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Stay away from Napoleon Dynamite

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My God was that bad. Everyone told me it was "Raising Arizona" funny. It is sooooooooooooooooooooo not funny. And what sucks is the actors all fit their characters and it should have been hillarious, but it was like every scene should have been funny, but they stopped at that point where you see that it could have been funny but they stopped. I want the last two hours of my friggin life back. This was THE HULK all over again. How did this movie get the reviews that it did? How did it make the money it did?
 
IMO this was one of the funniest movies I have seen. I posted my review in the other thread for it that MIMI provided but I will here also.

"One of the funniest films of the year, easily.

The story revolves around a nerd and his weird family in a small town in the United States. The kid is a true nerd who doesn't see himself as one, and that's what is so funny.

Wait until you see the performance by the guy playing ND's brother. Fucking hilarious.

"Pedro" becomes ND's best friend and runs for school president....you cannot miss this film. I don't smoke pot, but if you do, see this film when high.

Highly recommended."
 
I thought this was one of the all time FUNNIEST movies I've ever seen, hell I'm buying a copy tomorrow and I already ordered my "Vote For Pedro" shirt! People hated most of my favorite comedies when they were new, then they ALL became cult classics; Harold and Maude, Shakes the Clown, Super Troopers, etc. You definitely can't please everyone, some folks think Jerry Maguire was a good movie (yick).

Um, the Grudge scared the crap outta me and my friends, we voted it best horror film this year; I'm truly yet respectfully befuddled by those who weren't freaked by that film :wow:

Bella
 
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OMG~I LOVED Super Troopers! I bought it, it was so hysterical..."Give me your license and registration, chicken fucker!"

XOXO
 
bella said:
Um, the Grudge scared the crap outta me and my friends, we voted it best horror film this year; I'm truly yet respectfully befuddled by those who weren't freaked by that film :wow:

Bella
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LOL...sorry, Bella. In no way did I intend to imply anything about those who DID enjoy it. Lazzy and I tend to be old school mega horror buffs, and it wasn't that the movie was BAD, it was that they tried to cram WAY too much into the time frame. They could have accomplished a lot more with less.

I have high hopes for the upcoming Amityville Horror remake, though! 😀 😀 😀

Mimi
 
steph said:
OMG~I LOVED Super Troopers! I bought it, it was so hysterical..."Give me your license and registration, chicken fucker!"

XOXO
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"I'd like a liter of cola"

" Meow? Did I just say meow? Do I look like a fucking cat to you?"
 
"Is there something I could do for you, or perhaps something my wife could do to you, Officer???"

XOXO
 
I loved shakes the clown. I liked super troopers, but I actually like Reno 911 better. It was just. I was expecting this to be Raising Arizona funny and I maybe laughed a few times. The person I took hated it, and hates me for saying "let's go to it. I heard it is funny." I now owe her a chick flick. The last time this happened I had to sit through "the girl with the pearl earing". My god I am still wipping off the sleep from the inside of my eyelids from that one. Made it through five minutes of that fiasco before I was pulling an Al Bundy and was sawing logs. And here I am stuck in this situation again. "Damn you Napoleon!" But I literally thought a few things were funny. I thought the cast was perfect, it just felt like the director yelled "Print that" and stopped shooting before the take that would have been the funny one. No one even laughed except for a couple of times in the theater, and it was packed with people that like that kind of movie. Maybe it just isn't my style of humor, but I just didn't get it. I got what they where doing, and I have got other movies that were like that, but I just didn't get this one. The characters weren't quirky enough for me to think it was funny. It was like they were so close but stopped short. I mean, I was expecting the girl that the brother was dating from online to end up being a travestite, and when that didn't happen I was like "No! They missed the perfect...NOOOOO!" I did laugh at Dedrich Bader scenes. And little Tina Majorino has grown up since Waterworld. I also had no idea that Uncle Rico was Jon Gries. I liked him in Fright Night 2 and The Pretender. See this is what is making me mad. They were so close. Don't get me wrong. I really wanted to like this movie, I just thought it was too serious I guess, and I didn't get it. There were just too many quirky people in here to make Napoleon stand out among them. It was like Raising Arizona, but the quirky people in there were funny. These guys were just bad carbon copies. And here is another thing I didn't get. The lady who showed up on the bike at the end where Uncle Rico was. Was that the Tupperwear lady who made her daughter go to the dance with Napoleon? And if it was, wasn't the guy who ansered the door when Napoleon when to pick the daughter up that lady's husband? I had no idea that Summer was Hailey Duff until the credits.

I guess this is what other people see when I laugh my ass off at "Big Trouble In Little China". I saw it in the theater and thought Carpenter lost it. Then I saw it again when it came out on video and I got it. I laughed my ass off at Kur Russell and his lines. As a movie, it is a stinker. But if you watch it for Kurt Russel and the lines and his delivery, it is a classic.

This is also I guess what people don't get when I watch Bill Murray in "Where The Buffalo Roam". It isn't that funny a movie except for Bill Murray who is hillarious portraying Thompson. And the Football game with the cleaning lady, the room service guy and the midget makes me laugh every time I see it. "Get the tap off of the God damn phone. What do you think your palying with, children here!"

I guess I was also expeting "Better Off Dead". In fact, now that I think about it, this film kind of ripped off "Better Off Dead" in alot of ways. It was also too predictable to me. I knew right after I saw Uncle Rico hawking tupperwear and Diedrich Bader's scene that eventually they would meet in the movie.

