This live blog entry was done with my good friend Matt Robinson who runs the blog: Red Flag Movie Productions. As he describes himself on his page "Writer, Filmmaker, Stand- Up Comedian. Lover of: films, comics, the 90's, women, travel, books and good food." He's one of my best friends and we have some of the best conversations not to mention he's hilarious. Here is a link to Matt's Blog: Red Flag Movie Productions make sure you check out his page, it's wonderful, nerdy and awesome.
So basically Matt and I recorded our complete audio commentary for the film and I was hoping to post it on here for your additional listening pleasure but was having trouble putting the file on my computer. :( Next time though, there will be a complete audio file for those willing to listen to our comments while you watch the movie yourself. Or... if you want to pay Matt and I a decent sum of money we will talk through a movie for you in person.... as long as you aren't creepy about it.
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| Ah the best line in movie history |
Matt and I live blogged "National Treasure" because it truly is a national treasure of a movie. We carefully chose this film by constantly flipping a coin until we dwindled it down to a reasonable amount of movies to choose from. (Runners up included Frozen, Fantastic Four and Tomb Raider).
*J is me, Jenn and M stands for Matt
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| National Treasure |
J: National Treasure
M: I actually haven’t seen this in a good amount of years
J: What year is this movie?
M: I remember watching this on VHS in high school… or maybe
it was on DVD at this point. We didn’t have a dvd player at my house for a long
time. We didn’t have cable until I was 17, my parents really wanted to remind
us that we were working class.
J: Do you still have your VHS movies?
M: Of course, do you?
J: No, I’ve moved too many times…
M: 2004!
J: Wow 10 years, happy 10-year anniversary
M: This came out
Nov. 19 2004. Almost 10 years to the day
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| Stable Boy: It's Jason Earles from Hannah Montana! |
J: What if you were that stable boy who
had to wake up in the middle of the night and drive someone in the rain to the
white house?
M: You could’ve died of pneumonia
J: Right, there was not advanced medicine
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| In a deserted ice plain |
J: Maybe they’re standing over Captain America
M: What a twist! I think we found something!
J: Still Disney
M: They could George Lucas all their old movies
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| "I've found something!" |
M: It might be a treasure or a frozen hand… or The Mummy
M: Way to go Justin Bartha the henchman is smarter than
you, why are you even on this team?
J: Most of this movie consists of them trying to escape from Sean
Bean’s traps
M: Stock Footage!
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| National Archives Building, Also stock footage |
J: Why don’t they just do a close up of the title of the
building instead of having a title card?
M: I guess in movies they want to have a consistency. The pamphlet in the next scene actually says “National Archives Anniversary Gala”
J: Oh I wonder where they are!
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| Diane Kruger in her office, notice birth control diaphragm |
J: Wow that one girl has really high eyebrows!
M: That’s what the cast department said they needed… look there’s Diane
Kruger!
J: She’s talking on the phone she must be important
M: She’s wearing a suit
J: She gave him the finger too… not the middle finger, the
one-minute finger
M: She’s WEARING that suit
J: He’s still creepy
M: I just don’t feel like what universe Diane is in she’s
like yeah, Nic Cage
J: Look at all the images of woman power in her office
M: Yeah, Rosie the Riveter.
J: She’s a strong independent woman who don’t need no man!
M: Especially no treasure hunting man
M: Behind her it looks like her birth control diaphragm
J: She’s organized, you men can’t control me
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| Suits |
M: His suit looks like the pattern they put on public buses
J: Is Justin Bartha wearing velvet?
M: He’s wearing a tie that’s the same color as his suit!
That’s a fashion faux pas… dammit Riley.
J: Nic Cage looks sloppy
M: Why don’t you learn to wear a suit like Diane Kruger?
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| Outfit Number ?? |
M: How many outfit changes did she just go through?
