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