I LOVED it. I think it was a fantastic addition to what I hope is a long line of NT movies! The graphics were cool, but this was mostly about inventiveness and funny. And it was quite funny (Voight and Cage were a lot sillier in this one, but it worked). The puzzles in this one were a lot more elaborate, but I was seriously GEEKED when they were doing them. The scene from the trailer with them pushing the big wheel with all the water was an amazing shot. It looked awesome, and more, it felt like a classic movie.
It's just so damned much fun! Also I liked the bad guy in this one a lot better than Sean Bean's one dimensional bad guy in the first one.
Awesome movie! What'd you guys think?
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I've seen the first one and thought it was a good genre movie though nothing awe-inspiring. But based on your description I'll definitely go see this one too! Thanks Posts: 4519 | Registered: Sep 2003
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We just watched the first one at home, and it was a fun popcorn movie. I had no idea #2 was out! Thanks. Posts: 14017 | Registered: May 2000
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I thought that the first one was a nice, family film, and I liked the way that it made smart educated people into heroes. That's kind of a nice message, and one you don't often see in the movies.
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quote:I liked the way that it made smart educated people into heroes...
Well, if by "educated" we mean "possessed of information that should be familiar to any high school graduate..." Posts: 37449 | Registered: May 1999
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Lyr, was the new Goofy short any good? I'd heard the first Goofy "How To" short in...like...decades was attached to the film. Posts: 6689 | Registered: Jan 2005
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I thought it'd be dumb at first glance, but it ended up being really funny. It was a sort of "How to set up your home entertainment center" short.
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I thought it was fun, entertaining, lively, and a beautiful piece of American mythologizing. I enjoyed it.
I had to carefully turn off the analytical part of my brain, but once I did that, everything was cool.
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My kid saw it today with a friend, and wants to go on Sunday with me. This way, he says, he can enjoy my running commentary without it interfering with the movie, since he's already seen it.
Me: Running commentary? I'm sure I have no idea what you're talking about!
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Dh and I saw it on Sat. and loved it. I like that it is a movie I can let my kids watch without having to worry about language and such. Can't wait for the third!
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quote:Originally posted by Tante Shvester: My kid saw it today with a friend, and wants to go on Sunday with me. This way, he says, he can enjoy my running commentary without it interfering with the movie, since he's already seen it.
Me: Running commentary? I'm sure I have no idea what you're talking about!
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Aha! I knew there were others out there! I'm such a hypocrit at the movie theatre, there are times when I have to tell somebody a thought that pops up while watching a movie, but I am just as quick to shush my brother if he talks during a part I feel the need to hear. I don't think there is any system behind it all.
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I liked it, not as much as I liked the first, but I liked it. The pretty blonde was over-acting during the first half, I thought, but Ed Harris made-up for it. I think people who compare National Treasure to Indiana Jones or the da Vinci Code miss the fragile, sweet aspects. I think that National Treasure is more like the Goonies, and what makes Goonies such a nice movie wasn't the sense of world doom or imminent peril or elaborate conspiracy, but the fragile, inexplicable community ideals which motivated the crew of heroes. The most memorable moment of the Goonies, for me, was this scene here the writing is inelegant, but the sentiment is spot on. It's easy to laugh away that scene as hokey, but for me, I thought it was pitch perfect. I can say the same thing about the scene between Gates and the President, and I didn't even agree with everything Gates said, but it seemed to come from a deep and delicate place, and it wasn't just a matter of adventure lust or fetish for old things that motivated his character.
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Maybe because I have no kids and am too serious for these kinds of movies (and I wouldn't be surprised if that's a bad thing) but I didn't enjoy it either. I really dislike Nicholas Cage- I don't know why... he just annoys me.
My friends loved it though. Ed Harris was awesome (as always) but I was just like "stop landing on me melodrama"
I'm pretty far from the market target though for this movie, there's a reason for that probably.
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I just got back from seeing it (this time I got to see the whole thing -- See here if you don't know). It was very good. Fun like the first. The Goofy "How To Hookup Your Home Theater" was the best part for me though.
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I just got back from seeing it too. I loved it, it was awesome, no frills fun. Definitely worth my $8.50. I can't wait for the third Posts: 3295 | Registered: Jun 2004
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Nicholas Cage really didn't have to get plastic surgery. It distracted me terribly.
Not really my kind of movie, but it was nice to have a few laughs with my mom and brother. Especially without having to worry about anything squicky or offensive.
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Loved the goofy cartoon, and loved the movie. I was clapping and giggling through the whole thing -- i actually think i like Ben Gates better this time around, and especially his "breakdown" at Buckingham Palace...too funny!
That being said, I walked out of the theatre and promptly forgot about the film! it' s a whole mess of fun, but it didn't stick with me. which is totally okay, cause it'll be like seeing it for the first time when i eventually rent it! Posts: 3516 | Registered: Sep 2002
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Will there definately be a third? Do you think it will be the page 47 thing?
I dunno. I mean the page 47 thing was a pretty obvious lead in to a third and they got a second with out even having an obvious lead in from the first. And the second seems to be doing pretty darn well so... here's hoping?
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Nick Cage seems to be having a blast making these. Bruckheimer and Turtletaub have said that they haven't a clue what the third movie will be about, and that page 47 could mean ANYTHING. The line "life altering" in reference to the page was an ad lib from Cage.
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quote:Still, Cage already has ideas. "I believe that it should become more and more International Treasure," he said. "I was very happy to see that we went to London, England and Paris, France, but I'd like to see the movie go wider still. I'd like to go into Africa, Egypt, Asia, and keep going. My hope is that Ben is recruited and he gets a dossier from these other countries about their history, and has to download it and learn it, and then try to go on these hunts on their behalf. That would be a lot of fun for me."
From the looks of things, a third one will soon be in the works, they just need to get all the actors together, but nothing will happen until the writers' strike is over.
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quote:Originally posted by El JT de Spang: This was the movie equivalent of a Dan Brown book.
Except there's no gratuitous comparing of the characters to movie stars and the characters actually have a modicum of an individual personality rather than all sounding like the same 12-year-old boy.
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