I just saw "National Treasure" but don't ask me

[NVMojo]

anything. It was a great movie. I lurve Nicholas Cage!

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. ok I will ask

what did you get out of the movie, apart of a great music track and good plot

In other words how could you use this as a discusion platform with people?

(Free hint all references to US History were the real deal)

[NVMojo]

2. the real treasure is the

Declaration of Independence. I would start with that. Obviously the line Cage recites near the beginning is very important but I could see how the Bush frat team would manipulate in their direction to cover their own platform.

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. goes deeper than that

first wrap your head in this concept, yes many of our founding fathers WERE freemasons... they were Democrats... they were men of the enlightenment

The second underlying tone is what they find. What was hidden was a great Enlightened library, knowledge is the national treasure and that is being lost.

Oh and nobody writes like that anymore

[Lisa]

5. and now it reeks of lemon juice!

I noticed that they made particular mention of museums in France and the Middle East, at the end ...

[SlackJawedYokel]

3. Was good mindless fun.

I guess as I get older I'm having more difficulty suspending my disbelief... sigh.

I just couldn't wrap my head around the concept that an "immense treasure" got *larger* as it changed hands... hunh?
That early American patriots wouldn't have *used* at least some part of that treasure to help finance their revolution.
Oh, that and surviving several barrels of gunpowder exploding spectacularly without even losing their hearing temporarily was just no way to start a movie.
And the obvious rip-off... er, "reference" to The Mummy(that bit with the sunlight and mirrors in the tomb mimicked with the "fire trough") made me think that aside from the Trival-Pursuit-like history lessons the writers didn't have much else going for them.

Foccault's Pendelum did the whole Freemason/conspiracy thing way better and the bad guy didn't strike me as terribly menacing.

Other than that, it was an ok way to kill 2 hours.

Cletus