This or Naopleon Dynamite


personaly i think this is m uch better. any thoughts?

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two completely different films

two completely different cultures

two completely different characters

two completely different plots

two completely different ideas


There is no way you can compare these movies, just like there's no way to compare the colour green to blue.

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You can still say which one you liked more though, right?

This movie, easily.

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yeah this movie was more sharp in its dialouge... i liked it

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Napoleon Dynamite is much funnier.

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you can copare green to blue. green is blue plus yellow, making it better then blue

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You are my hero.

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two completely different films

two completely different cultures

two completely different characters

two completely different plots

two completely different ideas


There is no way you can compare these movies, just like there's no way to compare the colour green to blue.

i cant help but disagree, they are similar in some ways and this by far is much much much better but i liked napolean okay.

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Actually, oddly enough, green contains blue.

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Green pigment contains blue, but the color green does not contain any blue at all. Colors and pigments are not the same. Color is a property of light; pigments affect how a material absorbs color or reflects it for our eyes to see. The primary colors are red, green, and blue (the primary pigments are red, blue, and yellow, but ts_260's comment referred to colors, not pigments).

The color red is produced by light with absolutely no green or blue in it, green by light with absolutely no red or blue in it, etc. Light with red, green, and blue in equal proportions is pure white.

So ts_260's analogy was correct in that the colors green and blue technically have nothing in common and are in fact mutually exclusive. The only way to compare those two colors or these two movies is to say which you like better, if either. Although I much prefer Napoleon Dynamite to Placid Lake (possibly because I'm American (you noticed "color"), not Australian), I love green and blue equally, especially when they're together as on a beautiful spring day.

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You bet, Napoleon is more surreal and the situations are more unlikely to happen. PLacid is a better movie, it's more sarcastic, ironic, better performed, I don't understand what is it with Napoleon.

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i cant watch napoleon many times over again, its too slow. i can watch rage in placid lake and always find something new or funny i never noticed before (like an episode of the simpsons) plus i think the movie is more meaty, and has more substance

i still love nappy d, but i much prefer placid lake.

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Ha ha...and I love how everyone who hates Napoleon "Dnyhmate" is too stupid to spell it.

Ha ha ha ha ha

Have a great day!

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i love that you didnt spell it right either. Napoleon Dynamite.

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more sarcastic and ironic? i can see that argument. better performed? herdly. whereas napoleon was a shallow but quirky character carried out to the fullest, placid was a deeper character but comes off as pseudo-contrived with quirkiness that was meant to appease producers, or what i like to call "juno syndrome". and honestly, ben lee didn't make me believe the character had inner turmoil. i will say rose byrne and gary mcdonald were the most believable and best performed characters out of either movie, but after those two napoleon was far better performed because despite how absurd the characters may be, they were still acted out more believably (not more realistic, but more believable).

should these two movies really be compared tho? not really. napoleon is an off-beat comedy where everything just happens to work out in the end. placid is a coming-of-age story thats has some "quirky" humor tossed in. that's not the same thing.

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This is much higher concept that Napolean Dynamite, though I think both movies had relatively weak endings.

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I don't mind Ben Lee's music.

I don't mind Rose Byrne.

But that movie was the biggest waste of time this year (for me).

I liked Napoleon Dynamite 100 times more.

And while I'm all for Aussie films, this and Bad Eggs need to go back to the hell from whence they were spawned.

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Napolean Dynamite...
no comment...


Rage in Placid Lake was fantastic, loved the casting of ben. he did a fantastic job.

A little sureal at times but thats what movies are

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I like both, but rage in placid lake is more witty and faster paced.

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so, which australian film do you prefer? the rage in placid lake, or you and your stupid mate?

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The Castle? Does that work for you?

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I enjoyed both films. They are very different and I took different things from them so It is difficult to compare them.

If I had a gun to my head and was forced to choose I would probably pick Placid Lake though.

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The first thing I thought about this film was how similar it was to N-A-P-O-L-E-O-N D-Y-N-A-M-I-T-E.

But this film is much better. The characters are more realistic, but the situations are more surreal, and there's a lot more irony and satire in the screenplay than in N-A-P-O-L-E-O-N D-Y-N-A-M-I-T-E. Plus the actors were a lot better in Placid Lake - Ben Lee made Lake a lot more sympathetic than Heder made his protagonist, and Gary McDonald and Miranda Richardson were just brilliant in their roles.

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I like Placid Lake a lot more than Napoleon Dynamite, I'm not sure if it's because I'm biased to Ben Lee (I've always been an avid fan of his music) or if it was that I just could relate to it so much more.
Aren't Ben Lee, Gary McDonald and Miranda Richardson all just fantastic in it? They worked so well together. That bit where Placid's Dad tried to deprogram him was so funny.

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I neverthought that these films were similar in anyway except that they were the same genre but comparing American Indie comedy with Australian sarcasm is impossible its just a matter of taste. It's like comparing the english show the Royale Family with Married with Children both of which are about the lower class from a condesending view but incomparable. If anything this can be compared to the Aussie film that came out this year 48 Shades.

My choice however is Rage simply because I can relate to the character of Placid. His parents even have the same kind of soy sauce in the background of their kitchen as my mother does. Freaky. Napoleon however I felt awkward watching it, I think this was the point but I felt bad because for the first half I thought he was mentally retarded so couldn't find it in the least bit funny.

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napoleon dynamite did come to mind while watching this film, but only in regards to me breathing a sigh of relief that 'rage in placid lake' was actually good where as napoleon dynamite was just painfully dreadful.

i know i know, when a kid says GOSH with extra emphasis its just sooo damn funny. lets repeat it endlessly for the next year and a half, kay? kay.

i really appreciated placid lake because he was kind of an outcast or a nerd, but not completely socially inept, nor an annoying whiny chore with the maturity of a grade schooler like napoleon dynamite. placid's character seems to have a solid grasp of grammer, general social tact and intelligence, and although he'd get beaten up, he'd get some right witty comments in beforehand.

id like to be his friend, whereas i would avoid napoleon dynamite like the plague.

i like green 1000x better than blue.
i like placid about 1000x better than napoleon.

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TRIPL hands down.
This has got to be the best film I've
ever seen.
Napolean Dynamite might have been good the first
time I saw it, but this one I could watch a billion
times and still laugh each time.
It's completely underrated

"...because Satan's not in a guitar pick. He's inside all of us"

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The acting in Napoleon Dynamite was much better, the characters way more fleshed out and believable and the storyline more realistic.



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