I hate the whole premise of this movie. Mostly because it’s complete ignorace of the source material. It’s not “the end of the world” that the Mayan Calander predicts. In fact, their calander doesn’t even end on that date. You can make cursory searches on the subject in Google and discover it.

Still, I wanted to go for one reason.

I do love watching shit get destroyed. Epic and fun.

Well spoony you finally turned off your brain while watching a movie. This movie,along with many other like transformers (dammit now you have me comparing them), requires you to turn off your brain instead of calling bullshit everytime something insane and implausible happens.

Premise issues aside I was surprised to see Spoony like it, I may have to give it a download.

20 worst movies of all time? I would loooove to see a spoony vlog on that!

Also, huh, That’s the second positive review of this movie I’ve heard in a row. But there were a lot of ugly effects in the trailers… Good to know the vast majority is good looking. I absolutely hated Godzilla and The Day After Tomorrow, but hot damn, maybe this might be worth checking out!

I don’t have a real opinion on 2012, but I’ll agree: the Boondock Saints fucking SUCKS.

I agree completely. It was a horrible movie, but at the same time I found my self entertained, and was rolling in my chair laughing at either bad acting, or implausable situations. Also notice the Dog “Barely making it, yet another trademark of emmerich. I was nitpicking the hell out of this movie though. For instance, after the LA Earthquake, the mother demands the kids come home “early” from their trip to yellowstone, after one day camping, and once he returns he is somehow late for work? How does that work, I mean he was out camping and I would assume schedueled at least three days so there is no way he could have been late. Also the Blond who dies in the 2nd flooded door is never again shown despite the fact that the 3rd compartment was draining, and they would have to go back in the 2nd. Also One year after the diaster, and the munk with a persumed injured leg, is still using a crutch? How did it take one year. Now about the Ship, if Im hearing this correct the original intent was to leave everyone behind but the rich people who bought the tickets workers and all, but this would make no sence as a new society would need a working class, and I highley doubt in a real world setting that the Wealthy people would be willing to do construction work, so it would only make sence to keep the boat workers on as lower class construction, which the new people who boarded would probably become. Also they did not know africa would survive as it is brought up a year after the event, but then again Slavery would probably go back into style.

I agree about outrunning a pyroclastic flow as that is just retarded, and if the plane was absorbed it would have been demolished by what was in the smoke. The scene I laughed outloud though was the scene where the russian father throws his son’s on the ship then falls, for some reason the CG for that shot, to me, looked like the Jet ski scene from shark attack 3(right?) and I just could not control my self.

I laughed my ass of @ “We must evacuate and get to tha choppa”

So… What was that about Amanda Peet?

Probably not gonna see 2012, seemed pretty fucking stupid to me.

Somewhat off topic but Randy Quaid isn’t such a bad actor when in a decent role. Check him as John Wesley Hardin in the miniseries Streets of Laredo. Also he’s funny in Kingpin imo.

Spoony, you HAVE to tell me where you got that poster! That’s probably the most fantastic Blade Runner art you can slap on your wall that isn’t DVD cover art. PLEASE! You must tell me!!! Blade Runner is my favorite movie, and I’m always on the lookout for cool stuff related to the film!

I was entertained by this movie because I went into it with a “So Bad It’s Good” attitude. I knew it was going to be a huge wheel of cheese, and I was not disappointed.

Yeah. “Ahnold” was one of the most horrible impressions I’ve ever seen.

I actually empathized with Platt’s character like you did. He wasn’t a bad guy. He took the danger seriously, got everything rolling to get the Arks built. Busting their butts in two years to save what they did. Anyway…

This movie is So Bad It’s Good. It’s good cheese.

Regarding Arnold, here is a clip from 2012 that contains the impression. Its at the 00:31 mark and runs til 00:44:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG7jJfnzPCk

I haven’t seen the movie but a month ago when I heard that voice in the trailer, I couldn’t believe how bad it was.

2012 was GARBAGE,i’m honestly surprised you liked that piece of shit…
I didn’t even find it remotely entertaining,it should be called GENERIC:the movie.

How’s this for an annoying character: the guy on the bridge who’s just holding himself and/or screaming when they’re about to hit the mountain? Also they should have cut the entire cruise ship storyline.

Purple People Eater, I thought it had been only one month, am I wrong?

Despite the whole White House destruction thing being absolutely cliché now, that was still the second most badass part of the movie. Mainly because they dropped a fucking DEAD PRESIDENT on it!

The thing about not pulling the plane up: probably explained by not wanting to stall, especially if you’ve taken off underspeed. What I want to know is: if you’re suddenly airborne because the ground has fallen out from underneath you, wouldn’t that displacement of air suck the plane DOWN?

When they’re worrying about not having enough fuel to make it to China… was anyone else’s first thought just to yell “DUMP THE CARS!!”

I was really expecting to see that dog have to outrun something like in ID4.

Also Woody Harrelson was OK, Danny Glover was worse, and Stephen McHattie annoys me because he looks too much like Lance Henriksen.

How’s this for an annoying character: the guy on the bridge who’s just holding himself and/or screaming when they’re about to hit the mountain? Also they should have cut the entire cruise ship storyline.

Purple People Eater, I thought it had been only one month, am I wrong?

Despite the whole White House destruction thing being absolutely cliché now, that was still the second most badass part of the movie. Mainly because they dropped a fucking DEAD PRESIDENT on it!

The thing about not pulling the plane up: probably explained by not wanting to stall, especially if you’ve taken off underspeed. What I want to know is: if you’re suddenly airborne because the ground has fallen out from underneath you, wouldn’t that displacement of air suck the plane DOWN?

When they’re worrying about not having enough fuel to make it to China… was anyone else’s first thought just to yell “DUMP THE CARS!!”

I was really expecting to see that dog have to outrun something like in ID4.

Also Woody Harrelson was OK, Danny Glover was worse, and Stephen McHattie annoys me because he looks too much like Lance Henriksen.

I was hoping this would get a review and I agree with basically everything Spoony said. It’s too long an they really do use that Plane barely out running the ground falling out from under it bit like three times its stupid. An yes the implausiblity stuff I am thinking had to have been intentional. Cause it is off the charts in this movie. The way they basically drive through a crumbling city even through falling buildings yet live. The way they outrun a Volcanic blast which is actually not too different from a Nuclear Bomb going off. An the biggest one by far. A whole continent moves into place for them! They are running out of gas an would be fish food but no the entire continent of Asia decides to shift places so it can be underneath them lol! Seriously I doubt you could think of anything more coincidental than that.

Also I probably should not have since it was just a disaster flick but I tried to read behind the lines so to speak an see if I could find any meaning or hidden message. An I ended up just getting confused. Because the message the film seems to be saying at first is that Religion or God will not help you. Only the miracle of Science and being really Rich will help you. I base that by the fact that the people praying to god get crushed by their own temple where the only one’s to survive are Billionaires that get on the man made futuristic Arks. But the film even doubles back on this message by making it seems like God or Nature wants the protagonist an his family to survive. And the whole Biblical feel of the ending itself. The film does that in other instances too. Like how the one guy convinces them to reopen the doors to the ship to save more people a seemingly good act. But doing that nearly gets everyone killed an actually kills two innocent people that would have otherwise made it. An deserved to make it after all the crap they went through to get there. So yeah my conclusion is don’t try to learn anything from the movie it will just make your head hurt. Just have fun watching stuff blow up. Oh and yeah the Arnold impression is so bad.

Boondock Saints is awesome. WTF!

NAME THE MOVIES

Boondock of saints has one of the coolest villains ever.
Well why don’t you review it?

Finally I’m not the only person out there who has admitted to the Boondock Saints sucka-tood. right on fuck the Boondock Saints.

2012 is probably one the most generic pieces of shit i have ever seen. Its a horrible movie and even worst its a bad Emmerich movie. Not funny, shitty storyline, and some of the worst special effects made today.

Boondock Saints is one the most entertaining and funny films i have ever seen and does the “vigilante” story right.
I gotta say im pretty dissapointed with you spoony, im new to your website but ive been watching alot of your videos and i thought you and i had the same love for good movies but now i dont know.

2012 was fucking awful! Every bad cliche and stereotype thrown into a seemingly eternal pile of trash.

And now we move on to Comment 24, a Comment filled with wisdom and unailing interest, in which…

I don’t think I heard anything past ‘West Wing’. I suddenly want to go watch some now… or Studio 60…

But anyways, I think I actually might see this now. I’ve actually been in the mood lately for something mindlessly entertaining.

eh spoony i think you are a little bit confused from ripper because you can’t honestley say this movie is decent. yeah it is true that blowing shit up is entertaining but i can see such stuff in youtube for free and those 5 minute movies have more plausible plot than this movie

Oh, low blow with Amanda Peet, Spoony. Did you ever see her in Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip? I thought she was amazing! What movie was she in that makes you hate her?

As for Woody, I recommend just closing your eyes and pretending he’s Tallahassee from Zombieland. That’ll make things much better.

Now, to the meat of my comment. Regarding the “lost art of the disaster movie genre”, here’s my two bits on the issue; the reason no good disaster movies have been made lately is that all of the commonplace natural disasters have been taken. Early disaster movies like Towering Inferno, Earthquake, even (God forbid) Twister sucked us in (no pun intended) because those disasters – fires, earthquakes, and tornadoes – actually happen regularly (as regularly as possible for natural disasters). Moviegoers can relate (somewhat) to the early disaster movies more than they can recent movies like Day After Tomorrow; fires in skyscrapers have happened a lot, and are obviously much more likely to happen again as opposed to the northern hemisphere freezing solid, which hasn’t happened yet and won’t happen any time soon. And since we can relate to the disasters, it’s easier to relate to the people surviving them. So, to paraphrase this somewhat rambling paragraph, the more commonplace the disaster, the easier it is to relate to the events, and the easier it is to relate to the characters involved.

However, all of the commonplace disasters have been taken. Fires, floods, earthquakes, tornadoes, even blizzards have all been used in movies already, and the disaster movie genre really only permits one definitive disaster movie to exist for each act of God that could happen. So, as a result, we have to move on to giant monsters, global climate change, and now even the end of the world. These bizarre disasters make it hard for us to suspend our disbelief, because when the cast is running away from the apocalypse we’re all too busy thinking, ‘oh, come on, the 2012 thing is all crap’ instead of ‘oh, I hope they make it’. And, since we’re too busy debating the likelihood of the disasters while we watch, we fail to relate to the characters, and the movie experience suffers as a whole.

Wow, that was a long two bits. But hey, it’s how I feel, and I consider forums and comments to be ideal places for expressing ideas more complicated then ‘go Spoony go!’ still, if you read this all the way through, thanks. You make me feel special.

That being said, closing remarks! Nice Shatner, Spoony. Although a good Shatner impression isn’t exactly hard to do… and, from the sound of your last comments, it sounds like this is similar to the “Transporter” series of movies; the story won’t be epic, the acting won’t win any Oscars, but damn, is it freakin’ awesome.

Saturn Signing Out.

Boondock Saints is horrible indeed, but I think the scene where the cat gets shot is so awesome it justifies the movies existence alone. I mean there are a lot of crappy action flicks out there that didn’t make me laugh just once.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1m-G9vrgPLk&feature=related

Thanks spoony. I’m going to be really freaking high when I go to see this. Bad acting is always more fun when the actors seem to have perma-grin. As for Boondock Saints…I’d rather sitting around drawing magic in Final Fantasy VIII while having my testicles stepped on by a 350 lbs lady in high heels that never washes her ass than go watch that piece of shit.

