I just watched "Napoleon Dynamite". Please. Someone give me back the last 2 hours of my life.

[GreenPartyVoter]

What was up with the 80s setting with all the modern anachronistic things in it, anyway?

[fizzgig]

1. i said the same thing as i left the theater

i don't get why everyone found it so funny

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. Hubby and I are scratching our heads. Give me "Freaks and Geeks" any day for 80s nostalgia. Thought

this would go with our weird collection of "The Mexican", "Machstick Men", "Bandits" etc.. but NO!

[mwooldri]

3. Worst Film I've Ever Watched. Enough said. nt

[Frank Cannon]

4. If you ever lived in Idaho, you'd understand

Most places here are about ten to twenty years behind the times. No one seems to find this strange.

I thought that movie captured the zeitgeist perfectly.

[lost-in-nj]

5. I watched it to

LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

sorry.....
VOTE FOR PEDRO!!!!!!!!!!!

lost


sorry

bad lost.... bad girl....

[DarkTirade]

6. It's hit or miss. Some love it, some just heard a VROOM as it flew right past 'em.

[Shine]

7. Follow your heart. That's what I do.

:rofl: We love that movie! It's so stupid, it's hilarious, in it's own twisted way. Yes, we actually own it, too. :D

[Redbear]

8. I love it.

Its a modern setting, not the 80s.

[Rabrrrrrr]

9. I loved it - thought it was frakking hilarious!

[deucemagnet]

10. I had the same reaction the first time I watched it...

...then I laughed my ass off the second time. You might want to give it another chance in the future.

[Generic Brad]

11. How about a "Liger" instead?

See, it's half lion and half -- oh, never mind.

[Pushed To The Left]

12. One of my favorite movies of all time!

I just watched it for probably the 4th or 5th time last night..still love it!

[ghostsofgiants]

13. I said the same thing the first time I watched it.

Then I ended up watching it a second time and laughed my ass off.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

14. "If you vote for me, all of your wildest dreams will come true."

:-)

[stuntcat]

15. NO, it is lost

:hi:
I liked the movie alright, once was probably enough times to see it though.
I really really like the one who plays the girlfriend, Tina Majorino-

[GreenPartyVoter]

16. I agree. She was cute :^)

[LynzM]

17. I had the same reaction.

People keep telling me I need to watch it a second time for it to be funny... I've yet to take them up on the challenge.

[fujiyama]

18. I had no clue what the hell I had seen after watching it the first time

I loved it the second time, and when I saw part of it today, I realized why I liked it. The people looked the most real of any teen film or show I had seen. They didn't all look like models (like all the other TV shows). Plus, I liked the quirky innocence. I don't see that very often in films.

Granted, I never saw Freaks and Geeks, but heard great things about that...

[GreenPartyVoter]

19. If you liked this film, you will love the character of Bill on F&G. :^D

[Nevernose]

20. I had to watch it a few times before I thought it was funny.

Now I think it's brilliant. There's just something about the earnestness of them all that's simultaneously appealing and ridiculous. It's got a certain absurdist quality to it, too: for instance, "I caught you this delicious bass."

[Connonym]

21. I loved how deadpan everything was

I'm a Napoleon lover I guess. I'll trade you the 2 hours I spent watching Flip This House with my mom this weekend. Deal?

[GreenPartyVoter]

22. LOL Naw, I don't think I want that either. But that was nice of you to watch a

show with mom. :)

[last_texas_dem]

23. I agree

I didn't see the big deal about that one. I feel like it was one of those movies that received rave reviews more for being something quirky and different than for actually being all that spectacular. There are some funny parts, but they're actually more funny quoted out of context than in the context of actually sitting through the two hour movie. I agree with the critic who said the movie was more like a string of sometimes funny, mostly not-that-great comedy skits strung together to make up a full-length movie. FWIW, I did sit through it a second time. It made a little more sense, but it wasn't any funnier.

Oh yeah, and the "stuck in the past" thing kind of weirded me out, too. I think the movie was supposed to be set in the present, but where Napoleon lives is just supposed to be very backwards. I'm from a fairly backward part of the country (East Texas), but it's doubtful any place in the US is even anywhere near that far out of time. I mean, it's rural America, not a third world country, right? Having never been to Idaho myself, though, who knows? (And yeah, I know it's just a movie, but I just thought that aspect was too unrealistic to be believed.)

Anyway, that's just my take. I know I'm in the minority on this one.

[Frank Cannon]

25. I've lived in Idaho AND East Texas

And yes, many parts of Idaho ARE that backward. They make any place in East Texas look like Fritz Lang's Metropolis.

[JCMach1]

24. One of the best comedies of the 00's

That is all...