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Re: review: National Treasure
« Reply #15 on: November 23, 2004, 03:02:01 PM »
Ah.  Here we run into genre specific issues.  National Treasure is not a crowd pleaser for the traditional action crowd, because it's clean, and has no gratuituous gore, thus the low scores by other less enlightened reviewers.  However, I'm sure that sponge bob square panties is a real crowd pleaser for...whatever demographic such films are aimed at.

Did the same reviewer give square panties a higher score than the score he gave NT?  That might be more enlightening, but maybe not if panties is a  better ... whatever... than NT is a traditional action flick.
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Re: review: National Treasure
« Reply #16 on: November 23, 2004, 05:24:25 PM »
Why are you obsessed with a male cartoon sponge wearing panties?
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Re: review: National Treasure
« Reply #17 on: November 23, 2004, 07:21:10 PM »
Don't ask me, ask Fuzzy.  She brought it up.
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« Reply #18 on: November 23, 2004, 10:18:13 PM »
Whatever you say.  ;)
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Re: review: National Treasure
« Reply #19 on: November 24, 2004, 03:26:58 AM »
J.T. called me up at work just as I was leaving and asked if I wanted to go see a showing tonight.

So we went.  It was excellent, Skar is absolutely correct about it all.

I will chalk this up with the Spider-man movies as "this is the kind of thing I want my kids to grow up watching."
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Re: review: National Treasure
« Reply #20 on: November 24, 2004, 09:28:30 AM »
ok, my wife's aversion to all things scary is legendary, so I hope I don't have to explain this any further. I heard there were skeletons. Are there skeletons? WHat is the factor of "creepy things" even if you didn't find them creepy. Y'know, stuff like dead bodies, or people being evil.. Not cold-hearted bastard evil, but disgusting, amoral, insideous evil, even if it's not portrayed strongly enough for you to think it would bug you.

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« Reply #21 on: November 24, 2004, 11:01:12 AM »
your woman be trippin'  :D
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Re: review: National Treasure
« Reply #22 on: November 24, 2004, 11:02:53 AM »
yeah, well, that's beside the point.

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« Reply #23 on: November 24, 2004, 11:07:02 AM »
she has trouble with disney too?
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Re: review: National Treasure
« Reply #24 on: November 24, 2004, 11:51:31 AM »
look, the dream sequence bit in Toy Story 2? That's creepy to her.

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Re: review: National Treasure
« Reply #25 on: November 24, 2004, 11:56:52 AM »
Weird,...
Tres bizarre.
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Re: review: National Treasure
« Reply #26 on: November 24, 2004, 12:38:38 PM »
Eric:

There are some mummified bodies buried under the ice, and they have to pry the fingers of one of them away from a barrel he's holding. That's the most skeletony thing in the movie.

One person dies in the movie--by falling, and we don't see the dead body.

The badguys are not really very bad at all. There is some shooting but it's very A-Team (miss, miss, miss, miss--well, some bullets hit something someone is using as a shield, and a car window gets shot out. No cars exploding and jumping up in the air). Someone gets tied up (twice) and used as a hostage. There are some threatenings of death but only to get information (some people are left to FACE certain death twice though). No torture or slapping or punching. (No bloody noses, but one person stabs his own thumb to use his blood as ink at one point early in the movie--the queasiest moment of the film.) The badguys are just after money, not particularly mean about it.

There is a scene of a concealed person changing clothes.

No toilet humor. No crawling through sewers, but there are cobwebs.

No masses of bugs or snakes or rats. I don't remember any animals at all.

Anyway, Karen and I saw the movie Monday night. It was loads of fun. She described it as "someone watched too much Indiana Jones." Well, she's right. There are a LOT of elements that closely parallel The Last Crusade. But this is a more kid-friendly movie. It's just plain fun. And there's a good bit of creative dialogue and good character interplay.
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Re: review: National Treasure
« Reply #27 on: November 24, 2004, 12:41:24 PM »
Yay! maybe I've chosen my Thanksgiving weekend film!

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Re: review: National Treasure
« Reply #28 on: November 24, 2004, 02:24:54 PM »
There were rats breifly once, (in a flashback about the treasure).  The dead people are very tame.  The scariest part is probably near the end when they pull that coffin out and it falls apart suddenly (it's a jump scare, warn your wife) and the skeleton falls out.

There is no swearing that I remember apart from a few "damn"s.
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Re: review: National Treasure
« Reply #29 on: November 24, 2004, 11:28:26 PM »
Oops. I forgot THAT skeleton.  :-[ I didn't think it was scary at all though.

There weren't a lot of rats though, right?
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