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Posted by Da_Goat (Member # 5529) on :
 
I'm at seven and a half, and all the DVD features (there wasn't many), since I bought it on Tuesday.
 

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Posted by Rappin' Ronnie Reagan (Member # 5626) on :
 
Zero.
 

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Posted by Da_Goat (Member # 5529) on :
 
Frickin' idiot!
 

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Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
 
None.
 

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Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :
 
Saw it in theaters 7 times alone, dude. 3 times alone on opening day. Dollar theater. Very cool. Don't have DVD, though. All sold out here in Utah.
 

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Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
 
Lucky!
 

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Posted by quidscribis (Member # 5124) on :
 
Haven't heard of it.
 

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Posted by breyerchic04 (Member # 6423) on :
 
Not as many as I've watched "hoosiers" (23 hour marathon)
 

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Posted by narrativium (Member # 3230) on :
 
Um, once. That was the first time. I might watch it again eventually, but I don't see what all the fuss was about.
 

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Posted by whiskysunrise (Member # 6819) on :
 
Haven't seen it at all this week. Saw part of it once. That was more than enough.
 

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Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
 
I still haven't seen it, and don't really feel compelled to make the effort.
 

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Posted by gnixing (Member # 768) on :
 
i saw it once and still regret it
 

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Posted by Carrie (Member # 394) on :
 
Twice.

But I've watched Return of the King four and counting.
 

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Posted by Da_Goat (Member # 5529) on :
 
*gives T_Smith, pajeba, and Carrie a shiny star and puts s next to all the haters* Let's hope you all do better this week.

Hey, T, do they have Target up there? For some reason, Target seems to be all up ons when it comes to stocking their products, though their selection is fairly small compared to Wal-Mart and K-Mart.

[ December 27, 2004, 02:17 AM: Message edited by: Da_Goat ]
 

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Posted by Ralphie (Member # 1565) on :
 
The best way to watch ND is with absolutely no expectations.

That said, I adored it. Haven't bought it yet, tho.
 

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Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
 
I have a suspicion that people that were popular in high school would get nothing out of Napoleon Dynamite.

It certainly isn't a movie for everybody.

It is a movie for me, however.
 

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Posted by Marlozhan (Member # 2422) on :
 
2.5 times. I watched it with my parents and they just didn't appreciate it. Maybe you have to be a child of the 80s.
 

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Posted by Irami Osei-Frimpong (Member # 2229) on :
 
Talk about hitting the golden niche market. This movie is going to make a zillion dollars. It vindicates the angst of every geeky white kid in middle America. It's literally Don Quixote for poor, aimless dorks. It's the anti-SpellBound. (I loved Spellbound, btw. And I loved those kids.)

The question at issue is whether this movie makes people feel better about being hicks. Or whether it makes people want to rise above that station. If all it does is make you feel better about being a poor self-absorbed doofus, which Dynamite is for 95 percent of the film, then so be it. But if it makes you want apply yourself to some worthy endeavor, like Dynamite did with dancing, then maybe it's not so bad.

I'm not saying that high school is fair or fun, but Dynamite was whiny and worthless, and I thought he deserved a lot of the scorn and apathy that he was showed by his peers.
 

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Posted by gnixing (Member # 768) on :
 

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I am a child of the 80s, and I was not popular in high school. I still didn't get it

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So did all of my 80's-and-90's-children friends....except one. But he's retarded.

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A form of autism or palsy?
 

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Posted by Carrie (Member # 394) on :
 
My sister got it as a present from one of her friends last week and showed my mom. In the past week, my mother has also watched the movie twice and will randomly quote it.

That said, I'm still at two, with RotK at 5... but DodgeBall is at something like 6.
 

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Posted by Ralphie (Member # 1565) on :
 

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The question at issue is whether this movie makes people feel better about being hicks. Or whether it makes people want to rise above that station. If all it does is make you feel better about being a poor self-absorbed doofus, which Dynamite is for 95 percent of the film, then so be it. But if it makes you want apply yourself to some worthy endeavor, like Dynamite did with dancing, then maybe it's not so bad.

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Raising Arizona is my all-time favorite comedy. Most people don't 'get' that one, either. It may be riddled with morals, launching pads for personal growth and anthropological discoveries... but it's mostly just butt-clinching funny.

While ND isn't as funny as RA, it's very similar. It didn't seem either pro or con geek, like RA isn't pro or con hick. It almost seemed like a mockumentary to me, with sort of a warm and fuzzy ending.

[ December 27, 2004, 03:00 PM: Message edited by: Ralphie ]
 

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Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
 
Thank you Ralphie, "mockumentary" is a great word. (I'm going to steal it!)

What is amazing about this movie is that it is NOT selling to a niche market. Everyone is buying this movie. THe first time I saw it, the theater was packed, in yuppie northwestern Portland Oregon. Everyone in there was laughing hard enough to split the pants they were wearing. I was shocked. I'm sure there are plenty of people in that theater that weren't hicks, popular, unpopular, or self-absorbed dufuses. They just found it funny. I think analyses defeat the purpose...you either find it funny or you don't.

I found it hilarious. I got it for Christmas and my mother has made me promise not to watch it without her (she hasn't seen it yet). She's been warned about the no expectations thing and I think she's going to like it, cause she's expecting NOTHING.

(I adore Raising Arizona Ralphie...."Things CHANGE!!!!")

[ December 27, 2004, 03:06 PM: Message edited by: Narnia ]
 

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Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
 
The scene in RA where they are waiting for the camera to take a picture of their new family is one of my favorite scenes in all of moviedom.

So is the robber/chase scene with the banjo/yodel version of 'Ode to Joy' as the soundtrack.
 

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Posted by Da_Goat (Member # 5529) on :
 

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A form of autism or palsy?

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The scene in RA where they are waiting for the camera to take a picture of their new family is one of my favorite scenes in all of moviedom.

So is the robber/chase scene with the banjo/yodel version of 'Ode to Joy' as the soundtrack.

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A co-worker of mine said, out of the blue, "My youngest son's name is 'Nathan'. When he was a toddler I used to say to my wife, 'Nathan needs some Huggies... I'll be out di-rectly.'"

It launched a forty-five minute quote-a-thon of RA lines. Since the moment I saw it, it was my all-time favorite, but I just never knew how MANY quotable lines there were.

::thump::

"That sounds like Larry."

[ December 27, 2004, 04:23 PM: Message edited by: Ralphie ]
 

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Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
 
I think the problem I have with "Napoleon Dynamite" is that I have enormous difficulty watching scenes in which characters suffer incredible, outrageous embarassment; it makes me want to leave the theater in sympathy.
 

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Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
 
Awww. You sound just like OSC.
 

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Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
 
Hey, I don't disagree with him on everything.
 

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Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
 
Apparently not.
 

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Posted by Trisha the Severe Hottie (Member # 6000) on :
 
"Our love for each other was stronger than ever. But I preminisced no return of the salad days."
 

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