S16 Ep852: The Boondock Saints (1999)
We Hate Movies
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4.7 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2026
⏱️ 126 minutes
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Summary
“It is an obnoxious way to tell a story…” - Andrew on the film's structure
On this week’s show, Listener Request Month 2026 makes the chicken come home to roost as we are finally forced to chat about Troy Duffy’s 1999 dorm-room-poster-movie, The Boondock Saints!
Why in the world did they think this ‘re-cap the crime’ format needed to happen? Why is Rocco’s character name just the real actor’s actual name? Where do they get this super-human strength to rip toilets out of floors and jump off five-story buildings with ease? And what’s with Troy Duffy’s hatred of the Mafia? PLUS: If you get bit by a Muppet, will you turn into one by the next full moon?
The Boondock Saints stars Sean Patrick Flanery, Norman Reedus, David Della Rocco, Billy Connolly, Gerard Parkes, Carlo Rota, Ron Jeremy, and Willem Dafoe as Paul Smecker; directed by Troy Duffy.
Be sure to catch us on the road in Minneapolis on 3/20 and Chicago on 3/22 where we’ll be talking Conan the Barbarian and Big respectively. Tickets on sale now!
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Original cover art by Felipe Sobreiro.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey folks, first of all, happy St. Patrick's Day. |
| 0:03.8 | If you're listening to this on the day it comes out, which is indeed you guessed at the 17th of March, just two days from now. |
| 0:10.0 | We're going to be in Minneapolis doing something cool with the NBA and the Timberwolves, by the way. |
| 0:14.4 | So if you were able to get tickets for that, the screening of an American werewolf in London, that's going to be so much fun. |
| 0:19.5 | And then the very next night at the varsity theater, we are talking about Conan da Bob Bia. Yes. Don't get blackout drunk and forget all this information. I mean, at St. Patrick's Day, they're probably already drunk. Yeah, okay. So let's kick it to tomorrow. You know what? You're listening to it right now. This is getting through the booze. |
| 0:38.7 | Go wait for tomorrow. |
| 0:40.3 | So we just speak their language. |
| 0:41.7 | It's a diversity theater. |
| 0:44.8 | And then we'll be in Chicago, Illinois on the 22nd, man. |
| 0:51.0 | Don't forget tomorrow if we're listening to this. |
| 0:56.2 | The day it comes out tomorrow |
| 0:56.9 | the 18th |
| 0:57.8 | is a special |
| 0:58.8 | we love movies |
| 0:59.7 | episode with |
| 1:00.6 | radio silence |
| 1:01.7 | talk and joyride |
| 1:03.3 | a lot of great |
| 1:04.2 | stuff for you to |
| 1:05.1 | just like eat |
| 1:05.7 | McDonald's tonight |
| 1:06.7 | like 3 o'clock |
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