I’ve gotta say Spoony, you’ve already said that Space Mutiny and Yor are two of your favourite movies, I don’t think you can get more “junk food cinema” than that…

I totally agree with that Boondock Saints sucks, big time. I got it recommended by several friends, and when I saw it I was so dissapointed, I really couldnt get how any could find this movie good or funny. I hated the characters in the movie, and the movie is defiantly not original as mentioned by Spoony.

Ps. I think we are getting close to knowing all your hate movies, but what about making a list of your favorite movies? Or best movies in 2009?

Yo, Spoony great vid as always,
if you are interested in seeing a good emmerich movie (yes there actually is a pretty good one)
you should try to find the 80s sci-fi flick “The Noah’s Ark Principle”, I really think you could like it. :)

Best Emmerich Film? I can’t believe that spoony. From what I’ve seen in the trailer it can’t be better than Stargate.

… well to each is owDon’t You Make Fun Boondock Saints.

Boondock Saints is a masterpiece!

2012 – i was watching trailer in cinema with my sister, and i think she nailed this whole movie with just one question,
“if the world is breaking apart all around them, how is it possible that they can use cellphones?” hmm, gee i dont know – maybe their MNO dont uses antenas and satelites to keep the web working, but magic…
ugh, i skip this one, pretty sure the whole movie is filled up with similar idiocy.

And the whole thing with Mayan calander, what retard got the idea that when the last cycle will end – it means it will be end of the world, it is like saying when december ends there will be the end of the world – becoze this is the last month.

as always sorry for my bad english.

Very nice and quite surprising.
Thanks.

Perhaps i know one worse Woody Harrelson performance:
When he played a bavarian transvestite in that “Anger Management” Adam Sandler movie.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_VZdQ92pQc

I’d like to see you do a vlog of your list of 20 worst movies.

I agree with you Spoony. My roommate and I saw it the other night and we pretty much went in only for the flashy effects and unforgiving destruction, and we both were entertained.

You also list some good cheese-ball moments to laugh at but for us it was near the end when they’re trying to get the Ark door closed and the only way is to go underwater. One of the crew members, after they mention this solution, pretty much shouts: “There’s no air in there! It’s a suicide mission!!” At that moment my roommate and I just look at each other and laugh. That and the Arnold impression was god awful. You’re right, there’s not excuse for that bad of an impersonation.

I also felt myself often siding with the Platt character because he wasn’t evil, he was practical.

So what happened to “it’s not Citizen Kane”?

You’re right about Ejiofor and Platt’s performance. I actually thought the same thing about Harrelson, and Cusack.
All in all I can’t really disagree with what you said, however since you are comparing it to Bay’s movies it seems your standards have somewhat slumped after watching all that crap.
I would like to remind you of two things though:
1. Although this might be Emmerich’s best movie, it’ still not as good as Bay’s Bad Boys(1995) or The Rock(1996). Of course those weren’t CGI-fests.
2. Titanic is a disaster movie as well.

Kinda surprised you liked it in any way, I think your brain and tastes might be slowly deteriorating from reviewing all the FMV games (and I’m sure Pumpkin Head fucked you up pretty good).

I think putting the original Boondock Saints so low though is a bit uncalled for. I wouldn’t hold it to the status that many people do and I could see the misplaced hate in that fact. I’d call it about average at best, not terrible, not great, but entertaining. The second one looks like pure fanservice to me from what I’ve seen in trailers and I’ll wait on word if it’s worth checking out or pretending it doesn’t exist all together.

Good morning, Spoony and fellow Spooners.

1. Remember the planetary aligment of May 5th 2000 that was supposed to kill us all? Well, we’re still here. So I don’t get all jazzed about stuff like this Mayan calendar thing.
2. Wait, the MAYANS predicted the end of the world?! The MAYANS?! You mean the people whose wisdom we turn to when we want to know about…oh right. NOTHING!
3. As far as these movies go, I have to say I kind of liked “Deep Impact”. President Morgan Freeman. Pre-Lord- of-the-Rings Elijah Wood marrying pre-Dungeon-Siege Leelee Sobieski.
4. Funny Shatner impression, Spoony. Surprised you don’t do it more often.

But! Did it have an extremely uninteresting love story?

@43

The Mayans didn’t predict “the end of the world”. They have these things that are basically “cycles”. Which are “rebirth and renewel periods”. The Mayan calander doesn’t even end on the date specified. It actually continues onward for a VERY LONG TIME after that. The Mayan Prediction has to do with their own religion in that we’ve been through 5 of these “cycles” already, and are going to start the sixth one on that date.

Some idiot professor or media person originally thought that this meant “the end of the world” and thus started the popular trend of other idiots thinking it really is the end of the world.

Remember all those pictures of dinosaurs dragging their tails on the ground? Same concept. Some idiot thought they drug them on the ground, so it became the popular image. But later, we discovered that they didn’t.

Hey Spoony,

I have something to say about an old video, about Paranormal Activity. I’ve just seen this movie and… I was not impressed ; but that’s not a bad movie. You say something like “there aren’t that many movie like that, where you follow a camera crew”. I really liked REC, but I usually like Spanish cinema. But, have you seen “C’est arrivé près de chez vous” (known in the USA as “Man Bites Dog” I thing)? It’s a movie about a camera crew which follow a serial killer. It’s a really great film, a sort of dark comedy, not a horror movie. “A Killer Comedy” is the tagline. But you have to know that it’s a home movie with very very low budget. I thing it was never dubbed, but you can find it with subtitles.

Here is the imdb page : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103905/

After I watched this film with my family my father asked “So, how did you like it?” because I am the only one in my family who does not enjoy the likes of Michael Bay and Roland Emmerich it seems. I replied “It was entertaining.” but it felt so wrong to say this considering all the stupidities and implausabilities of this movie.
I also thought that when Anheuser made the one most sensible suggestion to not open the fucking gates they stop following his instructions.
I also find it a little weird that the first thing that came to the mother character’s mind after an earthquake nearly killed her was to call her children back home. I mean, sure she probably wants to see her children after nearly losing her life, but I don’t think it is the smartest idea to gather where the gates of hell are apparently opening.

@Spoony
If you had to see one more out of the two which would you go see? Boondock Saints or Transformers 2?

Keep in mind that neither of those films were trying to be Citizen Kane. :)

I didn’t even start the review but the pic of spoony or the screen doesn’t look to happy

Listen dickcheese! Boondock Saints 1 is freaking awesome! Sure its unoriginal and all that but you have to see the funny things in it and the strange ways it portraits itself. And the cat getting shot has got to be the best scene in any movie. Love how they try to cover the blood spot on the wall WITH A FREAKING A4 PAPER!

Tai MT

I should have been clearer. I’m already familiar with the idea that the Mayans weren’t talking about the “end of all things”. But that’s the way this calendar thing has been sold. My point was that these same people who are freaking out seem to forget that this is basically the ONLY thing that most Americans care about when it comes to the Mayans. This as compared to, say, Nostradamus, who…genuinely psychic or not…has a following for more than one prophecy.

My apologies for lack of clarity, and my thanks for your information.

It makes me laugh to see people freaking about 2012 now. I don’t mean the movie. Though I really want to see the movie now. Oh the movies they shown my only real complaint is when they made fight scenes too hard to follow. Its just one fancy blurr. Ontop that someone implied ( in thatguywithglassesforum) its more my fault as if I’m just too stupid to follow it without getting a headache. I can’t help but wonder if this movie has any of those scenes.

How is Michael Bay connected to this?

I couldn’t call Boondock Saints one of the worst films of all time. I mean, I think Willem Defoe’s performace alone saves it from that. That being said, I do think it is VERY over hyped. Is it a great movie? No, but it does have it’s merits. Aside from the McManus brothers, everyone provides great acting and even though the script comes off as self righteous, it has good action and humor and it doesn’t stretch on too long. So yeah, that’s my take on Boondock Saints

OK I had to remove some “BAD” words so the comment get posted: Seriously from what I saw in the disaster movies department it’s not a lost art, even Titanic which is not really a disaster movie but a historical movie wasn’t that good for the disaster but it had an emotional impact, still it’s not a disaster movie and not a really good movie. Really disaster movies were never good, they are a shi*ty genre that present lack of imagination. Deep Impact, Armageddon, Volcano, Twister, The Day After Tomorrow, Independence Day, Knowing, Dante’s Peak and none I mean none were great movies or enjoyable movies or could be considered movies because they just showcase a special effect, they show how big explosions, they show a main character, which is usually a big name actor( Pierce Brosnan, Tommy Lee Jones, Helen Hunt, Nicholas Cage, Will Smith, Dennis Quaid, Bruce Willis) survive and heroically save some life or try just to save his family or die at the end saving everything or taking it with him. It’s a shi*ty genre that should be slowly killed until everyone is to grossed out to ever mention a movie in it’s genre.

Also Spoony you enjoyed Reb Brown movies for being so bad that’s awesome but you didn’t enjoy the Boondock Saints. I know it rips off some other movies like John Woo’s or Quentin Tarantino or Guy Richie but the way the movie is done it’s pretty good.

You are contradicting yourself by saying you could switch off your brain and enjoy the sheer awesomeness of the special effects of 2012 but you consider the Boondock Saints under your standards because it ripped off awesome movies. Oh wow and the disaster movie genre is so original. Oh and Paranormal Activity is so original another piece of sh*t of a movie that you considered good. Hello you haven’t even seen the major plot hole in Paranormal Activity in the fact that the door was opened the whole movie and if they just closed it the ending would have never happened. All the scares in that fu**ing movie began with the door and one, just one was in the living room with the weegie board.

Seriously man you should realize your taste in movies and your constant oscillation between liking an element in one movie but than not liking it in another. The Boondock Saints is an awesome action romp with some pretty good sequences. If you gave me the choice to see The Boondock Saints or Paranormal Activity or 2012 I’d see the first because at least it’s a little plausible and it does a subject matter that was already done in style. Oh and if I remember well they never go on a revenge spree, they consider themselves like Dexter to be above the law and doing a greater good than any abiding law citizen. So no I think you can’t start to count down movies with the same subject because the Punisher, Max Payne, Desperado and some Jean-Claude Van Damme movies were all about a guy who losses his family to the mafia and takes revenge. You should get your sh*t together Spoony when talking about a movie because you could loose your credibility as a “critic” to allot of people. Stick to reviewing bad games, Z-grade cinema and universally panned movies because when you try to stand out of the crowd by saying a good movie is crap, you trip and fall on your ego.You consider to know what great cinema is but also you have an fascination for Z-grade cinema that rates your credibility to 0 because your standards are oscillating from masterpiece to pure sh*t.

I know it’s fascinating to see big budget movies being crap and low budget movies trying something but because of money they just fail awesomely. That’s the problem the Boondock Saints enters in the last category and you put it down and it’s better made than any other movies you could enumerate in that genre because it’s not a revenge flick it’s a messiah/religious fanatic complex vigilante flick which I can’t remember to have ever seen.

You should check out “Overrated”. Its a documentary about the guy who made The Boondock Saints, Troy Duffy. It came out a few years ago so it has nothing about the second film. He’s a giant bullshitting self aggrandizing asshole who completely destroys everything in his life with his own arrogance and stupidity. He has literally no redeeming qualities and at the end you kind of feel glad his entire life has been blowtorched. Even his brother and his mother can’t stand him anymore. I would say its schadenfreude film only you have no empathy for him at all.

