National Treasure

Danadelfos · Post by **Danadelfos** » Sat Nov 19, 2005 4:32 pm

it was great to see it. it's not too much violence-oriented and i would say that probably a 10 year old could watch it. but you have to be discerning in your choice of entertainment for sure.

Me · Post by Me » Sat Nov 19, 2005 4:33 pm

It was a very fun movie, and one that I definitely had to buy.

COWBOY OF TEXAS · Post by **COWBOY OF TEXAS** » Sat Nov 19, 2005 5:04 pm

Me wrote:It was a very fun movie, and one that I definitely had to buy.

Yep. And did you know that they are coming out with another one? (Even though they said in the special features on the DVD that they wouldn't.)

-Cowboy

Danadelfos · Post by **Danadelfos** » Sat Nov 19, 2005 5:20 pm

No, i hope this next one is better than the last one. not saying that the last one was terrible but it did have a little blend of socialist and communist worldview slyly mixed in

COWBOY OF TEXAS · Post by **COWBOY OF TEXAS** » Sat Nov 19, 2005 5:21 pm

danadelfos wrote:No, i hope this next one is better than the last one. not saying that the last one was terrible but it did have a little blend of socialist and communist worldview slyly mixed in

How did it have that?

-Cowboy

Zelda Jacobs · Post by **Zelda Jacobs** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 3:38 pm

National Treasure is my all time favorite movie!

Post by **Catspaw** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 4:19 pm

It is great, isn't it? $\:D/$ I haven't watched it in a while - I should do that again soon! It's definitely fun the fifth time around!

Macnut · Post by **Macnut** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 4:25 pm

Check this out:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0465234/

If they do make one, I hope they don't ruin it...Disney is prone to ruining sequels.

Post by **Catspaw** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 6:34 pm

I hope that if this sequel becomes a reality that it's good. I hate bad sequels.

It looks like it's still in the really early stages.

Thanks for the link, macnut! $\:D/$

Applesauce · Post by **Applesauce** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 6:44 pm

Yeah...I've known about the sequel. Part of me thinks it will be lame, but the other part has faith in Jerry Bruckheimer.

Anyway, I saw the movie in theaters when it first came out, but haven't seen the whole thing since then. I really need to watch it again!

Lord_Kappa · Post by **Lord_Kappa** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 9:28 pm

Speaking of sequels, who's heard of "The Fox and the Hound 2?" That's a good example of a poor move by Disney.

I've never seen the end of National Treasure! I've watched the whole thing up 'till Phillidelphia when the DVD started skipping.

I'm going to watch it someday though, I'll keep it on my list of movies to get.

Meo · Post by **Meo** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 1:37 pm

National Treasure was a good movie riley might have been to good but I have seen it a couple times and im still not sick of it.

querida · Post by **querida** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 10:50 am

Omigosh! I love this movie!!!!! Seen it at least six times......(yeah i'm wacked i know...)
Great movie!

Arwen · Post by **Arwen** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 1:46 pm

Oh yeah, I love that one. It was one of my favorites until I watched it a few too many times.

Riley's awesome.

cukatydid46 · Post by **cukatydid46** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 6:32 pm

I love the movie. Riley is awesome but I've only been able to see it twice since I don't own it. But I think it's a fun movie.

Justine Baker · Post by **Justine Baker** » Sat Jul 27, 2024 7:42 am

*thread merged*

This is probably one of the best movies of all times. I loved it! Riley is the best comedy relief movie character ever! lol

Post by **bookworm** » Sun Jul 28, 2024 2:30 pm

This is one of my all time favorite movies! I can't count how many times I've seen it; I have most of it memorized without trying just from so many viewings.

Riley Poole is genuinely one of my cinema icons. Not a joke. Everything about his character and the way it's used in the story is perfection. Obviously he's one of the greatest examples of comic relief done exactly right, but he's also an absolutely classic use of the 'guy in the chair' trope and he's cool while doing it! I think I was already on the path of computers being my education focus when I saw this movie, so I won't say his character inspired me to do that, but I at least certainly related to him in a way of thinking 'I want to be that guy that knows the tech stuff like that.'

(Somewhat related true story: When my brother got a Wii, instead of making my Mii represent myself like everyone else did I made it into Riley. The profile is still saved on there!)

Some of the movie might be cheesy or silly, but I don't care. It's just fun! A great treasure hunt story, entertainingly tied in to history, a very unique take on a heist plot, a fantastic villain in Ian Howe. Thrills, humor, suspense, it's got everything to just go along with the ride and have a fun time!

Specifics about the movie aside this was also a very significant one for me, just as a movie, in terms of when I first saw it and what it represented and led to. My family wasn't a big movie family while I was growing up. We had several movies on VHS/DVD we would watch, but they were Disney classics and some other older things like that. Sometimes we would get a few modern movies from the library, but we never went to the theater at all, so we never saw anything 'as it was happening' you know, it was always after the fact.

Well when this movie was in theaters one of my brother's friends invited he and I both to go see it with his family for his birthday. It was an instant hit, everyone absolutely loved it. Later that year his mom gave the DVD to us for either one of our birthdays or for Christmas, don't recall which, but regardless it immediately became a very frequent viewing rotation in our family library. Not long after that we started going out to occasionally see other movies in the theater and get the ones we really liked when they came out on DVD, and continued doing that more and more frequently until it was a common family activity like it is with most other people.

I don't think it was actually because we went and saw and then received this movie that this happened, I think that was around the time my brother and I were getting to the age where starting to go see movies would have probably become a thing anyway, but however direct the causality actually was I can still look back and see this movie as a distinct before and after touchstone in how my family viewed media so it has always had a special place in my mind because of that, on top of how much I do like the actual movie as well.

Post by **Catspaw** » Mon Jul 29, 2024 8:34 pm

Aww, thanks for sharing why this movie is so special to you, bookworm. That's very nice. Between you and Justine, you're making me want to see this movie again! I watched it several times back in the day but haven't watched it for years. It is a fun movie. I didn't see it in theatres but we had the DVD (it's probably still on my parents' shelves somewhere) and watched it. My dad liked it too and it was one we could agree on as a family.

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