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Big Chris:

I cracked up at Napoleon Dynamite. Just bought the 2 disc special edition for my Wife for our anniversary. Only a fiver!

Who said romance was dead ? 

It's a fiver more than she spent on me!

We don't really do anniversaries, and as we have exactly the same birthday, we don't tend to buy each other anything then either.

We're Christmas people. Everything else is just a waste of money IMO.

In think it was the expectation of Napoleon Dynamite that was the real let down. But not the worst I've seen.

Maybe you're right. I'd never heard of it before I saw it.

the village. what a massive ****

Star Wars.

TheLastManWithBetamax:

Star Wars.

Oh dear !! 

Star Wars because

1. The dialogue is badly written
2. The acting is non existent with the exception of Cushing and Guiness
3. C3PO has singularly the most annoying voice in the world
4. Two major characters have lines in the film that no one can understand (R2 and Chewie)
5. The musical score is loud, bombastic and undignified
6. It sets a precedent that all is needed are some special effects and you can sell the cinema going public any old hooey
7. It is just a Special Effects Test reel, loosely strung together with a barely believable story line
8. To wit we are supposed to believe that a Farmer can jump into the cockpit of an advanced military space fighter, and not only fly it but make the killer shot on the death star using a mystical energy force he only heard of a few minutes ago. Now take your average Farmer Giles in this country and stick him in the cockpit of a Harrier, he wont get it off the ground let alone blow up a haystack....!!
9. All the characters are mono dimensional, theres nothing about any of them that gets you involved in who and what they are.
10. IT IS RESPONISBLE FOR HUNDREDS OF EVEN WORSE SPACE MOVIES!

Out of interest, can you name a few films you like?

Kodak make good films

Comedian eh? I would never have guessed. I bet you're a Rick Moranis man.

TheLastManWithBetamax:

Star Wars.

For all it's faults, I think the world would be a duller place without it.

Wizard of Oz (any version) - truly terrible, terrible story.

TheLastManWithBetamax:

Star Wars because

1. The dialogue is badly written
2. The acting is non existent with the exception of Cushing and Guiness
3. C3PO has singularly the most annoying voice in the world
4. Two major characters have lines in the film that no one can understand (R2 and Chewie)
5. The musical score is loud, bombastic and undignified
6. It sets a precedent that all is needed are some special effects and you can sell the cinema going public any old hooey
7. It is just a Special Effects Test reel, loosely strung together with a barely believable story line
8. To wit we are supposed to believe that a Farmer can jump into the cockpit of an advanced military space fighter, and not only fly it but make the killer shot on the death star using a mystical energy force he only heard of a few minutes ago. Now take your average Farmer Giles in this country and stick him in the cockpit of a Harrier, he wont get it off the ground let alone blow up a haystack....!!
9. All the characters are mono dimensional, theres nothing about any of them that gets you involved in who and what they are.
10. IT IS RESPONISBLE FOR HUNDREDS OF EVEN WORSE SPACE MOVIES!

You do know it's a kids film don't you?

RhysMainwaring:

Wizard of Oz (any version) - truly terrible, terrible story.

The story is actually a very subtle critique of monarchy. The author Frank Baum was influenced by the writings of Thomas Paine, one of the greatest political advocates the world has ever seen, author of, the "Rights of Man", the philosophical cornerstone of the first democratic republic, the USA.

To quote Thomas Paine: "I have always considered monarchy to be a silly, contemptible thing, I compare it to something kept behind a curtain. about which there is a great deal of bustle & fuss, and a wonderful air of seeming solemnity, but when, by accident, the curtain happens to open, and the company see what it is, they burst into laughter"

See the connection with the Wizard of Oz story now?

Regardless of the underlying political message my kids love singing along with it & hiding behind cushions whenever the Wicked Witch of the West appears

 A great family film, considering made in 1939. It contains a few continuity errors, however it defines the term "movie magic".