Napoleon Dynamite

[carsonshepherd]

I was told the movie is "boy humor" but I disagree since I know quite a few girls who really liked it.

Who's seen it? Do you think it's "boy humor?"

 

[logophile]

Haven't seen it.
But Carson's a genius.
And super-sexy too.

 

[carsonshepherd]

Haven't seen it.
But Carson's a genius.
And super-sexy too.

True. *nods*

 

[Celtic Princess]

I don't like your poll options. You need more polling experience. *nods*




You forgot the mandatory "I like porn!" option.

 

[carsonshepherd]

I don't like your poll options. You need more polling experience. *nods*




You forgot the mandatory "I like porn!" option.

I substituted "carson is a genius", can't you read?

 

[TxRad]

I was told the movie is "boy humor" but I disagree since I know quite a few girls who really liked it.

Who's seen it? Do you think it's "boy humor?"

Living in the sticks the way I do, I don't have a clue.... Never heard of it....

 

[juanjsojr]

it sucks

the movie sucks it was stupid

 

[Celtic Princess]

I substituted "carson is a genius", can't you read?

Who? Me? Read?



lol


I just pretend.

 

[OhMissScarlett]

I think it appeals to any of us who were outcasts or geeks or knew people who were so endearingly socially retarded. Not that we were, we were too fuckin sexy for high school.

P.S. I can't get my child to stop yelling "Vote For Pedro" or to quit putting tater tots in his pocket since we watched that movie.

P.S.S. You brought Juan back from the dead with this thread.

 

[carsonshepherd]

I Tater Tots!

 

[Liar]

I think it appeals to any of us who were outcasts or geeks or knew people who were so endearingly socially retarded.

Xcept it doesn't. It laughs at them. (er, make that "us") In the guise of laughing with them.

P.S.S. You brought Juan back from the dead with this thread.

Even freakier, I agree with him.



Tater Tots kicks ass though.

 

[OhMissScarlett]

Xcept it doesn't. It laughs at them. (er, make that "us") In the guise of laughing with them.

Even freakier, I agree with him.

Tater Tots kicks ass though.

See, I think it's all about geek empowerment. It's a Revenge Of The Nerds for the new millienium. Oh yes, and it's stupid. I stupid.

 

[Liar]

It's a Revenge Of The Nerds for the new millienium.

Yep. Same thing there.

Anyhoo, Tater Tots.

 

[Dar~]

I really enjoyed it when I finally watched it. Thanks for the reccomend.

 

[yourkiddinme]

GOD I love this movie! And "heck yeah", it is so stupid that it is actually drop down funny!!

PS "Vote for Pedro"

PSS "But my lips hurt real BADDDDD!!"

 

[dr_mabeuse]

It's become one of my all-time favorite movies. Kids like it and adults like it. Pretty remarkable for a movie without animation or animals. (Okay, so there'a a llama. And a liger.)

It's hip and it's sweet, and I'm such a sap that the dance scene still chokes me up every time I see it. There's not a bad line in it, and it's one of those rare movies that gets better each time you see it. Heder was brilliant. Rico was brilliant. So was Kip and La Fawnda. They were all brilliant

It's showing up on cable now. Everyone should see it.

 

[Belegon]

Biplaymate420 was the one who got me to watch it and she is as female as they come...so it's not just "boy humor"

 

[gauchecritic]

Gosh

Napoleon has mass appeal in a very simillar way to 'The Office'

It's cringey. While laughing at the 'aawww' parts it also makes you feel 'eeoow'.

So why don't you go home and tell your mom to shuddup.

 

[Quiet_Cool]

It's become one of my all-time favorite movies. Kids like it and adults like it. Pretty remarkable for a movie without animation or animals. (Okay, so there'a a llama. And a liger.)

It's hip and it's sweet, and I'm such a sap that the dance scene still chokes me up every time I see it. There's not a bad line in it, and it's one of those rare movies that gets better each time you see it. Heder was brilliant. Rico was brilliant. So was Kip and La Fawnda. They were all brilliant

It's showing up on cable now. Everyone should see it.

*editing list of movies to watch*

1. Schindler's List
2. Napoleon Dynamite
3. The Passion of the Christ
4. ....

Q_C

 

[Penelope Street]

I liked it, but I didn't love it. Sure, it's kinda sweet and amusing once in a while, but I didn't think it was that good.

 

[carsonshepherd]

I watched it in Spanish last night

 

[carsonshepherd]

*editing list of movies to watch*

1. Schindler's List
2. Napoleon Dynamite
3. The Passion of the Christ
4. ....

Q_C

take ofs "Passion of the Christ" and instead watch "Last Temptation of Christ" if you haven't.

 

[Guest]

take ofs "Passion of the Christ" and instead watch "Last Temptation of Christ" if you haven't.

my daughter's boyfriend manages a local video store...
he put passion of the christ in the comedy section.
genius.

 

[Samandiriel]

the movie sucks it was stupid

speaking of tater tots.......

 

[dr_mabeuse]

I liked it, but I didn't love it. Sure, it's kinda sweet and amusing once in a while, but I didn't think it was that good.

When my kids wanted me to see it, I was gritting my teeth, because it really seemed like it was going to be another one of those formulaic high-school trauma movies that are endemic to the Disney channel: high school misfits are reviled by the spoiled and rich in-crowd but triumph at the end and gain the holy grail of high-school angst-movies: popularity. If you've got teen-aged girls in the house, you've probably seen enough of these movies to make you want to scream: "There's more to life than popularity!"

And that's just what the movie shows. Napoleon may be a geek (though I never thought of him that way), but he's also a hero, and a hero on his own terms. There were so many times when the movie could have degenerated into pathos, but it never does.

It also has the kind of humor I particularly like: the comedy of the everyday weirdness of people. It's the same kind of humor you see in Christopher Guest movies like "Best In Show" and "Waiting for Guffman," observational humor. It treats all its characters with such affection. You've got to be rooting for Kip and La Fawnda at the end.

It's a feel-good movie that's still hip, and that's very rare. The closest I can come to it are the Guest movies.