Posted on 05/24/2009 8:25:31 PM PDT by skateman
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian.
Conservatives are advised to avoid this movie. This is a sequel to the successful and funny 2006 film "Night at the Museum". In both movies the premise is that a magic tablet allows the museum characters to come alive at night after sunset. However, this movie proves the old adage that quite often the sequel is not as good as the original.
The movie would be bad enough even without the shots at George W. Bush. A particular galling moment is when the come alive character General George Custer, whose voice sounds like George Bush, says that he feels so ashamed at leading Americans to a needless death.
Another sad moment is when the come to life Roman General gazes at the White House and utters the line: "They say a good man now rules the Union".
The final straw for me was when Abraham Lincoln gazes toward the White House and says something to the effect that: "Everything is looking up."
The first one was barely acceptable, but this one really galled me with the awful portrayal of General Custer. This movie has nothing good to say. Not to mention that they cutie-pied Amelia Earhart. Have you seen pictures of her? She’s a dog!!
Yeah, they took some real liberties with Amelia.
I wanted to like it, the first movie was to me a great premise and funny.
Does it get a “Two middle fingers up”?
Well Robin Williams as TR should be enough reason to not watch this. TR would kick the crap out of Williams.
Just after the Roman general utters the offending line he starts across the White House lawn, just at that point I said to my wife, “Let’s leave”, only prob is the scene when suddenly quite and the whole theater heard me. LOL.
Actually in this movie, Williams’ character has very little screen time.
Why didnt you ask for a refund?
Sounds like a good movie for cable in the future when we plan a Sunday nap day (IOW to snooze through).
I like your title to the thread, blunt.
Thanks for the heads up.
I’m sorry you wasted your time typing this missive. I guess we’re even.
We’re each entitled to our own opinion, arent’ we!
Yup! I love FR.
So do I.
It was bad. Sappy. Sentimental appeal to previous. It was a “reunion” sequel. Main character has left the honorable job at museum to become a millionaire hawking silly products like glow in the dark flashlights. At the end of the movie, he finds himself, regaining his honor by taking the job at the museum. It also implies that he gave all of his wealth to the Smithsonian.
It was just plain stupid. Should have stopped with the first one.
I’d be willing to bet that an “honest” poll taken Bush vs. OBama... Bush would win on “Do You Think (insert name) is a good man?”
The media would have everyone believe Bush’s bad numbers were a movement in the country toward the left, that bush was out of touch. The truth is his numbers went bad because he didn’t govern under the principles to which he was elected to enact. We had both house and senate and the white house - and we spent months thinking about whether or not it was right to impose our will. Obama and the Dems took exactly 3 seconds to enforce their will on all of us. That is the exact reason Republicans are in shambles and democrats are in line. At least the Ds are doing what they say they’ve always wanted. We didn’t and we’re paying for it right now.
Move to the right, not the middle. Not an angry right. A principled right based on historical fact, experience and the good of the society - call the media out when they distort - all live interviews, nothing taped or edited, you print national security information, off to jail you go and treason is the charge, you lie or distort information or withhold information on a regular basis, pull their FCC license and hand it to someone else - you lost your turn for not being journalists.
Sorry...i’ve been talking politics all day with family and my ranting fingers are going crazy.
Already bad IMHO. The first one was fun and funny. This one, not so much. About the only redeeming value here was the skin-tight pants on Amelia Earhart. :-) I thought they were particularly unfair to Gen. Custer - making him out to be an incompetent boob. Sure, getting your entire command killed is bad. But did the man not have a successful career up to that engagement?
In the last couple of weeks I've been to the new Star Trek, the new Terminator, and the new Museum movies. Of the three, only Star Trek was worth it IMHO. Terminator, maybe worth it on DVD as a rental. Museum, skip it.
Great post and great comments.
Loved Star Trek. Love the new time line.
Thanks. Star Trek sounds like the winner in the bunch.
My feeble understanding is that he did not. Bottom of his class at West Point.
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