National Treasure

[Reality]

Short version:  park your brain at the door and relax.  Its a fun movie and just go with it.   Pace is good.  Combo of some Indiana Jones with a pinch of MacGyver.  Sets are fantastic.   Acting is very cheesy at times, rising to mediocre at others.
Nicolas Cage talking to himself as usual, but his history major/mechanical engineer degree knowledge in figuring out the clues is interesting if a little LaLa.  

You might expect the "break in" to the White House to be the biggest stretch.  Actually kudos to producers/writers, it's one of the best parts and their break in strategy is not far fetched.

Sponge Bob.  Only because I was stuck in LAX traffic did i divert to a freeway theater to see "Bob."  Not impressed at all.  Got a refund after 30 minutes.

[spursfan101]

Not impressed at all. Got a refund after 30 minutes.

Funny, I've never tried that. Figured if you paid to go see a movie and you didn't like it, it's not the theaters fault that you made that poor choice in selection.  :huh:  

[Reality]

Not impressed at all. Got a refund after 30 minutes.

Funny, I've never tried that. Figured if you paid to go see a movie and you didn't like it, it's not the theaters fault that you made that poor choice in selection.  :huh:

Yes there's a whole big new world awaiting you outside of Texas.


 

[Reality]

Seriously,

You don't have to let Hollywood keep your money if the movie does not match what you were told.  Theaters give 30-45 minutes grace period.  Even in Texas.
Do you want more of your money going to Kobe and the entertainment industry?

[westkoast]

Seriously,

You don't have to let Hollywood keep your money if the movie does not match what you were told.  Theaters give 30-45 minutes grace period.  Even in Texas.
Do you want more of your money going to Kobe and the entertainment industry?

Not sure If I would have returned the money to you if you went by yourself.  I mean common, its Spongebob.  If you went with your children or your nieces/nephews then maybe I would.........but then again you arent going to westkoast cinemas so my opinion means little lol.

Seen the Machinest (sp?) yet Reality?  I heard it was good but the trailors have me totally turned off to the idea of going to sit and watch it.  Especially with ticket prices so darn high.

[Reality]

Koast here is the deal,

a) Due to pre-Thankgiving traffic at LAX area being at crawl level, which flooded the entire surrounding area including UCLA-Westwood-Whilshire, where i was.  I was due to be finished Tues at 10:30 a.m., ended up being done Wed at 4pm.  If you know the UCLA-Whilshire area, every single theater is a one movie showhouse (save for one).  So I did National Treasure.  Traffic was still psycho so i gave Bob a roll on the recommendation of a 70 (seventy) year old kid.  He has children and grankids.

B)  As you may already know, many of the animated *childrens* movies are anything but *childrens* in content/subject matter.  Ie Shrek, Shrek 2 90% of the jokes go right over toddlers brains.  Yet they are entertaining for adults.  Maybe some kids too.  Two happy medium movies IMO were Monsters Inc and Finding Nemo.  

The Incredibles was fantastic, but the violence level in the last 25% is way too high for infant to 7 IMO.  Not too high, in fact much to low according to video game and HWood standards tho, which i realize the message is "desensitize children from age infant to 7 (to 17)to the entire idea of killing someone by chopping them up, laser beaming them, gunning down, hitting with hammer, etc etc."  "The Itchy..and..Scratchy Showwwwwwwww."
Matrix and Colombine High School.  

It is indeed a conscious effort by HWood.  Small point but notice when the Incredibles Family flys back from Evil Kids Island to NYC.  Mom is stretched out connecting a huge hang glider to a Winnabego.  Dad tells her to abandon glider and get in Winnaboago for landing.  Ok swell.  Dad floors it to get Wins wheels turing for landing.  As they land they smash into a half dozen cars, blowing and flipping them all off the road.  A small point you may say?  Well, why did producers make the very conscious effort to have the cars and inhabitants blown off the road and wrecked and dead?  Why not have them dodge and weave like they did 45 seconds later when the camera zooms back to the Winnebago. That and the round blob invention of Kid Evil.  Flying saw blades, bullets up the ying yang.  

