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Post by Jon Broxton on Jan 8, 2005 16:58:46 GMT -8
Went to see this movie tonight. Despite my own better judgement, I actually quite enjoyed it on a mindless escapist level. It's total hogwash of course - running around finding treasure maps on the Declaration of Independence and secret caves hidden beneath Wall Street and Broadway - but its good, clean fun in its way.
It owes a lot to the in-vogue Dan Brown/Da Vinci Code plot device - in his books his characters find secret maps and codes and symbolic messages from long dead secret societies on paintings by Leonardo Da Vinci and buried within the Vatican. I wonder how much thunder National Treasure has stolen from Ron Howard's upcoming adaptation of that.
Nicolas Cage... OK. Diane Kruger... too much eyeliner, but lovely. Sean Bean... when is he going to ge a leading role? I've seen him play enough villains.
The music? Meh... its a Trevor Rabin Media Ventures Jerry Bruckheimer score. Not a lot more to say about that really.
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Post by Jens Dietrich on Jan 8, 2005 20:35:53 GMT -8
I might have enjoyed it had it not been so freakin' exposition-heavy. I swear, 90% of the dialogue was characters explaining the plot to each other, or even solving puzzles and explaining the solution directly to the camera.
Utterly, utterly moronic.
I think Roger Ebert said it best:
Also, and this I really love,
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Mac Styran
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Post by Mac Styran on Jan 8, 2005 22:47:56 GMT -8
The music? Meh... its a Trevor Rabin Media Ventures Jerry Bruckheimer score. Not a lot more to say about that really. I beg to differ.
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Post by Yvesvh on Jan 9, 2005 0:14:02 GMT -8
Saw it the day before yesterday and allthough it wasn't utter crap... it still was'nt good or even ok though.
Interesting that in two films which were released the same weekend (in Belgium), Christopher Plummer has just a small role / cameo (Alexander and this).
Funny thing about the music: I think they had temp-tracked some parts of the movie with Thomas Newman, because you could hear Rabin trying to emulate that quirky thomas newman sound from time to time...
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Post by Jens Dietrich on Jan 9, 2005 3:58:51 GMT -8
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