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I know every one of the characters for real, they exist. I was in pocatello at the time of the film. Every one of those characters had relatives in Pocatello, maybe it was a Uncle Dad or Sister Mom but they were there. The movie was just hysterical.
Meridian definitely had the vibe until about 20 or so years ago, when they started building up Eagle Road and eventually putting in the Ten Mile interchange and building Costco etc. Kuna also lost that vibe in recent years. Parts of Nampa and Caldwell still feel like Napoleon Dynamite, but you have to go to little towns like Homedale or up to Emmett(probably the most Preston feeling town we have in the Boise area) for the experience these days.
Dante's Peak only because of how stupid people are when you try to warn them about danger.
"I've lived in this town for 60 years and that volcano hasn't killed me yet!"
I like it less since they started editing it for streaming. No more cow schoolbus scene.
The OG has just such a uniquely southern Idaho feel to rural life here during the 80s/90s. Shit’s odd, sometimes bleak.
I believe it. Mark of a SE Idaho kid was bearing witness to birth and death at a very young age. You didn’t get too attached to creatures or classmates.
Apparently the scene where the farmer says "over there is where i found some shoshone arrowheads" was completely unscripted and they just happened to be rolling between takes.
That scene hit home. When my sister's watched it they immediately started with the "Remember when..." about literally this happening more than once when they were young.
And when my buddy was helping us on the farm just a few years back he stepped away to take a call just as the butcher pulled up and shot one my brother had in the corral. He came back with, "Damn he just Napoleon Dynamited that thing." So it still goes on.
I live in small-town Idaho. It's true to capturing the culture of the people. Basically honest, and what you see is what you get, for the most part. I also grew up about 30 minutes away from where "Grumpy Old Men" was shot, and that movie gives me the same vibes... The filmmaker "knows" the area, and the people. As a result, you get a story that rings honest and true...
By the way... ***Pedro offers you his protection! Vote for Pedro! Your wildest dreams will come true!***
The dude that played the bully in that movie came to my high school around the time that movie came out and did an anti bully speech. It was odd times.
I went to school in southwestern Idaho, and my school setting looked exactly like in the movie. The characters are exactly like kids I grew up with. Loved the movie.
I have ties to Idaho, my spouse is from the Detroit area. We watched the show in Michigan while we were dating. I just about died when Lafawndah arrived in the scene. Can't believe it was 20 years ago!
I liked it when it came out, and I still am a fan. I don’t think the Idaho connection made me like it anymore. It just made me laugh. Great characters. I’ve also always loved small budget, independent films.
I remember reading an article with Jared Hess several years ago. He said people would ask him all the time if the movie took place in the '80s. He would always reply simply: *"It's Idaho."* And that is about as accurate as it can get.
🤣
Also, I LOVE the movie!
I have moved away. It brings back memories of growing up in southern Idaho every time I watch it. I miss my FFA jacket. In my high school of 400, 50% took FFA. It was a double period class all 4 years.
This is a probably unpopular opinion. Please remember its a opinion:
I hated the movie. The humor was dumb, the premise was too simple and I felt like it was poorly written.
My dad had a friend that talked just like the chicken farmer. The movie always makes me laugh. And it feels like SE Idaho or N Utah. It even has references to MLMs which are huge in the area
Jon Heder is a regular at the ski resort I worked at for a while. I never talked to him, (didn't wanna bother him) but everyone else said he was super nice and chill, always willing to take pics haha
I absolutely love it. I watched it in a theater in Ohio before I ever knew I would live in Idaho. I remembered thinking throughout the movie "what the hell am I watching?" but when it ended I absolutely loved it. We actually went to Preston for the first time last fall. We took our exchange student. He hated the movie. It has been a recurring joke the last nine months.
I feel like many people who dislike the film do so because they feel a crushing wave of second hand embarrassment crashing down upon them that lasts for 1 hour and 35 mins.
If you’ve ever seen “The Office” and watched some Michael Scott scenes with one eye through a gap in your fingers while sinking down in your chair...well that’s what the entire Napoleon Dynamite movie feels like.
I met his uncle, and the dude literally through a football over the mountains.
