You know, I hate all these critics that are dissing National Treasure because the story is unbelievable. Well that means Indiana Jones is a horrible movie because that certaintly could never happen, but oh wait, the same critics that say National Treasure is horrible because of its story said that Indiana Jones is a great trilogy with basically the same content. Enjoy a movie for once, because you know what, that is what they are for. If we wanted real life stories that actually happened, we'd watch the news for 3 hrs a day and tape them so we can watch them over and over again. Once again I'm reminded of how much I hate movie critics.
That could be said of any movie that recieves such reviews, why watch movies if you can't enjoy yourself? There's no logic in that.....
And I'm with you I despise movie critics, specially the over the hill white men conservatives, who wouldn't know a good movie if it bit them on the ass.
i saw the movie yesterday. it was okay. decent. but not as good as i thought it would be. the plot, moments, and the characters weren't as well developed and well rounded, as i would have hoped and expected. the clues and figuring them out was cool. but some of it could've been done a little better. although, it was pretty cool how smart cage's character was and how he was quick witted enough to throw people off his trail at times, although he sucked at bluffing like bean's character mentioned when they played poker.
I agree with you about the critics, but then again there critics.
I cant stand how people are comparing this film to Indiana jones. I know it was just spun that way to bring people in the theaters, but this is by no means any where near being close to Indiana jones standards. Yeah it was a neat little treat, but i can see how people would not like this movie at all. Everyone should stop comparing this movie to Indiana jones entirely. These two films have nothing in common, except that National treasure is somewhat an adventure movie. I read one review that said national treasure is a more fluent Indiana jones. This person obviously knows nothing about movies and has the taste of an African bushman.
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I agree 100% with that. I thought National Treasure was good. The movie really is acceptable to anybody (kids or adults). Everyone liked it when I saw it, even the wee ones. And it ended being a lot funnier than I thought it was going to be. I mean The Rock and Matchstick Men were corky-cute in some ways but this one was actually legitamently funny at times. Did you guys think Diane Kruger looked better than in Troy?
I wasn't comparing them story wise, because they aren't anything alike in that way, I was just comparing them on their believability and if they could really happen, which they both are not very believable.
Second, you response above was well put. Unbelievablity is no reason to downgrade a movie unless it is TRYING to be believable, which I don't believe NT is trying to do. Watch the movie, have fun, its simple, so simple.
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Nov 27th, 2004 09:44 PM
Yep
