Watched National Treasure last night. Implausible plot (ancient treasures from Egypt! India! China! Buried in New York! Hidden by the signers of the Declaration of Independence, who btw were totally broke and needed to fund the Continental Army! There's an 18th-century ship in the Arctic!) Those mysterious and devious Freemasons are behind everything. Meanwhile, the Declaration of Independence is dragged from DC to Philly to New York. Boston gets a shout-out. The metaphors and cheese dripped and dripped.But I liked it. In fact, I really liked it. It was a really, really fun movie! I would've loved it as a kid -- it seemed like one of those adventure stories you make up, with all your favorite characters from movies or books, but it's totally anachronistic because Indiana Jones and Anne of Green Gables and The Three Investigators and Prince Valiant couldn't possibly coexist, but you want them to anyway. Or, uh, maybe that was just me. Anyway, the movie reminded me of imaginary plot lines like that. Good times!
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weird story -- i was in NYC with dubie and sarah, and walking through a park we were stopped by these guys who were showing the trailer for national treasure and taking people's responses. it TOTALLY didn't make me want to see the movie at all, but i'm not a history geek (meant affectionately).
That happened to me, once. Except it wasn't in NYC, it was Seattle. And it wasn't a park, it was a mall. And it wasn't National Treasure, it was Beyond Borders.
Proudly reclaiming "history geek." =)
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