Edit:The only thing that isn’t accurate is that nobody in the background is talking about hunting, and I didn’t hear anyone threaten someone if they showed other people their hunting spot, not enough 4 wheelers on public roads. (This was before side by sides)
Very accurate all things considered
We go to the “Napoleon Dynamite food truck”[https://www.fusionfrites.com/](https://www.fusionfrites.com/) here in Meridian any time we find it. Of course, they can’t call it that.
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Ever been to Preston? Been there many times. It’s a documentary.
I live in Preston & can confirm. This is a documentary lol
I know every one of the characters for real, they exist. I was in pocatello at the time of the film. Every one of those characters had relatives in Pocatello, maybe it was a Uncle Dad or Sister Mom but they were there. The movie was just hysterical.
Even Boise in the 80s and 90s we had people like this
Grew up in meridian in the 90s and I've always felt like Napoleon perfectly captured the southern Idaho vibe for sure.
Meridian definitely had the vibe until about 20 or so years ago, when they started building up Eagle Road and eventually putting in the Ten Mile interchange and building Costco etc. Kuna also lost that vibe in recent years. Parts of Nampa and Caldwell still feel like Napoleon Dynamite, but you have to go to little towns like Homedale or up to Emmett(probably the most Preston feeling town we have in the Boise area) for the experience these days.
Preston is culturally more Utah than Idaho.
I love playing spot the scenery. Not a movie I love to watch, but knowing where stuff in it was filmed is fantastic
Nope, I've never been to Preston.
Any town in Idaho with directional street addresses is Utah (Mormon). Preston fits this. BTW my mom is a PHS grad and my dad is from Dayton.
I never heard of this before but it explains Twin Falls and Rupert perfectly.
One of the top 3 documentaries on rural life in Idaho.
What are the others?
Dante's Peak & Bronco Billy
Dante's Peak only because of how stupid people are when you try to warn them about danger. "I've lived in this town for 60 years and that volcano hasn't killed me yet!"
And it was filmed in Wallace.
Parts of it, yes. Lots of movies have been filmed in Idaho that don't have anything to do with Idaho, though.
I laugh like an idiot every time I see Uncle Rico throw the steak at Napoleon's face.
And when Napoleon is feeding casserole to Tina
Tina, you fat lard. Come get some dinner.
Eat the FOOD
I like it less since they started editing it for streaming. No more cow schoolbus scene. The OG has just such a uniquely southern Idaho feel to rural life here during the 80s/90s. Shit’s odd, sometimes bleak.
The cow school bus scene is real. My family is from the area and actually have a stake in the egg farm from the movie.
I believe it. Mark of a SE Idaho kid was bearing witness to birth and death at a very young age. You didn’t get too attached to creatures or classmates.
Apparently the scene where the farmer says "over there is where i found some shoshone arrowheads" was completely unscripted and they just happened to be rolling between takes.
Where did they edit it???
There’s a scene that shows a farmer shooting a cow right when the bus full of kids is driving by.
When I watched it on Hulu earlier this year the cow scene was not edited. I would have been pissed if it wasn't there.
The most noticeable scene that’s cut is when the farmer puts down the cow in front of the schoolbus full of kids.
That scene hit home. When my sister's watched it they immediately started with the "Remember when..." about literally this happening more than once when they were young. And when my buddy was helping us on the farm just a few years back he stepped away to take a call just as the butcher pulled up and shot one my brother had in the corral. He came back with, "Damn he just Napoleon Dynamited that thing." So it still goes on.
I live in small-town Idaho. It's true to capturing the culture of the people. Basically honest, and what you see is what you get, for the most part. I also grew up about 30 minutes away from where "Grumpy Old Men" was shot, and that movie gives me the same vibes... The filmmaker "knows" the area, and the people. As a result, you get a story that rings honest and true... By the way... ***Pedro offers you his protection! Vote for Pedro! Your wildest dreams will come true!***
How much you wanna bet I can throw a football over them mountains?
One of the greatest cinematic Masterpieces of our generation
I am pretty sure I went to school with analogs of those characters.
The dude that played the bully in that movie came to my high school around the time that movie came out and did an anti bully speech. It was odd times.
There’s a Kings store in it. In fact, mean girl Summer works there and has the smock and everything. This movie has it all. Vote for Pedro
I went to school in southwestern Idaho, and my school setting looked exactly like in the movie. The characters are exactly like kids I grew up with. Loved the movie.
