Ninja_Squirrel
Regular
Two people at work had rented Napoleon Dynamite and loved it. I had avoided it for a few weeks because something told me I probably wouldn't like it. I rented it this weekend, and I was right.
I found it really, really stupid. Too stupid to be funny. In fact, too stupid to make it all the way thru. This is the first movie I've ever rented in which I've repeatedly looked at the elapsed time counter to see how much of my life I had wasted watching it. At first, I was going to stop it at 30 minutes, but I figured I'd give it up to 45 minutes, the half-way point. At 45, I couldn't take it any more and stopped it.
This same weekend, I also rented The Battle of Shaker Heights (the 2nd Project Greenlight movie) and Robot Stories (an anthology of four low-budget short films about robotics & artificial intelligence, mostly starring Asian-American actors). While both those others were low-budget and a little on the amateur side, they were still far more interesting, entertaining, and satisfying than Napoleon Dynamite.
However, I think I'm in the minority. So, tell me what you think.
I found it really, really stupid. Too stupid to be funny. In fact, too stupid to make it all the way thru. This is the first movie I've ever rented in which I've repeatedly looked at the elapsed time counter to see how much of my life I had wasted watching it. At first, I was going to stop it at 30 minutes, but I figured I'd give it up to 45 minutes, the half-way point. At 45, I couldn't take it any more and stopped it.
This same weekend, I also rented The Battle of Shaker Heights (the 2nd Project Greenlight movie) and Robot Stories (an anthology of four low-budget short films about robotics & artificial intelligence, mostly starring Asian-American actors). While both those others were low-budget and a little on the amateur side, they were still far more interesting, entertaining, and satisfying than Napoleon Dynamite.
However, I think I'm in the minority. So, tell me what you think.