Ryan ‘Irish Rican’ McLelland here -
I found BOONDOCK SAINTS a couple years after it had hit on video. When I was serving in the military the pilots who flew at night used to watch it incessantly before going off to fly in the helicopters and for some reason I always would walk in during Willam Dafoe’s drag scene. This scene never made me want to actually sit down and watch the film. But something stuck with the pilots and the film, even calling themselves ‘The Bastardos’ after a throwaway line in the movie. One night they forced me to sit down and watch it and I was instantly hooked. Since then I’ve watched the movie once a month for the next six years.
There seems to be two very different camps for BOONDOCK SAINTS: the ones who… READ MORE
After climbing the cinematic ranks in such films as Mimic, Six Ways to Sunday, and 8MM before landing the role of gun-toting, butt-kicking Irish brother Murphy McManus in Boondock Saints, actor Norman Reedus added thirty-four more film credits to his resume in the decade leading up to the long awaited sequel, Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day. Although Norman Reedus kept himself busy in such films as Blade II, The Notorious Bette Page, American gangster, and the recently released Pandorum, Reedus gained a huge loyal fan base due to his explosive role in Boondock Saints next to co-star Sean Patrick Flanery.