Rec | NAPOLEON DYNAMITE

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Rec'd on 🌱 6/9: A MOVIE THAT DEFINED A PART OF WHO YOU ARE?

“tina you fat lard, come get some dinner!” i can’t explain how exactly this movie defined me without doing an extreme self-character study, but it has made me extremely unfunny. i saw this at eleven years old, and immediately my takeaway was “cringe and quirky comedy is paramount; i devote my life to you.” now after seeing much funnier movies, i’m arguably a lot funnier (thank god), but this is still one of my favorites. still so funny in ways i could never be.

@al1

3d ago

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@26girls

yeah i had a hard time coming up with one, but seeing this at the age of 7(?) truly altered the course of my life in a similar way

3d ago

@knitzsche

I just made my partner watch this for the first time while we were visiting Preston, Idaho where the movie was filmed. It’s basically a Wes Anderson film for mountain west hicks but no one wants to talk about that yet.

3d ago

@knitzsche

@KNITZSCHE also! my old coworker’s husband is from Preston and his family is in the movie, as Pedro’s family. also, when i first saw this movie as a child i was shook by how much Pedro looked like my dad at the time lol

3d ago

@al1

@KNITZSCHE that’s so wild! also you’re so right i’ve always compared the hess brothers to anderson. love both of their work equally

3d ago

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