I finally got to see Napoleon Dynamite and I have a question:

[Ilsa]

How many DUers realized the football- hustler- crazy Uncle Rico wore his hair like Joe Namath?

BTW, I absolutely LOVED the movie. Talking about it makes me weep with laughter.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

1. I never got it...

There were a few funny parts...but very little plot and not point to the movie at all.
Duckie

[tinfoilinfor2005]

2. I just kind of sat through it staring dumbly at the screen

until he started dancing. Then it cracked me up. Now I have to watch it every time it is on. I had the same reaction to Beatlejuice. First time through I thought it was weird and creepy. But I was driven to watch it again and again and now it is one of my favorites.

[Pithlet]

4. Hm, maybe I should give it another try.

Friends of mine who have similar tastes loved it and told me I had to see it, it's hilarious. I really expected to like it, but I just didn't get it.

[Ilsa]

5. The age thing:

I'm old for a "teen" movie, yet there were so many elements of this that spoke to me, like I was in high school again in a small, backward school. The prejudiced principal, not having a car, crappy cafeteria food, even with dietary changes being made for health reasons, being a klutz who must have recently grown so tall, asking for rides, all of these things are what generations of kids go through.

The Joe Namath hairstyle on Uncle Rico cracked me up. Yet he used 1990's slang. The nerdy brother named Kip who had been e-corresponding with "LaFawndah", and how she changed his appearance and behavior, but he was still pathetic.

[Pithlet]

7. Ah, well. Could be.

A lot of people my age love it, though. I'm a gen-xer. It feels so weird to be one of the ones that doesn't get it. I'm usually the opposite. Guess I'd better get used to it. Now I know how my parents always felt.

[ghostsofgiants]

8. The first time I saw it I thought it was the dumbest movie ever.

The second time I saw it, I laughed my ass off.

[2bfree]

3. Well yeah!

I guess that shows my age. :) There are two kinds of people in the world people who think ND was funny and those who don't get it.

[tinfoilinfor2005]

10. I think you're right about the age thing. I'm sixty and I loved it.

When I was forty, I doubt if I would have liked it. Middle aged parent type of people are so out of it. Glad I'm over THAT age group!

[Lex]

11. I'm 41 and I loved it!

It was hilarious.


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[SPKrazy]

6. I Loved The Movie, And It Was Filmed Near Where I Grew Up

filmed in Preston Idaho

Logan Utah is just south of there and I recognized the landmarks

it is a great movie

[BarenakedLady]

9. Loved it!

But appreciated more on subsequent viewings.

[Yavin4]

12. The Prom Scene Did It for Me

That was the sweetest, most romantic scene that I've ever seen in a movie.

[youthere]

13. "I like your sleeves...they're real big"

:rofl: