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?

Ten Years Later, Boondock Saints II:  All Saints Day is released on Halloween Weekend 2009.

Movie Critics sharpened up their quills for their over-the-top reviews:

LA Times:  

“Time may have healed some of (writer/director) Duffy’s wounds, but it hasn’t made him a better Tarantino knockoff, unfortunately.”

Boston Globe:

“The result isn’t art but it is an improvement: a scurrilous, lowdown, sub-Tarantino action comedy that, unlike the original, doesn’t make you want to claw your eyes out. How’s that for praise?”

Chicago Tribune:

“Duffy’s film made me sad for the Irish in general and Irish-American vigilantes in particular.”

The most generous critique was from The Star:

“In every respect, this movie deserves to be beaten senseless with a soggy shillelagh. Yet how do I explain the fact that I sat through it with a silly grin on my face, and the so-bad-it’s-good 2 1/2 star rating I have generously assigned it?”

The critic from The Star must not have a blog.

Huh?

Let me explain…

Movie critics still write in the classic Platonic sensemy suspicion that movie critics 9-to-5 their day job with unquestioning, soldier-like, empirical duty in hopes that their employers never suspect that they moonlight as bloggers as if there’s a perfect movie out there with which to aspire. That approach hasn’t appealed to the majority of movie goers for 20 years – if ever. Yet the critics still use the approach. Their steadfast loyalty to this ancient style only reaffirms . Nothing else explains their painful grasp to this archaic methodology in papers

Proof The Boondock Saints II Rocked

Just do a Twitter search. It took me 3 days of monitoring twitter for the term “boondock saints ii” to find someone who has something bad to say about the film.

To paraphrase my favorite tweet:

“Boondocks saints wasn’t good but it was awesome.”

C-Ho Mesothelioma Rating: 1 out of 10

I’d give it a much higher rating, but I now consider print movie critics as double agents for movie fans to keep the corporate media from squeezing every last drop out of character-driven, fan community-based films.

Boondock Saints II Gets Wider Release

And just to show if you write for the fans, the fans get your back. Thanks to a rabid online movement by hardcore fans, The limited theatrical release is now becoming a national release! The release was originally expanded on the weekend of the 13th and will be expounded over the next couple weekend.

Here is the message from Boondock Saints II writer/director Troy Duffy.

Somewhere a movie critic was just shot twice in the back of the head, laid on the ground with their hands folded over, and had placed two fresh copper pennies of their eyes. Because they were bad men.

In Nomeni Patri, Et Fili, Spiritus Sancti