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Napoleon

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An epic that details the checkered rise and fall of French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and his relentless journey to power through the prism of his addictive, volatile relationship with his wife, Josephine. From TMDB

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  • Discontinued FoOoOods! 👻🎃 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 9, 2024

    Ben and Jerry's Neapolitan Dynamite (2006-2010): Cherry Garcia and Chocolate Fudge Brownie ice creams, side by side in a pint. Confusingly, this concoction was neither Neapolitan, nor did it have any connection to it's namesake film, "Napoleon Dynamite".

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  • jamelle @jamellebouie.netBluesky · Nov 26, 2023

    just got out of the theater and confidently say NAPOLEON feels like a movie that’s missing a major chunk of its runtime

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  • Discontinued FoOoOods! 👻🎃 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 13, 2025

    Side note: for whatever reason, it seems to be the cool thing now to act like Napoleon Dynamite was/is terrible, and this is revisionist history and hipsterism. The chokehold that movie had on my class senior year of high school is unlike anything I've ever seen in pop culture

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  • Scott Edelman @scottedelman.bsky.socialBluesky · May 12, 2026

    My only encounter with Rex Reed was at a 1981 screening of Abel Gance's Napoleon at Radio City Music Hall. After the lights went up, I realized I'd been sitting behind him and Lillian Gish, who was his date, the whole time. I kissed her hand. I did not kiss his. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/m...

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  • 🎃 Out Of Context International Dubs 🎃 @outofcontxtdubs.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 23, 2025

    Movie: Napoleon Dynamite Language: Japanese

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  • The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.netBluesky · Nov 17, 2025

    I've turned another old threat into an article. This time my review of the 2023 film Napoleon. Oh boy... You can read it here; fakehistoryhunter.substack.com/p/film-revie... Or here; fakehistoryhunter.net/2025/11/17/f...

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  • Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.socialBluesky · Feb 15, 2025

    The closest I can trace that "He who saves his country" quote to the actual Napoleon is to the 1970 film Waterloo: "He who saves a nation violates no law."

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  • Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 4, 2025

    Patrick Wilson: so uhhhh yeah can we uh just make stuff up Director: oh of course, yeah no this isn’t like a movie about Napoleon lol

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  • Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.comBluesky · Mar 2, 2025

    can I say something about Zelenskyy playing a camp Napoleon in a movie back in the early 2010's

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  • Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 13, 2025

    Showing my kid Napoleon Dynamite today. I'm excited. I was in a test audience of this movie at the Ritz in Philly back in the day and they handed out powder blue t shirts that said Gimme Your Tots with a pile of tater tots on it. Fit me so well, I looked jacked in it. Was one of my favorite shirts

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  • Phillip M Jackson @jollyjack.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 13, 2026

    There's an old movie cliche where, if the story visits a lunatic asylum; a patient claiming to be either Napoleon or Jesus is pretty much guaranteed. Anyway, what's Trump been up to today? ...... oh.

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  • Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.comBluesky · Jan 30, 2026

    Now that they've been diagnosed with autism my 14yo is fond of noting historical phenomena that could be explained by an autism diagnosis, such as the medieval concept of changelings and the film Napoleon Dynamite

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  • The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.netBluesky · Nov 19, 2024

    Must admit I expected to have to deal with people who actually thought Napoleon shot at the pyramids after Ridley Scott made that film, but non, that's not the case. I guess I made this meme all for nothing, so unfair.

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  • Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.communityBluesky · Feb 15, 2025

    This is a quote from the 1970 Rod Steiger Napoleon film in which Napoleon justified ending French democracy. Citation www.imdb.com/title/tt0066...

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  • James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 2, 2024

    Shogun rules, other time periods where we could have a great multiseason historical epic drama: 1. Napoleon (the film is NOT canon) 2. Thirty Years War 3. Mongol Khanate

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  • Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 21, 2024

    So everyone’s spent however talking about Henry Cavill doing a Warhammer film but I have to say I did not have documentary about the bloke from Napoleon Dynamite going on a quest to find John Blanche on my bingo card for 2025 and yet here we are… trademarkfilms.com/films/d121a6... #warhammer

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  • Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 16, 2024

    Don’t see Napoleon. It’s not a good film. Christ That was such a waste of time

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  • Tim @twm1958.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 23, 2025

    Since Apple TV 🖥 finally came to Android, we've watched Napoleon, a hard movie to get through. Masters of the Air, a great series. And tonight, it's Greyhound, a Tom Hanks movie. Moo Moo's excited! #TimAndMooMoosMovieNight 🎬

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  • Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 9, 2026

    Ridley Scott's Napoleon: not my favorite movie, but definitely the most accurate portrayal of Napoleon as Unhinged Wife Guy. STARZ's Spartacus: perfect depiction of the upwardly mobile, grasping, ruthless heart of the Roman Republic.

