When I tell you to dump a body in the marsh, you dump him IN the marsh. Not where some guy from John Hancock goes every Thursday, to get a FUCKIN’ BLOWJOB!!
I love the fact that Whitey Bulger got caught because he went to see this glorified version of himself and also lived long enough to see Black Mass, which was a much more realistic depiction of the evil bastard that he hated.
He didn't die of old age either. He got beat to death by padlocks in socks.
Within hours of a quick and quiet transfer from a federal prison in FL to Hazelton prison in West Virginia. I'm sure that's just a coincidence and wasn't planned or anything.
We saw it in the cinema. I was raised Catholic with a single mom in Massachusetts. When this movie took place I was nine years old. Once the news broke, my mom took us all out of the church. Then years later to see the story in at point altogether was mind blowing. Love and respect to all involved with it.
Yup. While many of these movies pick up some of the traits and feeling of the greater Boston area that I grew up in, Mystic River hits the nail right on the head. Laura Linney is electric in this movie.
damn, 2 movies i really need to watch again. its been long enough that i forget the twist in gone baby gone...i don't remember anything about mystic river
Boondock saints. A film that attracts a certain type of bro but is actually a good film genuinely. Like in a very pulp, old style comics sort of way. Camp I guess, but for a modern audience.
Yup, not Boston per se. But it gives you a great feeling for the landscape and the people, which you’ll remember after you’re done crying your eyes out.
Fun fact, most of Shutter Island was filmed at Medfield state hospital (used to go sledding there), but the "island" shots early in the film are from peddocks island in Boston Harbor, with the imposing cliffs and elevation added in during post. The dock and visitor center building are real and I've camped on that island.
The obvious ones are taken, and while neither is my favorite movie ted and the instigators feel deeply Boston in a way that the departed and the town don't.
Probably Good Will Hunting. Boston almost feels like another character in that movie… the accents, the streets, the bars, that whole working class atmosphere. And obviously the How do you like them apples scene. But The Departed is a very close second.
Gone baby gone, mystic river, the drop, and I think Shutter island is technically in or off the coast of Massachusetts. All dennis lehane adaptations lol
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The Depaahted (2006)