National Treasure - I saw it:)
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thibodeaux
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Freemasonry/Illuminati/conspiracy/secret society bullshit : - .5
Mr. White : + .5
Subtotal 1 : 0 stars
Synopsis :
Benjamin Franklin Gates looks for a massive 3000-year old treasure last hidden away by the founding fathers.
Review :
Imagine a K-Mart version of MacGvyer & a third-rate Indiana Jones w\ a bad hangover. Now imagined they produced offspring. You have the protagonist for this flick. Couple w\ this a whining blonde & pussy tech dude, & the quintessential obsessive multi-billionaire villain looking for long-lost treasure. The plot isn't much to think about & the action sequences ain't that great, but overall, it was a halfway-semi-decent distraction of a film. Compared to the other shit out, it's probably in the top half o' things to see. It's just average & predictable. An entertaining renter mayhaps one day, but a renter nonetheless. You ain't missing shit if you don't see it. Just watch an Indiana Jones flick or wait till Indy 4 releases.
Subtotal 2 : 2.5 stars
Subtotal 1 + Subtotal 2 : 2.5 stars
Verdict : Worth seeing if your wife's got a book club meeting or something & volunteered your house.
Freemasonry/Illuminati/conspiracy/secret society bullshit : - .5
Mr. White : + .5
Subtotal 1 : 0 stars
Synopsis :
Benjamin Franklin Gates looks for a massive 3000-year old treasure last hidden away by the founding fathers.
Review :
Imagine a K-Mart version of MacGvyer & a third-rate Indiana Jones w\ a bad hangover. Now imagined they produced offspring. You have the protagonist for this flick. Couple w\ this a whining blonde & pussy tech dude, & the quintessential obsessive multi-billionaire villain looking for long-lost treasure. The plot isn't much to think about & the action sequences ain't that great, but overall, it was a halfway-semi-decent distraction of a film. Compared to the other shit out, it's probably in the top half o' things to see. It's just average & predictable. An entertaining renter mayhaps one day, but a renter nonetheless. You ain't missing shit if you don't see it. Just watch an Indiana Jones flick or wait till Indy 4 releases.
Subtotal 2 : 2.5 stars
Subtotal 1 + Subtotal 2 : 2.5 stars
Verdict : Worth seeing if your wife's got a book club meeting or something & volunteered your house.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Good flick.
Cage was born to play "nerd adventures".
Cage was born to play "nerd adventures".
“Every record been destroyed or falsified, books rewritten, pictures repainted, statues, street building renamed, every date altered. The process is continuing day by day. History stops. Nothing exists except endless present in which the Party is right.”
I found a continuity error in the movie.
Sorta spoiler, read no further if you haven't seen it.
Nic Cage lists off keystrokes that had the fourescent paint on them, and his homeboy feeds those letters into a program that spits out possible combinations of those letters.
One option is "VALLEY FROG" which gets Nic to thinking... "AHA! The password is VALLEY FORGE and she hit the 'l' and 'e' twice!"
Which is where the problem is. She hit the 'e' twice, so we got 'frog' instead of 'forge.' But she also hit the 'l' twice, and it should never have offered 'VALLEY' as a possible word.
Sorta spoiler, read no further if you haven't seen it.
Nic Cage lists off keystrokes that had the fourescent paint on them, and his homeboy feeds those letters into a program that spits out possible combinations of those letters.
One option is "VALLEY FROG" which gets Nic to thinking... "AHA! The password is VALLEY FORGE and she hit the 'l' and 'e' twice!"
Which is where the problem is. She hit the 'e' twice, so we got 'frog' instead of 'forge.' But she also hit the 'l' twice, and it should never have offered 'VALLEY' as a possible word.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
I heard rumors about a sequel long ago. Now with the Da Vinci Code, I'd have to guess a sequel is guaranteed.
“Every record been destroyed or falsified, books rewritten, pictures repainted, statues, street building renamed, every date altered. The process is continuing day by day. History stops. Nothing exists except endless present in which the Party is right.”
National Treasure - I saw it:)
The tech geek says "VALLEY FROG" but it's "VALEY FROG" on-screen. At least, in the version I'm watching. It may have been fixed in the past 12 years.GORDON wrote: I found a continuity error in the movie.
Sorta spoiler, read no further if you haven't seen it.
Nic Cage lists off keystrokes that had the fourescent paint on them, and his homeboy feeds those letters into a program that spits out possible combinations of those letters.
One option is "VALLEY FROG" which gets Nic to thinking... "AHA! The password is VALLEY FORGE and she hit the 'l' and 'e' twice!"
Which is where the problem is. She hit the 'e' twice, so we got 'frog' instead of 'forge.' But she also hit the 'l' twice, and it should never have offered 'VALLEY' as a possible word.
At any rate...
Oh, this claims to be a video from the original: https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/43b4215c-3 ... ef3aa2489a
This movie was... OK.
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