Have any of you seen Napoleon Dynamite?

covered in delicious melted cheese?

Oh yeah. Weird. Totally OTM.

(and I am just basing my view on the trailer, I couldn't bring myself to see it)

This could easily be a good thing. Have you seen Happiness? It could stand some neutering.

What I already intensely dislike about this film is the inescapable MTV ad campaign beating you over the head about its studied coolness - irt doesn't even open nationwide for another 4 weeks, so the assult has only begun. Or maybe just because I hated Tenenbaums, and this seems to evoke that for whatever reason... and HAHA it's in the YELLOW/MIXED zone at Metacritic - > http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/napoleondynamite/

"the race politics in this movie were very queasy"
and for obvious reasons, which made it even better

are you sure they weren't talking about ILX??

on a serious note that is exactly how i felt about "being john malkovich", but not at all how i felt about "rushmore". am i to believe that this movie is more similar to malkovich than rushmore??

That was a silly reference to the movie for those who didn't catch it. I really don't think it's the greatest movie EVAH, but I do agree with Vinnie in that Napoleon's not really a likeable character, yet you can't help but relating to him on some understated level. Man, I know that sounded like a crock, but for real...

"are you sure they weren't talking about ILX??"

Haha!

"on a serious note that is exactly how i felt about "being john malkovich", but not at all how i felt about "rushmore". am i to believe that this movie is more similar to malkovich than rushmore??"

The movie's more like Rushmore, although not to the extreme of which you are thinking.

amazing.

It did seem a bit pointless. But it was cute. The ending felt a bit anticlimactic tho -- i thought they should have built up more emotional momentum.

a neutered Todd Solonz would be an amazing gift to the world. Haven't seen Welcome to the Dollhouse but watching Happiness made me realize just how sick I was of semi-talented independent films telling us that "the American dream" and the suburban family were empty gilded husks paraded before the masses in order to lull them into a soulless conformity which in fact masked deep individualistic quirks...manifested mostly by weird sexual fetishes, pedophilia, or filming plastic bags in the wind. Yes, I get it.

Fuck, at least American Beauty was funny. Happiness was more like a drinking game - I swear the goddamn housewife must have said "I'm so happy to be a housewife!" about five times.

That was my favorite line. That, plus, "Tina! Come get some HAM!"

they should have done a short of him dancing and left it at that.

finally got to watch this at the weekend. um I like it.

i might watch it again tonight

It's a great film, inspirational even.

this movie is garbage

Looks pretty bad to me, and a friend of mine walked out of it, describing it as "genuine mean spiritedness disguised as irony. And not funny"

From very near the beginning of the thread, and exactly how I felt when I saw it on TV the other week. I lasted about 45 minutes before turning off.

i still like it. it has nice colours, particularly the blue and the greyish green.

i like sentimental films sometimes

I watched this on DVD a few months ago. Every character had the mindset of an eleven year old, regardless of the age they were supposed to be. And it was consistent about this; it didn't succumb to the temptation to derive its humor from any other source. The tone was remarkably even and contained. I liked that. It gave the film a kind of innocent charm, but as movies go it was a very slight - barely able to stand up in a breeze.

tracer otm

i heard spike lee is directing the sequel

the only funny bit is "tina, get your ham"

I've never liked this or thought it was funny. My guy absolutely loves it. That pretty much sums up our relationship.

TEN FUNNY NAPOLEON DYNAMITE LINES:
1. "This is pretty much the worst video ever made." "Know what Napoleon? You can LEAVE!"
2. "Ow! Jeeeeez!"
3. "Welcome to D-Qwon's Dance Grooves. Are you ready to get your groove on?" "Yes."
4. "It's a piece o' crap! It doesn't work!"
5. "What the flip was Grandma doing at the sand dunes?"
6. "Dang! You got shocks, pegs... lucky!"
7. "Yessssssss."
8. "I like your sleeves. They're real big."
9. "I'm not gonne use hers, you sicko!" "Ugh! Idiot!"
10. "Sure the world wide web is great..."

The music was shitty.

ive never met anyone in real life who doesnt think this movie is hysterical. have any of you? i doubt it.

except the guy who had the friend walk out of it, he doesnt count.

I've never met anyone in real life who talked about this movie at all, thank god.

Yeah maybe but living under a rock has it's own drawbacks.

can anyone help me find my apostrophe? i know i left it around here somewhere.

tracer otm

u dont like friendly things?

i don't think it's friendly, i think it's mean-spirited. pas de lols also. i think it's an indie attempt at a proper funny snl-type movie.

is this the one with the two baby tigers?

-- kephm, Tuesday, June 29, 2004 7:54 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Link

^^^ this seriously cracks me up in a "is this the movie about babies that are geniuses?" way.

whats snl?

saturday night live

ohhh

that makes sense. thats not available over here though is it?

mercifully

imagine little britain with lower production values

well i havent actually seen little britain.

napoleon dynamite had good production values though?

this movie is awful.

you all should see "eagle vs shark" tho to see what horrific damage it has wrought.

the show snl doesn't air in the uk (well it does now, on itv4, very very late but only recently), but snl is behind a lot of movies, and it's useful shorthand for a certain kind of comedy film.

this movie is horrible

The meat-throwing seen is the only thing that remains memorable.

scene

I think this movie pumped a little energy back into Jamiroquai's sales.

I played a Napolean Dynamite drinking game once. It made the movie pleasant enough. Or the movie made the drinking pleasant enough. I have a lot of private, boring hypotheses about the director & his religion.

you should have seen the one about the two baby tigers instead. it's really good.

LOL I love this baby tiger thing. And it was really good. Wasn't that called Harold and Kumar?

Secondhand Lions?

i loved that tiger film.

two brothers

O yeah Two Brothers. That's the one were the baby tiger throws some meat at his brother.

I have a lot of private, boring hypotheses about the director & his religion.

do tell

the movie was called Napoleon And Dynamite The Baby Tigers To Go White Castle, btw

What in the world

A little late?

i like this write-up: http://www.avclub.com/articles/fox-orders-animated-versions-of-napoleon-dynamite,46241/

I might enjoy it if it were about 19-year-old Napoleon on his mission, driving his patient and well-meaning mission companions crazy. I'd enjoy a sitcom about some poorly matched Mormon missionaries, anyway.

That actually sounds like exactly the sort of thing I'd willingly, listlessly watch saturday after saturday as an eight-year-old, drunk on honey-nut-cheerio milk.

It actually seems remarkable how the only component of this nearly ubiquitous movie that has lasted is... jamiroquai. A lot of the talent are still working but I think the most prominent is the actress who played Deb?

Anyway, it was on TV today and I realized nobody thinks about this movie anymore, except if that jamiroquai song comes on some place you're in and you think, oh right, this was in that movie.

always hated this movie but weirdly just saw four dorky looking white guys in their early 20s all wearing VOTE FOR PEDRO T-shirts getting out of car yesterday so I guess it still has it's fans.

i have expunged it from my memory