Boomers hated it. But it was ahead of it's time.
It was a comedy that required an attention span and some level of investment to enjoy and thus it is lost to time.
>gonna have ta pay you in change >cut to napoleon emptying a 10 pound bag of change on the kitchen table >4 dollars... that's like a dollar an hour!
never fails to make me kek
I was in the 5th grade when it got popular. Target sold Napoleon Dynamite shirts and my mom bought me a bunch of them. They were really cool shirts, everyone laughed, I love my mom
She's a sweet lady. She also believes in ghosts and held a couple of seances in my house. I think the psychic carried a white noise generator or something because my dog kept losing her shit around him.
>I think the psychic carried a white noise generator or something because my dog kept losing her shit around him.
Infrasound perhaps. Infrasound is known to instill unease and paranormal experiences.
This actor could have made bank doing more Napoleon Dynamite films but he didn't want to be typecast. Then he just fades into obscurity after doing that one Will Farrell movie.
When I was a kid a woman at my church said she hated this movie because she thought Napoleon and his friends were all meant to be mentally moronic and she didn't like that the movie was mocking mentally disabled people and turning them into a joke.
for me, it's the dude trying to break the tupperware with his bare hands. immediately followed by kip driving his van over one and destroying the tupperware and driving off in shame.
According to the commentary the van was supposed to just drive over it without it breaking, but the cheap piece of shit shattered and Kip improvised the dangit bit
>thought this movie was hilarious the first time I watched it >every subsequent time I've seen anything of it, it just becomes more and more cringey and I can't enjoy it at all
>watched the trailer for the movie way back when >the trailer was cut like it was the same style as Dude Where’s My Car >get excited >see it when it was released >massively disappointed and thought it was a shitty movie. >watch it again a year later >loved every minute
I honestly believe it would have be a bigger success had they not made that dumb trailer at first. But then again, maybe not. The audience just wasn’t ready yet.
ive never met a smart person who spent their time complaining about trailers or how trailers are cut. if you're susceptible to shitty trailers then that's on you, not the marketing teams.
>it got cult status pretty quickly >cult status
If you call literally every person in my middle school quoting the movie every single say "cult status," then I guess? Maybe it wasn't popular with boomers and gen x, but EVERYONE my age or in high school at the time was obsessed with that movie.
Yeah, I feel like it was a Big Fat Greek Wedding thing, where it had all the vibes of a cult classic, but in reality nearly every family in America watched it
It had the aethestic of quirky indie movie you never heard of, so everybody figured they were "in the know" for watching it even though everybody watched it.
For some reason my middle-aged teacher played Napoleon Dynamite in class in the winter/early spring of 2005, so it was already pretty popular at that point
ive never met a smart person who spent their time complaining about trailers or how trailers are cut. if you're susceptible to shitty trailers then that's on you, not the marketing teams.
Who the frick even watches trailers, honestly. They're ads. Why would you watch an ad? Best case scenario is the trailer spoils a good movie. There is no reason to watch trailers.
I liked it. I didn't take it too seriously, it was just a flick with a lighthearted 00s "lul so randum xD" theme. This movie came out of nowhere and there will never be a movie like it again. It kind of reminds me of the Mighty Boosh in the UK in its humor.
I don't see why so many have a frothing at the mouth hatred of it, you're not supposed to take it seriously, it is what it is.
I feel bad for that camel, being owned by such a doofus.
That a donkey, jackass.
Look at the ears, they're not long like donkey ears. That right there is a miniature pony.
Pretty sure that's an emu... the long neck is a dead give away.
can someone tell me what the frick that thing is, if it's not some kind of camel what is it
poodle.
Llama
>Llama
Emperor?
giraffe
Emu.
>if it's not some kind of camel what is it
It's a camelid, it's related with camels indeed.
Liger.
It's a chicken with large talons
flamingo
Did boomers really think this was funny?
I think boomers with dweebish children thought it was funny, but in a kind of mean-spirited way.
No but you had to pretend to fit in with the npcs who were brainwashed into thinking it was funny.
You don't want to be persecuted for wrong think.
It was refreshing at the time, just a quirky indie comedy that wasn't overly cynical, mean spirited or offensive while still being entertaining.
>wasn't [...] mean spirited
The whole premise of the movie was "awkward people are funny"
And it loved them for it. There's no humiliation in it
You don't think most of the audience (and the filmmakers) were laughing at them?
I don't. I know my peer group wasn't, I made vote for pedro style buttons when I ran for school council and everyone wanted one to wear
The movie was fun and decent, but the months of quote spouting from unfunny homosexuals was insufferable
Do doomers with no sense of humor find it not funny?
Boomers hated it. But it was ahead of it's time.
It was a comedy that required an attention span and some level of investment to enjoy and thus it is lost to time.
Millennials did. It was right up that culture's alley. Hipsters, ween, myspace and pre woke homosexualry. Looking back they were not that bad.
Weed goddamnit.
ween was popular too
Weed and Ween tend to go together well
True. I almost didn't correct myself for this very reason.
bump
This made millennials shit and piss themselves with laughter
>the joke is a moron dances like a moron
>this angers the tiktok zoomie
I was 13 when this came out and I hated it. It made school even worse. It was more annoying than WAAAZZZZUUUUP
>WAAAZZZZUUUUP
Back when popular culture was dictated by beer commercials interspersed with football.
