Napoleon dynamite

[zajac]

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...My buddies and I used to stick stuff on a string out of a bus everyday for about a year before the movie came out... Then the movie came out and people say we are copying the movie... Funny how we live in Boise and the movie was made in a small city about a mere hour or less away... Who knows... The writers might have gotten the idea from seeing us doing that on the bus or something? ~shrug~

[banditcom]

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I loved the movie. It could have EASILY been a very shitty movie, but the people cast for it and their deliveries were spot on.

It's a love-it or hate-it movie though.

[flypie743]

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I liked it. But it wasn't like the best movie I have ever seen...

[hydrojakep]

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It was funny. I was expecting napoleans brother's online girlfriend to be like, a 40 year old man or something though.

[User6773]

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This movie sucked. Hard. Harder than any movie I've ever seen. In fact, it fails on a moral level. Here we have the "bully movie," the movie which gives us the awkward kid to laugh at so we can relive our junior high and high school days, when many of us were either laughing at awkward kids or being the awkward kid ourselves. (No prizes for guessing which category I fell under.)

Are we supposed to love Napoleon, or laugh at him? The movie gives us no reason to love him, and since it doesn't give us Napoleon doing anything particularly funny, if we laugh at him, we are laughing at him because he's a socially inept little urchin, oblivious to the world around him. We laugh at him not because of what he does, but who he is. We lower ourselves to the level of common bullies to find humor in this.

By the end of the movie, is Napoleon supposed to be considered a hero? Are we honestly supposed to believe that Pedro would win the election, or that Napoleon would suddenly become accepted and popular by his classmates? Is this the movie's attempt to bring some closure to a hopeless tale doomed from the first moment of screentime?

Or is the movie's ending meant to make the viewer not feel so bad that he has spent 90 minutes in mean-spirited laughter towards a kid (albeit a fictitious one) who never did anything wrong to begin with? In truth, we should pity Napoleon for never being taught social graces. Roger Ebert got it right. The audience should be watching in stunned silence.

[zajac]

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This movie sucked. Hard. Harder than any movie I've ever seen. In fact, it fails on a moral level. Here we have the "bully movie," the movie which gives us the awkward kid to laugh at so we can relive our junior high and high school days, when many of us were either laughing at awkward kids or being the awkward kid ourselves. (No prizes for guessing which category I fell under.)

Are we supposed to love Napoleon, or laugh at him? The movie gives us no reason to love him, and since it doesn't give us Napoleon doing anything particularly funny, if we laugh at him, we are laughing at him because he's a socially inept little urchin, oblivious to the world around him. We laugh at him not because of what he does, but who he is. We lower ourselves to the level of common bullies to find humor in this.

By the end of the movie, is Napoleon supposed to be considered a hero? Are we honestly supposed to believe that Pedro would win the election, or that Napoleon would suddenly become accepted and popular by his classmates? Is this the movie's attempt to bring some closure to a hopeless tale doomed from the first moment of screentime?

Or is the movie's ending meant to make the viewer not feel so bad that he has spent 90 minutes in mean-spirited laughter towards a kid (albeit a fictitious one) who never did anything wrong to begin with? In truth, we should pity Napoleon for never being taught social graces. Roger Ebert got it right. The audience should be watching in stunned silence.

...No... It was funny...

[Squeek]

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It's called 4th grade humor.

It really only makes you laugh if you have little to no maturity.

Chardish has it right.

~Squeek

[flypie743]

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This movie sucked. Hard. Harder than any movie I've ever seen. In fact, it fails on a moral level. Here we have the "bully movie," the movie which gives us the awkward kid to laugh at so we can relive our junior high and high school days, when many of us were either laughing at awkward kids or being the awkward kid ourselves. (No prizes for guessing which category I fell under.)

Are we supposed to love Napoleon, or laugh at him? The movie gives us no reason to love him, and since it doesn't give us Napoleon doing anything particularly funny, if we laugh at him, we are laughing at him because he's a socially inept little urchin, oblivious to the world around him. We laugh at him not because of what he does, but who he is. We lower ourselves to the level of common bullies to find humor in this.

By the end of the movie, is Napoleon supposed to be considered a hero? Are we honestly supposed to believe that Pedro would win the election, or that Napoleon would suddenly become accepted and popular by his classmates? Is this the movie's attempt to bring some closure to a hopeless tale doomed from the first moment of screentime?

Or is the movie's ending meant to make the viewer not feel so bad that he has spent 90 minutes in mean-spirited laughter towards a kid (albeit a fictitious one) who never did anything wrong to begin with? In truth, we should pity Napoleon for never being taught social graces. Roger Ebert got it right. The audience should be watching in stunned silence.

A perfect example of why you shouldn't analyze movies :P

[zajac]

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You have to give it credit though for being such a hugely popular independent film...

[UWSTopGun]

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People need a sense of humor, not everything is about being matture. It's a COMEDY for a reason, you either don't like it because it's not the kind of funny that makes you laugh or it just happens to be the funny that makes you laugh.

[JurseyRider734]

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I don't care what you all say, Napy Dyno rocks. I know all of the good quotes and I recite them daily.

[User6773]

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A perfect example of why you shouldn't analyze movies :P

Because I'm correct?

[flypie743]

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A perfect example of why you shouldn't analyze movies :P

Because I'm correct?

No, it was a joke

I was saying once you analyze movies you don't enjoy them as much. Well, at least it's that way for me.

[User6773]

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I was saying once you analyze movies you don't enjoy them as much. Well, at least it's that way for me.

Nah, usually I only really analyze movies I didn't like to begin with. I try to figure out why I didn't like them.

I also analyze movies that I love unconditionally, trying to figure out why they work so well.

I'd like to be a critic, though not for a living.

[DataXUnknown]

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I downloaded it, watched it. Big time suck. I barely laughed at it. Everyone else in my neighborhood is crazy in love with this retarded movie. There are very few that hate it, looks like I'm one of them.