MTV Movies brings us a new poster and a few “exclusive” official stills from the upcoming Boondock Saints 2: All Saints Day, and, unfortunately, the poster is far less than impressive. For one thing, the MacManus brothers have adopted the same pose as Angelina Jolie’s Wanted character poster. Also, this praying-with-guns shit is nothing new and exciting for the original Boondock Saints‘ cult following, which is already quite familiar with these Irish-American vigilante fraternal twins. Actually, I’m starting to worry that this could turn into a Rocky Horror-Shock Treatment sort of situation.
Troy Duffy needs to put down his egotistical dick and give his audience something new without losing the spirit of the original, as he pulled off with the campiness of the latest theatrical trailer. Admittedly, the over-the-top verbiage of Billy Connelly and Norman Reedus’ sleepy-eyed deadpan dialogue was what sold me on the trailer, but I’m not sure what the hell happened to Sean Patrick Flanery. Hell, this is Powder we’re talking about here, and he doesn’t even look like the same guy anymore. Did he have some sort of plastic surgery or start taking doctor-prescribed steroids for allergies? Mystifying.
Another little nagging detail concerning this sequel (other than the unmitigatable loss of Willem Dafoe), is the necessary replacement of David Della Rocco’s character (who still appears in some dream sequences for the sequel) with that of Clifton Collins Jr., who isn’t doing All Saints Day any favors in the promotional circuit. Collins is already running his mouth about his allegedly bright future as an actor by forecasting an unlikely collaboration involving Quentin Tarantino:
Clifton Collins Jr.: I was talking to Lance Sloan the other day who is Steve McQueen’s godson, him and Chad McQueen have the rights to Yucatan which was the last screenplay Steve wrote. So we’ve been talking about that and how Quentin [Tarantino] would be good to direct that.
Listen, motherfuckers. Tarantino does what Tarantino wants to do, and, after Jackie Brown, Tarantino only directs what Tarantino writes. Do your fucking homework, man, but, most of all, remember what film you’re supposed to be promoting here.
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well, one difference between the posters shown here could be that people actually want to see boondock saints, not wanted. now, it could just be me, but i’d doubt it…
i don’t care how many babies you adopt from 3rd world countries, a good actress and interesting movies it all does not make. i can’t remember the last angelina jolie movie i saw, wait a minute, i CAN remember – it was “girl interrupted”. i stopped watching in the middle of that crap and didn’t leave the theater until i received a full refund.
For the record, I am interested in seeing this movie, but Wanted was a great popcorn flick too. Plus, it grossed $134,508,551 in the U.S. and $341,433,252 worldwide, so somebody else must like it.