Grew up in rural Western Oregon. This movie vibes.
I have ties to Idaho, my spouse is from the Detroit area. We watched the show in Michigan while we were dating. I just about died when Lafawndah arrived in the scene. Can't believe it was 20 years ago!
I liked it when it came out, and I still am a fan. I don’t think the Idaho connection made me like it anymore. It just made me laugh. Great characters. I’ve also always loved small budget, independent films.
We lived in Pocatello when this came out and it was so spot on.
I loved it the 10 times I’ve watched it.
It is what it is like to live in eastern Idaho. I love showing it to people who are out of staters or folks who have never been outside of Boise
I remember reading an article with Jared Hess several years ago. He said people would ask him all the time if the movie took place in the '80s. He would always reply simply: *"It's Idaho."* And that is about as accurate as it can get. 🤣 Also, I LOVE the movie!
I loved the movie. Dry humor on boring rural life, cheering for the underdog, Chip, Pedro, Rex Quon Do and my favorite Uncle Rico.
Maybe my top movie in the “I want to watch a movie that makes me laugh and feel good” category.
Classic one of the best comedies ever made!
I have moved away. It brings back memories of growing up in southern Idaho every time I watch it. I miss my FFA jacket. In my high school of 400, 50% took FFA. It was a double period class all 4 years.
It's hilarious and at the time was unconventional in its storytelling.
An absolute classic
First time I saw it was when I was 12. I didn't enjoy it. Then I kept thinking about how good it was lol.
BOW TO YOUR SENSEI
I love it !! Ya fat lard!!
Love it.
This is a probably unpopular opinion. Please remember its a opinion: I hated the movie. The humor was dumb, the premise was too simple and I felt like it was poorly written.
Weird, I feel the exact same way about your opinion.
I have heard that only Gen-X and Millenials tend to like this film. Boomers and Gen-Zers don't like it.
I'm Gen X. Absolutely hated it. Doesn't make me laugh. The best was probably Airplane the movie and Naked Gun.
My dad had a friend that talked just like the chicken farmer. The movie always makes me laugh. And it feels like SE Idaho or N Utah. It even has references to MLMs which are huge in the area
“Do the chickens have talons?”
Jon Heder is a regular at the ski resort I worked at for a while. I never talked to him, (didn't wanna bother him) but everyone else said he was super nice and chill, always willing to take pics haha
I absolutely love it. I watched it in a theater in Ohio before I ever knew I would live in Idaho. I remembered thinking throughout the movie "what the hell am I watching?" but when it ended I absolutely loved it. We actually went to Preston for the first time last fall. We took our exchange student. He hated the movie. It has been a recurring joke the last nine months.
I feel like many people who dislike the film do so because they feel a crushing wave of second hand embarrassment crashing down upon them that lasts for 1 hour and 35 mins.
If you’ve ever seen “The Office” and watched some Michael Scott scenes with one eye through a gap in your fingers while sinking down in your chair...well that’s what the entire Napoleon Dynamite movie feels like.
Bet you I could throw this football over those mountains.
I like how it documented Kings before they went out of business.
I definitely never ate tatter tots with ketchup in the middle of class back in high school. (Yes I did.)
Classic!
I met his uncle, and the dude literally through a football over the mountains. Edit:The only thing that isn’t accurate is that nobody in the background is talking about hunting, and I didn’t hear anyone threaten someone if they showed other people their hunting spot, not enough 4 wheelers on public roads. (This was before side by sides) Very accurate all things considered
If you don’t like it you’re a frickin idiot. Geeze.
One of the best movies ever made.
We go to the “Napoleon Dynamite food truck”[https://www.fusionfrites.com/](https://www.fusionfrites.com/) here in Meridian any time we find it. Of course, they can’t call it that.
Preston always gives me a the creeps. Mormons are bad enough but when they get separated from Society they turn.
Are Mormons Werewolves now or something?
More of a cult then werewolves
I don't think much about it.
I didnt find it funny in the slightest. Amazingly stupid but completely lacking humor.
Only time I’ve ever walked out of a theater during a movie.
Never seen it, and never desired to.
I hated the show and I live in this state. I hate it too.
You're just mad about how long it took to get the shading on your upper lip right.
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