While everyone is hanging around waiting for "Stars Wars" or another Marvel movie, I'm hanging around anxiously awaiting a "National Treasure 3". Yes, just over a decade later, and I'm still waiting.
For those of you out there that somehow don't know what "National Treasure" is, let me tell you. The two movies focus on a man named Benjamin Franklin Gates - hella cool name by the way - and his two friends Abigail Chase and Riley Poole.
In the first movie, they race to find the Templar Treasure before a group of mercenaries, whom they once worked with, find it; until they tried to blow up Ben and Riley. In the second movie, they follow a clue left in the diary of John Wilkes Booth, in order to prove the innocence of one of Ben's ancestor's in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
Both movies just suck you in and get your brain running. To think that there could be clues hidden all around us is not only insane, also totally awesome. The movies really make me want to sit down and just read about history some more and learn new things.
If you really want to be drawn in, here is my favorite quote from each movie.
Movie 1:
Movie 2:
I mean, come on. He's so serious about it and it's so crazy and I freaking love it. It makes me want to try it though. I get a little overexcited after watching movies sometimes. After I watched the movie "21" I had a sudden desire to count cards. Now I want to steal the Declaration of Independence and kidnap the President really bad. It's a problem.
I have an even bigger problem though. There is no third movie! The second ends off with the President asking Gates if what he thought of page 47, the page he told him to read when he gave him the location of the President's Secret Book. Gates tells him that it was interesting and could be life-altering.
What were they talking about? I need to know!
The "National Treasure" movies are ones I could watch over and over again and not get tired of. I'll always be excited and surprised and just overall blown away by the whole idea of the movie.
For those of you who have not watched the movies, you need to. Though be prepared to be as mad as I am that there isn't another one yet.
For those of you who claim they don't like the movies:
I did a little research and it seems as though a script has been in the works over the years and the topic certainly comes up quite a bit, but unfortunately, nothing is set in stone yet.
All I know is, the minute they announce that it is happening, I'm going to scream. Literally.
Who else out there has watched these movies? What did you think of them? Are you upset there isn't a third one yet?