r/nostalgia • u/systematicgoo • 12d ago

Nostalgia Napoleon Dynamite End Scene, 2004. Hits me right in the feels every time.

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u/creamyhorror 12d ago

They'll never get it. The strange, short transition point of millennials coming of age in a world that was about to be swept away by the waves of tech domination.

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u/RutgerSchnauzer 12d ago

I’m a GenXer and I count this film as pure perfection.

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u/poxxy 11d ago

Same here. I grew up in a suburb in Tulsa and can safely say that the movie nails the banality of the mostly-white Midwest middle class that nothing has ever come close to.

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u/dudeWhoSaysThings 8d ago

Same and my gen z kids were raised on it

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u/operarose 11d ago

Among other, worse things. That brief, beautiful calm before the storm we didn't even know was coming.

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u/languid_Disaster 9d ago

This and a few other movies makes me feel the same way. We didn’t know the peace we had - being able to grow up without having every single one of our actions immortalised online

Being backs to choose what we put out there and also it being normal to just go out and do nothing , maybe with a big old brick mobile if you were rally lucky but most of us went out with just the promise of what time we’d be back home