Getting caught up on my movie watching - The Boondock Saints

[cmk418]

I put the movie "The Boondock Saints" in my Netflix queue a couple of months ago. I kept running across the title while looking for Oz fic*, read the synopsis and thought "why not?". It's a pretty light (more in weight than in tone), but very enjoyable film. Pure testosterone throughout and Willem Dafoe is a hoot as the FBI investigator (a character that's so unbelievably great, that I wish I could have written him). Most of the violence happens in flashback during the course of the investigation (I was watching an unrated cut, but there was nothing there that made me overly squeamish). It was paced well, didn't suffer from any excess. My only complaint would be that I couldn't understand what the characters were saying some of the time (that's where the subtitles came in handy), but other than that, it was a good film.

* Oh yeah, and any movie that has a character named Murphy McManus is okay in my book.

(I need to write some McManus fic and soon...)

Comments

[colleendetroit.livejournal.com]

Willem Dafoe was great in that movie! I watched it as a recc fom other lj peeps. The scene with the toilet was something else!

And I love the Irish brogues... ;o)

[cmk418]

I loved the scene with the toilet - just goes to show what determination and enough adrenaline will get you. I was still trying to figure out at that point what the heck was going on with the questions about the water running into people's apartments - and that just put the "oh, that's why" on it. I also loved the scene in the confessional and the scuffle between Connor & Murphy in the ducts.

[revelininsanity.livejournal.com]

I liked that movie, although it was confusing as all heck. The little sister theorized that it was possible that Connor was crazy, and just pretending he had a brother named Murphy.

Also, I adored that poor stupid cop. So young, so dumb.

[cmk418]

It's funny that you're commenting on this because I thought about you at the beginning of the movie when the priest was telling that "bystander" story that you referenced in your Departed fic (how's that coming?)

I think Connor and Murphy were two separate nutty people (with good intentions). Your comment about the young cop raises another question though - did the FBI agent send him out of the room all the time because 1) he was young and dumb 2) the agent really wanted coffee or 3) the agent was attracted to him and that was just too distracting to the investigation?

[revelininsanity.livejournal.com]

It's an interesting story, although it's been misreported. Some people did try to help Kitty, although not many, and the killer just came back and killed her. (It's okay. I'm getting near another climax and I want to finish the next chapter tomorrow, but this weekend is crazy.)

I do, too, but it was an interesting thought.

I don't know. I just liked seeing him keep getting in shit.

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