Bob, from what i saw, continues the unerachiever-rude is good theme of Beavis and Butthead, Bart Simpson etc.  I dont judge Bob in total, just from what i saw the schtick is he is way overemotional and grandiouse, along with a heavy Me theme.   Perhaps in the end Bob was much different.
I didnt stop anyone from seeing it.  Somone wants to see their young uns take that in (Increds and Bob), go for it.

Reality recommended for tinys:
Iron Giant -Warner Bros 1999ish (Directed by Brad Bird, same as The Incredibles)
Monsters Inc
Nemo
"Racing Stripes" is coming in Jan 2005.  It should be good for the entire family.  Still being edited a bit.  Good message.

Have not seen The Machienest.

[westkoast]

Koast here is the deal,

a) Due to pre-Thankgiving traffic at LAX area being at crawl level, which flooded the entire surrounding area including UCLA-Westwood-Whilshire, where i was.  I was due to be finished Tues at 10:30 a.m., ended up being done Wed at 4pm.  If you know the UCLA-Whilshire area, every single theater is a one movie showhouse (save for one).  So I did National Treasure.  Traffic was still psycho so i gave Bob a roll on the recommendation of a 70 (seventy) year old kid.  He has children and grankids.

B)  As you may already know, many of the animated *childrens* movies are anything but *childrens* in content/subject matter.  Ie Shrek, Shrek 2 90% of the jokes go right over toddlers brains.  Yet they are entertaining for adults.  Maybe some kids too.  Two happy medium movies IMO were Monsters Inc and Finding Nemo.  

The Incredibles was fantastic, but the violence level in the last 25% is way too high for infant to 7 IMO.  Not too high, in fact much to low according to video game and HWood standards tho, which i realize the message is "desensitize children from age infant to 7 (to 17)to the entire idea of killing someone by chopping them up, laser beaming them, gunning down, hitting with hammer, etc etc."  "The Itchy..and..Scratchy Showwwwwwwww."
Matrix and Colombine High School.  

It is indeed a conscious effort by HWood.  Small point but notice when the Incredibles Family flys back from Evil Kids Island to NYC.  Mom is stretched out connecting a huge hang glider to a Winnabego.  Dad tells her to abandon glider and get in Winnaboago for landing.  Ok swell.  Dad floors it to get Wins wheels turing for landing.  As they land they smash into a half dozen cars, blowing and flipping them all off the road.  A small point you may say?  Well, why did producers make the very conscious effort to have the cars and inhabitants blown off the road and wrecked and dead?  Why not have them dodge and weave like they did 45 seconds later when the camera zooms back to the Winnebago. That and the round blob invention of Kid Evil.  Flying saw blades, bullets up the ying yang.  

Bob, from what i saw, continues the unerachiever-rude is good theme of Beavis and Butthead, Bart Simpson etc.  I dont judge Bob in total, just from what i saw the schtick is he is way overemotional and grandiouse, along with a heavy Me theme.   Perhaps in the end Bob was much different.
I didnt stop anyone from seeing it.  Somone wants to see their young uns take that in (Increds and Bob), go for it.

Reality recommended for tinys:
Iron Giant -Warner Bros 1999ish (Directed by Brad Bird, same as The Incredibles)
Monsters Inc
Nemo
"Racing Stripes" is coming in Jan 2005.  It should be good for the entire family.  Still being edited a bit.  Good message.

Have not seen The Machienest.

I dont blame you for going.  I know all too well about the clogging in that area.  Its absolute murder to get stuck in that area during regular times.....I would imagine it was 2x as bad during the T-day weekend.  Heck, you probably would have spent the same amount of time inching along in traffic as you did in the movies seeing National Treasure.

You are def right about movies like Shrek.  They kinda have the Rocky and Bullwinkle effect. They are animated so kids love em but the content is aimed for a much older audience.  Still, if you've seen Spongebob on TV you should know what you were going to see.  60+ minutes of slapstick, repetitive humor.  Much props on letting some of us know you can get your money back.  I was under the impression that you couldnt.  I could pay rent for a full month if I was to get back all the money from really really horrible movies I've gone and seen over the last 2 years lol!!