Am I the only one who thought Napoleon Dynamite was boring?

[motely36]

I guess I just didn't get it. I laughed a couple times, but for the most part I was just waiting for it to be over.

[Bouncy Ball]

1. Yes, you were.

Clearly your soul is dead.

And your heart is a shriveled prune.

Remember the moment Napoleon was in the Rex Kwon Do trial class and Rex was talking about how important the buddy system is in life, how you need someone helping you, don't go it alone? Remember Napoleon sat up a bit straighter and really seemed to take that in?

It was an easy moment to miss, it was very subtle, but it was the point of the whole film. When you see the rest of it after that, you clearly see that was the theme.

We all need love.

[motely36]

5. don't hate me bouncy ball!

:cry:

different strokes for different folks. :)

[Bouncy Ball]

8. Who can hate you???

You are way too loveable to hate!! EVER!!!!


I know your problem--you didn't watch it with ME. You would have loved it if you had watched it with me.

[MuseRider]

6. Good catch Bouncy!

I did not notice that moment, at least not enough to remember it but that theme was apparent to me from the moment the girl (I am spacing her name, Deb?) showed up at the door selling her braided keychains. In many ways it was a precious movie, it is not a belly grabber for laughs but it most certainly is a painful kind of funny. Good catch. Have some holy chips on me.

[Bouncy Ball]

7. Thank you!

After you've seen it seven times, you tend to pick up on little things.

Mmmmm, holy chips!

[MuseRider]

9. WOW 7 times?

I saw it at the theater with my oldest son the first time but it was my youngest son who really loved the film so he got it for his birthday so I watched it the second time with him then and heard it going in the background a couple of other times before he left but was not paying attention. Did you see him on Letterman doing the Top Ten? I just crack up everytime he ducks his head and runs off. I had a younger brother who could have been Uncle Rico. It is a true tale of everyones childhood from one point of view or another.

[Bryan]

2. No, a lot of people seem to hate it

...which I don't understand. I thought it was a brilliantly tongue-in-cheek slice-of-life comedy in the vein of King of the Hill (the animated series, not the Soderbergh film). My reaction may have been colored by the fact that, like the title character, I grew up in a dull strip-mall town, so liking the film may be dependent on a certain element of regional comedy-of-recognition.

[hippiechick]

3. Me, me ....

I guess because I WAS such a dweeb in high school, I didn't see anything redeeming or unique about the movie or the characters.

It just seemed like a page out of my puberty.



:hippie:

[Az]

4. The pacing was bad

There were lots of funny moments intercut with periods of nothing. The characters are wonderful but the editting wrecked it for me.