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Title: Napoleon Dynamite
Post by: Random Citizen on July 16, 2004, 03:27:00 pm
Opens at AFI Silver tonight (http://www.afi.com/silver/new/nowplaying/2004/v1i11/napol.aspx)
 
 AFI Silver is also doing a British horror film series (http://www.afi.com/silver/new/nowplaying/2004/v1i11/bloodyhellseries.aspx), including Lair of the White Worm.
Title: Re: Napoleon Dynamite
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on July 16, 2004, 03:33:00 pm
Anybody going to see the Corporation?
Title: Re: Napoleon Dynamite
Post by: smakawhat on July 16, 2004, 03:51:00 pm
Coporation is on my list, I hope most of you got out to see "The Control Room" aside from all this F-911 madness.
 
 Saw Napoleon Dynamite at a free screener, friggin hillarious.
Title: Re: Napoleon Dynamite
Post by: eilo97 on July 16, 2004, 04:50:00 pm
napoleon dynamite is great, i highly recommend it to everyone!!
Title: Re: Napoleon Dynamite
Post by: granita on July 16, 2004, 10:33:00 pm
instead of seeing this last night in bethesda, i saw the notebook.
 
 i liked the notebook.
 never mind, i liked ryan gosling.
 
 i plan on seeing napoleon dynamite asap. the commercials make me laugh.
Title: Re: Napoleon Dynamite
Post by: Bags on July 17, 2004, 10:42:00 am
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Originally posted by smakawhat:
  Coporation is on my list, I hope most of you got out to see "The Control Room" aside from all this F-911 madness.
both are on my list, along with F-911, but alas I have so little time to catch a movie.  It's probably raining Sunday, and I have to take advantage -- Spidey 2!!
Title: Re: Napoleon Dynamite
Post by: Random Citizen on July 28, 2004, 11:03:00 pm
Finally got to see Napoleon Dynamite tonight. It was great!! So many quotable lines throughout and very funny. Tomorrow is the last night of its run at the AFI, so I'm going to see it again.
Title: Re: Napoleon Dynamite
Post by: samanthaalison on July 29, 2004, 01:05:00 am
eh it was okay
Title: Re: Napoleon Dynamite
Post by: Seth Hurwitz on July 30, 2004, 06:40:00 am
I hated it
 
 walked out, in fact
Title: Re: Napoleon Dynamite
Post by: Dandy01 on July 30, 2004, 03:24:00 pm
I found it hilarious at first, then it got a little old but I'd recommend it for anyone looking for a quirky nerd movie!  (tried to hit that free screening but it filled up before we could say napoleon)
Title: Re: Napoleon Dynamite
Post by: Random Citizen on July 30, 2004, 03:31:00 pm
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Originally posted by Dandy01:
  I found it hilarious at first, then it got a little old but I'd recommend it for anyone looking for a quirky nerd movie!  (tried to hit that free screening but it filled up before we could say napoleon)
I guess that's why I liked it so much...I am a quirky nerd. The epilogue was recently added, so those who do see it should stay until the very end because the extra footage doesn't begin until after the credits.
 
 Seeing it a second time allowed me to not focus so much on the obvious (Napoleon's mannerisms, for example) and to pay attention to the details...the clothing, the music, the scenery. Plus, it allowed me to figure out what that old dude was saying after Napoleon and the other boys started chowing down on the egg dishes. *ugh*
Title: Re: Napoleon Dynamite
Post by: Lamb007 on July 30, 2004, 04:05:00 pm
Vastly overrated.  Tried to be Welcome To The Dollhouse but failed miserably.
Title: Re: Napoleon Dynamite
Post by: Dandy01 on July 30, 2004, 04:12:00 pm
I agree that it doesn't top Welcome to the Dollhouse, one of my all-time favorites.
Title: Re: Napoleon Dynamite
Post by: Lamb007 on July 30, 2004, 04:15:00 pm
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Originally posted by Dandy01:
  I agree that it doesn't top Welcome to the Dollhouse, one of my all-time favorites.
It just felt forced...like it was trying to hard to show us how quirky it was without much thought of anything else (character development, story, etc.)  All would have been forgiven if it was funny.  But it wasn't.  It just felt like one of those one note Saturday Night Live sketches that falls flat and goes nowhere.
Title: Re: Napoleon Dynamite
Post by: Random Citizen on July 30, 2004, 04:21:00 pm
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Originally posted by Lamb007:
  Vastly overrated.  Tried to be Welcome To The Dollhouse but failed miserably.
I don't see that attempt in the film at all. If the director wanted to go the Solondz route, something bit more bizarre than the meek older brother hooking up with a 6' black chick would have happened. And Napoleon probably wouldn't have landed Deb.
 
 To me, it seemed as if the viewer was getting a glimpse at what happens in this Idaho town...nothing, absolutely nothing. This is how they live their lives, wearing outdated pastels, doing "Happy Hands" and probably not knowing the wiser.
Title: Re: Napoleon Dynamite
Post by: Bags on July 30, 2004, 05:03:00 pm
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Originally posted by Lamb007:
 It just felt like one of those one note Saturday Night Live sketches that falls flat and goes nowhere.
It is astounding just how illustrative that description is.  I can picture it...no, no, I can feel it.