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Carni Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 10:28 PM
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Maybe it's just me...but I thought "Napoleon Dynamite"
Was knee slapping funny...

I watched it tonight (twice with my nine year old)and we literally laughed until we cried.

My husband, however, thought it was one of the most asinine movies he has ever seen.

Do I need meds? LOL
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HeyManThatsCool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 10:29 PM
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1. I tihnk it was one of the best movies ever
Soooooooooooo freakin funny.


Tina you fat lard! Eat!
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Carni Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 10:57 PM
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20. Tina and her disgust for the food was hilarious
I love animal schtick lol
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Mr. Blonde Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 10:30 PM
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2. I find it more fun to quote than to watch
but it is quite funny.
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mondo joe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 10:30 PM
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3. It's a fantastic movie
And how many movies can you name that you AND your 9 year old can both enjoy so much?
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Carni Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 10:59 PM
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22. Not many!
I kept thinking any minute now I am going to have to FF and the moment never came. It was a great movie for everyone IMO
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deadparrot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 10:32 PM
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4. It was pretty good...
better than what I was expecting. Very subtle...you have to have a certain kind of humor to "get" it.

But I thought it was damn good, for what it was.
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Leftist78 Donating Member (609 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 10:33 PM
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5. awesome
funniest movie of the year
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Enraged_Ape Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 10:34 PM
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6. I think I laughed more in the days following the movie...
when I remembered things in it, like that uncle videotaping himself throwing touchdown passes.
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mondo joe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 10:36 PM
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9. I still laugh about Uncle Rico's look imagining he's "absolutely weightles
I still laugh about Uncle Rico's look imagining he's "absolutely weightless, in the ocean, surrounded by a million tiny seahorses".
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HeyManThatsCool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 10:38 PM
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10. I love when Uncle Rico says his g/f broke up with him b/c he was
living "too much in 82"
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Bouncy Ball Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 10:39 PM
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11. "She was just JEALOUS."
Said I was living too much in '82.

LMAO

While he kept looking at his biceps.
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mondo joe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 10:42 PM
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13. The actor who played Uncle Rico is a vegan
So he had to spit out all the steak and milk.

Which reminds me, I love his SCREAM when Napoleon throws a grapefruit (?) at his van.
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HeyManThatsCool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 10:46 PM
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15. you've been ruining everybody's lives and eating all our steak!
LOL
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Bouncy Ball Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 10:46 PM
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16. You and my husband would get along well
that was his favorite part, his little high-pitched scream when the grapefruit hits his windshield.
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Carni Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 11:04 PM
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24. I LOVED that scene!
I guess I just love the combination of slapstick and dry humor lol
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Carni Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 11:02 PM
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23. My fave with him was when the Dodge van was *fruited*
By ND and then when he tried to turn it off it kept *dieseling*
(Damn I think I am really old to recall those old vehicles lol)
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Bouncy Ball Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 10:40 PM
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12. God, that was one of my FAVORITE parts of the movie.
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Bouncy Ball Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 10:35 PM
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7. I have watched it about nine times.
And bought it on DVD. We say the lines to each other all the time. Just tonight, we said "Napoleon, make yourself a DARN quesadilla!"

If I'm sick, I don't care, I LOVE that movie.

Just might have to watch it again tonight.
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qnr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 10:36 PM
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8. Took me a while, but even with my incipient senility, I was able to
figure out that Deb was Enola from Waterworld.


I'm so proud of myself. {cough}

I agree, it was a great movie.
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HeyManThatsCool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 10:45 PM
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14. Did u watch the deleted scenes? The 1 where they are playing kickball
is HILARIOUS!!!!!!!!!! My 10 year old nephew and I were ROLLING on the floor laughing.... literally.


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Bouncy Ball Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 10:47 PM
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17. There was a line about him knowing secret government moves right?
I loved that scene.
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HeyManThatsCool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 10:58 PM
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21. Yep
When he says
"Hey Don, did you crap the bed last night?"

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mondo joe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 10:53 PM
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19. I'm so in love with the Holy Chip deleted scene
I think all the deleted scenes should have been in the movie - but especially that one.
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Carni Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 11:06 PM
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25. No, I haven't yet but will
I bought the DVD (ah - hem for my daughter supposedly)
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HeyManThatsCool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 10:49 PM
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18. Take the quiz!!!!!! Funny
Edited on Mon Feb-14-05 11:01 PM by HeyManThatsCool




Take this quiz: Which Napoleon Character are You?

Mine came back: You are Trisha and your mom goes to college.

http://quizilla.com/users/retromex/quizzes/Which%20Napoleon%20Dynamite%20character%20are%20you%3F/
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Carni Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 11:14 PM
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26. Oh no...I took that quiz and I am Deb
No wonder I liked that film lol
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