@pharmakos
And judging a movie after the director as you just did is one of the most arrogant things you can do. Please go kill yourself in order to help make the world a better place.

@pharmakos

Yeah and Kubrick and Polanski had such wonderful lives. The thing is when you watch a movie you don’t care about the lives of the actors or the directors you watch the celluloid for it’s artificial story. You clearly can’t say the movie is overrated because it flopped at the box-office. You can’t say it’s underrated because the movie uses stylized violence and has almost no moral value. You could say the movie has a cult following because people love the underdog and that’s the paradox. Spoony usually says he loves the underdog, the cult classics but he bashes this one although it has all the elements of the movies he usually praises for it’s lack of a budget, talented actors or original plot or to have a plot not standard to the Hollywood block-busters.

I think Spoony took to much nasal spray when talking about The Boondock Saints because the movie really doesn’t deserve the bash seeing how much an underdog it’s already been since 1999. Now Donnie Darko 2 that one is another story. He should have talked about that one.

Aww I liked The Boondock Saints. I didn’t have high hopes for 2012 though….wow complete reversal lol
Seriously though, spoony whats wrong with the boondock saints? I mean I don’t think it was the greatest movie ever, but It was pretty good, the characters are well…characterized, granted rocko is a bit freakin annoying sometimes but it works out (no spoilers outta me!) the bad guy really has no charcterization other than a dick with a bad accent, but besides that I though the acting was pretty good, and there weren’t many sence’s that didn’t move the plot along, I thought it was pretty good.
Spoony could you reveiw The Boondock Saints and tell me why it’s bad?
and no I’m not being a smart ass I’m seriously asking lol

Aww I liked The Boondock Saints. I didn’t have high hopes for 2012 though….wow complete reversal lol
Seriously though, spoony whats wrong with the boondock saints? I mean I don’t think it was the greatest movie ever, but It was pretty good, the characters are well…characterized, granted rocko is a bit freakin annoying sometimes but it works out (no spoilers outta me!) the bad guy really has no charcterization other than a dick with a bad accent, but besides that I though the acting was pretty good, and there weren’t many sence’s that didn’t move the plot along, I thought it was pretty good.
Spoony could you reveiw The Boondock Saints and tell me why it’s bad?
and no I’m not being a smart ass I’m seriously asking lol

Overrated is the name of the documentry

“You clearly can’t say the movie is overrated because it flopped at the box-office”

It was released in 5 cinemas for 1 week. It didn’t really make it to the box office

I don’t recall Kubrick making films about his own fantasy existence. The Boondock Saints is Duffy’s retarded unconscious life on screen.

@53

I don’t know guess just a jab at Bay (kinda like how Moviebob’s “reviews” are just him bitching about how much people who like movies he doesn’t like are fratboy asshole)

At least Bay movies are entertanting, 2012 gets boring as shit. It’s just two hours of cities blowing up

@ pharmakos
yes it was released to 5 cinemas so that proves it to be an underdog because no Hollywood corporate bastard would put money into it for advertising but they promoted the crap out of Transformers 2 and 2012 and GI JOE Rise of Cobra.

Also then you could call Reb Brown performance in some of Bruno Mattei movies to be an embodinment of the vision of how the Italian director would have wanted to live his life. I’m just saying if this was the reason you or Spoony didn’t like the movie because it presented Duffy’s huge Ego than you cut out allot of movies, especially spaghetti westerns.

YOU ARE THE BEST REVIEWER OF INTERNET. You are so natural, you dont push the things, dont overact, and you know a lot of movies and got good args.

Please keep this way.

And dont push it ok? THIS MOVIE SUCKS

HORNITOS FTW

Um … Pharmakos, I think the title you’re looking for is “Overnight”, not “Overrated”. I saw it too, and I’m not sure where in the world you’re from, but in North America, “Overnight” is what the documentary is named. >_>

Also, I’m quite surprised at Spoony’s reaction to the Boondock Saints. I thought it was very good. Although, I wouldn’t mind a Vlog about why he doesn’t like the series.

People also really hated Wanted — and I dunno why. It’s one of my favourite shoot em up movies.

…Just a side note, too. I did a quick Wikipedia search to see if “Overrated” was another documentary about Duffy — and the first result that came up was “The Dark Knight” movie.

I chuckled.

Boondock Saints is amazing. You are now the second person I know of who did not like it.

What is there not to like about Boondock Saints

The Shia LaBeouf screaming part was wicked haha, might go see this film :)

Good Review!

Wow… yeesh, guys, it’s his opinion. Don’t shred a guy for stating his opinion on the internet. I highly doubt that the actors in Boondock Saints are going to all say to each other ‘Well, Spoony doesn’t like us, let’s kill ourselves’, or any video stores are going to say ‘Spoony hates this movie! Pull it off the shelves!!!’

I mean, god. One of my favorite movies is Edward Scissorhands, and friggin’ Siskal and Ebert gave it thumbs down. Do I hate the duo for daring to have an opinion? No. So lay off Spoony.

Oh, and to Me and Pharmokos; try some rhetoric in the future. It’s much more effective then just saying “go die, asshole!’

I saw this yesterday and enjoyed it. Yeah that scene with fake Arnold was terrible.
My favorite scene in this movie is when John’s character is calling up his Ex wife as he is racing to her home and she says “The people on tv said to not panic” and his reply was “When they tell you to not panic that is when you Panic” and then as soon as Arnold character is done speaking, the whole things starts going down, the kids the Ex and that other guy are under the table in the kichen, John’s character runs into the kitchen the Ex says “I think it’s safer under here” as the house is litterly falling ontop of them, and John’s character just yells out “Get to the F**king car” as they all just run out to the Limo.

I wasn’t saying Spoony was WRONG for not liking Boondock Saints. >.> It just surprised me, is all.

I walked out of 2012. I am not a disaster movie fan, and went with friends. The acting was shallow, the action scenes started giving me a headache after 20 minutes. Also, John Cusack is meant for movies like “Grosse Pt. Blank” and “Eight Men Out”, not this schlock. I could see people liking this ( and obviously they have) for as Spoony said the “Roller Coaster Ride effect”, that just isn’t my bag.

Emily – I quite liked Wanted; it was well done, had an interesting enough premise and arcs for a MOR movie but at its heart it’s a horrid, hateful, misogynistic, evil film. All the positives just end up accentuating its toxic core.

There was a weird edition of Newsnight review recently (with Kevin Smith, seemingly in a dressing gown, sitting next to Jeanette Winterson! [think it's on youtube]) and there was a presentation by the guy who wrote the Wanted comic. He seemed nice enough but gave the impression that his book was for geeks and born of geekdom; totally by-passing humanity at large and I think it shows.

When in doubt just ask yourself: What would Stewart Lee think?

Boondock Saints rock \,,/

Willem Dafoe. Nuff said.

It appears we agree to disagree, Spoonster. I thought 2012 was absolute shit. Also, I agree with you on the Boondock Saints being shitty. The second movie is shit too. Just my opinion.

I want that list of movies that are supposedly better than Boondock Saints. I love stories about vigilante justice and it would be greatly appreciated.

I’m posting a second time to request a location where I can buy that Blade Runner poster. Don’t leave me hanging, man!

Aj Scruffles

I’ve just started watching that Newsnight thing you talked about. Seems like it could be very interesting. Thanks for mentioning it.

I agree with Butler, I haven’t seen too many movies like The Boondock Saints and I would like some if you can be bothered to (I doubt it, though). Regarding the actual movie Boondock Saints I have to admit it’s a guilty pleasure. I’ll readily acknowledge all of its flaws but I just like the Irish authenticity it has and it does have some pretty cool action sequences, but it’s by no means some kind of film masterpiece. I thoroughly enjoyed it though, no idea if I’ll bother with the second one though.

Hey Spoony,

if you miss “disaster movies” which focus on characters and emotional involvement, I really hope you’re going to see THE ROAD, which is an adaptation of America’s best living author’s latest novel. If you don’t know the premise: the ‘disaster’ has already happened, blocked out the sun under a veil of ash, and made the world all but uninhabitable; mankind has reverted to a state of cannibalism, and now we follow two unnamed people, father and son, traveling South in the faint hope it might be warmer down there as the world turns colder each day and each hour is a struggle for survival.

The director is John Hillcoat, who made the amazingly good Austern THE PROPOSITION, and the movie’s got a soundtrack by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis. Even if I don’t think it will come close to the impact of the book (which is great, but not McCarthy’s best), I for one am psyched for that movie. It’s going to be everything that 2012 is not.

Thanks.

Boondock Saints is not overrated. If anything, it’s underrated. Alot of people just like to come out and say it’s shit without even seeing it, just to be assholes and spark controversy. Now, I love alot of the stuff here at TSE, And, unlike with playboys, I even read the articles. I agree with alot of the stuff you put out, but just not the statement you have made here today. Yes the director may be a douche, most are, but Boondock Saints is still pretty cool. You haven’t seen brothers this committed to a mission from God since the first Blues Brothers movie. I just honestly can’t believe you don’t enjoy some part of this movie. Can’t help but feel your just trying to get a hard on by seeing how much hate you can generate by saying it sucks. Almost like your testing your own audience to see how we will react.
So here’s the breakdown. We are fans of The Boondock Saints. Most of us have guns.(probably) We can find you.
In Nomeni Patri Et Fili (click) Spiritus Sancti (BANG!)
That really is one of the best “To kill somebody after you it” speeches. Right up there with Samuel L Jackson’s little speech in Pulp Fiction.

Randy Quaid in “Parents”… not annoying, but frighteningly creepy

Meh i didn’t care much for 2012, though as disaster movies go its Emnerich’s best. However I wouldn’t call it his best, that would be the Patriot even though it is mediocre. He at least tries to give emotion to the characters instead of his “Lets blow shit up” mentality.

Shatner impersonation – AWESOME! :D I vote for You doing one episode entirely in that voice. :)

Boondock Saints /is/ an awful movie. I enjoyed watching it once as a guilty pleasure (as in, how preposterous can this thing get?), but no, it is NOT good and it did NOT need a sequel. At all.

As for Emmerich… I sort of liked Stargate; more accurately I liked the concept. The movie itself is pretty weak when it comes to characters. I don’t understand the hate for Independence Day. Ridiculous? yes. Too many subplots and characters? yes. Ridiculous save at the end? yes. A lot of fun? YES. Whatever you saw in 2012 is probably what I saw in Independence Day. Your review and Roger Ebert’s have convinced me to give this one a rent, or see if I can catch it in a cheap theater.

Spoony, I can’t help but notice since you’re wearing a t- shirt most of the time… You don’t work out much, now do you?

“10.5″, oh god, I remember that piece of shit. That and “The Core” are the only two movies I stopped watching halfway through because they were literally too stupid for me to handle. I have no degrees or anyway and just a sci-fi geeks sliiiightly above average knowledge of science and even then those movies were too painful to get through. Jesus…

((All this srs bns about Spoony not liking Boondock Saints is hilarious by the way. OH GOD, AN INTERNET REVIEWER DOESN’T LIKE A MOVIE I LIKE, BOOHISS. Not all movies, even the “classics”, work for everyone, ya’ll.))

Yeah, I liked Wilem Defoe in Boondock Saints. But the movie wasn’t called ‘Boondock Homicide Investigator’.

