Many of the most popular cult classics in the past have been, well...great movies. Take "Ferris Bueller's Day Off", a token '80s take on a slacker making any excuse he can to skip school. Or maybe "Scream", "Scary Movie" , "American Pie", more recent examples of cult/thriller hits...significantly less perfect than "Ferris Bueller", granted, but still decent flicks.
Comes "Napoleon Dynamite", a contrived "cult" movie that I'd sooner pay to undergo a root canal without novocaine than sit through again. Apparently, it chronicled the story of a less-than-capable high-schooler making the motions of surviving school as a patently un-cool jock. No real plot or reason for wasting valuable celluloid was ever revealed in the first two-thirds of the movie I was able to stay awake for, nor was there revealed any incentive to try to catch up on what I missed.
In short? I hate this excuse of a movie with every fiber of my being.
Jerry Seinfeld has been the ONLY person in the history of motion picture to get away with making a "show about nothing", and with tripe like "Napoleon Dynamite" in contention...he will be keeping that unique aspect for a very long time.
"Napoleon Dynamite", with all due respect to IMDb, gets 0 of 10 stars.
Comes "Napoleon Dynamite", a contrived "cult" movie that I'd sooner pay to undergo a root canal without novocaine than sit through again. Apparently, it chronicled the story of a less-than-capable high-schooler making the motions of surviving school as a patently un-cool jock. No real plot or reason for wasting valuable celluloid was ever revealed in the first two-thirds of the movie I was able to stay awake for, nor was there revealed any incentive to try to catch up on what I missed.
In short? I hate this excuse of a movie with every fiber of my being.
Jerry Seinfeld has been the ONLY person in the history of motion picture to get away with making a "show about nothing", and with tripe like "Napoleon Dynamite" in contention...he will be keeping that unique aspect for a very long time.
"Napoleon Dynamite", with all due respect to IMDb, gets 0 of 10 stars.