Yep, those were the good days.
dont know what you got till it’s gone.
So we’re you always a contrarian loser?
>I was 13 when this came out and I hated it.
>It was more annoying than WAAAZZZZUUUUP
Were you 13 for like 10 years?
based movie making the contrarian homosexuals here seethe
it was never funny, it was one of the first cringe movies.
>Eat the FOOOOOD!
Lmao is that a LLAMA? THAT'S SO FRICKING FUNNY AND RANDOM
>t. every early/mid-00s middle schooler
i can't tell llamas and alpacas from each other. but then again i never tried.
Zoomers ITT who cannot appreciate literal kino
I like when he barely looks for his checkbook before immediately giving up.
>can’t find my checkbook
>gonna have ta pay you in change
>cut to napoleon emptying a 10 pound bag of change on the kitchen table
>4 dollars... that's like a dollar an hour!
never fails to make me kek
>Over by that field I found a couple of shoshone arrowheads
>tfw fluent in rural hick because am rural hick
It was pigpen not field, GOD!
Sorry, I haven't seen it in a while.
I was in the 5th grade when it got popular. Target sold Napoleon Dynamite shirts and my mom bought me a bunch of them. They were really cool shirts, everyone laughed, I love my mom
i love your mom too
She's a sweet lady. She also believes in ghosts and held a couple of seances in my house. I think the psychic carried a white noise generator or something because my dog kept losing her shit around him.
I wish my mum had as much character as yours.
yea thats how i know her, she comes to me for tarot card readings
>I think the psychic carried a white noise generator or something because my dog kept losing her shit around him.
Infrasound perhaps. Infrasound is known to instill unease and paranormal experiences.
I had a "vote for Pedro" shirt too. It was just a light hearted quirky comedy.
This is me. Literally me.
We all are friend. We all are.
m'ask you sumtin rig
How much you wanna bet I can throw this football over them mountains?
>proceeds to belt Napoleon in the face with Kip's steak
This actor could have made bank doing more Napoleon Dynamite films but he didn't want to be typecast. Then he just fades into obscurity after doing that one Will Farrell movie.
zoomers are mad because they're uncle rico but their peak was watching a streamer
>zoomers
>playing football
kek those homosexuals play soccer
go on and make a dang kaysudilla
The cinematography of Napoleon Dynamite is like if Wes Anderson could do naturally what he tries to do so forcefully.
Aptly put.
Nice
When I was a kid a woman at my church said she hated this movie because she thought Napoleon and his friends were all meant to be mentally moronic and she didn't like that the movie was mocking mentally disabled people and turning them into a joke.
they were morons
She was basically right.
>DUDE GENTLEMEN BRONCOS xd
>DUDE MASTERMINDS LMAO
what the frick went wrong with jared hess? was it all his wife?
gentlemen Broncos was legit unpleasant to watch.
Imagine being too enlightened to enjoy Napoleon Dynamite. What miserable fricks.
for me, it's the dude trying to break the tupperware with his bare hands. immediately followed by kip driving his van over one and destroying the tupperware and driving off in shame.
According to the commentary the van was supposed to just drive over it without it breaking, but the cheap piece of shit shattered and Kip improvised the dangit bit
>thought this movie was hilarious the first time I watched it
>every subsequent time I've seen anything of it, it just becomes more and more cringey and I can't enjoy it at all
>watched the trailer for the movie way back when
>the trailer was cut like it was the same style as Dude Where’s My Car
>get excited
>see it when it was released
>massively disappointed and thought it was a shitty movie.
>watch it again a year later
>loved every minute
I honestly believe it would have be a bigger success had they not made that dumb trailer at first. But then again, maybe not. The audience just wasn’t ready yet.
ive never met a smart person who spent their time complaining about trailers or how trailers are cut. if you're susceptible to shitty trailers then that's on you, not the marketing teams.
Wasn't it a huge success already? Everyone used to quote it constantly
it got cult status pretty quickly. I don't remember big ad campaigns for it, MTV funded it dirt cheap and most of the marketing was word of mouth
>it got cult status pretty quickly
>cult status
If you call literally every person in my middle school quoting the movie every single say "cult status," then I guess? Maybe it wasn't popular with boomers and gen x, but EVERYONE my age or in high school at the time was obsessed with that movie.
Yeah, I feel like it was a Big Fat Greek Wedding thing, where it had all the vibes of a cult classic, but in reality nearly every family in America watched it
It had the aethestic of quirky indie movie you never heard of, so everybody figured they were "in the know" for watching it even though everybody watched it.
For some reason my middle-aged teacher played Napoleon Dynamite in class in the winter/early spring of 2005, so it was already pretty popular at that point
Who the frick even watches trailers, honestly. They're ads. Why would you watch an ad? Best case scenario is the trailer spoils a good movie. There is no reason to watch trailers.
it was cool he got to voice Jigsaw in Spiral
I didn't know the llama was a voice actor too.
I liked it. I didn't take it too seriously, it was just a flick with a lighthearted 00s "lul so randum xD" theme. This movie came out of nowhere and there will never be a movie like it again. It kind of reminds me of the Mighty Boosh in the UK in its humor.
I don't see why so many have a frothing at the mouth hatred of it, you're not supposed to take it seriously, it is what it is.