Everywhere I go, I hear how funny this movie was. How memorable the characters and punchlines were.

My coworkers, at least once a month, will reminisce on this waste of celluloid with glee and warmth.

I hate it. I felt extremely let down when I finally saw. Didn't seem half as funny as the previews made it.

What gives? What is the magic of Napoleon Dynamite?

I thought it was overrated too....some parts were funny. I mainly laughed because Napoleon kinda looked like a childhood friend of mine

I agree. The film, to put it mildly, fucking blows.

It isn't laugh-out-loud funny but it gives me a nice feeling.

AnckSuNamun said:

Yeah, he looks like a white, redheaded version of my cousin, at times. That was mildly -- ok, very -- amusing. But, the other parts of it? I could've done without.

Justin1972UK said:

I kept waiting for it to be funny. It just never got there.

VoicesCarry said:

blows well damn I didn't think it was a bad movie.....just blown out of proportion

ThreadBare said:

I think if it catches you by surprise you'd enjoy it more. BUT when it's been hyped to death it can be a letdown. Watch it again when you have some down time, you might find yourself giggling. But it's not nearly the laugh riot people say it is, enjoyable flick though

AnckSuNamun said:

It's one of my Emperor Has No Clothes films. You know, where everyone tells you "OMG, it's like the best thing EVAR" and then you see it and it's a turd.

I think they did it on a shoe-string budget, and I know they made millions, all with very little fanfare, mainly word-of-mouth. I guess the producers couldn't care less what a few people on some forum say

GaryTheNoTrashCougar said:

Another Emperor Has No Clothes film: The Blair Witch Project. I was yawnin' all the way through that one. Shaky cameras do not a horror movie make.

I dont think the previews look funny so I doubt this film is for me. He looks like that fucktard out of The Toxic Avenger.

VoicesCarry said:

Copy and Paste previous comment here

GaryTheNoTrashCougar said:

I blame Peter Travers. "SCARY AS HELL!!!" WTF was he on, anyway.

VoicesCarry said:

ok yeah...Blair Witch just sucked....part two was even worse.

SammiJ said:

yep

luv4u said:

If you two are taking up for the film, expound please.


Thanks.

Another thing: Jon Heder is such a goddamn one-note actor. All he's done since this film is play different versions of Napoleon. He has no range whatsoever, and looks and talks like a total dumbass. It may seem like I'm being harsh, but it's the truth. Watch Just Like Heaven or The Benchwarmers, and it's all the same bullshit.

CalhounSq said:

yes! I saw this in theaters when it first came out - before any of my friends had seen it, before most people had caught on. I thought it was very quirky and quite funny! But my enjoyment was soon killed by people over-hyping the shit out of it.

I appreciate its quirk -- the music, especially. If it's a fair representation of an artist's thought or concept, then cool.


The only other film to leave me feeling so unfulfilled (cinematically -- it's not *that* deep ) was "I Heart Huckabees." That was horrible.

ThreadBare said:

Yet ANOTHER EHNC film!

ThreadBare said:

I have NO desire to see that film. at all. ever. I hope I am boiled alive before I'm forced to see it.

Natsume said:

Yeah, I got sucked in, thinking: "Well, I like his other films..." Oh, goodness.

It reeked. And, it just kept getting worse. What a waste of a cast.

VoicesCarry said:

VC, we're going to have to compare lists.

ThreadBare said:

Shopgirl was pretty shit, too.

VoicesCarry said:

I wasn't going for that premise. Just hearing Steve Martin talk about it gave me the creeps. Some things surpass cliché. Shopgirl seemed like such a film (read "mid-life crisis vehicle").

ThreadBare said:

Another movie I failed to see the importance of was Lost In Translation. Bill Murray has certainly been making a recent career out of playing the Depleted Man, and indeed went on from LIT to play the exact same character in Broken Flowers. I call Sofia Coppola's bluff: The dialogue simply wasn't that deep, the characters simply not that interesting. The only great thing about that film was the ending, which was beautifully handled.

VoicesCarry said:

This is frightening because when I went to netflix to add Men Beneath the Sun as mentioned on the horror films thread, I added Shopgirl on a whim cause netflix suggested it and it sounded semi-interesting. Maybe I should go remove it.