Yep. It’s that time again. Time to dust off your old copy of The Boondock Saints. Yes, I know. You haven’t busted that DVD out since your good ol’ college days where all you did was watch that film on repeat (along with Super Troopers and the Big Lebowski, trust me, I get it).
Now, myself, I have been having random flashes of scenes from the film for the past few weeks. I thought it was just my mind going its own random course. So, I chuckled to myself while I thought about Greenly fetching bagels galore. or David Della Rocco cowboy shooting up the strip club. Ah, the memories. But needless to say, I found out the real reason as to why everyone should just skip the rest of the day (call in sick, take a snow day, mental health, whatever you want) and go home, curl up on the couch and pop in the coolest flick to come out of 1999. And I have listed them here below for you.
The top ten reasons to revisit Boondocks:
10. To replace the ultra-lame farewell salutations of “peace out” with the classic “catch you on the flip side”
9. To witness Willem Dafoe prancing around and solving murders in Prince-esque heels.
8. For the ability to quote all the prayers in the thickest Irish accent you could possibly muster.
7. For the opening sequence. Song and all, but namely for:
Rosengurtie:”Wait, rule of thumb? In the early 1900s it was legal for men to beat their wives, as long as they used a stick no wider than their thumb.”
Connor: “Can’t do much damage with that then, can we? Perhaps it should have been a rule of wrist”
6. For David Della Rocco: “I killed your cat, you druggie bitch…I thought it would bring closure to our relationship.”
5. To watch Sean Patrick Flannery and Norman Reedus wrestling topless, if not nude, in the shower…well, that’s on the deleted scenes. Love deleted scenes.
4. To bear witness to Willem Dafoe in Drag.
3. For my favorite part of the whole film: “Do ya know what we need, man? Some rope…Charlie Bronson’s always got rope.”
2. To walk around for days just thinking: “Fuckin’- What the fuckin’. Fuck. Who the fuck fucked this fucking… How did you two fucking fucks… Fuck.” But also, to know that even though you can’t get that quote out of your head–you are still cooler than the fanatic who has the shirt.
1. And most importantly because of a sequel. The Boondock Saints: All Saints Day, releasing 2009. The second is finally in order. And let’s just hope it’s one worth waiting 10 years for.
-Kable