The Mayans didnt predict the end of the worl in 1212 thats just the end of their calendar, and yeah, theres so much more to the Mayans than that, they have a realy interesting theology look it up!

The way I see it, movies are a subjective experience and everyone’s entitled to their own opinion. I love Boondock Saints and it’s one of the few movies that I’ve seen several times and can still watch without skipping scenes to get to the parts that I like (because I like almost every scene in the movie; it doesn’t contain many filler scenes). It isn’t going to bother me that Spoony or anyone else on here says they don’t like the movie. It’s not like all of a sudden my dvd has been rendered unplayable or I just can’t enjoy the movie I used to love because Spoony said that it’s shit.

However, I would be interested in seeing a list of better movies, Spoony. Just so I could give them a fair chance and watch them to see if I find them as satisfying to watch as Boondock Saints.

Hey Spoony! Nice review as always, but I have one grudge against it. You didn’t say anything about the disasters themselves. I wish you would speculate a bit about the ULTIMATE PLAN that the world came up with;) Because all in all the film had so many stupid moments and decisions going for it, that to tell you the truth I was kind of surprised you didn’t mention any of that or bash any of that in your review;)

Thanks for giving affirmation to my stance on both junkfood cinema AND the boondock saints. If you lived in AZ I’d make you a politically correct crayon drawing to put on your fridge.

awesome review my friend…er that is till you got onto the rant for boondock saints. granted i have no faith in the sequal i felt it was all tied up nicely in the first one. but i mean defo was a great gay cop i felt and maybe i like it too much for the comic relief in many ways that is defo being a gay cop but i don’t know. i would agree with you that saints isn’t great but it was absoluetly abismal…i would rank it better then both punsihers that came out…deal with it!

so i don’t know as i’d agree with you really i felt the first was well presented. but otherwise i agree with you that disaster movies are a lost art though i don’t know…independance day had,well you are right way too many annoying characters which can grade on you but if you take the movie as a whole based soley off them then there was no way you’d enjoy the movie. that’s another one i’d just have to agree to disagree with you on cause it was probably the last modern disaster movie i was entertianed about till all that you mentioned became horribley over used and cliche.

but seriously it is what it is as effects budgest grow and people want to cash in on the newest disaster plagueing humanity (wheather real or not.) this will only get worse…oh god i just had a thought if micheal bay does put unicron in transformers 3 (which has been greenlite btw…tf3 not unicron.) then it will become a micheal bay disaster movie ewwwwwwwww. kinda hard to hump a legg when the ground benieth you gets eaten. but i mean think about where else can they go with the series except to introduce something bigger then the fallen and that’s unicron. thought if they do it like bay would do it would be a cool trailer…some scientist comes before army and shows some hubble tell scope image of our solar system..then he shows it a a week ago and suddenly a planets gone…then a few days ago and more planets are gone and then hubble catches like a small section of unicron.

damn that would make a cool trailer but you know bay will find a way to fuck it up.

anyways just felt compelled to say i was entertained by boondock 1 don’t really feel the need to see 2 though and independance day was bad but the last modern disaster movie i had enjoyed but it was pretty bad with characters

awesome review my friend…er that is till you got onto the rant for boondock saints. granted i have no faith in the sequal i felt it was all tied up nicely in the first one. but i mean defo was a great gay cop i felt and maybe i like it too much for the comic relief in many ways that is defo being a gay cop but i don’t know. i would agree with you that saints isn’t great but it was absoluetly abismal…i would rank it better then both punsihers that came out…deal with it!

so i don’t know as i’d agree with you really i felt the first was well presented. but otherwise i agree with you that disaster movies are a lost art though i don’t know…independance day had,well you are right way too many annoying characters which can grade on you but if you take the movie as a whole based soley off them then there was no way you’d enjoy the movie. that’s another one i’d just have to agree to disagree with you on cause it was probably the last modern disaster movie i was entertianed about till all that you mentioned became horribley over used and cliche.

but seriously it is what it is as effects budgest grow and people want to cash in on the newest disaster plagueing humanity (wheather real or not.) this will only get worse…oh god i just had a thought if micheal bay does put unicron in transformers 3 (which has been greenlite btw…tf3 not unicron.) then it will become a micheal bay disaster movie ewwwwwwwww. kinda hard to hump a legg when the ground benieth you gets eaten. but i mean think about where else can they go with the series except to introduce something bigger then the fallen and that’s unicron. thought if they do it like bay would do it would be a cool trailer…some scientist comes before army and shows some hubble tell scope image of our solar system..then he shows it a a week ago and suddenly a planets gone…then a few days ago and more planets are gone and then hubble catches like a small section of unicron.

damn that would make a cool trailer but you know bay will find a way to fuck it up.

anyways just felt compelled to say i was entertained by boondock 1 don’t really feel the need to see 2 though and independance day was bad but the last modern disaster movie i had enjoyed but it was pretty bad with characters

Anyone building an Ark? I would like to buy a seat please.

you can see the really bad Arnold impression in a trailer on Apple.com’s websites :D

http://movies.apple.com/movies/sony/2012/2012-clip1_720p.mov

FUCK YOU SPOONY! Boondock Saints is fucking great. I know you actually enjoyed Transformers

the boondock saints are big around where i live (near boston) because it show all our landmark and give little shout out i do think the saints are intetionaly supposed to be bad it supposed to show there fantasy of how they fight crime not what actually happens so its supposed to be campy i personally like the movie just because I think the 2 main charachters are likeable 2012 i thought looked like crap to mainly because of my experince with other disater movies cloverfield i guess being the best but i never really got atached to the charchters because after the camera whipping around they looked like blurs

the boondock saints are big around where i live (near boston) because it show all our landmark and give little shout out i do think the saints are intetionaly supposed to be bad it supposed to show there fantasy of how they fight crime not what actually happens so its supposed to be campy i personally like the movie just because I think the 2 main charachters are likeable 2012 i thought looked like crap to mainly because of my experince with other disater movies cloverfield i guess being the best but i never really got atached to the charchters because after the camera whipping around they looked like blurs

Know what would have made 2012 better? Bruce Campbell.

You should watch the Korean disaster movie, Haeundae It’s touching!

2012 is easily the dumbest idea for a movie I have ever seen.

I want to send you all 3 of my VCR’s as a thank you for the Boondock Saints knock.

How could you, a old hand of Tie Fighter and Rebel Assault tell people to pull up. Ugh…

And how is it that teh Spoony man is not getting insane ammounts of cash or at least movie tickets to try and promote a large amount of the crap being produced. No matter how bad the movie really is, I find a better value in it after watching Doug and Noah’s quirky reviews and it helps to pass the time with some of this crap by harkening back to the snark of Spoony while some actors vomiting on the screen.

Viva el Spoony One!

hummm, a movie that dumbfounded Spoony. Yeah, this might not be your type of movie but i’d go to see it. And now for the hate spam.

HOW COULD YOU NOT LIKE INDEPENDENCE DAY!!!

and who the hell is Chu Attel, i can’t find him on IMDB for this movie?

The picture before you press play looks like the male character from Fable 2 doing the Beg expression.

wow couldn’t of said this review better . Great Job Spoony!

we need more ahnuld impressions. seriously, i have to laugh out loud every time you do those.
keep it up dude!

we need more ahnuld impressions. seriously, i have to laugh out loud every time you do those.
keep it up dude!

Wow. Where did you get that Japanese poster of Big trouble in Little China? And why the hell is it called “ghost hunters”?? Crazy

My favorite disaster movie of all time still has to be The Poseidon Adventure, just for the characters being likeable and the whole aspect of the human will to fight for life and not putting your life in a higher beings’ hands. They hardly make disaster movies like that anymore…

I might end up going to see this, just for the lulz.

Noah: This is an awful movie that sux. So i recommend you watch it.
me: :O

The only real cool bits from “The Boondock Saints” was the accidental shooting of the cat and Rocco’s “f*ck” monologue. That and it was yet another movie where Ron Jeremy plays a guy who gets killed after a couple of lines. The fake Arnie was perfect for the genre; too bad the film doesn’t take place in the 1970s; then you could have Dan Hedaya play Nixon again.

I want more Arnold impressions from you Spoony-man…

I also want a Sensational Spoony-Man T-Shirt… Simply because you don’t have one yet…

You should so do that list of the top 20 worst movies of all time…
I want to see the cream of the crap, the worst of the worst, I want to see the “Warrior” comic of movies!

Do it! You know you want to!

I liked Independence Day…

I also really liked Boondocks Saints. Sure, you say you can name a hundred “better” and I don’t doubt it, I won’t call it “great cinema.” But give me another movie about a couple of Boston Micks killing damn near everyone as they are chased by a flamboyantly gay cop, all the while reciting bad ass prayers. Sure, it’s not “good” by whatever arbitrary standard you use; but it was damn enjoyable, which is what I believe makes a movie, and any other form of entertainment, good.

But hey, to each his own.

Well clearly now you need to do a Boondock Saints review and elaborate on why you hate it so much. :P

you should make the list of 20 worst movies and 20 best movies that would be cool

you should make the list of 20 worst movies and 20 best movies that would be cool

I liked Independence Day, but only because I was, like, 10 when I first saw and thought it was the greatest thing ever.

Which, if you think about it, explains the popularity of the Transformers movies.

You point out so many flaws in this movie to a point where I hate it and I haven’t even seen it and you still like it? Wtf man? That’s like saying you ate some diarrhea and even though it was so bad and gross the face you made made you laugh makes slurping people’s butt holes worth it.

Boondock Saints is easily one of the worst pieces of crap I’ve ever tried to endure. I can’t stand any movie where the characters in the film are basically strutting around with a “Isn’t this the coolest fucking movie you’ve ever seen?” attitude. Thanks for calling out this turd burger for what it is.

As for 2012, I might catch it if I can score a free movie pass. As a MSTie, I have to watch it at least once on a big screen.

I cant wait for 2012 when I can join some apocalype cult and do my muppet dance. Screw it…muppet dance now, apocalypse later.

Wow the Boondock Saints rip out of nowhere. You are the first person I have ever heard of seeing the movie and not liking it at least a little bit, let alone hating it. Everyone I work with was pissed off because we couldn’t see Boondock Saints 2 because there are no theaters around us paying it. This reminds me of my friend saying 5th Element is the worst movie ever made even though I pointed out Gigli and about 100 other horrible horrible movies.

The sad thing is Ronald is working on a TV show based on the movie that is supposed to focus on the survivors in 2013………….kill me

I agree with others who’ve requested it. I’d like at least a vlog about why you don’t like Boondock Saints. It’s not the best movie ever by any means, but it’s certainly entertaining. Look, that’s the same argument you used for 2012! :P

Funnily enough, I would much rather watch Boondock Saints again than either Poseidon or Towering Inferno. Then again, I am an action movie whore. I’m impressed you found a theater that’s playing Boondock Saints II. Curse you, Canada.

You know this amazes me. I’ve always hated Boondock Saints just for its stupidity, and always assumed I simply didn’t “get it” cause 10 of my friends love the movie. When I told them of the sequel they took it like the second coming. Now I know I’m not alone.

Well, in your own words, a film does not have to be good in order to be AWESOME! I probably will rent this…

Oh, and I kind of liked ID4

I would like to see that list of movies better than Boondock saints please. I’m always looking for new film fodder. Heck just a blog/text write up would be awesome!

