wtf
troy is a fucking VERITABLE legend, and a genuine one too, not a 'mediaa construct' variety.
bro i could go on and on forever about this. troy is the real deal.
can't believe there are no posts here lol.
damn i miss the old days of imdb boards
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Success seemed to go to his head pretty quickly, if that documentary about him has truth to it.
shareyeah it did. but that was 25 years ago and he long since turned that around.
but even with the doc blemish he still always had a massive following and that's why it surpried me no posts here.
i think he is an incredible talent and wish he had done more, but the fallout with harvey prevented that.
also, as much as i admire the guy and support him, the messiness with the doc etc is hella entertaining stuff. it actually adds to the whole vibe, overall; ie the irony of a prodigy this supremely talented being colored by a dark side with all the accompanying drama (harvey etc)
his whole journey fascinates me.
one last point. troy is completely different now. if you catch his interviews and youtubes he comes off kind and considerate. he truly learned from his past and made amends.
well , at least your post has alerted me to new TV show "The Boondock Saints: Origins"
I say new because its classed as "in development"
however I see on its MC page
https://moviechat.org/tt6824596/The-Boondock-Saints-Origins
There is a post from 4 years ago me commenting on it .
I have no memory of that
i noticed that too yesterday when i went to his imdb
been YEARS since i peeked at his page
feels like several lifetimes ago when saints was trending and troy was making the sequel. i only camt to this board yesterday because saints was on HBO yesterday and i caught the ending and it lured me right in, so that got me windering what troy is up to.
times sure have changed. titles can sit on a director's page for ten years. i miss the old days when movies ruled the landscape.
There isn't much to say. He's a one-hit wonder director who made a divisive cult film 25 years ago, burned all bridges by being a massive asshole before the film even got finished, and hasn't done much of anything since besides make a sequel to said cult film and write a few no-name scripts.
sharei think the first film was truly inspired. yeah he suffered from 'unforced errors' early on and got black balled but for me still i thought there'd be more activity here, since he has a considerable following. that's all i was saying.
but for me, yeah i am a huge fan. and he has changed a lot, total overhaul.
i thought the sequel was well below the quality of the first film, and haven't seen any of his other stuff.
for me troy reminds me of the great vibe indie had in the 90s on into the early 2000s. i enjoyed that era so much, and hated to see it all fizzle away.
his name/story is a sort of time capsule for me, bringing back fond memories of better days for the film industry. plus, i consider the first saints movie to be a virtuoso effort;
--the quality stands on its own, proof is in the pudding
--uncanny how everything lined up to make it so good
--shocking that it was from a complete first timer
--incredible how it received so little attention, ironically due to his own doing
Thought it was Kevin James when i saw the profile pic.
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