7. The Boondock Saints
This is the first movie on this list that I out-and-out loved at first: I bought the DVD, I put the poster on my dorm room wall (yeah, I was that guy), and I frequently recommended it to fellow connoisseurs of action and crime movies. And who can argue with Willem Dafoes hilarious performance as a brilliant gay FBI investigator? Then I grew up. This movie is as juvenile, offensive, and thunderously stupid as Troy Duffy, the brains behind the operation. If you dont believe me, watch the documentary Overnight and keep in mind that the directors of that hit piece started out as his friends. They quickly reversed their opinion after watching that egotistical amateur blow one of the most miraculous breaks a studio executive has ever given someone in the history of cinema. What makes The Boondock Saints more reprehensible than its many fellow Tarantino knockoffs is its dangerous and irresponsible moralization. The movie is entertaining, but it suggests that good and evil are black-and-white and that the world would be better off if a couple of wisecracking brothers went around killing everybody they dislike. I generally hate the accusation that Hollywood should take responsibility for gun-related tragedies in real life, but movies like The Boondock Saints make that perspective slightly harder to argue with.