Unfortunatly I cannot even consider likeing this movie, as it is an out-growth of the 2012 horseshit that is slowly strangling the life out of the history channel. This horrendious assertion that the world will end (which will not happen) that is supported by annoying asses who HAVE DOCTERATES, has been the subject of so many documenteries that it makes me want to scream.

2012 will most likely not be the year the world ends. It certainly hasn’t been predicted by the Mayan civilization, as any historian with a brain under his hat will tell you. It certainly doesn’t help that the trailer contained the entire movie, and pissed me off four seconds in.

Good review till the end. How did you not like Boondock Saints? HOW!!!!!

I’m racking my brains wondering what was wrong with Boondock Saints. I love that movie. Of course there are other vigilante justice movies. I think it’s the only movie that can truly make Christianity look badass.
You also have to kind of give it a break. It was an indie movie. Of course it’s not going to be as good as The Punisher.

why dont you give us a review of the boondock saints spoony? that way you can explain everything. i liked it for the most part, i would think it would fall under your “awesomeness” category.

Oddly enough the other Geek I watch rant about movies is MovieBob, and he liked Boondock Saints. You know that would be awesome, a Epic battle between MovieBob and The Spoony One. The all-star War of Nerds is about to begin!

Oh man, seriously? You didn’t like Boondock Saints? I actually really loved the movie myself. I think the brother’s relationship is funny, and the gun shooting is interesting. I didn’t really care about their justice, but just watching them act is worth it to me.

I don’t like disaster movies, so I probably won’t be seeing this. You and Roger Ebert’s 3 and a 1/2 (out of 4) star review seems to imply that the movie is entertaining regardless of how much it sucks, though. I was pretty mad when I read the Ebert review because his entire reason for giving it such a high score was it “delivered exactly what it promised”, which is an inane reason since it opens up a bunch of different movies (including the one you riffed on, Boondock Saints II) to being “good”, since they too deliver what they promise.

Actually, regarding Boondock Saints II, I know the first is so extremely overrated beyond all belief, but I wouldn’t bother going out of my way to hate on it. It’s just an extremely average action movie derivative of a bunch of better movies, but it’s not actually horrible, I don’t think. Boondock Saints II looks like more of the same, just a bunch of action scenes and such. But yeah, people do heap way more praise on it than I could understand when I watched it the first time. I was like “Yeah, pretty cool action scenes” but I say that about, y’know, a Steven Segal movie or Arnold Schwarzzenagger movie, too, I don’t go around pretending they’re some of the greatest action movies ever made.

I’ve heard 2012 is laughably bad.. I’ll probably still see it though :]
John Cusack. OM NOM! ^.^
Nice Arnie impressions Spoony Bard! I feel this talent is wasted.

p.s. I don’t actually have a site. I typed Splooge in the website bar for teh lulz ;]
Apologies HellDragon!

Hmm, the Punisher vs. Boondock Saints? A battle to the death you say? sounds intruiging.

I’ve never seen the towering inferno, so maybe I’ll check that out instead of 2012. I personally find it hard to hate disaster movies, I love “what if?” type scenarios. Except the butterfly effect. I can’t deal with that movie, it’s got to be the least appealing movie to watch a second time.

I have to say that I agree with the sentiment behind the review, but not any of the actual criticisms. For one, I didn’t think William Shatner for one second listening to him make that speech, and it was obvious that the few seconds long scene with Arnold Schwarzenegger was actually him, since they show his face at the first part of the scene. I’m not sure it was there because it was an Arnold impersonation, just because he happens to be California’s governor. And the insane conspiracy theory guy? I didn’t think he was annoying at all. When you have stunningly stupid lines coming from the other lead male character (I forget his name, the other guy competing for the attention of the wife character) like “let’s make a baby,” he doesn’t look like much.

Another thing is, I think the criticism “I don’t care enough about the characters for the movie to have tension.” argument is getting a little played out. I really did get the sense that these people had the whole world falling down around them, and the whole time they’re just desperately trying to get their children to safety, or help the people, or some such noble cause. They did establish that the main character was sympathetic, that he had made some mistakes in his past, but once the disaster set in all he cared about was saving his children. Even the president character played by Danny Glover was very noble, choosing not to be rescued so he could inform the people and try to do all he could to help them.

The third thing is the implausibility. While, yes, all of this is implausible, it’s not as much as it could be when you really think about it. They certainly could have had space ships or other such stupidity, but they went with what is probably the most practical option in those circumstances. I mean, think about it logically, there are dozens of high-powered governments with trillions upon trillions of dollars funding this project, and the best scientific minds in the world working to make it possible. The odds aren’t good it would actually happen, but it’s at least covered under suspension of disbelief, I think.

Spoony, if you’re going to do a “Boondock Saints” rant I would either hold off to 2010 or mention the movie “2012″ in the tile so you can rip off the full title of Peter Hyams “2010.”

“2010: the year we rip on the Boondock Saints” or

“2012: the movie that forced me to rip on the Boondock Saints somehow.”

Spoony, you mean to tell us that you deliberately watch those dreadful direct-to-Sci-Fi disaster movies? They’re not even fun to riff on. You’d be better off with the direct-to-Sci-Fi horror movies, those are hysterical.

I actually made a parody of those disaster movies a while ago, it can be seen here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuG2qOQ_pS0

Is it poor manners to link one of your own movies in the comments? I apologize if it is.

I think I’ll avoid 2012.

Hey, Stargate wasn’t too bad (At least it spawned a kick-ass TV series or two), though yeah most of Emmerich’s movies suck.

Spoony, i watch all these reviews because i respect your opinion, like your taste in movies, but how can you hate on boondock saints man? that movies’ good stuff. i mean sure, the premise has been done to death, the vigilante thing is old hat. but set that aside, it’s a good movie. i mean, they kill a dude with a toilet. how is that bad? sure, it gets a little weird and like, religious on ya for no good reason, and Willem Defoe is friggin creepy, in fact the movies’ kinda all off kilter… but give it a watch man, it’s not bad at all.

I liked Independence Day…and Boondock Saints. Not happy they made a sequel to it though. And Godzilla was fucking terrible.

I’ll probably pass on 2012 though, much as I love Cusack and Glover I’d rather see The Men Who Stare at Goats.

My god… I’m so relieved that I’m not the only one that thought Boondock Saints SUCKT. Only good thing about that movie wat gay Dafoe. That made me laugh. The rest was insanely clichéd and nearly put me to sleep.

Funny vlog. I’ve not seen this movie yet but I can understand where you’re coming from.

Crap lotta typos. Then again lots of beer and almost 3AM. I need to go sleep. Work tomorrow.

I’m with a few people on this message board. I would love to see Spoony’s Top 20 favorite movies and Top 20 worst movies.

I’m glad I’m not the only one who thought Boondock Saints is overrated and terrible. (I never understood the cult following behind that movie.) The best thing Troy Duffy was ever involved in was as the main subject in the documentary “Overnight.” Not a great documentary, but it’s a fascinating look at how Duffy doesn’t really have a career outside of the Boondock Saints series. It’s an underdog story, but you will probably find yourself cheering for the underdog’s downfall. Duffy is not only unsympathetic. He’s downright horrible.

Despite some immaturity, Michael Bay is a better director than the hack, Roland Emmerich.

*I’m glad I’m not the only one who thought Boondock Saints is overrated and terrible*

Sorry for the poor grammar. The sentence should say, “I’m glad I’m not the only one who thinks The Boondock Saints is both overrated and terrible.

And, I forgot to add a parentheses at the end of the sentence. I’m on a roll with grammar today!

I didn’t like “Boondock Saints” either. It might be fun to see Mister Antwiler present a review of it, but then I would fear that wherever he lives might be firebombed.

The reviews that I’ve gathered suggest that while I will not see “2012″ in a theater, I might well in the future see it some forlorn Saturday night for nefarious purposes.

At 0:45, I no longer love you :c

i hated “Boondock Saints” i found it so unariginal and i would like you to do a review on that movie and tell why it was so bad and why this new movie sucks even more.
the reson why i hate it because every person i worked with that watched it loved it and i just think that it is infact one of the most stupidest movies of that type out there. i just can’t explane why it is bad. out of vigalanty movies like that i really like the movie “The Brave One”

I’d be really interested to hear your take on The Boondock Saints. Personally, I thought it was a pretty enjoyable experience and most of the people that I’ve talked to have found it the same. You’re the first person I’ve ever heard saying nay about it (though it seems that you’ve brought out quite a few that feel the same way) and your perspectives are great, so I’d love to hear how you see it.

To comment on the previous post, “The TSE Forum Club’s Roast of Noah Antwiler!”
The Necro Critic. Worst person I’ve seen on the internet. Simple as that. Equal to snorting sweat of George Foreman’s meatsack while eating a water drenched blood and semen pie. Just my opinion.
I never comment but it feels good to get that off my chest.

Spoony, I’m surprised to find myself actually disagreeing with a lot of what you said in this review. I would actually argue that the characters are what made the movie good (good for a popcorn flick anyway). I mean, sure, you get some of your stereotypical kinds of characters like the Russian and his annoying sons but then you get a really good heroic character in Jackson (Cusack). When I left the theater I came away liking the movie more for the characters like Jackson than the special effects. It was great and refreshing to see a heroic character that was more believable and wasn’t some kind of action hero. Jackson was just a guy who loved his family and was willing to do whatever he could for them and he didn’t have any superhuman strength or brilliant intelligence or anything like that and Cusack did a really great job with the role. I also liked how the movie made you think it was going to go for the typical blockbuster cliches but didn’t. I mean, when (spoiler) the Russian dude pretty much screwed over his hot blonde girlfriend and Gordon realized that Kate still had feelings for Jackson I figured they would try to just put him with the blonde at the end (and there is this kind of flirting exchange that happens with them after that) but…nope. Didn’t happen. Also you totally think that (spoiler again) Jackson is going to heroically sacrifice himself at the end and the scene really plays out like he’s going to die but he doesn’t whereas in a movie like Armageddon he would have totally gone the Willis route.
But yeah, there was a lot of cheese in the movie and I wouldn’t compare it to Taxi Driver but it was a legitimately good movie for those kind of movies and I was also really surprised by how much I liked it.

And, come on, the best RE movie? What about Stargate?!

One more thing: I’m really surprised you didn’t point out how much the Gordon character looked like Curtis from Phantasmagoria. Until I got home and hit IMDB I thought it was that same actor. I was trying not to laugh when I looked at him because I kept thinking about your hilarious review of that game.

Spoony….I stopped watching this after I heard you say you were pretty entertained. I write movie reviews for my local paper, and this movie…was total bullshit. I came here expecting to laugh my ass off like I did with the Transformers review, so when you opened with a positive comment I was…well, lets just say it wasn’t what I was expecting.

I’m actually kind of horrified. I’m just going to pretend this vlog never happened, okay? This is a free pass.

The weird thing that I find about Emmerich’s films is that you know going in that these movies aren’t going to be any good and they will most likely make you drop quite a few IQ points for watching them. However, when you finish you can’t help but feel really AWESOME after seeing 90 minutes (on average) of cataclysmic explosions, aerial firefights against aliens, people surviving instantaneous climate change, and men taking on giant lizards…

… On second thought, screw the giant lizards. They tried to (and failed horribly) imitate Godzilla.

Regarding the Boondock Saints…well…everyone’s entitled to their opinion no matter how wrong they are.

You know, if 2012 is half as entertaining as the following fake trailer, I need to see it immediately:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW2qxFkcLM0

The only thing worse than this 2012 movie, is the Necro Critic.

