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July 14, 2005
Napoleon Dynamite
One of the things I forgot to blog about is the film Napoleon Dynamite. I watched it over the weekend with the bf and was sorely disappointed.
It wasn't bad. It wasn't good. It just... was.
I wasn't even expecting a whole lot, really -- I'd heard both "OMGITSSOGOODYAY!" and "Wow, how lame" reactions from people, so I did my best to go in with no real expectations other than to be mildly amused.
And I did chuckle occasionally. But it didn't blow my mind or make my week or anything. Napoleon is a mouthbreather and not quite weird enough to be interesting to me (I, as they say, get weirder things in my breakfast cereal). His brother was painfully lame. His uncle was annoying. His grandma was kinda cool, but we never get to really meet her. The girls in the film are disinteresting. Pedro is boring.
Ultimately, to me, it seemed like a bunch of actors moving through a script as though they expected the script to make the scenes funny or interesting or poignant rather than their own performances.
And that's a drag, because all the LJ Icons I keep seeing of Napoleon dancing are actually pretty cool.
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Posted by Ealasaid at July 14, 2005 09:36 AM
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I'm so glad to read this. Because I thought for a while I had lost my sense of humor.
Everyone I knew kept asking me if I had seen this movie, because it was sooo funny. And I had seen the movie, and I had to keep saying I hadn't had a chance to see it yet, because I thought is was so...occassionally funny.
I think I may have laughed out loud one time. Which would put it on par with, um, "House Party"? Or, I don't know, a Pauly Shore movie.
Napolean Dynomite, to me, will always be the Little Hands of Concrete on Blood And Chocolate.
That dude rocked.
Posted by: ricky at July 21, 2005 11:02 PM
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