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  • Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 15, 2024

    What the fuck is this Austerlitz scene My god, this is so fucking stupid Napoleon did not drown the combined Russian-Austrian forces in a frozen lake Ridley Scott got rightly dragged for this movie

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  • Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.newsBluesky · Feb 16, 2025

    People keep saying this is a riff on Napoleon but as best as I can it’s a quote from the 1970 Bondarchuk film Waterloo

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  • Chestday Lauder @chestdaylauder.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 2, 2024

    Home from a late afternoon movie. It's still light out and has been very wet. My eyes look tired from seeing Napoleon on the big screen, which I just loved.

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  • Woodrow Peel 🆗🆒 @woodyluvscoffee.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 6, 2023

    Saw the Napoleon movie and was blown away to find out that his hand was always in his jacket cuz he was cuddling a hamster.

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  • Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.comBluesky · Jan 21, 2025

    The Napoleon movie. Highly anticipated, but it mostly just fumbled around and never made sense.

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  • Glenn Kenny @glennkenny.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 9, 2025

    I have been told that my uproarious howls at the steak-throwing bit in “Napoleon Dynamite” at its inaugural Sundance screening convinced Searchlight to buy the movie.

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  • Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zoneBluesky · Nov 19, 2023

    Why would I see the new Napoleon biopic? The story was already definitively told on film in 2015

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  • StopSkeletonsFromFighting @stopskeletons.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 3, 2025

    Wait, they gave the Minecraft movie to the Napoleon Dynamite guy?

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  • James @thasceles.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 30, 2025

    Watching Ridley Scott's Napoleon. Never a good sign when a film opens with two screens of text.

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  • Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 1, 2023

    Kubrick’s Napoleon movie would have killed so many people. There would be a compensation fund for family members that was still paying out.

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  • AnotherMeekOne🔜MFF @anothermeekone.bsky.socialBluesky · May 11, 2026

    wdym they made Napoleon in the new CGI AnimaI Farm movie sexy and the movie calls him the sexiest pig alive what do I do with this info like he's hot and stupid and villainous but I can't draw porn of the fascist pig but they did water down the fashy aspects so much he's just generic cartoon bad

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  • The Social Retconning @lmaodrafthouse.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 22, 2023

    My favorite part of the Napoleon movie is when two high school students from California show up in a phone booth and kidnap him for their history report

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  • Kevin Elf Böy 🧝‍♂️ @kevinterribly.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 15, 2025

    Napoleon Dynamite is still a great movie

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  • Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 30, 2026

    the Ridley Scott Napoleon movie is uniquely bad lol

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  • DJ Boozy Brunch @griph.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 3, 2024

    To make things simpler for moviegoers every film should start with a brief summary including: -The month -The year -What Napoleon is up to -What oceans are

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  • (VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 5, 2026

    I understand why he seems baffled by this question because this was thoroughly, explicitly established in the first Minions movie, they worked for Napoleon and then got him killed and then went to the Antarctic and got frozen in a cave.

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  • UNITED24 @u24.gov.uaBluesky · Mar 5, 2026

    Maybe he’s just sad because of the anniversary of his fellow paranoid dictator’s death. After all, most of them end up in a similar fashion — not playing cards like Napoleon did in Animal Farm. Anyway, here’s a movie suggestion for cheering up👇

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  • becca laurie @imbeccable.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 24, 2025

    In 2004, to promote “Napoleon Dynamite,” Fox Searchlight screened the movie for free hundreds of times, built a social network from scratch, and gave away thousands of Vote for Pedro T-shirts. 21 years later, I spoke to the people behind the campaign: www.marketingbrew.com/stories/2025...

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  • oops, all bees! @weirdevaltimes.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 14, 2025

    This feels like every interaction I have with my intern He says some shit like “you know that REALLY OLD movie Napoleon Dynamite” and I lay on the floor waiting for Life Alert to rescue me

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  • Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.comBluesky · Nov 20, 2023

    the CEO of the company that owns inverse, a huge Napoleon Guy, has reviewed the napoleon movie for the site

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  • Orpheus Condescending @maryscottoconnor.comBluesky · Sep 25, 2023

    Producers have announced a special screening of NAPOLEON at the home of Idris ELBA.

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  • Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 24, 2025

    I was reading a review of an old movie about Waterloo and it makes the point that Napoleon is portrayed as likable and charismatic and Wellington a basically unpleasant person but Wellington wants the bloodshed to stop and Napoleon does not. Maybe Radahn and Malenia could have had that dynamic.