Now there’s a guy whose horrible videos, and disgusting douchebaggery could cause natural disasters to happen, just for the sake of god attempting to wipe him off the planet in particular.

Or maybe the world will just be really lucky and he’ll get hit by a bus tomorrow.

I don’t know if it has been said yet because i don’t feel like reading all the comments, but i heard the reason it wouldn’t have been smart for the choppers in godzilla to go up instead of just go forward is because they go alot slower while gaining altitude instead of just moving forward. and since godzilla was a good bit taller when standing up than he is when crouched and running, they would have actually been taken out quicked by trying to get higher than just trying to outrun him.

Can I get a muthafukin witness, Spoony? Boondock Saints sucked.
“THERE WAS A FIREFIGHT!!!!!!!!” What the fuck kind of line is that? Was that supposed to sound anything other than stupid?

If there’s anyone who’s still hurting for having seen that piece of crap, I recommend the documentary, “Overnight”
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0390336/

It’s actually the making of doc of Boondock Saints, but it focuses mainly on what a colossal tool Troy Duffy is, and how he took the opportunity of a lifetime and pissed it away. It’s a lovely bit schadenfreude if you try and forget the fact that someone actually put up money to put this douchebag behind a camera again.

Actually, as a fan of the Boondock Saints, I absolutely understand your hatred for the movies, but then again that’s the reason I love the movies, plus the first film was very much better with an awesome William DeFoe, he’s a fantastic actor. His most recent movie is just, without a doubt, disturbing. Tis’ “Antichrist”, but before I go off on a tangent, I’m only typing this to see if you’ll actually name 100 movies, because that would pretty much be the most awesome list to ever grace the internet from Spoony.

as for better movies about vigilantly justice go check out almost any luc besson action movie. Either written, produced by him or directed by him he has great ones like Taken, Professional, District B13, Wasabi, and the first Transporter. The characters are much more fleshed out, aren’t stereotypical 1 dimensional dudes preaching at the camera. The biggest problem with Boondock Saints, I haven’t seen 2, is its preachy, way way to preachy but at the same time its raunchy and obsessed with sex. It tries to be moralistic but doesn’t mind objectifying women. The Professional is a killer but has limits, no women no kids, and he goes out for revenge to take down a corrupt DEA agent. He does it with out preaching about the problems with man, hes a flawed character that is trying to protect a little girl. He is almost invincible but is completely mortal, its an amazing movie. I loved Taken too, just because it shows how evil the sex trade is and how it is responsible for so much crime, and exactly why objectifying women is so evil with out preaching, it simply says take a look at what is going on and no one does anything, and Liam Nielson just goes jack bauer on them and you cheer for him the whole movie. Boondock Saints is written by somebody who doesn’t understand crime or why people do things its not simply cause they’re evil, but a mixture of greedy, perversion, addiction, and desperate along with other traits, the baddies in Boondock Saints were basically puppy eaters, in that they’re just cookie cutter bullet fodder for the main characters, theres no real suspense between finding the real culprit or defeating a particular enemy its just hey lets go shoot some bad people, ok this should be zanny kids! woh watch out with that gun you just blew away a cat!

Okay, you get a pass, but only because you removed that horrible… Necro guy from your blog.

You did make note of a lot of what was bad about this movie, but I’d also like to point out that in the same scene where EVIL republican man is telling GOOD AND JUST scientist guy tat maybe the world isn’t fair, he also tells him something along the lines of “If you want to give up your tickets to some Chinese worker, then go right ahead.”

And I don’t believe he did. The idiot. “You could fit ten people in this room!” Yes. And they would all have to end up eating each other to survive.

I’ll disagree with you on Independence Day. Not on whether or not it was a good movie, but on who the protagonist is. I contend it’s the Jeff Goldblum character. Think about it. Who experiences the greatest character arc? Who, for most of the movie, pushes the plot forward? Who initiates the act 2 turning point (well, his father, but Goldblum’s character is the one who formulates the big plan because of it)? The act 1 turning point is when the aliens attack, but who figures out that they’re hostile and rescues the friggin president? It sure wasn’t Will Smith.

Did I just see a tampon ad before your video started? haha…wow.

randy quaid’s best movie was not christmas vacation there is a movie called Real Time which is an indy movie that came out in 2008 and made in canada if you haven’t seen it it was a really good movie in my opinion and he doesn’t play a whitetrash guy.

Love you Spoony… but ye this vlog was surprising.. i hated this film. Bad humor in what should be intense action scenes and intense drama in every dialogue scene where there SHOULD be light hearted humor. Basically its completely arse up…. and the action scenes were disappointing. quick editing around the money shots i wanted to linger on…..

terrible

lol, I misread the description below as “the Wayans warned us.”
Disaster movie: cinema so bad it’s a sign of the apocalypse :D

So the guy who wrote and directed Boondock Saints is an asshole, so you wont go see Boondock Saints 2, but you go see Transformers 2?

It’s entertainment! What did you expect, Citizen Kane? This actually is the first time I heard that anyone considers there’s “substance” in Boondock Saints, so I did some research and pirated Overnight.

OK, so Troy Duffy is an asshole and he seems to take this shit way too seriously and has some weird power fantasies (someone should introduce video games to him). So what?

Boondock Saints is stylized, funny and one of the best “recent” action movies made. Sure, Rocco is a bit over the top and annoying at some points, but other than that, great entertainment and good movie to enjoy with friends and beer. Nobody I know gives a crap about “vigilante justice”, just a cool movie.

By the way, Bay is one of the worst Action directors there is, he fails fundamentally on filming good action scenes. Also, most of the characters in his movies are really irritating and when everything else fails there’s just stupidity to laugh at, not very entertaining. (The Rock would have been a great movie if it had decent action scenes in it.)

On the scale “I would like to watch again, because the action scenes were so entertaining” Boondock Saints ranks quite high. (Granted, it doesn’t have much action in it…) (Oh yeah, if you’re concerned about some nerds idolizing dangerous power fantasies, I think the Matrix and definitely the Wanted offer better nerd-rage-power fantasy than Boondock Saints.)

I can’t believe we believe that we feel the same about this movie 100 percent. This movie is fun, in ALMOST the same way that Twister is fun. No real character development, dodgy science but fun in the sense that the effects are cool. I particularly liked the scene when that guy who always gets rained on in movies (unless it is a tsunami of biblical proportions), Cusak and his screen kids and ex-wife and her third wheel of a boyfriend are escaping “the chasm of dooooommm,” then you see them nearly get impaled by a subway. WAIT, Los Angeles has a subway system. Oh, right, I learned that in “Volcano.” I have never laughed so much in a movie since “Drag me to Hell” or “Mission to Mars.” Spoony keep up the good work. If I made enough money I would contribute to your … what ever you do. Your review is spot on. By the way, I have studied the Mayans in college and their calendar is based off of concentric rings (or wheels) and they never invented the wheel. I guess they should have listened to those aliens that Indiana Jones proved existed. Maybe they could have done much more with their civilization, LOL. PEACE.

I liked ID4 because of the concept and special effects…because it didn’t abuse the CGI.

But I have to agree with Michael Bay creating the action around the retarded characters. It ruins the films.

I refuse to see 2012 because of the concept. It’s ridiculous and its sole purpose is to play on the curious fears of stupid people.

So you liked a CGI schlock like 2012 but you didn’t like an independent vigilante action movie like Boondock Saints. You are really starting to contradict yourself. No I’m not curious to hear your review on the movie because I know you’ll try and make it look like it was stupid but so Drag Me to Hell was or someone can start nitpicking it so it seems stupid.

What I’m curios about is that list of better movies than Boondock Saints that were already done before it and I’m not talking about Vigilantes that kill mafia bosses because they killed someone dear to him I’m talking about vigilantes that think they are doing the lord’s deed.

Again you are contradicting yourself after you criticize so many Hollywood blockbusters to be too arrogant, to CGI, to many special effects and to superficial now you say you liked 2012 and you bash a movie that does almost everything you’d like Hollywood to do. To boot the Boondock Saints has one of the most memorable theme songs at the start of the movie that has a high place among the theme song of Miller’s Crossing. You really need to do a head check like at the start of Pahntasmagoria 2 game because your film critiqu is starting to deteriorate.

@ Delthayre

‘It’s better to see it in the theater because it’s the kind of movie that doesn’t feel good when watching just on a tv or a computer screen.

Haha, you’ve caught some kind of EVP around 2.05… call the ghost hunters!!

@ BigFMonster
Holy shit, learn to spell english. If you ever intend on being taken seriously that is the first thing that your going to do. If your going to sit there and brown nose with spoony about how everything he says is right, then god damn do it eloquently right? In your case you come off as a moron who can’t spell nor can he have his own opinion.

@ Spoony

Come on, Boondocks isn’t that bad of a movie. Honestly there is a crowd of people that appreciate this movie more for the fact that William Defoe is phenomenal in it. More or less I’d like to see a list of reasons why you hate it. Yes of course its a revenge/punisher flick. But why can’t anyone enjoy this film? If you enjoyed 2012 then why can’t I enjoy boondocks 1 or 2? Hell you play FMV games that are far worse than boondocks so at least admit that there is worse forms of torture. If its not for you then its not for you. Then again I’m in the mindset and belief that because you don’t want it, more for me.

In short, Boondocks isn’t bad. Don’t be a dick about a movie that has such a hardcore cult following. I mean, you like far worse movies than Boondock saint, and have seen far worse.

I stopped listening after you mentioned Woody’s terrible performance in this film, It wasn’t an annoying character. Though I agree generally your views on the film.

I like the Boondocks Saints, it’s a a great movie. Not original or unique, but really entertaining.

Okay review, but the only reason I’m going to watch this movie is to get the HD versions of the disaster scenes, I do enjoy disasters like this. Anyway good review =3

If you want to see a good disaster movie with good visuals and a somewhat intresting story, I’ve only watched a bit of the movie but it is really good the movie is Sinking Of Japan (Nihon Chinbotsu)

“Television. Television is the explanation for this – you see this in bad television. Little assault guys creeping through the vents, coming in through the ceiling – that James Bond shit never happens in real life! Professionals don’t do that!”

@ Mike
You’re criticising someone else’s poor grammar and spelling when you yourself are unaware of the difference between “your” and “you’re?”

I have no interest in seeing 2012, disaster movies bore me to no end.

As for the Boondock Saints, I can understand why someone wouldn’t like it, and I agree that it is an incredibly silly film, but I liked it. I think Willem Dafoe’s over the top performance was quite spectacular, and while I don’t care much for the religious bullshit or how it portrays violence toward animals as being funny, I thought the majority of the film was enjoyably silly.

Id love to hear you tear Boondock Saints apart….. Really you should start taking all theese “cult classics” that are bad but we love either way and tear em apart…. If anyone should rip on it it should be you, instead of that Bad Movie Beatdown guy….

My gf wants me to see 2012 but not if its over 2 hours… Theres no way in the world that I could stand Roland Emmerich for over two hours no way… Tho Id love to see Cusack outrun a dust cloud !

boondock saints never offended me greatly. it was ok I guess. never realised it was held high by most people. can’t wait to see 2012. going to be great

Who the f..k is Necro Critic, and why is he being on the front of the TSE??? Normally I don’t post comments, but God…..

I deleted my comment for four times now, to rephrase it. The first thing I did want to write was, that I cannot understand people that blame another for having an own opinion on a subject, like a movie.

