Boondock Saints 2.0 Triumph Part 5: And She Can Kick Your Ass
Posted on | December 1, 2009 | No Comments
Of all the charges levied by movie critics against Troy Duffy’s Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day, the charge that made the least sense was that of the objectification of Julie Benz’s character, “Special Agent Eunice Bloom.” Not only was this the charge least levied, but the reviews from critics who included this mad-lib template critique of the character read as if they just read other reviews, saw the trailer, and assumed. No, critics don’t do that. That’s crazy. You’d a thought the below picture was the Eunice Bloom Julie Benz was portraying…
(I’ll confess, this is the side of Julie Benz I wish I saw more)
To be honest, I have to report with sadness that Julie Benz doesn’t come anywhere near this close to being this naked in Boondock Saints II. In fact, though there are cleavage and leg shots, she stays pretty well dressed.
And while we’re at it, if Troy Duffy is guilty of anything, it’s of making Eunice Bloom too much like Kyra Sedgwick’s Deputy Chief Brenda Johnson on The Closer. Not only that, but the part of the character who gets to act out her agressive fanasies on film.
Though a powerful, intuitive, over-the-top character, it’s hard to see the southern belle Eunice Bloom as the replacement to Special Agent Smecker – the role made famous by Willem Dafoe. It literally takes the full movie for fans to full accept her. But it’s worth the weight.
And, she can kick your ass.
C-Ho Corporate Mesothelioma Rating: 2 out of 10
Movie critics get a 2 out of 10 for this charge because either they didn’t watch the movie or didn’t watch the whole movie. I can’t believe I even had to argue it.
The things people get paid to do.
(Photo Credits: 1) filmschoolrejects.com 2) AceShowBiz.com)
Boondocks Saints 2.0 Triumph Part 4: Nobody Picks On My Brother But Me
Posted on | December 1, 2009 | No Comments
“This is our Mexican.”
- Murphy MacMannus introducing Romeo. Boondock Saints II (Quote transcribed by IMDB.com)
Movie critics had a field day every time the Boondock Saints II script called for an ethnic slur.
I’m not one to necessarily condone ethnic, racial, handicap slurs and the like. Every time Max Power says, “Fuckin’ Ret*ard,” – like Murphy MacMannus did in BDSII - I cringe.
But once again, it depends on your culture.
What the critics failed to point out was that every ethnicity represented in the movie was insulted equally. To the point of equality. There wasn’t whites, blacks, and browns and the like. Characters in the movie didn’t see each other based on the color of their skin so much as they saw each other based on their home.
Take the phrase, “This is our Mexican,” that was used by Murphy to describe Romeo to McGinty (McGinty? That’s the guy who owned the house on Fraggle Rock). Vulgar and vile it was, but it got laughs.
How?
Well, follow me down…
Now when the Saints went to Romeo’s uncle’s place and Romeo’s uncle started talking down about Romeo, the Saints backed Romeo up.
“He’s with us.”
And this phrase got cheers.
Confused?
As the old phrase goes:
“Nobody picks on my brother but me.”
Sometimes, friends make fun of each others backgrounds not because of the color of each others skins but simply to get under each others skin and make them tougher. They can do that because they trust each other. They’ve built up a relationship. They’ve built up community. – That sounds very 2.0-ish
And when someone from the outside tests them, friends pull together.
They’re with you.
Another lesson in separating the “sh*t” from the sh*t, courtesy of C-Ho
C-Ho Corporate Mesothelioma Rating: 3 out of 10
A C-Ho rating of 3 out of 10 goes to the veneered-eared stupid f*ckin’ retard movie critics who don’t know the difference between an ethnic slur and a verbal slug in the arm.
(Photo Credit: Usaniac via Flickkr)
Boondock Saints 2.0 Triumph Part 3: The F#ckin’ Language Is a Part of Their Culture
Posted on | November 23, 2009 | No Comments
“We are totally f*cked! Not just f*cked, like elephant d*ck, pound in the ass, no reach-around, jungle f*cked!” Det. Greenly, Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day (Troy Duffy – quote text per IMDB)
“Profanity, Profanity. Boondock Saints is just littered with profanity. How could such religious folks use such unholy language? It’s crude, sacrilegious, and unwholesome. Nobody talks like that!” - random compilations of print-medium movie critic
Yep, once in awhile a cuss word is strategically utilized in the Boondock Saints movies.
- Do movie critics like this type of language? Nope
- Would movie critics suggest using this much profanity? Nope
- Did some of them cover their ears? Probably, if someone was looking
Then Why Would Boondock Saints Have This Much F*ckin’ Profanity?
Shut the f*ck up already. I’ll f*ckin’ tell ya:
It’s called “the demographics of their target market.” Like 2.0 and actual business marketing, Troy Duffy knew his target market – younger crowd, college frat boys, blue collar workers – and the women who love these men. Do they cuss? Most do. F*ck yeah we do. We’ve even been known to make up dirty limericks and get into swearing contests just to see how many different phrases and insults we can come up with utilizing swear words. H*ll-f*ckin’-yeah we do. We’ll even do this sober.
And when movies do the same, we find humor in that.
There is an art to swearing. Not that it’s recommended for everyone, but it’s d*mned-f*ckin’-fun for those sloppy-f*cks who like to f*ck around with phrasings.
