Over-hyped movies

[Ellen]

Are there any movies that you think are overated?

Napolean Dynamite-I know I'm going to tick off ND fans with this. I saw it expecting it to be the funniest movie in the world by the way it was hyped. It's funny, but it was missing something for me. But somewhere between hearing everyone say "gosh" and "flipping" (which was my word before that ) and seeing liger thongs at Hot Topic (...) all the hype got on my nerves.

Finding Nemo- When I saw this movie, I thought it was alright, really, a cutre film but no different than movies in the computer animated genre or Disney movies. But I hear all these people thinking it's genius. If you want to see a great Disney film see the Lion King. I saw it when I was 3 years old and still love it. Finding Nemo does nothing for me. if I wanted to hear Ellen Degenres talk for an hour of my life, I'd watch daytime talk shows. if I wanted to see talking underwater life, I'd watch the little mermaid. And if I wanted to see a similar plot I'd watch about every other Disney movie ever. There are girls in my class who'd seen the movie 29 times and who'd paint him on a pumkin for our pumkin painting contest.

[Vicky]

I love both of those movies! But, yeah, ND got a little overboard with the whole clothes line and pins and all that other stuff...even though I have two of the t-shirts and a whole set of Napoleon Dynomite pins ...

[Kip, Sophie, Mimi]

It is my favorite movie, but I do think it got a little TOO popular.

[Ellen]

Yeah. There are movie quotes that stay with us for years, even decades. "Eat you food, Tina you fat lard" just isn't one.

[Kip, Sophie, Mimi]

Liger thongs LMAO

[Ellen]

Just when I thought it couldn't get any scarier

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[Ellen]

'Dynamite' doll does all the talking

By Gil Kaufman
Enquirer contributor

You've seen the movie a million times, bought the DVD and worn out your "Vote for Pedro" T-shirt. Maybe you even tried to build your own time machine. Now the cult-film hero has been immortalized in the flippin' sweet "Napoleon Dynamite" Talking Doll.

The 7-inch ceramic figure was the brainchild of Jay Kamhi of Clearwater, Fla., but it took Cincinnati sculptor Paul Brooke to bring the über-nerd to life.

"I started by using these Chinese artists who I'd worked with before and they kept sending me back prototypes that looked nothing like Napoleon," said former New York street vendor Kamhi. "They didn't understand Napoleon and they couldn't capture the droopy, sleepy look or his personality. Then someone gave me Paul's name."

Paul Brooke of Clifton, who sculpted the “Napoleon Dynamite” doll, uses dental tools and homemade implements to carve his figures of out clay and wax.

Brooke, a 42-year-old former Hasbro employee, has turned his Clifton basement into a creature factory. He created several of the action figures for "Star Wars Episode III: The Revenge of the Sith," and is working on Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom dolls for the "Pirates of the Caribbean" sequels. But it was the call from Kamhi that resulted in what Brooke said was his best gig ever.

"I'd just seen the movie and I loved it, and was psyched when Jay called out of the blue," he said.

Brooke took a job painting backdrops at Kings Island after graduation from Antonelli College in the '80s, but he soon realized his true love was sculpture. That led him to a job designing G.I. Joes. "I was the guy who killed the kung-fu grip," he said proudly, showing off a model of the "super-articulated" hand he created that gave the warrior more nimble fingers.

Brooke said he studied publicity stills and dozens of fan site photos of "Napoleon" actor Jon Heder to get the intricate folds of Napoleon's jeans and T-shirt just right, a process that process took three weeks.

But why did Kamhi wait so long to bring "Dynamite" to life? The inventor of the Spice Mice key chain toy said he was inspired to make the talking doll after observing how enthralled his daughter and her friends were with the movie.

"You normally don't make a doll of a movie character after the movie is on its way out of theaters," he said. "But I ... didn't really know what I was doing. I e-mailed [director] Jared Hess and he said, 'Go for it!' "

After getting a former NASA engineer to design the doll's sound, Kamhi used Cincinnati recording studio Sonic Arts to clean up 18 lines from the movie for use in the dolls, which will have a limited run of 50,000-100,000.

Brooke, meanwhile, has since moved on to sculpting the Minotaur from the upcoming big-screen version of "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe" and the lead characters from the upcoming animated movie "Cars."


WHAT THE DOLL SAYS
"You guys are retarded!"

"Yesssss!"

"Whatever I feel like I wanna do, Gosh!"

"Tina you fat lard come get some dinner!"

"But my lips hurt real bad!"

"I told you, I spent it with my uncle in Alaska, hunting Wolverines!"

"This is pretty much the worst video ever made."

