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Napoleon Dynamite is 20 years old now. (lemmy.world)
submitted 5 months ago by spicytuna62@lemmy.world to c/memes@lemmy.ml
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Hello, fellow aging millennials.

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[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 34 points 5 months ago (9 children)

That's the movie that someone shown me saying "It's hilarious, funniest shit I've ever seen", then I sown my friends and no one enjoyed it..

Unironically, someone asked me if this was a "home movie".

[–] HereIAm@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago

Don't feel too bad. The movie is a bit infamous for being tricky to recommend. I got it recommended to me and absolutely loved it.

[–] Pacmanlives@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

Even at the time it was polarizing. And yeah it basically was filmed in the style of a home movie. Movie cost 400,000 to make and made almost 50 million as a fun fact

[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 months ago

Thats genuinely tragic, I'm sorry

[–] Holyginz@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

When I was young my hair was longer and it poofed out. Add to that glasses and me being awkward and a bunch of people would call me napoleon dynamite. Definitely contributed to me not liking it that much.

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 5 months ago

You should have embraced the heck out of that.

[–] Num10ck@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

I've had that with Crippled Masters.

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 5 months ago

I laughed slightly at it when it was on TV and it made an aunt thing it would be a good Christmas present

[–] tiredofsametab@kbin.run 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I remember seeing it when it made it to DVD at some point and not making it all the way through the movie due to not enjoying it. I never tried to rewatch it after the fact.

[–] Snowclone@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

It's more a group movie.

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 5 months ago

I rewatched it a few years ago. Didn't much care for it. But remember when it first came out (I was around 20 at the time) and liked it.

On a side note; I totally owned the Huffy Sledgehammer bike just like the one in the movie. I had gotten it when I was around 13 years old. I got it out of grandma and grandpa's garage and sold it on Craigslist for $100, when it should have been worth like $25.

Also, yes. I did take it on some pretty sweet jumps.