Because there are idiots that will fill the theaters on opening weekend. At the movie theater where I work (only for one more week--yeah!) The trailer for Benchwarmers is playing over and over again on the plasma screens in the lobby. It looks dreadful, and has two actors that mean surefire awfulness-Spade and Schneider. Jon Heder is probably on that route, too. Don't know anything about Little Man, but you can tell by the poster that it will blow chunks.
I just read the plot summary of Little Man on the IMDB. I believe it's a spin on an old Our Gang comedy, where a midget bank-robber goes on the lam as a baby.
Heder looks like a one-trick pony at this point. Actually, he looked like a one-trick pony from the first time I saw the Napolean Dynamite trailer. I never did get around to watching that movie, and I don't imagine that I'll ever want to now.
Napoleon Dynamite was intermittently amusing. There are isolated bits, like the Vote for Pedro t-shirt, and the dance at the end, and a few gags, that work, but the movie overall was crummy.
I liked Napoleon. Perhaps it turned on the quirkiness a bit much for some tastes, but it had its own rhythm, and treated its oddballs with respect, without making them out to be saints.
Had hoped Heder would continue that streak and create some more memorable oddballs in more low-key films, but looks like he got led to the money. Too bad.
I never got around to posting to a thread back on HE about Napoleon's demographics, but I loved the movie, though some would say I'm way outside its target audience. The two people I saw it with (both over 30) thought it mildly sucked or out-and-out hated it to its very core. I'm not saying it was great filmmaking, but I liked the way it showed pervasive oddness without playing it up too much--okay, that sounds like some kind of oxymoron, but I think it goes back to what Nick said about giving oddballs respect. Napoleon himself wasn't that likable to most viewers, but I just saw him as a misfit struggling to fit in while also trying to create his own identity. And in true movie critic fashion, I loved that I just didn't know what was going to happen next.
I saw 'Napoleon Dynamite' a few months ago at a cinema.
It's style of humour (which sometimes seemed to involve nothing happening) took a while getting used to but I liked it the more it went along and Napoleon's dance at the end was not only a high point, but an apt summing up of the central character.
A good film, but overly contrived to be 'cultish' imo, and as was said earlier, certainly not in the same league as 'Election'.
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Because there are idiots that will fill the theaters on opening weekend. At the movie theater where I work (only for one more week--yeah!) The trailer for Benchwarmers is playing over and over again on the plasma screens in the lobby. It looks dreadful, and has two actors that mean surefire awfulness-Spade and Schneider. Jon Heder is probably on that route, too. Don't know anything about Little Man, but you can tell by the poster that it will blow chunks.
I just read the plot summary of Little Man on the IMDB. I believe it's a spin on an old Our Gang comedy, where a midget bank-robber goes on the lam as a baby.
Heder looks like a one-trick pony at this point. Actually, he looked like a one-trick pony from the first time I saw the Napolean Dynamite trailer. I never did get around to watching that movie, and I don't imagine that I'll ever want to now.
Napoleon Dynamite was intermittently amusing. There are isolated bits, like the Vote for Pedro t-shirt, and the dance at the end, and a few gags, that work, but the movie overall was crummy.
I liked Napoleon. Perhaps it turned on the quirkiness a bit much for some tastes, but it had its own rhythm, and treated its oddballs with respect, without making them out to be saints.
Had hoped Heder would continue that streak and create some more memorable oddballs in more low-key films, but looks like he got led to the money. Too bad.
I never got around to posting to a thread back on HE about Napoleon's demographics, but I loved the movie, though some would say I'm way outside its target audience. The two people I saw it with (both over 30) thought it mildly sucked or out-and-out hated it to its very core. I'm not saying it was great filmmaking, but I liked the way it showed pervasive oddness without playing it up too much--okay, that sounds like some kind of oxymoron, but I think it goes back to what Nick said about giving oddballs respect. Napoleon himself wasn't that likable to most viewers, but I just saw him as a misfit struggling to fit in while also trying to create his own identity. And in true movie critic fashion, I loved that I just didn't know what was going to happen next.
I saw 'Napoleon Dynamite' a few months ago at a cinema.
It's style of humour (which sometimes seemed to involve nothing happening) took a while getting used to but I liked it the more it went along and Napoleon's dance at the end was not only a high point, but an apt summing up of the central character.
A good film, but overly contrived to be 'cultish' imo, and as was said earlier, certainly not in the same league as 'Election'.
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