10 Movies Released At The Wrong Time
7. The Boondock Saints
The most recent series of BoJack Horseman has a running joke where an upcoming action movie is repeatedly delayed and sanded down in the aftermath of many recurring mass shooting incidents.
Its not for nothing either; as of June 30th, the USA has had 196 mass shootings in 2019, with 968 victims, 196 of whom died.
The most notorious modern examples include Parkland, Las Vegas and Pulse, but back in the 1990s when The Boondock Saints was filming, one singular mass shooting stood head and shoulders above the rest for shock and infamy: the Columbine High School Massacre.
The Boondock Saints and Columbine became indelibly linked, right from the start. The hyper-violent film was picked apart as a symbol of American culture, never just appreciated as a movie in isolation. It didn’t help that, unlike something like RoboCop, The Boondock Saints didn’t have much to say.
There’s nothing wrong with just being violent, but the aftermath of Columbine proved not to be the time or place for that. The fact the heroes are two angry young men, pushed aside to conspire on revenge and the fact most shootings in the film happen in public didn’t help either.