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the_dala at 03:24pm on 08/05/2008
the_dala at 03:24pm on 08/05/2008One of the things I like best in movies is to see places I know and love. The bits of Oxford in HP and 'The Golden Compass.' 'Crabcakes and football, that's what we do in Maryland!' It's like a movie kink. I'm watching 'National Treasure: Book of Secrets,' and I actually shrieked when College Park popped up on the screen. Loudly.
I find it so funny that, when I say 'National Treasure' is one of my favorite movies, people say 'Oh, it's so stupid!' as if I don't already know how stupid it is; as if its total stupidity isn't one of my favorite things about it. I'm just an easy mark for adventure movies with varying degrees of accurate history and an appealing cast; just because PotC tops everything else on the list doesn't mean I don't have room in my heart for the others. Riley cracks me up, Diane Kruger is lovely and Nicholas Cage is...Nicholas Cage. I think you either love Nicholas Cage or you hate Nicholas Cage, due not to any inherent skills of his but simply to his Nic Cage-yness. Also, Sean Bean and Helen Mirren class up anything and everything. For the record, I totally want to see that dumb treasure hunt movie with Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaghey too.
Right now I'm having fun imagining what Bush would stick in the Presidents' Book (probably the stupidest of all the elements in BOTH movies). A strip of 'Cathy' cut from the Post? A baseball card? A list of nicknames for his Cabinet? A GI Joe valentine from Tony Blair? The combo to Cheney's man-sized safe? A tiny, faded fragment of Karl Rove's soul? C'mon, everybody can play!
I find it so funny that, when I say 'National Treasure' is one of my favorite movies, people say 'Oh, it's so stupid!' as if I don't already know how stupid it is; as if its total stupidity isn't one of my favorite things about it. I'm just an easy mark for adventure movies with varying degrees of accurate history and an appealing cast; just because PotC tops everything else on the list doesn't mean I don't have room in my heart for the others. Riley cracks me up, Diane Kruger is lovely and Nicholas Cage is...Nicholas Cage. I think you either love Nicholas Cage or you hate Nicholas Cage, due not to any inherent skills of his but simply to his Nic Cage-yness. Also, Sean Bean and Helen Mirren class up anything and everything. For the record, I totally want to see that dumb treasure hunt movie with Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaghey too.
Right now I'm having fun imagining what Bush would stick in the Presidents' Book (probably the stupidest of all the elements in BOTH movies). A strip of 'Cathy' cut from the Post? A baseball card? A list of nicknames for his Cabinet? A GI Joe valentine from Tony Blair? The combo to Cheney's man-sized safe? A tiny, faded fragment of Karl Rove's soul? C'mon, everybody can play!
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