Sweet! Preston (Idaho) now reigns as geek-chic capital (Napoleon Dynamite Alert)

Deseret Morning News ^ | 3.4.05 | Rebecca Boone

[shoffma1999]

The scene where Napoleon's uncle hits him in the head with his brothers steak was great - I lost it.

[ALASKA]

"I caught you a delicious bass"

[MrJingles]

"Why don't you go eat a decroded peice of CRAP?!"

[MrJingles]

"Get off me, Bodaggit!"

[MrJingles]

"TINA! Come get some HAM!"

[erikm88]

If you like deadpan humour, then this is definitely the movie for you. I myself like ironic humour, deadpan humour, and dark humour (read: Grosse Pointe Blank).

--erik

[erikm88]

"My lips hurt real BAD!"

[The_Victor]

I watched it with my 12 year old daughter. I laughed once at the cow shooting scene. Biggest waste of an hour and a half of my life that I'll never get back.

On the other hand, my daughter and I have had literally hours of fun imitating the moronic lines from the movie and laughing ourselves silly.

"My lips hurt real bad!"

[MrJingles]

"With a FRICKIN' 12-guage, what do you THINK?!"

[JCEccles]

It was funny the first time I saw it (with my grown sons), hilarious the second time I saw it (with old high school friends), and comfortable and amusing the third time I saw it (with my wife).

My family still can't get through dinner without a Napoleon Dynamite quote or allusion even if it's just "Eat! Eat the FOOD!"

Preston is just north of my town about 75 miles. My sister in law grew up there. She's one of those sensible people who doesn't think the movie is funny.

She doesn't know what she is missing.

[MrJingles]

"Do the chickens have large talons?"

[MrJingles]

"We've got a couple gangs at our school. Some of them tried to get me to join because I'm pretty good with a bo-staff."

[the_devils_advocate_666]

Don: Hey, Napoleon. What did you do last summer again?
Napoleon Dynamite: I told you! I spent it with my uncle in Alaska hunting wolverines!
Don: Did you shoot any?
Napoleon Dynamite: Yes, like 50 of 'em! They kept trying to attack my cousins, what the heck would you do in a situation like that?
Don: What kind of gun did you use?
Napoleon Dynamite: A freakin' 12-gauge, what do you think?

[reeb88]

"Your mother goes to college"

[JCEccles]

"Well, Is there anyone else here? I'm trying to earn some money for college."

Every fan knows the next line, but get them to just TRY and explain why it's so funny.

Which, of course, makes me think of this great exchange:

"Come down here and see what happens if you and try and hit me."

"WHAT?"

[JCEccles]

Spooky. You must be consulting a liger, bred for its skills in magic.

[MrJingles]

"I spent like three hours shading the upper-lip."

[Milhous]

Heder's mad interpretive dancing skills make up for his slack jawed act. More alternative movies to put Hollyweird in its place!

[Spiff]

"GOSH! Friggin' IDIOT!"

Correction: Napoleon would never use the word "friggin'". He used the more acceptable term "freakin'".

DUH!!! Pretty much everybody in the entire world knows that!!

[Crawdad]

I'm 45 yeras old. I don't remember such an oft-quoted movie since 'Animal House'. For the last 6 weeks, every night at our dinner table it's nonstop lines from this movie.