July 30, 2004
Napoleon Dynamite
Amytha and I saw Napoleon Dynamite tonight at the cool new downtown Century 12 (with good stadium seating).
The official description is: "Teenage misfit Napoleon Dynamite (Jon Heder) lives in a remote Idaho town with his older brother (whose only happiness is an Internet relationship), ATV-loving grandma, and sleazeball uncle. Napoleon's life gains direction after he decides to find a date to the big dance and help his new classmate become class president."
It was quite strange, but funny. Not sure I would recommend it to most people, but if you like highschool misfit movies, some of you might enjoy this. The music is great and it has one of the best opening credit sequences I've ever seen. Amytha described the film as a cross between Donnie Darco and Welcome to the Dollhouse, neither of which I've seen yet.
Oh, and if you do go, remember not to leave until all the credits are over because there's a whole extra scene afterwards. Apparently we were the only people who didn't know about it, because we stood up after all the credits were over and no one else was moving.