Napoleon Dynamite DVD: Smashing Expectations?
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They were out at Target and Fred Meyer, but I found a copy at Wal Mart for about $15.50. My brother really wants this for X-Mas, so now he'll be happy. I really wanted the Vote for Pedro T-Shirt from Fred Meyer, too.
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Originally Posted by Cornelius1047
No thanks.
This would make an excellent TV show though.
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This would make an excellent TV show though.
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That's exactly what I was thinking as I was watching it. I didn't really think it worked very well as a film, not that it was a bad, but it didn't feel like a complete movie.
Quirky characters, a good environment, but not much of a story. This could be translated to TV very well.
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I'm convinced this movie was created for annoying people to quote. I go to school in Montana and i know several people from Idaho...they all tell me that Preston is exactly like that. This knowledge stops my enjoyment of this movie.
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Originally Posted by ThatGuamGuy
$44 million is not a small splash, especially when the movie cost less than half a million. I'm not sure exactly what the studio paid to acquire the movie, but it was about one-tenth of what it made. I'd say that's pretty solid. It was the big sleeper hit of the year, it made almost double what 'Garden State' did.
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Originally Posted by Elpresidentepez
I'm convinced this movie was created for annoying people to quote. I go to school in Montana and i know several people from Idaho...they all tell me that Preston is exactly like that. This knowledge stops my enjoyment of this movie.
Yeah, seriously. I haven't meet a single person who isn't in high school that actually enjoyed this drivel.
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I read some Yahoo! entertainment news that 60% of the stock sent to stores was sold on Tuesday alone and that the studio was working on getting more to stores before Christmas.
Got mine at Best Buy, blind buy.
Got mine at Best Buy, blind buy.
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Originally Posted by Jackskeleton
It's a movie that you either love or hate. No middle ground to it other than that.
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Wasn't really looking for it, but I noticed Best Buy's display was empty. Pretty impressive, I'll have to grab a copy down the road.
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Yep, I had no luck (Circuit City, Hastings, Best Buy, Target) so I ordered it. I've got company for the holidays and I'm sick so I didn't feel like going on a manhunt.
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Originally Posted by Cameron
entertainment weekly said it made 46 million and cost under 400 thousand to make.
Everyone clings on to the 400K number because it sounds so good. But that was hardly the final cost.
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you may be right....i had heard originally it was under 200 thousand, then with all the advertising it was raised to 400 grand.....either way even if they spent five millian on promotion thats still 40 million bucks
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Originally Posted by Jericho
I would like to say I'm in the middle ground on this one, just to be difficult.
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Yeah, seriously. I haven't meet a single person who isn't in high school that actually enjoyed this drivel.

But I will say that I discovered the film months prior to the theatrical release. I saw the flick before it was even released. I saw it three times prior to it's theatrical release (for free) and an additional time when the "new ending" was tacked on. I knew all about it before the trendy and scenester fucks in high school found out about it.
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Napoleon Dynamite Continues Hot Streak on DVD
It was one of the hottest art-house movies of 2004, and geek-power film "Napoleon Dynamite" appears even hotter on DVD, selling 1.4 million units in its first day in stores, a Fox Home Entertainment spokesman said on Thursday.
With an average street price around $20 per DVD, the retail sales equate to roughly $28 million -- more than half the film's $44 million domestic box office.
It was one of the hottest art-house movies of 2004, and geek-power film "Napoleon Dynamite" appears even hotter on DVD, selling 1.4 million units in its first day in stores, a Fox Home Entertainment spokesman said on Thursday.
With an average street price around $20 per DVD, the retail sales equate to roughly $28 million -- more than half the film's $44 million domestic box office.
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This was such a great blind buy!! 
I was able to snag this at Walmart for $13.88 this past Tuesday when I went home early "sick".
It's great to see the DVD sales on this skyrocketing!

I was able to snag this at Walmart for $13.88 this past Tuesday when I went home early "sick".

It's great to see the DVD sales on this skyrocketing!
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I had my ND pre-ordered. I need to watch it,damn it. Maybe after RAW..... It was sold out at Suncoast,FYE,and Best Buy,but Wal-Mart was OVERstocked with them.
Oh and on the SOTD note Shaun(whitch I also p-oed)sold out at my local Wal-Mart,Best Buy,FYE,and Suncoast. Lucky me that I pre-ordered my copy.....
Oh and on the SOTD note Shaun(whitch I also p-oed)sold out at my local Wal-Mart,Best Buy,FYE,and Suncoast. Lucky me that I pre-ordered my copy.....
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I'm definantly going to have to rent this one. It never really intrested me to see it, but with it being sold out all over the nation it makes me ponder about the movie. At first thought it seems as if it would just be the X-mas rush that helped it out, yet there are no reports of King Arthur being like this. Also when I picked up Shaun of the Dead at my local Wal-Mart there was only one stack (maybe 10 copies if that) total that they had displayed out. It wasn't sold out, that was it for what they were selling.
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ND was number 2 for the Most Rewatchable DVDs of 2004