But instead, I will tell you that I really enjoy your VBLOGs.

I really enjoy your VBLOGs. And thanks for sharing your opinion with us, even if not everybody likes it.

I agree. Boondock Saints is a pretty terrible movie. Cheesy, deriviative, and sickeningly overstylized. It should have stayed in Bargain Bin DVD obscurity where it belonged. I’d love to hear more of your thoughts on it.

Great work as always, Spoony.

For who ever says it’s just his opinion and stop bitching about what he said about Boondock Saints. Well does everyone remember how Spoony reacted on Film Brain’s OPINION about Inglorious Basterds and I quote: “Seriously, I oughta slap you until the stupid falls out.” I don’t like Film Brain and I’m not defending him, I’m just saying even the Spoonster here doesn’t respect other peoples opinion or he judges their opinion for not being standard with his.

Let’s be impartial here and stop saying: Oh Spoony is the greatest, his opinions are gold and no one should contest them, but he has the right to contest other people opinion. That’s just lame you sheep. Seriously some people just follow blindly a person. Be impartial people and don’t let fandom cloud your judgment. If he has an opinion on a movie great, now justify it. Bring us the list with better movies in the same genre, although I think it will still be summed to his personal preference and not really a better movie in the religious fanatic vigilante.

I liked this movie for the same reasons as you, Spoony. But the running time really got to me. I didn’t know the movie was gonna be that long. And to the Boondock Saints thing; I really like that movie. I don’t think it was a masterpiece of any kind, but I liked it. But maybe it’s because I haven’t seen too many vigilante revenge movies like that. The only other one I remember seeing was “The Brave One”. Don’t get me started on that piece of shit.

Boondock Saints was a good movie District 9 was a boring ass piece of shit, unoriginal and the acting I didn’t think was to impressive even the documentary style of the movie was bad they didn’t pull that of well.
And he didn’t like the X-files CD-ROM game either that was a good game.

I agree Spooney should do a Vlog on the Boondock Saints.

Be good if he did a Lets Play of the X-Files game.

I dunno, I can’t really contradict you as I haven’t seen 2012 yet (and don’t plan to), but just going off of what I’ve seen I don’t think it looks all that good. The effects you were going on about don’t look any more spectacular than anything else I’ve seen in high-budget flicks.

The one thing I kept wondering every time I see the trailer is where the hell is everything falling? You see whole cities collapsing into seemingly bottomless chasms, but where did these yawning abysses come from? I didn’t realize that the earth apparently had dozens of city-sized geofronts underneath them.. I mean, I know it’s pointless trying to find logic in this sort of movie, but it really bugs me.

@jamesUK> “That’s just, like, your opinion, man.”

Spoony, I’m one of those the ones who can understand you not liking Boondock Saints, but I can’t wrap my head around calling one of the worst films of it’s type. Perhaps a bit unoriginal, but I think it’s mostly competently made for what it is. While I enjoyed it, but I too have gotten annoyed by some people who think it’s the most awesome thing since sliced awesome. But as far as judging the film by its own merits I think its mostly fun and harmless fluff. I’d love to hear you expand your thoughts on it.

I did not really like 2012 but I do respect your opining spoonyone

@Matrim

I know but I’m surprised why nearly everyone thinks District 9 was such a great movie it is one of the worst sci-fi films ever. People were praising it as one of the most original films in years. Although a bunch of other films had similar concepts.
Another terrible film that everyone praises was Casino Royale.
Bond franchise should have died a long time ago.

It would be interesting to think of what he thought was bad about Boondock Saints. I didn’t like Billy Connelly’s character I just thought it was lame.

Worst movie of all time was a film called Motorama which amazingly got a 6.0 IMDB rating. The worst part is the ending. The story terrible but you watch it to see how it concludes and it doesn’t have a conclusion.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104922/

So your whole point is that because it’s not Transformers 2 that makes it an alright movie? C’mon man 2012 is bullshit.

@CrimsonDusk
I think you pointed (amongst others) at my comment with your post.
You are right with what you say. Spoony did not respect Film Brains opinion on Inglorious Basterds.
And I do not agree with Spoonys opinion on The Boondock Saints, because I really liked that movie. But I can respect his opinion and see no need for bitching around about this. This has nothing to do with sheepdom. This has something to do with my view on others opinions. I can accept them, even if I am not at one with them.

I would like to add that I too want to see your review of The Boondock Saints. I know I won’t agree with you, but I am still curious as to why you feel that way.

@Mistwraith
I must apologies if it seemed that way, I read your post but didn’t right my response as directed to you. From the beginning when Spoony posted the video people gave almost the same response: “Spoony you are great, yeah Boondock Saints kind of sucks, people should stop overacting it’s just he’s opinion.” Well after some time passed since he posted the video and going on with my life, I remembered he also doesn’t respect other people opinions. Also I think he kind of enjoys the posts that contradict his opinion since he personally admitted he’s going to get flack for his comment and said to bring it on, maybe he’ll get more traffic for the controversies than his awesome reviews. So he generally knows peoples reactions and I think I’m some of the many that fell for it.

The bastard made me fall to his game and go into a nerd rage about the movie. GOD, but still I want to see that list MOFO. If ia had to choose from all of Reb Browns movies, District 9, Paranormal Activity, Drag Me To HEll, 2012 I’d still watch Boondock Saints. You know why: because that movie was made in 1999 and in my opinion it aged well. The other movies I listed won’t. That’s what a cult movie means, it doesn’t have an immediate reaction to it’s premise but through time it gets the acknowledgment it deserved.

@CrimsonDusk

I’d rather see a lesbian love scene with Whoopi Goldberg and Rosie O’Donnell than watch District 9.

What does MOFO mean?

Well, I haven’t seen 2012 and I probably won’t until it comes out on DvD. That said I did see the Day After Tomorrow. I thought that was entertaining as well, but also not a good film. Somehow I found it more implausible than the aliens of Independence Day. Speaking of which I don’t understand the hatred that movie garners. It had good pacing, and I thought, mostly good characters. I liked Goldblum, Smith, and uh… that guy who played the President. Whatever his name was. It had good special effects too.

I’m glad to hear someone else not sucking Boondock Saint’s cock. When I saw it, I thought it was an old action movie, only to find out that it was considered amazing. It’s not terrible in my opinion, but it’s far from a masterpiece.

Kinda like this movie. Though to me, 2012 seemed to suffer most from being split between John Cusack’s storyline, and the whole arc thing. I know they brought it back together at the end, but really, if Cusack’s character was moved to the background, and the movie was spent exploring the “how best to rebuild humanity” thread, it would’ve been far more interesting.

I thought Boondock Saints was ok. It had its parts(Ron Jeremy ftw) but I think it is overrated and the director is a complete douchebaggery egotesticle fuck. I would like to see the 100 vigilante justice movies that are better than Boondock Saints though. I don’t like Roland Emmerich either and his movies are so fucking illogical that it makes me slap my forehead constantly. I know they are movies and don’t have to be fully logical but at least try to make it a little more rational.

“The Mayans warned us…but they didn’t see the end of their own civilization coming, now did they?”

EXACTLY what I said…. but I added more to my rant. Summing it up:

Isn’t this movie going a little for with profiting off fear mongering?

(Haven’t actually watched the vid yet, so if you say the same thing, awesome)

“it’s not a good movie….AT ALL” if that’s true (and it is) how could you spend 20 plus minutes talking about how it is in fact a good movie?

Ok, I gotta say i’m honestly shocked that you liked this movie. this movie is EVERYTHING you scream about being wrong with hollywood. it’s a blatently stupid stupid idea. it’s all about effecdts (the same effects we saw in EVERY devlin emmerich movie to date – except the patriot, but believe me if they had skyscrapers and landmarks to crumble at that point in history, they would have, trust me) I honestly can’t see how you hate transformers and armageddon and such (which they deserve, don’t get me wrong) and – even more crazy- OTHER shitty devlin/emmerich movies (which they also deserve, though i don’t find stargate to be complete dog’s nuts, but it hasn’t aged that well, and it gets less good every year that damn show it spawned won’t die), but like this. I’m honeslty confused. You bashed literally every single frame of war of the worlds (rightfully so, mind you) but you give 2012 a free pass? a movie that is literally just as mind numbingly stupid, overblown, pointless, fx driven, utterly implausable (as in “how the hell did they live through THAT?”) and just generally BAD in every way a movie can be bad BUT didn’t even have the benefit of giant robots death raying things??!!

and the boondock saints? really? i mean i know i’m like 200 some comments late here on this, but how in any universe can you like this (or any emmerich movie as you said, you tell me how ferris bueler as “the worm guy”, dennis quaid unfreezing hot dogs for 3 hours, randy quaid doing…ANYTHING, or a retarded iguana in a jurrassic park halloween costume pretending to be godzilla, the list goes on…) could be better than the boondock saints?

I mean, it’s not the greatest movie EVER, surely it’s fans are a little too rabid, troy duffie is a flaming egotist douche-nozzel, and i honestly quake in fear at how mind numblingly stupid this waaaay too late and unneccessary sequel is going to ruin the first one (never had any interest in seeing it, i just knew it would be bad and from all the reviews it seems i’m right. that movie NEVER needed a sequel), but it’s a decent little flick. it does what it sets out to do, and it’s fun, it’s quotable, and i really enjoyed it. everyone’s entitled to their opinion and all, but c’mon, you can’t honestly tell me you’d rather watch the day after tomorrow or freudzilla or independance day before boondock saints. at least the boondock saints doesn’t feature no less than 37 shots of people outrunning fireballs (or their dog’s outrunning them, and then leaping to saftey a foot and a half away from said fireball that devoured all of the oxygen in the tunnel so that…grr…it hurts just to say it)

I know i’m totally geeking out here, but seriously, i really wanna see you review saints now, cuz i really have to know where you’re coming from with this. I’m willing to hear you out, maybe you’ve got some really good reasons for disliking it and you’ve pointed out a lot of things about movies i’ve never noticed before, but you can’t make a statement like “it’s one of the 20 worst movies ever made” or “i can name 100 vigilante movies better than this” without backing it up some. everyone’s entitled to an opinion, but i think you just hate the movie for hating it sake so come on, you threw it out there. you can’t go on for half an hour going on about how good this diarhea was AND bash one of my favorite movies in the same video and not at least explain it a little

I mean, you love YOR for god’s sake!!! how can you be so unforgiving of boondock saints? (hey, i love rebbo as much as any fan of shitty cinema, but come on!) you said you watch sci fi channel original movies of your own free will! you said you liked that goddamn movie where the earthquake actually CHASES a guy!! there’s nothing wrong with shitty movies, i LOVE shitty movies (why else would i be HERE?) but come on man, you liked 2012???!! you bash boondock saints??!! did the boondock saints kill and eat your puppy laughing while you were tied up watching as a kid or something?

now i know i just went on way too long about this. but what i really should have done was counter your “this movie is worth seeing” argument with only this

“drive-car-out-of-back-of-crashing-plane” oh it’s ok, they wore their seatbelts…for god’s sake, the science, the world views, AND the physics were all worse than captain planet!!! yes CAPTAIN PLANET MAKES MORE SENSE!!!

There is one movie where Randy Quaid boasts a pretty stellar performance–The Last Detail. I think he may have even scored an Oscar nom for the role. Its convincing and dynamic, and the only movie that I know of where he doesn’t play a tinfoil hat/trailer trash type character. Its a highly underrated 70s flick from a highly underrated director, and features a young Jack Nicholson as a foul-mouthed sailor with a Napoleon complex. I suggest you pick it up if you haven’t already.

