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

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

Me too

Dafoe really couldn't have reacted in any better way

jesus this top 10

http://filmfanatic.org/reviews/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/streets-fire-defoe.jpg

i can't scroll up far enough to check, but did either fight club or boondock saints place? if not, which flick got ppl talking about them?

i think it was david fincher discush

did a david fincher flick place?

I think it was bc of Fight Club convo which was because of...idk

bad derail! bad!

YOU'RE ON YOUR OWN WITH THIS ONE, ROOKIE

anyone vote for training day? i liked training day. i like my ethan hawke scared.

Tracer talked about going into see Children of Men blind, someone else mentioned that they say The Fifth Element knowing v. little about it, and then someone else said they had a similar experience with Fight Club, then there was talk of 'apologists' and shit went off.

uh not that i voted for it. maybe it wasn't nominated. i like my denzel no-nonsense.

training day is good, cant remember did it make my 50 tho scott

What, you mean the fucking incredible action climax!? Increasingly over-the-top action, when well done (the professional, time and tide, the long kiss goodnight) has been the best thing about the movies in the last 40 or so years.

― Dan I.

This guy is picking up what I'm putting down.

Congratulations to Ronin and ooooh I got quoted. Probably the most exciting thing to happen to me today. (My life is very little like an action movie.)

Before the Devil Knows You're Dead? Actiony? Probably not. But that's another good Hawke movie, imo.

I liked training day a lot. I might have voted for it.

Xpost that is a good movie but, yeah, not actiony enough.

probly is for this poll

it may not have Blade Runner's relentless explosions and gunplay but

great quote, http://webtools.gieskes.nl/pages/images/explosion.gif*~~~laurel~~~*http://webtools.gieskes.nl/pages/images/explosion.gif

if you can make it here, you can make it anywhere, Laurel!

but you need to decide: bikini first, or machine gun? I say machine gun :D

ethan was in a dumb boston crime movie too. *what doesn't kill you*.

and speaking of ethan and australian doomsday horror action movies i still haven't seen daybreakers.

and speaking of willem defoe...

http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMjI1OTU5MjE5NV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMjI4MjIyMw@@._V1._SX640_SY955_.jpg

?

Wait what was the dumb Boston crime movie.

re: discussion upthread, i v much wanna see boondock saints, if only so's i can watch overnight