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  • Adam Zones Out @theadamzone.xyzBluesky · Feb 15, 2025

    Stephen Miller absolutely wrote that. The only Napoleon he knows is probably the one from the second Night at the Museum movie

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  • Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 15, 2025

    iirc Waterloo (1970) was on Kubrick’s mind when he tried to hire the literal French military to be in his Napoleon movie bc he wanted it to be bigger

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  • Bob Chipman ("MovieBob") @bobchipman.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 13, 2025

    "NAPOLEON DYNAMITE II" is a movie that would make an actual killing if they put it in theaters, I'm telling you. "Pedro runs for Governor of Idaho, Napoleon is his manager again." That's a movie. People would love that.

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  • chunes @[email protected]Lemmy · Oct 3, 2026

    I rewatched Napoleon Dynamite last week and it holds up well IMO. So, not that.

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  • Will McKinley @willmckinley.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 9, 2025

    Abel Gance’s NAPOLEON (1927) screened in NYC for the first time in 40+ years — and "sold out immediately". @filmforumnyc.bsky.social is looking into more showings of BFI's 5 1/2-hour Kevin Brownlow restoration, despite "a complicated web of rights holders." 🙏 gothamist.com/arts-enterta... #FilmSky

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  • Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 14, 2026

    Del Toro is amazing in it (and after learning he basically rewrote the entire character it explains why he is so good relative to the rest) but im so confused at the love for this. I don't think I've seen a film less interested in it's subject since the Napoleon film

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  • Howell Dawdy @howelldawdy.comBluesky · Nov 26, 2023

    Judging by the battlefield carnage I’m seeing in promotional footage of Ridley Scott’s latest outing.. They might have named the wrong film ‘Napoleon Dynamite’! #filmbluesky #cinema

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  • Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 3, 2024

    This, but also we're living through the bit of the horror film where the dead villain seems to come back to life. Or possibly, Napoleon comes back from Elba.

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  • The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.netBluesky · Jan 13, 2025

    Also, I like Joaquin, yes someone who looked more like Napoleon would have been cool, the whole film being in French would have been tres bien, but I do enjoy watching Joaquin act. Although I do think that he was too old for the role, Napoleon being young matters to the story.

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  • Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 23, 2023

    I saw a leaked script from Ridley Scott’s new epic film “Napoleon” and you won’t believe this opening scene.

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  • Tred @tredlocity.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 3, 2025

    It's really funny how this movie was directed by the guy who made Napoleon Dynamite. Like, how did this fall onto his lap?

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  • Kwistina🍉 @iraganaart.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 24, 2025

    last movie night with the besties, one american, on filipino(me, so, american-adjacent), and one swede, we watched Napoleon Dynamite and the european mind could not comprehend "what is this movie about??" the swede asks, Napoleon Dynamite is the american version of european auteur experimental films

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  • David Bowie News @davidbowienews.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 23, 2026

    David Bowie attends the screening of the restored version of the silent film Napoleon at the Radio City Music Hall in New York, January 25th, 1981. 📸: Oscar Abolafia.

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  • Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 21, 2023

    Oh shit this Napoleon movie is actually real? I thought it was a bit you were all doing

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  • The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 20, 2026

    Trying to explain Napoleon Dynamite to my kids and I feel like I just have to choose it for movie day sometime, because when they ask what it’s about I’m like “vote for Pedro and uncle Rico could throw a football over the mountains and rexkwondo and the cow ran through an onion field and a dang ques

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  • lydelle BLEAAAH!ster @babyshoes4cash.comBluesky · Jan 27, 2024

    Napoleon Dynamite was just a Wes Anderson movie for poor people

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  • HeartyOfGlass @[email protected]Lemmy · Oct 2, 2026

    I nominate "[Dude, Where's My Car?](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0242423/)". I thought this was screamingly funny when it came out. It was the movie everyone quoted until "Napoleon Dynamite" came out. I tried rewatching it maybe a year or two ago and it's aged like milk. Too much of the comedy relies on unhealthy stereotypes & tropes.

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  • japanfilmtitles @japanfilmtitles.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 27, 2024

    The Film: Napoleon Dynamite Japanese Title: “Bus Man” - バス男

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  • Noah Antwiler @thespoonyone.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 29, 2026

    Make your favorite film sound as boring as possible without giving away the title: Two idiots do research for a history report and Napoleon goes bowling.

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Joaquin Phoenix
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Vanessa Kirby
Josephine Bonaparte
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Rupert Everett
Duke of Wellington
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Mark Bonnar
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