![]() I had noted a name of a piece of land in the vicinity of the island and put that into the search field but - nothing came up. When I went back to it the next day, nothing. I was amazed that I found what I was looking for (Google Earth) and again I pinmarked it just in case. NO trace of me even having visited the pages - it was as though the memory and the evidence had been wiped out.Ī few months ago, I had an almost identical experience when I'd been given a reason let's say to search for a known-shaped island off the coast of N America. It was all this stuff about Grey Aliens etc!? Thousands of pages stuffed with pictures and detailed descriptions were returned! I bookmarked some pages and of course they would automatically have been logged in the cache, but, the next day when I decided to print off some proof of what I'd "found" or been shown, there were no links whatsoever to be found. Grade: 3/5Įnter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.I believe the finding of the "holy grail", Fountain of Youth, whatever you want to call it will be a *realisation*, not a physical discovery.Ī year ago, I went online and found msyelf looking at MASSES of information which I just knew was not on the Internet that I was familiar with. The film is available on Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital. SCREENWRITERS: Marianne and Cormac WibberleyĬAST: Nicolas Cage, Jon Voight, Harvey Keitel, Ed Harris, Diane Kruger, Justin Bartha, Bruce Greenwood, and Helen Mirren Walt Disney Pictures opened National Treasure: Book of Secrets on December 21, 2007. While National Treasure: Book of Secrets offers up more of the same, it’s still quite the thrill ride. Did Queen Victoria secretly support the South during the Civil War? What in the hell is on page 47 in the Presidents’ Secret Book? The third film is being teased right in front of our eyes but it’s surely taking forever! How much longer must we have to wait for the answers. The film does bring up some interesting questions. Both groups are going to converge at Mount Rushmore because of course, the national park is a cover up! Can you even imagine it? A city of gold just sitting there behind a national landmark? The whole idea is really just preposterous. Unbeknownst to Gates and his father, Patrick (Jon Voight), Mitch is also one step ahead. With the photo of the second plank at the Library of Congress, Gates turns to his mom, Emily (Helen Mirren), for transcribing the newer plank. There’s some leeway here in that they go down an undiscovered hidden path on the grounds. So, yes, Gates does kidnap the President (Bruce Greenwood). While the films draw on facts for the major plot points, they certainly manage to get quite absurd. ![]() This book is one that allegedly contains many national secrets. In order to know the book’s location, one must first be elected president. Bring in FBI agent Sadusky (Harvey Keitel) and Gates gets the brilliant idea to find the Book of Secrets. While they found a wooden plank in the Queens desk in London, the same cannot be said about the twin desk at the White House. They find an 1876 quote that directs them towards the Resolute desks in London and the US, respectively. Gates and Riley head out for a scale model of the Statue of Liberty in Paris. This points them in the direction of Édouard Laboulaye. Together with ex-girlfriend Abigail Chase (Diane Kruger) and partner-in-crime Riley Poole (Justin Bartha), Gates and company discover a cipher. As soon as the Gates family was credited with a major discovery, it makes sense that the filmmakers find a way to disgrace their family again. He pays the ultimate cost with his life.īack in the present day where Thomas Gates is being honored as a Civilian Hero, Mitch Wilkinson (Ed Harris) pulls out a fragment from a missing page and seeks to disgrace the Gates name. Gates does what he can by tearing out a number of pages and burning them. ![]() Just as bad, the two are pro-Confederacy even as the Civil War just came to an end. Things turn sour quickly when Gates realizes that the men are members of the Knights of the Golden Circle. John Wilkes Booth and co-conspirator Michael O’Laughten ask him to transcribe a page from Booth’s diary. The film’s prologue puts Thomas Gates on the scene at a tavern near Ford’s Theatre. But rather than keep it simple, the clues take Benjamin Gates (Nicholas Cage) and company overseas to Paris and London. This time, the legacy of the Gates family is on the line. The film does manage to up the stakes and increase the action. National Treasure: Book of Secrets suffers from the same problem that seems to plagues many sequels by offering more of the same.
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