Movies That Were Probably Made By a Spasm of Six Year-Olds on Acid: The Top 75 Action Films Poll Results Thread

it's prob worth catching but there's bits of it are cringe

Fight Club, like its latter-day counterpart Inception, is the sum total of its wasted talent.

I missed the title of the post and immediately thought "this is the kind of objective statement you'd get in academia." Works pretty well as taught, yup.

I cringe at most anyone taking Palahniuk books as anything other than pulp novelties, but the other movie adaptation I'm aware of -- Choke -- has some pretty funny moments and gains a lot from the casting.

I pretty much can't stand Boondock Saints from the opening minute. But yeah, a lot of women like it, too.

re students if it's not boondock saints it's that zooey deschanel movie whose name i forget

Boondock Saints is not "worth catching". Your life will be worse for having seen it

Number None is my friend

There really could be a long list of "movies influenced by Tarantino that somehow managed to miss what people found appealing in his films."

you're just mad cos they've got quasi-donegal accents at various points iirc

Kind of fucking astounded that anyone is taking Fight Club as uncomplicatedly cheering on Tyler!

i think guys just like the graphic, initially unsentimental violence in F.C.

Fincher's masterpiece, The Game, which is as deep and reticent as FC is ultimately shallow and superficial.

god, the game is just the worst fuckn movie. such a wonderfully nonsensical thrill ride for an hour or so, but such a colossal mess at the end. panic room is likewise terrible. dude's definitely had his ups and downs.

i like fight club becuz pixies duh

IMO everyone should watch Boondock Saints just so they can fully enjout the making of/hitjob doc "Overnight" abt the jackass who wrote and directed it

Fight Club is the best movie ever set in Delaware.

you guys should fight it out on the fight club thread.

I always assumed Fight Club was set in Chicago

can we go back to the "bunch of women" who like boondock saints thing. who is this "bunch"

^^ "Overnight" had out of sync audio on netflix streaming, I need to see if they ever fixed that

I don't know, Matt! I have met several, but it's always been friends-of-friends at parties. They are often evangelizing this film.

yeah i would say the Boondock Saints stans i have encountered IRL or via social media are pron 50/50 male/female

the game sucked imo

I didn't see The Game until years after its release and it's just ehhhh... it has a few moments.

They fool you by casting Michael Douglas and Sean Penn

overnight is on youtube.

boondock saints is the biggest p.o.s., it's kind of a litmus test.

they fool you into thinking its a movie.

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like one of the few movies that if you like it, i question your judgment completely.

panic room isnt terrible! its fun

re students if it's not boondock saints it's that zooey deschanel movie whose name i forget

― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Monday, February 20, 2012 5:41 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark

500 days of summer?

IMO everyone should watch Boondock Saints just so they can fully enjout the making of/hitjob doc "Overnight" abt the jackass who wrote and directed it

― ⚓ (gr8080), Monday, February 20, 2012 5:48 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark

thats a great doc

yeah i would say the Boondock Saints stans i have encountered IRL or via social media are pron 50/50 male/female

― ⚓ (gr8080), Monday, February 20, 2012 5:52 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark

I imagine most pro-boondock saints feeling comes from an 'irish pride' sentiment

i once bailed out of a party when the cops showed up and ended up across the hall in this girl's apartment. lots of candles, and this movie playing on a flatscreen.

― goole, Tuesday, August 26, 2008 4:18 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

that's my story

er 'this movie' = boondock saints

tbf, it makes the irish seem like a silly violent caricature, so yeah it's probably beloved

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfXuNJxWw88

there was a ffiiiIIIREEEEFIGHTTTTTTT

I imagine most pro-boondock saints feeling comes from an 'irish pride' sentiment

― https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0 (dayo), Monday, February 20, 2012 12:58 PM (10 minutes ago)

also "scumbags deserve to be executed fuck the judicial system"

re students if it's not boondock saints it's that zooey deschanel movie whose name i forget

― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Monday, February 20, 2012 5:41 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark

500 days of summer?

― RudolfHitlerFtw (Hungry4Ass), Monday, February 20, 2012 4:56 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah, that one.

dvds of boondock saints make up for literally half of the volume of bargain bins worldwide

i kind of still want to see the sequel

idk about irish pride in what's on display in TBS tbph but can't speak for irish-americans obv, a certain house of pain celtic-cross tattooed ethos might find something in there i guess

i liked monument ave. as far as dumb irish stuff goes.

i think its more of a generic white pride thing

the avclub's writeup of the boondock saints 2 commentary is really funny

http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-boondock-saints-ii-all-saints-day-2009,43714/

I like Norman Reedus but I have no desire to see this movie.

lol @ this from the Overnight wiki:

Duffy is finally able to obtain independent financing for the film, although it totals less than half of its original forecasted production budget. Boondock Saints is promoted at the Cannes film festival, but all the major American distribution companies pass on the film. The film manages to receive a limited release in five cities, but performs poorly and is pulled after a week, and is released on DVD and VHS. Although positive reviews of the movie begin to spread via word-of-mouth and the film becomes a financial success, Duffy's contract with Miramax stipulates he cannot profit from the film's video sales.

the fact that nobody on ilx has ever defended the boondock saints is one of those small things that separates this place from the rest of the internet

sneaking suspicion frogbs would if he were still w/ us (rip)

He praises and thanks his fans at length, explaining that he owes his success to “one guy who’s a Boondock fan strapping his boy to a chair and forcing him to watch this movie, and an hour and 45 minutes later, you got yourself another droolin’ Boondock fan.” Many of the things he put into the sequel are solely as nods to the fans—for instance, a drinking montage is there because so many fans said they’d love to have a drink with the protagonists.

He does try to get Dafoe to talk about his craziest Boondock fan experiences—Dafoe claims he hasn’t had any—and tries to get him to talk about the film’s lasting appeal. Dafoe responds “I don’t know, I just think for young men, there’s a vigilante fantasy thing. I don’t know, sometimes I scratch my head. I’m not responsible, because I’m the gay detective. Sometimes I’m like ‘Jesus, what is this movie about? What am I involved with here?’”

LOL

ironically I've seen 'overnight', which made me want to see Boondocks even less, lol