I tend to watch movies during my pilates/weights/low impact aerobic/yoga circuit days and ND came up this week.

It was as creepy and icky as I had feared. I mean, it freaked me out, took me back to parts of my child and adolescenthood that are better left forgotten, but the last half of it really became good and laughable. I thought it was even more peculiar when the uncle mentioned the "client from Manitou, CO" which made me laugh, because I've had people become confused when I tell them it's Manitou Springs, not just Manitou, like I'm lying or confused about my the name of my hometown. It's a pretty obscure reference or at least it was 11 years ago.

Everything about the movie screamed Mormonylicious, though, especially those dresses in the dance scene. I'm also wondering now if this movie is what sparked the whole hipster Mason jar everything scene. :)

What say you about this film?



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It's on my Netflix list...

It was a cult film at my children's public ivy league college.

The students had many nights watching ND on the Student Union movie screen, or in groups all over the campus.

It was a hoot to them, as most of them are New Yorkers.

The high school was eerily similar to one my cousins attend/ed just a few miles away from Preston. And near where my father grew up in similar countryside (and my own childhood of SE Idaho.)

Love the young man's acting who portrayed ND. Jon Heder really nailed the character down with his dry wit and humor.



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"Public Ivy League college" - ha, ha.

http://www.universityreview.org/list-of-public-ivy-schools/


Color me shocked, but facts have that capability. Hey, she was due...

I'm obviously familiar with the term and have a B.A. from U.Va. (as well as a Ph.D. from Berkeley), but it's still amusingly pretentious. No public university in the US is at the level of a Harvard at the undergrad level, although Berkeley and to some extent UCSD and UCLA can compare at the graduate level.

Public ivy leagues are known for their reputation, or obviously you wouldn't have digressed to point out which ones you attended.

Good to know in your case, that means diddly squat. :)

I didn't have any desire to see it when it came out. I saw it on TV a few years later. It had so many things in it that were spot on.

Good movie for all of the Mormon cultural references.




"If Coach woulda put me in in the fourth quarter we'd a been state champions. No doubt. No doubt in my mind."

My son doesn't like to watch ND because he said he LIVED it.

I thought he movie was really funny.

My favorite lines:

"My favorite animal is the liger"
(Remember that creepy place around that area that was raising them? They got shut down.)

"Nice sleeves!"

"Vote for Pedro."


Don't forget the cool Moon boots.

I guard my tots.

Gawwww!!

Gosh, idiot!!

Because I didn't grow up in the Morridor, I was exposed to all sorts of worldly, evil, normal influences. My mother (if you read my other post) was raised in the Morridor and was quite serious about presenting Mormon.

One of my childhood memories involves tossing wood into the back of the truck. My mom took me out to the lumberyard to collect the scraps for firewood, I think I was around 6 or 7. Because of the awful, terrible, heathen influences (I'm still friends with this Christian to this day) I kept saying, "Oh, god!" when something annoying happened or I hurt myself. I received a talking to and an admonishment to "Please Heavenly Father." I wanted to make my mother happy and not get into trouble, so I tried my best.

Later in the winter, waiting for the bus, some porchdicks were being jerks and I admonished them by saying, "Ugh. Gosh! You guys are SO weird!" Welp, my brother was annoyed by my own weirdness and didn't hesitate to torture me for months afture this social faux pas.

As per the usual social confliction, I received mixed messages, as we all do, even as adults. Do I please Sky Daddy and my mother and risk being ostracized even further for being different or do I "be cool?"

Jon Heder recalling X-Box Live videos online 2012, w/ND reference:

https://youtu.be/1hJHHZieNE4

Gots the DVD which includes deleted scenes.

The scene shot in a Deseret Industries where Napoleon discovers the suit he wears to the prom is especially Mormon.

See if you can find the deleted scenes.

Love this movie. But I did not live in the Morridor or surrounding environs.

I don't care if it was made by Mormons in the state of Utah, it's one of my all time favorite movies. I never tire from watching it. I guess the sense of humor is not for everyone but it is for me.

Correction: Idaho

I've decided people love it or hate it.

We love it.

I thought it was pretty funny.

did you notice that the harelip guy who shot the cow is the mormon bishop ?

Thanks for the icky addition to my weekly nightmare rotation.

When I was in college, it was a cult classic with my friends and I. I went to see it in the theaters twice and then I bought the dvd as soon as it came out. We would quote it all the time too.

The part about the chicken farm. My mother and some of her friends used to take turns going to Franklin, Idaho, to get eggs at these chicken farms. I also worked those type of jobs after all our work at our farm was done. Luckily I didn't live on the farm as my grandparents still lived there, but I worked on it all my life.

My grandfather used to tease me about marrying a farmer because I hated the farm so much. The guy I was dating while I was hiding dating my gay husband was a dairy farmer. The reason my husband decided to get married is because he was afraid I'd marry the other guy. I had a mission, so I married my husband.

My kids loved it. Years later, they asked my youngest brother what he thought. He said the same thing I did.



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"Do chickens have large talons?"

Try Georgia Rule(s) with jane fonda; guy gets a BJ just before his mish...

I love Napoleon Dynamite! Fave scene:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcWPiHjIExA

And Vote for Pedro!!

I dont know. I'll probably bake her a cake or something.

I think ND is hilarious! (Aquarius rushes to storage closet to dig out dvd)

Your mom goes to college.
Tina, you fat lard, come get some dinner.
Don't be jealous that I've been chatting with babes all day.

Absolutely love this movie!

Jared Hess movies Napoleon Dynamite and Nacho Libre were two of the funniest films I've ever seen. Talented guy. I hope he comes over to the dark side eventually. His soon-to-be released "Don Verdean" tells the story of a Biblical archaeologist hired to locate faith-promoting relics. Sound familiar?

http://www.comingsoon.net/movie/don-verdean-2015#/slide/1