It looks like an Indiana Jonesish adventure that has to do with US national treasures.
Something about them having to steal the constitution to protect it, or something.
This must be what going mad feels like.
Simon ,'Jaynestown'
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Gandalfe - Oct 09, 2004 7:43:25 pm PDT #4466 of 10001
The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.
§ ita § - Oct 09, 2004 7:44:58 pm PDT #4467 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It looks like The Da Vinci Code a la USA. Which is no high recommendation in my mind.
quester - Oct 09, 2004 7:46:50 pm PDT #4468 of 10001
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
It's the Declaration of Independence and the unfinished pyramid on the dollar is another clue to some secret.
Jon B. - Oct 09, 2004 7:54:54 pm PDT #4469 of 10001
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Something about them having to steal the constitution to protect it, or something.
Nicolas Cage plays John Ashcroft?
Aims - Oct 09, 2004 10:09:58 pm PDT #4470 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Anyone seen House of Sand and Fog ?
tommyrot - Oct 09, 2004 11:05:17 pm PDT #4471 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
From NYT: Truth Stranger Than 'Strangelove'
"Dr. Strangelove," Stanley Kubrick's 1964 film about nuclear-war plans run amok, is widely heralded as one of the greatest satires in American political or movie history. For its 40th anniversary, Film Forum is screening a new 35 millimeter print for one week, starting on Friday, and Columbia TriStar is releasing a two-disc special-edition DVD next month. One essential point should emerge from all the hoopla: "Strangelove" is far more than a satire. In its own loopy way, the movie is a remarkably fact-based and specific guide to some of the oddest, most secretive chapters of the Cold War.
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What few people knew, at the time and since, was just how accurate this film was. Its premise, plotline, some of the dialogue, even its wildest characters eerily resembled the policies, debates and military leaders of the day.
Jessica - Oct 10, 2004 7:12:16 am PDT #4472 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Anyone seen House of Sand and Fog ?
Unfortunately, yes.
SuziQ - Oct 10, 2004 7:21:32 am PDT #4473 of 10001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
Last night, after taking 8 teenagers to an amusement park all day, we bought pizza and THEY chose to rent/watch Pretty in Pink. It was bizarre watching this with a bunch of 14 year olds. The basic analysis from them was that Andrew McCarthy was hot, James Spader was an ass, and "the dress" was UGLY. Oh, and "it sucks" to be "the best friend".
P.M. Marc - Oct 10, 2004 8:01:06 am PDT #4474 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
The dress WAS ugly.
Pretty in Pink makes me angry. I find the message it gives repulsive, find the best friend in need of a severe bitch slapping, and think Andrew McCarthy didn't become hot until sometime mysteriously in the last five years when age added some character, a fact that continues to kind of squick me.
SuziQ - Oct 10, 2004 8:05:34 am PDT #4475 of 10001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
Plei - I just thought it was hilarious that these kids picked a movie that was almost 20 years old, sat rapt watching it, and made almost exactly THE SAME comments my friends and I made "back in the day". Personally, I'd have had more fun watching Sixteen Candles if we were going to have to pick a Molly Ringwald movie.