And because this culture likes their turn-of-swears with unabashed explosions and gratuitous violence, Troy Duffy can make Boondock Saints.
C-Ho Mesothelioma Rating: 3 out of 10.
Anybody who doesn’t understand why profanity wouldn’t be an intergral part of this film should go back to watching primetime sitcoms on the big 3 networks.
F*ckups.
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Boondock Saints 2.0 Triumph Part 2: Tarantino the Visionary
Posted on | November 20, 2009 | No Comments
(photo credit: boondocksaintsii on Flickr)
As Discussed in Part 1, lofty movie critics levied serious charges against Boondock Saints franchise creator Troy Duffy. The first of said charges is that Troy Duffy isn’t anything more than a Quentin Tarantino knockoff.
Well, let’s just look at that a little deeper why don’t we.
Aside from Dick Dale guitar solos, Quentin Tarantino is about as original as, well, a blockbuster Hollywood action movie. In fact, the music is Dick’s. QT gets “inspired” by other genres like kung fu and B movies – and in the case of Ingloroius Bastards – he likes to “Tarantino-up” Italian B Films of the same name. Critics must not read their own shit, or their short-term memories last all the way to the next film’s credits.
Not that there’s anything wrong with being “inspired.” Is Tarantino the only one allowed to be “inspired?” And I’m sure the fact that every every element JK Rowling’s little wizard’s book has been “inspired’ by damn near every fantasy, legend, tale, and sci-fi trilogy in existence is different because she repacked it and got kids to read…bullshit. And everybody ate up the Jesus/Obi-Wan Kenobi ending to that series. What did the critics do? Applied chapstick to the ass-dried lips. If Troy Duffy tries it, it’s sacrelig because he doesn’t have the reputation. Unbiased views? My ass.
But that’s not C-Ho’s point.
How Duffy’s Boondock Saint’s II Differs from Anything Tarantino’s Done
Name the deeper motives in Tarantino’s movies. C’mon. I’m waiting…
Let’s analyze the deeper questions of Ingloroius Bastards.
In Tarantino’s defense, Inglorious Bastards explores one of the deeper fundamental questions in history:
“Can one rewrite one of the most significant events in natural history just to have a fire ending?” In this case, Tarantino claims Hitler actually died in an explosion fire in a movie house in France.
The other significant question explored in Bastards was a question that’s more in Tarantino’s wheelhouse
“Should I kill Nazis by shooting them, bludgeoning them with a baseball bat, or scalping them.” (How the hell does Brad Pitt get into more than one movie where scalping takes place?)
Suprisingly, Duffy’s Boondock saints tackle age-old questions that civilizations have debated and warred over since Cain killed Abel”
“When is it okay to kill a man?”
“Whom do you follow when the Laws of Man and the Laws of God conflict?”
In this case of the MacManus brothers they started after they received the same vision in their dreams after they were able to miraculously escape Russian mobsters who rushed them in their sleep. The Saints’ efforts stir up controversy in Boston, as would an event of this magnitude.
“Was what they were doing right?”
And it’s moviegoers response to this higher calling against evil that has helped vault the Boondock Saints franchise to the level of Bruce Campbell and Robert Rodriquez. Fans devotion to not only the movie but to the divine calling of the brothers MacManus ideal has been overwhelming. Merchandise sales, artwork, tattoos – oh the tattoos…and the thousands of pictures on sites like Flickr where fans recreate the Saints’ look.
(Photo Credit: SeeTheSky on Flickr)
A little religion, a little violence, and a lot of time spent in public identifying with fans goes a long, long way.
Now that’s 2.0.
Come back tomorrow when we address the second charge against Troy Duffy: Horrific F*ckin’ Language
Whatcha’all think?
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Boondock Saints 2.0 Triumph Part 1: The List of Charges
Posted on | November 19, 2009 | No Comments
It’s no secret that Boondock Saints Franchise creator Troy Duffy and his begrudged movie critics have differing opinions on what makes a good film.
The charges critics made of the film include:
- 1) Copying Tarantino, John Woo, Mario Puzo, and moreorless anyone who’s made an action film
- 2) Horrific language
- 3) Offending the Irish, Mexicans, Catholics (Irish Catholics I’m assuming), the Corleones, cat lovers, and the Almighty
- 4) Objectification of Special Agent Eunice Bloom, the only major female character with significant screen time (for those who aren’t a fan of the Boondock Saints Franchise, yet, the MacManus brothers’ mother was the reason they learned five languages and if you saw the uncut version of Boondock Saints, you actually meet her)
- 5) Both “Stiff acting” & “Over acting”
With the now-national release of Boondock Saints II, Troy Duffy has shown once again that the only critical voices he chose to listen to when making the film were of his fans.
As shown in C-Ho’s previous article, a simple Twitter search of “Boondock Saints” shows the love actual moviegoers have for this cult film. And for the record, the popular Twitter RT during the post:
RT @TFLN: (518): just saw a girl with a lower back tattoo of the boondock saints prayer.. i will marry her
Corporate Whoredom will spend the next few days breaking down the hypocrisies associated with each charge and inconsistencies amongst critics with respect to each charge as well as show examples of other “great” movies “guilty” of these charges. The analysis will lead up to a convincing arguent which supports our initial assumption:
And while we do this, we’ll point out that Troy Duffy has a better grasp of the 2.0 world than his critical adversaries.
Were there any charges we left out?
The series
