Love: The Boondock Saints 1 AND 2

#13:
If you have not seen Troy Duffy's "The Boondock Saints", you have been missing out. Not only is it a great movie, but a fantastic real life story in the making of the movie. It was such a great story that they even made a documentary about the making of the movie! That's how great this story really is.

Firstly, the story behind the deal of "The Boondock Saints" (1999), came out and took Hollywood by storm. An interesting screenplay about two Irish-Catholic brothers living in Southie that take on all the bad guys in Boston and are trying to stay one step ahead of the FBI while exacting their punishment against all that is evil. You can't go wrong with a storyline like that, this statement coming from a transplant to Boston. Whenever I see there's a movie that's set in Boston, I have to see it. And I really haven't been disappointed yet. Except for maybe "Celtic Pride", not too sure what Hollywood was thinking with that flick.
As I was saying, Boston movies have something gritty, prideful and heartfelt about them and "The Boondock Saints" is no exception. It is quite violent, but in a justifiable way. It also has some comedic moments which are unexpected but totally work. Basically Troy Duffy has talent, and he showed it when making this movie.

Secondly, what Troy Duffy did wrong, was piss every important person in Hollywood off during this time period, because he has uncontrollable Masshole and douchebag tendencies. And this downward spiral was captured on film in the documentary, "Overnight". He was a Milton boy who moved out to L.A. with his brother to try and make it big as a musician in the band they were both in, and a filmmaker, with his screenplay, "The Boondock Saints". He worked as a bartender at a popular L.A. bar and in one night his life changed when he met Harvey Weinstein and Weinstein agreed to make his screenplay into a feature film. Miramax had agreed to let him direct, and gave the movie a $15 million budget. And at some point in making the movie, Troy Duffy was able to make the whole deal go bust. Miramax put the movie in turnaround, a Hollywood term for film purgatory, where no one could touch it and no one would release it. Eventually when they finally got it released, the film got no press, no publicity, no marketing support, and made a measly $30k in the theatres. Troy and the movie became a big Hollywood joke.

Thirdly, because of his egomaniacal attitude, who knew that he had a second movie in him, especially one that would actually turn out to be... AWESOME?! Yes, it's awesome, people. It's funny, even kind of inspiring, great continuous storyline, and of course, lots of gratuitous violence. Which is expected, when good men take revenge on bad men by killing them. Not only was the sequel a good story with good writing, it was even shot well on a very tight budget. After seeing the movie, I was surprised at how it never felt like Troy Duffy cheaped out on anything. It was done tastefully and creatively and he gets mad props for that. He even set it up for a third film, which hopefully won't take another 10 years to make, and hopefully gets made.

Kudos to Troy Duffy and second chances. Please don't blow this one as I'm really looking forward to a trilogy of "The Boondock Saints". People, set aside the your feelings towards Troy Duffy and his bitchassness and rent the first film and then go see the sequel in theatres!