But this Napoleon movie I didn't get.
 
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Well, while we're reviewing movies here, don't bother with "Shaun of the Dead". I heard for months how this was suppose to be so hysterical.....and it wasn't. In fact, the first half hour only revolves around the 2 losers and how messed up their lives are. Even when the zombies show up, it's still boring.
I did think "Better Off Dead" was really good, as well as "Where the Buffalo Roam and "Big Trouble in Little China".
And you can't go wrong with "Raising Arizona":

"Ya got any of those balloons.....that make the funny shapes?"
"No sir.....unless you think round is funny."


Drew
 
TklDuo-Drew said:
Well, while we're reviewing movies here, don't bother with "Shaun of the Dead". I heard for months how this was suppose to be so hysterical.....and it wasn't. In fact, the first half hour only revolves around the 2 losers and how messed up their lives are. Even when the zombies show up, it's still boring.
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😱 It's a good thing there's not a stronger British contingent round here to bash some sense into you with a cricket bat... 😛
 
Mimi said:
LOL...sorry, Bella. In no way did I intend to imply anything about those who DID enjoy it.
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Don't apologize hon, I wasn't offended! We're all different and different things scare us; it just floors me when something really creeps me out and somebody else just yawns 😛 My good friend Nicole thought The Ring was totally un-scary, meanwhile I was under the sofa afraid to look at the screen 😱 . And my hubby never liked the X-files, he calls it a bad Scooby-Doo ripoff 🙄 .

Lately Iive been buying '70's/'80's horror films from Amazon.com, Anybody ever see Dark Night Of The Scarecrow?

Bella
 
TklDuo-Drew said:
Well, while we're reviewing movies here, don't bother with "Shaun of the Dead". I heard for months how this was suppose to be so hysterical.....and it wasn't. In fact, the first half hour only revolves around the 2 losers and how messed up their lives are. Even when the zombies show up, it's still boring.
I did think "Better Off Dead" was really good, as well as "Where the Buffalo Roam and "Big Trouble in Little China".
And you can't go wrong with "Raising Arizona":

"Ya got any of those balloons.....that make the funny shapes?"
"No sir.....unless you think round is funny."


Drew
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Ok Drew, we're offically on different planets 😎 . I thought Shaun of the Dead was a riot, it wasn't supposed to be scary but BORING? I had a blast and I've seen it twice. The director was showing how zombie-like we often are in our daily existence until something wakes us up, and I think he did a great job. Ah well, I've always been a weirdo :devil:

Bella
 
Slant said:
😱 It's a good thing there's not a stronger British contingent round here to bash some sense into you with a cricket bat... 😛
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In the words of the great Jack Benny:

"WELL....."

Alright, alright, I did enjoy Shaun and Ed throwing the albums at the zombies, then continually beating them.


Drew
 
HAHA, I just saw this tonight and It was the best damn movie I had ever seen! I totally remember when I knew a few people that were just like this! I mean, the whole movie, I couldn't stop laughing, everything was funny. After the movie, we all went to Denny's and the whole way there, we said things like "God" and Sweet!" and "Geez" the whole damn way. My favorite parts were where Napoleon was like "I like your sleeves" and "I bet you could take it off some sweet jumps." This was one of the funniest movies I have ever seen and I can't believe I didn't ask for it for Christmas.
 
YEP!

Scary as fuck. Sci-fi channel re-runs all those flicks at Halloween...

XOXO

bella said:
Anybody ever see Dark Night Of The Scarecrow?

Bella
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Well I guess myself and most of the people I know just didn't get this movie. I went to my Uncle's house on Dec 24th and no one thought it was ever remotely funny. I have a newphew who is 33, another one 16, another one 12 and the youngest 11. They all said that it was not funny at all, and they didn't see why anyone would think it was. In fact, they all got really bored during the movie. Then I went to a seperate families house on Dec 25th, and no one there thought the movie was even remotely funny either. And this was people visiting from other states as well. I guess I am just missing something cause it just was not funny to me at all.
 
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Hey buggs! Check out Dodgeball! It's pretty funny, in a stupid sorta way. I don't wanna pump it up much, `cause it ain't all that great, but it's still worth a look if you have the time. I'm hearing good things about Meet The Fockers, too.
 
tickledorange said:
HAHA, I just saw this tonight and It was the best damn movie I had ever seen! I totally remember when I knew a few people that were just like this! I mean, the whole movie, I couldn't stop laughing, everything was funny. After the movie, we all went to Denny's and the whole way there, we said things like "God" and Sweet!" and "Geez" the whole damn way. My favorite parts were where Napoleon was like "I like your sleeves" and "I bet you could take it off some sweet jumps." This was one of the funniest movies I have ever seen and I can't believe I didn't ask for it for Christmas.
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http://movie-reviews.colossus.net/movies/n/napoleon_dynamite.html

This review best describes how I feel about the film, and btw I highly recommend this critic; I've found his reviews to be fair even when I don't agree with him, which is rare (he thought the Sixth Sense was boring, WTF??)

Bella
 
Dr Kobb,

I saw Dodgeball and I like alot of it except for Ben Stiller. It was Zoolander all over again, and I didn't even think that movie was funny. I wish he had done another character personality, cause that was the only thing I hated about it.
 
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