Ugh, i gotta comment on the bandwagon here and go..
Now i gotta see a real review of Boondock saints.
I have No interest in seeing the second, but i do like it original. So what if its not a great vigilante movie and there are better ones of the its genre. Its like saying cause the Godfather was good, no other movie can be about the mafia and also be good. Just cause its been done before doesnt mean it cant be done again, or different.

Its got the following it does because its over the top. Because its got a dark sense of humor, wacky characters and frankly, i think, great direction. There were some very clever scenes in that movie and over all just a fun dark comedy of an action flick.

The fact that Michael Bay’s movies are worse does not make Emmerich’s movies good.

I walked out of 2012 pretty disappointed. I set my bar pretty low, and yet my horribly low expectations were still too high for this dreck. For the first half of the movie I was actually entertained, and this elevated feeling lasted until roughly the time Las Vegas got wacked. After that the adrenaline levels came down, and the thirteenth time a reaction shot was followed by something huge slamming into the camera wasn’t really that new anymore, the sheer stupidity of the movie caught up with me and surviving the rest of the movie was harder for me then for the humanity in the movie itself.

Seriously.. there are so many times you can see “a vehicle avoiding horrible disaster in the last second my swirving/rising in the last moment even though 99% of the landmass around it is wrecked”.I can agree to one deus ex machina, or two, but in this flick they are one-a-minute. I finally turn in the towel when the world itself turns to accomodate our heroe’s needs, after which they find a place to land a plane at the top of the frikking Himalayas, and then meet not ONE but TWO rescue opportunities in the space of fifteen minutes. This doesn’t require suspension of disbelief, this requires suspension of brain activity.

It doesn’t help that the characters aren’t just one-dimensional, they are half-dimensional, and that we have a dozen of Heroic Moments. Good thing that the important stuff gets sorted out in the end, like the “wetting the bed issue”. Also, it’s quite amusing how they have clear skies and sunshine in the end, what with the Yellowstone supervolcano filling the atmosphere with ash for the next hundred years and bringing on the second ice age and everything.

They should edit this movie into a 30-minute version and sell it as a Universal Studios theme park ride. Then you would get your money’s worth. At two and a half hours, it heavily overstays its welcome.

From reading the comments, I apparently need to watch boondock saints, as there is a real divide amongst fans on this movie. I request a Review!

My review is the most popular on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFDk0CKilAI

Up next New Moon. By the way Bad Boys and The Rock OWN 2012!!!

Boondocks Saints didn’t suck, that’s your opinion. Just like it’s my opinion that I could name 100 people who do the same set up as you and they just do it better.

Just an opinion, you just like to think your opinions are facts.

i was suprised at how good the child acting was especialy the girl

It just hit me while watching the bitter sweet ending of Pirates of the Caribbean 3. If Boondock Saints gets so much hate from Spoony for being an insult to decency than Mystice River is the grand king of all that’s wrong in the world plus bad witting seen a mile away. If the Boondock Saints presents everything that’s wrong on over testosterone movies than Mystic River is an EMO script that tries to hard to prove that there’s evil in thsi world and good doesn’t always win in the moct retarded, convoluted and weak plot of the decade. I mean I’ve saw the twist of that movie from the beginning whe the 2 kids phoned the police.

I’m calling you out Spooner not to review the Boondock Saints but to review Mistick River for the weak movie that it really is, if you have the balls. Yes the 2003 movie directed by Clint Eastwood has some pretty good acting but it’s weak in it’s premise that it tries to act as a mature movie that cuts through the happy ending BS by using a Swiss cheesed plot full of inconsistencies.

If you really consider yourself a critic I’m calling you out to review Mystic River and show us what a true critic you are and if you can cut the mass praise critic BS.

Worst role that Woody Harrelson has done is when he played that tranny hooker Galaxia in Anger Management

Anyone with access to the Internet would know that the Mayan calander resets its cycle in 2012. So in all reality were safe and sceptics are cavemen!

You need to make DVDS. Me and my brother would buy all of them. DVDS!

ok about spoony saying he should slap the stupid out of filmbrain was justified considering the way filmbrain just rages on about stuff that are really pretty irrelevant to the movies he reviews and just bashes them for the sake of bashing with no real point to it.

Now about boondock saints while i do disagree with spoony ,(and think it was just hilarious entertainment being ridiculously over the top at times, but that is what i like about it) i would like to hear what is it exactly about it that rubs spoony the wrong way,and makes it so bad in his eyes.

So Spoony please give us an in depth review on boondock saints as i’m sure we all want to have a peek at what is going on in that squishy and mostly brilliant gray matter of yours.

I agree a lot with your review..well to a point. I actually really liked this movie which surprised me because I’m also not a huge fan of the genre. My problem with this genre, along with horror genre type disaster movies is that I’m always not sure if that would be the real way to act in that situation. For me, this really humanized the characters, such as the guy presented facts and people listened, instead of the whole everyone doesn’t believe him until the worst happens. I just watched “The Mist” yesterday and was so frustrated with the people who didn’t believe anything and just laughed about all until someone was killed. 2012 however I found the reactions pretty believable. Like really, what else would you do in this situation?

I’d personally recommend this movie as well, it somehow kept my interest for how long it is too which surprised me. And out of all the new movies I’ve seen as of recent, this has been the best one.

IDK but I just saw the movie yesterday… and I had a blast! With movies like this you really don’t have to expect much characterization and story. It’s stuff blowing up, everything going to shit and all you have to do is wonder: “what will come next? and how will they survive it?”… and of course they will survive somehow. But the fun of it for me is the awesomeness of it all. I was laughing a lot while watching this movie. So it was well worth my money…

(of course it’s not even close to being the best movie of all time or anything… but it was really entertaining!)

This comment is rather random but is a piece of advice from me. Spoony, take your time with your stuff. I think the community is acting like rabid dogs because firstly, your material is good, and second, there is no real schedule on when they can expect stuff from you (SWAT LP vids, for example)

Nice review Spoony. Two things I kinda disagree on. The first is that you have no connection to any of the characters. I actually liked the Black jazz musician, whos name I've forgotten, and his relation to hisson Adrian. That wasn't in the movie much but I felt for them is basically what I'm trying to say. Another thing is when you talk about the destruction and how it leaves no impact. What I liked a lot about this movie is also when you see people die in the earthquakes. Why? Well because they took the time an effort to edit that in. It me connect to whats going on when I see actual people die and not just the destruction cars and buildings.

Like Spoony I felt the movie was entertaining but not really a good movie.

i didn't want to hate boondock saints because no one else said it was bad, i still hated it, i just didn't want to be that “one guy” who hated a good movie. im just glad im not alone

When I saw this movie I was dragged by some friends, not wanting to see it myself because I had already allowed Emmerich to fuck me over too many times. Then, after 1 hour and 30 minutes, the intermission came and I immediately panicked when I realized that I had only sat halfway through this piece of shit. I was literally the only person in the theater that didn't walk out talking about how good this movie was. If the world was ending, why the fuck would you entrust the only hope of man's survival to the Chinese?! I mean, all the toys I had as a kid that instantly fell apart were Chinese! Just to clarify, I don't have any problem with Chinese people but why wouldn't they have had more than one country doing this? And what I didn't get about only rich people going on these arcs is that what good is money when you have nothing to buy? And who would work in lower class jobs after the world ended? I could go on and on but I don't want to waste time I could be using to send mr. Emmerich a mailbomb.

Watched most of your videos Spoony but i had to say that in the cinema i said the same thing you did.
How can he easily out run that cloud but the plane can't? lol

I'm glad you didn't miss talking about “the speech” as me and my friends call it, this is what these movies are for, in my eyes, I like the disasters as well but these speeches are always hilarious and have me on the floor laughing.
I to enjoyed 2012 even when I knew I shouldn't, even if I like some crap films. But one thing it missed was the monks should have been able to survive, no reason they just punch the giant tidal wave so it avoided the temple. That for me would have made me buy it on DVD rather than just seeing at the cinema.

I thought that 2012 was okay for some mindless entertainment, very nice in HD.

What I don't get is the apparent hate of the Boondock series. Almost all critics hate it and I have no idea why, I love the movies…top of my list for sure. I think the problem with them is that people take them too seriously.

I'm sorry Spoony, but the last half hour with the pipe stuck in the door was awful. I thought it was such a boring scene that it made me hate the whole movie.

I just hated this movie, I was appauled and found this movie to be loathesome and irking.

Woody? Annoying?
It was the butt-crack shot, wasn't it?

I just finished watching this on Netflix. Not a bad movie, but you could drive the Arks through the plot holes in this movie.

It was entertaining, but way too long. I finally stopped (or wanted to stop) watching right at the 2 hour mark, and that's about the same mark as Heat, which is PAINFULLY long. Like I said, I was entertained, but I kept saying things to the screen: “What?” “How does that work?” “Why…?” “Yeah, because science works like that.” among other things.

I really liked Independence Day

Wow… no comments on how this movie has like… the worst ending line… I mean seriously… it was over 2 hours of super epic scenes and then the ending line was…. horrible. So anti climatic.. And please make that list of similar movies that are better than the Boondock Saints… I want to see these movies.. Cause I enjoyed Boondock Saints… 1&2..

This was an epic Disaster movie. If you watched this expecting Shakespearian writing (excuse my spelling), and Academy Award deserving acting OUT OF A DISASTER MOVIE, you deserve the disappointment.

Best scene in this movie is when the heroes drive through a crumbling building and while they’re flying through the collapsing city. It reminds me of a video game where you have to fire at ships while thousands of random bullets are just flying towards you.

I listened to pretty much your entire spiel without comment, but I have to agree with you here: almost anything is better than that rancid vomit spew of a sequel: Boondock Saints II. The first one isn’t that bad, though.

as if the rich will win out when the chips go down – money means nothing in the face of the apocylipse!

THANK YOU FOR THE BOONDOCK SAINTS COMMENT!!!! every guy in my dorm loves that movie and it’s not that good!!!!!!!

Best Roland Emmerich movie? Does that include The Patriot?

I saw my dad and brothers watching this and I realized this is really the kind of movie you watch for the amusement park ride sensation it gives – the pointless stunts like flying a plane through a crack in the earth under a building that’s collapsing (piloted by a guy who even says he can’t fly properly) just gives that FMV ride feel – the Star Wars Experience, the Back to the Future Ride, etc. Its the kind of film you watch in IMax for the sheer gut-dropping sensation of motion without actually moving. That more or less describes what Roland is trying to do, and god bless him for that, but he should really just create Roland Emmerich’s “End of the World: The Theme Park” and create a bunch of rides based around escaping destroyed landmarks.

Haha Boondock Saints 2, the memories.. One of the worst performed spectacles I’ve ever witnessed, but it’s got at least one legendary scene in it.

“These sons of bitches PRRRISON FUCKED US! IN THE ASS! And then they wiped thier dicks on our grandmas drapes!”

Fucking epic.
(pardon my course language, but I live in Sweden where there is no censorship whatsoever)

Y’know, I still want to see 2012, because it looks hilarious like all of Emerich’s movies… That said, however, I’m afraid I’m going to have to shit all over your opinion of Boondock Saints… Haven’t seen the sequel, so I can’t speak to it, but the first one was fuck-all entertaining. :P