June 28, 2004
Napoleon Dynamite
Mike called tonight and invited me to see Napoleon Dynamite. It reminded me alot of Rushmore; except lower budget, more shots of Idaho, and a whole lot more of the creepy, crawly uncomfortable feeling that you get when you watch an impending train wreck. Suffice it to say, Napoleon will probably make you feel a whole lot better about your own life. All in all, I liked the movie. It was entertaining and not at all what I would have expected after seeing the MTV logo three times during the opening credits (the last such movie I saw was Joe's Apartment: entertaining, but nothing like this).
On a side note, since this keeps coming up, what the heck is up with the expression "Suffice it to say"? It just seems wrong. I mean, I suppose it's equivalent to "It suffices to say", but then why can't I say "Drive I to work"? Dave supposes that its just some relic of an expression that survived intact from the days when people actually did say things like "Gallop I to the field" and other people actually understood them. Dave also thinks that I should get an etymological dictionary since I tend to ask him questions like this from time to time (last time I was musing about the expression "might as well"...that one still confounds me). Perhaps he's sick of me? :)
Posted by todd at June 28, 2004 12:53 AM