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Napoleon Dynamite is 15 years old


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9 minutes ago, Faleel J.M. said:

Your grandma took a little spill at the sand dunes today, broke her coccyx.

 

That happened to me when I was 13 and some other kid at school pulled a chair from under me as I was about to sit down. I could barely walk for months.

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Saw it once, but have forgotten all about it now. It had the potential to be a great cult film for a while -- and it did -- but in later years, it seems to have fallen into obscurity.

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That whole Porkies remake fad, they were all terrible comedy movies, things that I would tag along to with the rest of the gang back then, and try to be enthusiastic about. Yet even then I was a developing snob, I thought stuff like Stifler being "hilarious" was risible.

 

But I suppose every new generation gets a new wave of these movies. Or do they?

 

When you think of the content, it's probably all a bit massively offensive and regressive isn't it, for this new sensitive snowflake generation. Perhaps American Pie was the last shebang for that sort of thing.

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4 hours ago, Thor said:

Saw it once, but have forgotten all about it now. It had the potential to be a great cult film for a while -- and it did -- but in later years, it seems to have fallen into obscurity.

 

Are you serious? It’s extremely well known and oft quoted here in the U.S.

 

It’s a staple of our pop culture!

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I have never watched it in its entirety. It was awful what I did see. Except his dancing. 

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32 minutes ago, John said:

 

Are you serious? It’s extremely well known and oft quoted here in the U.S.

 

It’s a staple of our pop culture!

 

It's why other countries can't really take your culture all that seriously.

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27 minutes ago, Stefancos said:

 

It's why other countries can't really take your culture all that seriously.

 

Wow you’re very mean. 

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34 minutes ago, Stefancos said:

 

Just being honest.

We also gave you Ferris Bueller 

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Joe and Steef are just sore about the last game. Yeah... Coach woulda put them in fourth quarter, we would've been state champions. No doubt. No doubt in my mind.

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18 minutes ago, xWxzek said:

Joe and Steef are just sore about the last game. Yeah... Coach woulda put them in fourth quarter, we would've been state champions. No doubt. No doubt in my mind.

No coach in his right mind would put me in a game. The only thing I did well was placeholding for fieldgoals thanks to tunnelvision

 

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I like ND's Ice skating film better. BLADES of Glory. I still can't stop laughing at the North Koreans skate scene result.

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The odd thing about Napoleon Dynamite is there's no instance where it's trying to be funny. It's more of an art film based on perspectivistic fantasy. There contains humor in that genre of thinking, but as well as many other things.

 

I think the film became more popular due to the loud memers.

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12 hours ago, Stefancos said:

Ive never been. Seems boring

 

I wouldn't mind spending a day there for photography purposes. 

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4 hours ago, Borodin said:

The odd thing about Napoleon Dynamite is there's no instance where it's trying to be funny. It's more of an art film based on perspectivistic fantasy. There contains humor in that genre of thinking, but as well as many other things.

 

I think the film became more popular due to the loud memers.

I don’t think memes existed 15 years ago. 

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