Actually, I understand how other people MIGHT like Napoleon, but... like someone else said, it just felt too forced. They seemed to rely on the appearance of the characters far too much for laughs.
Also like someone else also said, I only laughed once or twice myself. And both times, they were at moments no one else thought funny... which was weird honestly.

I think the reason the girls found it funny was because they didn't want to admit that they had rented a bad movie. It might have allowed them to "lose face".
Their laughter seemed forced.


Anywho, enough about my opinions about that movie. That wasn't my goal with the topic. Sorry guys.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
A Very Long Engagement
Motocycle Diaries
( i dont think A Very Long Engagement got released in the US in 2004 did it?)
Worst Film
Saw

Kill Bill 2
Touching the Void

Garden State
I (HEArt) Huckabees

This has been one of the worst years for quality films in recent times.

The best that were released in 2004 (incomplete list, I'm sure):

Maria Full of Grace
Hero (this shouldn't even count, since it was available at least a year ago)
Spider-Man 2
The Life Aquatic
Kill Bill Vol. 2 (overrated but still well done)
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence

Troy was a total disaster. I didn't get to see The Machinist, Motorcycle Diaries, or The Sea Inside, all of which I was interested in.

Hollywood has been putting out garbage lately, which is why I went to the theater less than 10 times in 2004. Since summer, I think I only went twice (Maria Full of Grace in some time around September, and Life Aquatic in January 05).

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I went to the theater less than 10 times in 2004.

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I went even less times than that. The year before I was going every second or third week, but this year I was just as happy to rent some quality films from years gone by. There are plenty more I haven't seen at the video store than at the cinema.

Actually, I just checked my ticket stubs. I went to a theater 7 times in 2004. One of those was to see Return of the King again sometime in March.

Worst year on record, but not without some good films. Collateral was also pretty good for the first 2/3.

I totally forgot about I Heart Hucakbees. Hilarious movie! Mark Wahlburg was awesome in it, as well as Jude Law. Good thinking kyle johnson

Eternal Sunshine

The Saddest Music in the World

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, I Heart Huckabee's, Collateral

I thought Napoleon Dynamite was alright, but overrated. The funniest part to me was the Rex Kwon-Do commercial when he says, "...and the wisdom OF A MAN!" over the footage of him putting someone in a headlock... I thought right then, "Well, I'm sure there'll be something in the movie that'll make me laugh harder than that," but there really wasn't.

I thought Garden State was kinda' overrated too. Zach Braff did a great job for his first film, but it's exactly that... "for his first film." It's not like Donnie Darko, where you find out that's Richard Kelly's first film and it kind of catches you by surprise. I don't know, I just think there was something kind of off about Garden State... maybe it was too whiny? I don't know. But I think Braff will get better as he goes on... and even my friends who loved the movie agree with me that the soundtrack is better.

I liked Warriors, a film made in spain-western europe, about the conflict in Kosovo. doubtful a lot of you have seen it. It was okay, come over-the-top moments, but its foreign, give em a break.
And then small-pox. that fake documentary, which could pass as real to the unknowing veiwer.
K-19 widowmaker was good, I think that was like early '04, maybe late '03. cant remember.

I have got to go with Collateral on this one. If you watch the DVD of this movie, you can clearly see how much effort was put into every element of this movie. The cinematography shines here. Plus the story itself is just great, a very entertaining movie.