It ain't Shakespeare, It's National Treasure 2
Just released - its a Jerry Bruckheimer film with...Nicholas Cage in it! How extraordinary.
Alright, all you students of history; here's your chance to look sexy for 2.2 seconds. This time it isn't the Declaration of Independence, it's the Lincoln assassination. And the Gates family have to clear their ancestor's name because - gasp - his name is found along with a list of other known conspirators on a missing - now mysteriously found - page of John Wilkes Boothe's diary. Still with me?
Put on your suspension of disbelief hats. No, the big ones. This movie, while entertaining as a romp, has so many holes in it you could call is swiss cheese and not be far off. I won't do a plot synopsis for this one because frankly, my fingers would fall off, there are so many twists and turns. Suffice it to say, after traveling to a couple of different countries clue hunting, the Gates decide The President has a Secret Book, Benjamin needs to see it, convinces the President of it (for which every other President has even denied it's very existence), follows the clues in the book to Mount Rushmore where he finds the lost City of Gold that all those Spanish raiding parties were searching for in the early days of the continent's establishment in Europe's eyes. No, not Florida. The Black Hills!!! So easy to get those two confused.
Seriously, I did have fun with this movie and it held my attention and they brought back all the same characters from the previous movie (except Sean Bean, unfortunately) and added a few new fun ones like Helen Mirren as the former Matron Gates, imposing and scholarly in her own right, and repeatedly mentioning tequila.
The buzz on IMDB is that 'what's on Page 47' is a setup for National Treasure 3, and my advice is - START GETTING BETTER HAIR PIECES FOR NICK CAGE. I've noticed it in the last few movies I've seen and it's just getting worse; what's next, a frakking afro? Take a page from Travolta's book - there's a way to do it gracefully, and so far, it just is not happening.
Look, this movie won't raise your IQ any, but it is a nice Saturday night, "Wow, that was fun!" movie. Date night, ice-cream in your jammies night, instead of homework night, but I'd choose something slick like Memento or The Prestige for smarts. This is Indiana Jones Lite; all whip but no Indy.
Alright, all you students of history; here's your chance to look sexy for 2.2 seconds. This time it isn't the Declaration of Independence, it's the Lincoln assassination. And the Gates family have to clear their ancestor's name because - gasp - his name is found along with a list of other known conspirators on a missing - now mysteriously found - page of John Wilkes Boothe's diary. Still with me?
Put on your suspension of disbelief hats. No, the big ones. This movie, while entertaining as a romp, has so many holes in it you could call is swiss cheese and not be far off. I won't do a plot synopsis for this one because frankly, my fingers would fall off, there are so many twists and turns. Suffice it to say, after traveling to a couple of different countries clue hunting, the Gates decide The President has a Secret Book, Benjamin needs to see it, convinces the President of it (for which every other President has even denied it's very existence), follows the clues in the book to Mount Rushmore where he finds the lost City of Gold that all those Spanish raiding parties were searching for in the early days of the continent's establishment in Europe's eyes. No, not Florida. The Black Hills!!! So easy to get those two confused.
Seriously, I did have fun with this movie and it held my attention and they brought back all the same characters from the previous movie (except Sean Bean, unfortunately) and added a few new fun ones like Helen Mirren as the former Matron Gates, imposing and scholarly in her own right, and repeatedly mentioning tequila.
The buzz on IMDB is that 'what's on Page 47' is a setup for National Treasure 3, and my advice is - START GETTING BETTER HAIR PIECES FOR NICK CAGE. I've noticed it in the last few movies I've seen and it's just getting worse; what's next, a frakking afro? Take a page from Travolta's book - there's a way to do it gracefully, and so far, it just is not happening.
Look, this movie won't raise your IQ any, but it is a nice Saturday night, "Wow, that was fun!" movie. Date night, ice-cream in your jammies night, instead of homework night, but I'd choose something slick like Memento or The Prestige for smarts. This is Indiana Jones Lite; all whip but no Indy.
It was definitely an okay movie but I found the first movie more enjoyable. Like you said NT2 is like Indiana Jones without the Indy. Even so I'm looking forward to NT3
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Nicolas Cage is a sexy man
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one would think that there would be enough sense in Kevin Reilly's dumb head to keep a franchise as profitable as Terminator running on television.
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Agreed, especially since Lena Headey has got to be just one of the sexiest bad-ass women out there. Not to mention Summer Glau, who I just have grown to adore for her many talents, from shows like The 4400, a terribly underrated show which deserves more attention now that it's available on DVD (and features Joel Gretch, Glau again for Serenity and it's ill-fated predecessor (don't get me going on that rant) Firefly with the most creative and talented cast assembled in years, and Joss Whedon was totally ripped off... oh I'll leave off now.
We who appreciate good Sci-fi are doomed to be disappointed, except when it came to a little show that could, called unassumingly enough LOST. Some stupid men in corner offices and suits seem to think that we out here in the real world don't watch sci-fi and fantasy, like Battlestar Galactica was an annomaly, like the Blade movies were just a fluke, like we don't like to disappear from this world of "mundanes' and inhabit the somehwere elses for a while and we'll pay damn good money to do so. They think they're catching on with their new-found trial marriage with Comicon, but what they don't get is that the real fans see right through the marketing ploys of what is real and what is being marketed to them as 'right up their alley genre", i.e.: The Box with Cameron Diaz and James Franko. Just cause you put a prosthetic on Frank Langella's face and throw a squirrelly mystery out there doesn't mean it's our kind of thing.
Meanwhile, we need to survive on great shows like Supernatural that people are barely aware of - SHAME!!! Spread the word, although with Kreipke stepping down, I am not sure where Season Six will go - but just so you're aware, monsters are real, so are ghosts, and Angels are dicks. I love this show to death.
Guess that's more than a response than y ou were expecting, but, I felt verbose so...there you go. I miss Lena and Summer and the rest of the cast, but I was pissed when they cancelled The Dredsen Files. Available on iTunes or Amazon, and when you need that sci-fi fix...let me know, I got a couple others in my back pocket.
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So maybe if we can manage to not fall down in the movies at that one cruicial moment and then scream pitiyingly, or - of course - wear the BAD set of heels that will BREAk right when the villian is just about to get you. Or if we're non-educated about how to take care of ourselves in a situation - read a survivor manual, read an emergency medical field guide. Learn how to operate a weapon - no one says you have to own one - if that's against your Moral code, then so be it (personally, I find it too dangerous to have asault weapons with extra-clip mags lying around with the cat the way he is), but maybe take a ride out to your friendly local shooting range and ask someone to at least show you the working ways in and out of a weapon. I know mostly it's point and shoot, but sometimes it's safety off one click makes it semi automatic, two clicks makes it automatic. Know how to get new ammo in. There is nothing wrong with being proficient in ways that might help you in a bad situatuon some day. And have you read the newspaper lately - there are some bad situatuon days going on out there.
And yeah, you can be hot and have curves and be a woman of sexuality - that does not mean you recind your NOW card. You don't have to be an asexual bitch to be respected. (Watch the show "Castle" to see what I mean.) Be a woman of fully glorified substance, just - pick the right shoes for the day.
*wink*
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