie. It certainly was refreshing after the crap I've been watching of late.

If you can stomach Willem Dafoe's eccentricities--and believe me, some of them are hideous--it's worth a watch. Mostly because it's funny as all get out. The two brothers at the center of the thing are fairly smart but mostly lucky and by far the most savagely determined fellows I've come across as characters in a long while.

My cousin, when he was in town, saw I had the movie from Netflix and raved. He asked if I'd heard about Suicide Kings and I promptly pointed it out on my DVD rack. He said it was like that. It is and it isn't. Suicide Kings is more a mystery noir, The Boondock Saints a moralizing noir, but both are corking good films.

Just if you can stand Willem Dafoe. Some of the staging of the action scenes are really neat, the dialogue is pretty snazzy, but not in a Tarantino-esque, self-conscious way, and it's fun throughout, even when it's tragic.

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[droidguy1119.livejournal.com]

I feel like I'm always disagreeing but man oh man did I hate this movie. It felt so full of itself. Maybe because I know that writer/director Troy Duffy IS full of himself, but I dunno, I guess if you boil it down, two guys who kill...IN THE NAME OF JESUS!!!! just sounds like something a thirteen-year-old kid would think was the coolest, edgiest thing ever (no offense to anyone who did like the movie).

Anyway, for more on Troy Duffy, check out this link when you can use sound: http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/overnight.html The documentary does drag but seeing how low Troy Duffy can really go is sickly fascinating.

I didn't like Dafoe because his character reminded me a little of Oldman in Léon: The Professional. Tell me you've seen Léon: The Professional.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

haven't, I'm afraid. Should I add that to my queue?

And I guess I liked the movie because the "heroes" in question were rather smart and yet stupid at the same time. Rocco I could have done without.

[droidguy1119.livejournal.com]

Oh my yes. Make sure to add "Léon: The Professional" and not just "The Professional", the latter has 23 (admittedly non-mainstream) very good minutes cut out of it that turn it into a mere action movie. The full director's cut is much better. I have no idea if you'll like it but it's one of my favorites.