"I wish you'd get out of my life and shut up"

"Freakin' idiot"

"Can you bring me my Chapstick?"

"I see you're drinking one percent. Is that because you think you're fat?"

"I'm voting for Pedro Sanchez, who do you think?"

"No, I'm freakin' starved, I didn't get to eat anything today."

"Sweet!"

"May I will, gosh!"

"Pedro, just listen to your heart. That's what I do."

"Gross"

"I caught you a delicious bass."

[Alyssa]

admin said:

'Dynamite' doll does all the talking

By Gil Kaufman
Enquirer contributor

You've seen the movie a million times, bought the DVD and worn out your "Vote for Pedro" T-shirt. Maybe you even tried to build your own time machine. Now the cult-film hero has been immortalized in the flippin' sweet "Napoleon Dynamite" Talking Doll.

The 7-inch ceramic figure was the brainchild of Jay Kamhi of Clearwater, Fla., but it took Cincinnati sculptor Paul Brooke to bring the über-nerd to life.

"I started by using these Chinese artists who I'd worked with before and they kept sending me back prototypes that looked nothing like Napoleon," said former New York street vendor Kamhi. "They didn't understand Napoleon and they couldn't capture the droopy, sleepy look or his personality. Then someone gave me Paul's name."

Paul Brooke of Clifton, who sculpted the “Napoleon Dynamite” doll, uses dental tools and homemade implements to carve his figures of out clay and wax.

Brooke, a 42-year-old former Hasbro employee, has turned his Clifton basement into a creature factory. He created several of the action figures for "Star Wars Episode III: The Revenge of the Sith," and is working on Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom dolls for the "Pirates of the Caribbean" sequels. But it was the call from Kamhi that resulted in what Brooke said was his best gig ever.

"I'd just seen the movie and I loved it, and was psyched when Jay called out of the blue," he said.

Brooke took a job painting backdrops at Kings Island after graduation from Antonelli College in the '80s, but he soon realized his true love was sculpture. That led him to a job designing G.I. Joes. "I was the guy who killed the kung-fu grip," he said proudly, showing off a model of the "super-articulated" hand he created that gave the warrior more nimble fingers.

Brooke said he studied publicity stills and dozens of fan site photos of "Napoleon" actor Jon Heder to get the intricate folds of Napoleon's jeans and T-shirt just right, a process that process took three weeks.

But why did Kamhi wait so long to bring "Dynamite" to life? The inventor of the Spice Mice key chain toy said he was inspired to make the talking doll after observing how enthralled his daughter and her friends were with the movie.

"You normally don't make a doll of a movie character after the movie is on its way out of theaters," he said. "But I ... didn't really know what I was doing. I e-mailed [director] Jared Hess and he said, 'Go for it!' "

After getting a former NASA engineer to design the doll's sound, Kamhi used Cincinnati recording studio Sonic Arts to clean up 18 lines from the movie for use in the dolls, which will have a limited run of 50,000-100,000.

Brooke, meanwhile, has since moved on to sculpting the Minotaur from the upcoming big-screen version of "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe" and the lead characters from the upcoming animated movie "Cars."


WHAT THE DOLL SAYS
"You guys are retarded!"

"Yesssss!"

"Whatever I feel like I wanna do, Gosh!"

"Tina you fat lard come get some dinner!"

"But my lips hurt real bad!"

"I told you, I spent it with my uncle in Alaska, hunting Wolverines!"

"This is pretty much the worst video ever made."

"I wish you'd get out of my life and shut up"

"Freakin' idiot"

"Can you bring me my Chapstick?"

"I see you're drinking one percent. Is that because you think you're fat?"

"I'm voting for Pedro Sanchez, who do you think?"

"No, I'm freakin' starved, I didn't get to eat anything today."

"Sweet!"

"May I will, gosh!"

"Pedro, just listen to your heart. That's what I do."

"Gross"

"I caught you a delicious bass."

OMG!

[Alyssa]

That's so scary,lol!

[Alyssa]

Wow,I just saw Napolen Dynamie and it was AWSOME!!!!!!!!I never knew Tina was a freakin' llama!

[Mel]

That movie sounds really weird.

[Alyssa]

mel said:

That movie sounds really weird.

lol,it's the most funniest movie in the world!I so loved it!

[Mel]

I'm never going to cause it just looks weird.

[Alyssa]

mel said:

I'm never going to cause it just looks weird.

Just 'cause it looks weird,doesn't mean it tis,mate.

[Ellen]

Oh. It's weird. Sort of funny though.

[Alyssa]

admin said:

Oh. It's weird. Sort of funny though.

hmm...well I guess,lol