J: 3 at least
M: BTW I just remember this scene of some guy
checking out Diane Kruger’s backside and I just remember my mom saying don’t do
that to women
J: More stock footage
M: I like how they have Sean Bean after the Watergate footage because you know… Watergate
M: Wow Diane Kruger’s in another outfit already
J: She’s the only woman in this movie
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| Party people |
M: Someone needs to make a gif of Nic Cage trying to avoid
Diane Kruger as someone trying to avoid an ex
J: I feel like you could just print out a copy of the
declaration on the internet, why would you spend $35 on a replica?
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| Legit food truck |
J: Don’t stop and talk to her at the van? Just hop in the
back and drive off. He was chillin in the van… she’s in high heels, it takes
her a while to get him
M: To be fair it is Diane Kruger
J: There is something on the side of Sean Bean’s van!
M: This was before food trucks were even in vogue; they are
so ahead of the curve
M: It’s even topically themed for the mall, they’re geniuses
M: Olympus!
J: Greek food maybe?
M: That sounds good
J: I wonder if they stole it, that’s a legit food truck
M: Yeah, there’s a pot and everything
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| Ben's dad assumes she's pregnant. Check out this sexual chemistry |
M: Why was that his first thought? Is she pregnant?
J: Why would that get him in trouble?
M: Right, aw man I knocked this girl up.
J: You’re a grown adult; you’re not a teenager
M: If I went to my parents and said I knocked up Diane
Kruger they would say, who? Then, nice but wrong
M: Jon Voight had a whole pizza for himself
J: He hadn’t touched it while he was watching Jeopardy
M: He was having a “treat yo self" day
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| Dat Robe |
M: I need to invest in a robe
J: Jon Voight rocks it
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| Clues! |
M: Their sexual tension created a clue
J: That should be their tagline, they did it for America
M: Aren’t you proud of me?!
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| PS Harvey Keitel is in this movie |
M: Disney threw in a PG thing about Gates sleeping with a lot
of women, it doesn’t even make sense for his character. Diane Kruger is like,
yeah I’ve banged people in my office before. I mean she does keep her birth
control on the wall
J: Gotta keep it safe
M: I can’t miss a day, it’s happening so much now
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| New Clothes are a must when out on the run |
J: Is this her 5th outfit now?
M: No, 7th?
J: Are we only half way through the movie?
M: I feel like Quentin Tarantino saw this film and saw her
feet and said I’m hiring her for Inglorious Bastards
J: These people look like they’re dressed in the 90s
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| Being a detective |
M: Gates using a gate! I thought the other guy would’ve used
the gun to blow up the door but no…
M: Ooo! Now Gates' trapped by a gate!
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| Mid Chase scene |
J: Climbing opened staircases never makes sense to me when
escaping from people with guns
M: They always miss, they always hit the rails
M: History teachers and archeologists are always
badasses
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| Once Diane Kruger is safe she tells Nic to "hang on" |
J: Why does the person who’s safe always say, “hang on” to the person falling? They aren’t doing anything to help so like shut up!
M: This is a great hideout for an all guys club
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| Entering the treasure room |
M: Wouldn’t it be funny if they went in there and it was
just a McDonalds? They were looking for treasure but what they found was
something greater, it was a different kind of gold. Look at these golden fresh
cut fries! On a sesame seed bun!
J: $1 for any size soft drink
M: National Treasure 3: The search for the last Roy Rogers
in America
“The Declaration of Independence is not a bargaining chip”
M: Diane Kruger just got so turned on by that
line
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| Sean Bean and his crew |
J: I don’t think
that’s how that works, that someone else can just go to prison in his place?
M: Well I think that when the feds ask who’s the criminal?
It’s Sean Bean and his crew. I mean Nic found the treasure so he’s fine.
M: Of course when Sean Bean doesn’t die it’s actually a win
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| Final Outfits.... "I drew you a map" |
J: ...to my vagina
M: It’s totally a map to her vagina
M: All that money and they still can’t dress well
J: All of them!
M: All of them
J: She looks like a librarian
M: I have money now I don’t need to show my cleavage
Well, there you have it, some of our commentary while watching National Treasure. Hope you enjoyed it!
