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The Sound of Music (1965) dir. Robert Wise

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The Boondock Saints portrays its protagonists not as suave, near-mythic professionals like Jules and Vincent in Pulp Fiction, or even sheepish loners like Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver, but as just “cool guys” who make up a loophole through their faith that allows them to kill whoever they want on behalf of moral ambiguities. This kind of movie is crack to the average American teenager who fantasizes about exerting power but doesn’t want to look like the bad guy doing it, so he drags a fraudulent sense of moralizing into the fantasy. This half-baked approach to a thriller has ultimately made The Boondock Saints‘ legacy more tied to hollow iconography than to any sort of substantive cinematic influence. For all the “cult” status the film accumulated over adolescents in the early century, its lasting imprint is rendered in arguments on now-scrubbed film forum websites and the official release posters plastered on bedroom and dorm room walls that became signifiers of a generation of teenage boys. A portrait of two Irishmen in black clad holding big guns right above your bed was as badass as it could get once upon a time. But the depth of the average poster describes rightly the longevity this film had as any sort of cinematic marker in Hollywood. To quote Roger Ebert, “You know you’re in trouble when your movie scores 16 percent on the Tomatometer, and the documentary about it scores 79 percent.”

—Soham Gadre, from “The Boondock Saints: A Legacy as Thin as a Dorm Room Poster” (Paste Magazine, January 2025)

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Norman Reedus & Sean Patrick Flanery as Murphy & Connor MacManus

The Boondock Saints (1999)

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What if it was just one guy with six guns? THE BOONDOCK SAINTS (1999) dir. troy duffy

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happy st paddy's day! ☘

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These queens

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NCUTI GATWA in The Importance of Being Earnest

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cate blanchett as bob dylan

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Darts Shop, Kichijoji 吉祥寺

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Saul Leiter

Untitled, n.d

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have been seeing these smokestacks far in the distance every single time i take the highway east from pittsburgh and i finally decided to hunt them down today. the drive up to them was a spiritual experience. 

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Throwback Thursday: “Blood On The Tracks” Released January 20, 1975 Bob Dylan - Tangled Up In Blue

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Mattias Gunnarsson Studio work 2020 - 2024

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Mark Rothko, Untitled. 1969

Ink on paper The National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.) Gift of The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc.

© Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko / ARS