National Treasure: Book of Secrets - SPOILERS

[Stone_Cold_Sisko]

This was a fun movie. Of course it falls apart if you put more than 2 minutes thought into each twist, but it was the sort of fun christmas movie you don't do that in. It's a very sharp film, it just moves at such a clip that you almost can't think about how plausible it is or isn't. pure fun.

 

[Avilos]

THat presumes that there are many treasure hunters looking for the City. How many people though out the years had access to the clues needed to find it? Not many. Does not seem like it would be at a great risk of being discovered at all. Beyond which The Lost City of Gold is so far in the realm of fantasy, which is also the perception of the majority of people in the film's universe. Its doubtful that many people would even think to search for it or even have a clue as to where to start looking.

 

[marillion]

Add me to the list of people who really enjoyed it.. The first movie had more twists, but this still had a great pay off.. And yes, Helen Mirren is hot for 62....

 

[Trekker4747]

THREAD BUMP!

Just got back from this movie (yeah, yeah. I saw it late.)

But I really enjoyed it. Nice, fun, romp.

I will say that I *hated* the Goofy cartoon before the movie. It was just incredibly lame.

I didn't find it very "true" to Goofy and it was too cliumbisly filled with his "catch phrases" ("Gawrsh" and the yoddle) and the whole thing just felt dumb and off.

Further, the annoucer said he needed to buy an LD player and a VCR which, no.

But, I was already pretty annoyed by a bunch of commercials and lame trailers so maybe I just wasn't in the mood for the cartoon. But at anyrate, I wasn't entertained by it.

 

[D Man]

I wasn't entirely clear on how the Olmec civilization made wooden tablets about the City of Gold, located 1000+ miles north in the Dakotas, but the movie was still a fun ride. Not sure if it would be as fun if I saw it again with less gin beforehand, though.

 

[Trekker4747]

D Man said:
I wasn't entirely clear on how the Olmec civilization made wooden tablets about the City of Gold, located 1000+ miles north in the Dakotas, but the movie was still a fun ride. Not sure if it would be as fun if I saw it again with less gin beforehand, though.

Yeah. And I'm a little curfious how anyone built a city of gold inside of a freaking mountain and how the monument of Mt Rushmore was intended to "hide" it.

When I saw the monument in the trailers I thought it was going to have something to do with the proposed museum that was to be built behind the monuments. Alas not also the trailers ruined in suspense or humor in Gates' reaching inside the hole.

 

[Crewman6]

This was one of the most unbelievably dull and banal movies I've seen in years.

Whoa. I actually fell asleep during this one about five minutes before they discovered the City of Gold. Before what was supposedly the movie's big, dramatic, climactic reveal.

I later caught the ending after seeing another film. What an anticlimax! The City of Gold itself was wholly uninspired and next to nothing happens in it.

This movie, while not outwardly terrible, fails on just about every conceivable level for this kind of movie.

Boring, one-note characters devoid of any charisma.

Loopy, inane plotting.

Flat dialogue utterly devoid of wit and humor.

Rote, by-the-numbers "action sequences" about as thrilling as watching paint dry.

I have never actually walked out of a movie before, but I was sorely tempted after the first forty minutes. I've certainly seen worse, but I can't remember the last time I was so wholly uninvolved and uninterested.

 

[Trekker4747]

I found the city of gold pretty damn elaborate, and huge, for something that was supposedly built (what) 800 years ago or so. What with the large pitfalls the waterfall/dammin system, the huge titlty-table thing.

Pretty damn impressive engineers those ancient indians.

 

[Skywalker]

Trekker4747 said:
I found the city of gold pretty damn elaborate, and huge, for something that was supposedly built (what) 800 years ago or so. What with the large pitfalls the waterfall/dammin system, the huge titlty-table thing.

Pretty damn impressive engineers those ancient indians.

Actually, some of them were pretty damn impressive engineers.

 

[Trekker4747]

Randy1012 said:

Trekker4747 said:
I found the city of gold pretty damn elaborate, and huge, for something that was supposedly built (what) 800 years ago or so. What with the large pitfalls the waterfall/dammin system, the huge titlty-table thing.

Pretty damn impressive engineers those ancient indians.

Actually, some of them were pretty damn impressive engineers.

They weren't that impressive to excevate the inside of an entire mountain and build a crazy waterfall/dooring system and the even nuttier wobbly platform thing.

 

[Skywalker]

Maybe the aliens helped them!

 

[Captain Craig]

They aren't explaining the aliens in the National Treasure series. Dr. Jones is going to flesh that out for us!

 

[Trekker4747]

I just watched the first one again, been a long time since I have.

After seeing it and the second the other night I really love this movie series. I'm John Turtletaub and Jerry Bruckheimer's bitch.

But I don't love this series as much as I love Diane Kruger.

 

[tomalak301]

Sorry to resurrect an old thread, but I just saw it tonight and that was a great movie. It was as fun, if not moreso than the first, and I was really glad to see this cast again. Ed Harris was great and Helen Marrin is as stunning as ever. Much like the first movie, I loved seeing all the clues coming together and the kidnapping of the president (From the idea to the act) was funny. Great sequel.

 

[bigdaddy]

Much MUCH better than that IJ4 trash.

My only issue is the ending. The bad guy seems to be turning good, then he has one last bad pulse and then he is the hero. The whole thing was just dump, but besides that great movie.

 

[Aragorn]

I liked the first one, but the second one was really silly. Ed Harris' character went from one-dimensional to all-over-the-map. And why would they call the movie "Book of Secrets" when that was just one small plot point. It'd be like calling Star Trek: Generations "Star Trek: Emotion Chip."

 

[Jack Bauer]

Yeah, the Ed Harris character made no sense especially at the end. But overall I enjoyed it just not as much as the first one.

 

[1001001]

This was a fun, entertaining movie. Not much to it, but an enjoyable way to kill some time.

 

[Worf2DS9]

I too enjoyed NT2, although like others, I liked the first one better. Still, there was lots to like, such as the pairing of John Voight & Helen Mirren, the Oval Office scene, the scene where Gates makes a scene in Buckingham Palace ("Allo!"), the car chase in London, and, of course, Diane Kruger (although I even liked her more in the first movie).

Has anyone listened to the Turtletaub/Voight audio commentary? That's pretty good too. Informative bts extras too.

 

[BigFoot]

I watched both of these films about a month ago (for the first time) and I liked the both quite a bit. They're just entertaining which is all I requite from a movie sometimes. So yeah, I got them both on Blu-ray about a week ago, still haven't watched them in HD though.