Who's dumber? - Dumb and Dumber (1994) Discussion

[–] mjack421 9 years ago

Easily Lloyd. He can't read, and knew less about his surroundings.

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Who's more foolish: the fool, or the fool who follows him?

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The fool likely may know he is a fool already, whereas the follower fool probably feels like they are smart. Having recognition of your limitations and surroundings shows more of your understanding and opposed to feeling like you are really a smart dude.

Always got the feeling that Harry was kinda smart, and D&D2 (slight spoiler) shows that he was accepted into ASU, but didn't realize it! Still, that takes some smarts!

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[–] adrianswingler 9 years ago

Just so. The movie is dumb and the people that enjoy it are dumber.

BTW, am I the only one that says "stupid" instead of "dumb"? That's always struck me as disrespectful of mutes.

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[–] MrJJay 8 years ago

Just so. The movie is dumb and the people that enjoy it are dumber.

True that. This film sucks.

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[–] CromeRose 8 years ago

Easily Lloyd. He can't read, and knew less about his surroundings.

He can't read and yet he manages to read the headline about us landing on the moon with no problem at all.

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[–] mjack421 8 years ago

T-HE, T-HE

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[–] DodoPatak (118) 5 years ago

Or how he read "Samsonite" in an instant.

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[–] PersistentViewer (1801) 3 years ago

That's very true. For some reason, I never clicked on the moon landing and samsonite. Maybe he's semi-dyslexic.

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[–] rockinpink90 9 years ago

It's pretty obvious that it's Lloyd.

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[–] ckmsaxophone 9 years ago

Lloyd. At least Harry was kind of street smart.

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[–] rdleon98 9 years ago

I think Jeff Daniels is dumber

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[–] jajceboy 9 years ago

Obviously Lloyd. Harry didn't even seem that stupid. At least he could read well and knew big words and all that.

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[–] sas6789 9 years ago

Harry didn't even seem that stupid

Got his tongue stuck to a chair, threw a snowball at Mary's face, set himself on fire at the gas station, turned down the chance to go on the tour at of the film etc. Harry was stupid alright but I agree with others Lloyd was stupider.

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[–] keyvenx 9 years ago

Most definitely Lloyd - Harry at times was the "straight man" to the stupidity of Lloyd's antics.

Harry's not too bright, but he's at least a dozen IQs smarter than Lloyd.

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[–] PreachCaleb 9 years ago

They're both dumb. Together, they're dumber.

Can't stop the signal.

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[–] jbstoner 9 years ago

Yes and I like it that way.🚐

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[–] xynth90 9 years ago

They're both dumb. Together, they're dumber.

Together, they're unstoppable.

No, I'm in Touch with humanity!
- Patrick Bateman, American Psycho

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[–] Philip_90 9 years ago

Lloyd definitely.

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[–] green_dog 9 years ago

Harry's little monologue during the scene where they're stranded in the middle of Nebraska shows a bit of intelligence in him...

LLOYD: So we backtracked a tad.
HARRY: A tad?! A tad, Lloyd? You drove almost a sixth of the way across the country in the wrong direction! Now we don't have enough money to get to Aspen, we don't have enough money to get home, we don't have enough money to eat, and we don't have enough money to sleep!"

Perhaps being angry makes him think more clearly? At any rate I'd say Harry is the smarter one. Plus he can actually read and pronounce words like "host" and "the".

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[–] MrsMonroe74 9 years ago

Lloyd. he couldn't read.

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[–] BulletHeadedSaxonMothersSon 8 years ago

Not only is Lloyd dumber, he's also clinically insane.

Check out this entry on the film's tv tropes page:

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WMG/DumbAndDumber

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