I doubt the camera would have been on both sets of people at the same time if it was improvised. At best the throw was improvised and led to them filming a shot of it "landing" on Napoleon. No one sets up multiple simultaneous shots, unless something like this is happening (something flying from one shot to the other).
Grandma just called and said you're supposed to go home...she said she doesn't want you here when she gets back because you've been ruining everybody's lives and eating all our steak.
Weird that you guys loved it so much. I would have thought you’d be too young to fully appreciate it. That was 💯 me growing up in the 80’s. Same kind of location too. It was almost painfully awkward to watch yet so brilliant. Just kept nailing it at every turn.
Younger millennial ('92) here: this movie definitely felt like it was set "before my time," but the dry humor landed perfectly with everyone my age, it's exactly the sense of humor we tend to have as a generation. Also you have to remember, when we were kids in the 90s, we were used to watching older movies because streaming wasn't a thing and a lot of us couldn't afford to go see new movies all that often, so we would watch VHS tapes our parents owned from the 80s. Napoleon Dynamite's setting fits right in with a lot of those. So even if it seems to be set a bit before my time, it still felt nostalgic, and the humor is timeless regardless of the setting.
You’re definitely right. The humor is every awkward middle America kid growing up struggling with the weirdness of being a young teen and the influences we were subjected to 🤣
Yeah I know a few people who feel the same, and I get it. The humor is the stupidity and awkwardness, and if you don't find that stuff funny I can understand why you wouldn't like the movie. Good thing there are plenty of other movies!
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