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."
Warning some hard core Trekkies may have problem with the new timeline. I did at first, but after retrospection I have decided I like the changes.
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George Armstrong Custer (December 5, 1839 – June 25, 1876) was a United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the Indian Wars. At the start of the Civil War, Custer was a cadet at the United States Military Academy at West Point, and his class's graduation was accelerated so that they could enter the war. Custer graduated last in his class and served at the First Battle of Bull Run as a staff officer for Major General George B. McClellan in the Army of the Potomac's 1862 Peninsula Campaign.
Early in the Gettysburg Campaign, Custer's association with cavalry commander Maj. Gen. Alfred Pleasonton earned him a promotion from first lieutenant to brigadier general of volunteers at the age of 23.
Custer established a reputation as an aggressive cavalry brigade commander willing to take personal risks by leading his Michigan Brigade into battle, such as the mounted charges at Hunterstown and East Cavalry Field at the Battle of Gettysburg. In 1864, with the Cavalry Corps under the command of Maj. Gen. Philip Sheridan, Custer led his "Wolverines" through the Overland Campaign, including the Battle of Trevilian Station.
Custer, now commanding the 3rd Division, followed Sheridan to the Shenandoah Valley where they defeated the Confederate army of Lt. Gen. Jubal A. Early in the Valley Campaigns of 1864. In 1865, Custer played a key role in the Appomattox Campaign, with his division blocking General Robert E. Lee's retreat on its final day.
At the end of the Civil War (April 15, 1865), Custer was promoted to major general of volunteers, but was reduced to his permanent grade of captain in the regular army. In 1866, he was appointed to the regular army rank of lieutenant colonel, leading the 7th U.S. Cavalry and served in the Indian Wars. His distinguished war record, which started with riding dispatches for Winfield Scott, has been overshadowed in history by his role and fate in the Indian Wars.
Custer was defeated and killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876, against a coalition of Native American tribes composed almost exclusively of Sioux, Cheyenne, and Arapaho warriors, and led by the Sioux warrior Crazy Horse and the Sioux leaders Gall and Sitting Bull. This confrontation has come to be popularly known in American history as Custer's Last Stand.
I feel kind of sorry for the producers of this movie. These lines were probably added to the film in that brief three day period between the inauguration and the moment that everybody figured out that Obama is an asshole.
Yep. Just saw Star Trek today. The new time line is a clever plot device that allows them to write entirely new stories using the same characters with worrying about contradictions with the old Star Trek "history". Should result in a good new series of movies.
What are you smoking? Everything you wrote was poppycock. So who cares if their is indoctrination and history re-writing going on, just as long as the children are excited about history? Dumb
Ben Stiller is about as funny as what I leave in the toilet every morning. He is a moron who makes nothing but spectacularly unfunny films. He has no talent whatsoever. He must have blackmail material on the studio heads in order to keep getting jobs. Avoid Ben Stiller’s moves like the Black Plague.
Hah.
I (careprovider for quad son) sat through the live show of the Smothers Brothers last night.
So I feel your pain, politically unfunny satire.
So Hollywood praised George W.Bush? Color me skeptical.
Agree with both of you.
We had a poster melt down on this thread today due to differing opinions.
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Easy to see the melt down of the poster.
Not serious as in old FR flame wars but more like a humorous.
Interesting, checked the totals at box office mojo and the estimates show the following:
Night at the Museum: $53,500,000
Terminator Salvation WB $43,010,000
these are weekend totals.
Gross estimates are:
Night of the Museum-$53,500,000
Terminator-$56,382,000
I get premium channels on tv so I don't waste money at the movie theater. And after watching a few minutes of the first in the series on tv, I'm glad I didn't go the theater.
Saw “Night at the Museum” tonight w/ my kids. It definitely went left from the last one, in my opinion.
They make Amelia Earhart out to be a nattering feminist, who repeatedly asks if she’s not being given enough responsibility “beacuse I’m a woman, right?”
It did seem like they brought all of the old characters back, but really didn’t have a plan for them. The cowboy character was out of place, as was Roosevelt and Sawakagea. Ghengis Kahn had no roll at all and niether did the neanderthals. Nonetheless, they took up valuable screen space and time.
The Tuskeegee Airmen gave a tip of the hat to Amelia, which I don’t have a problem with, except it was supposed to be a comedy, not a social documentary.
Then comes the Roman with the “good man rules the union” thing, and Lincoln pretty much acting like a dork. It went off track early, and stayed there.
There were a few funny parts. I guess, just enough to keep me from falling alseep. The Egyptian pharoh (or whatever he was) had some great lines, made even funnier by the strange (gay?) lisp that he used.
In the end, I would wait until this video shows up in the dollar rental machines before seeing it again, and then only because my kids liked the animals.
Wife and kids were in watching Museum.
Any aficionado of hers which sees this film must be very disappointed — particularly feminists who will despise the portrayal of her as a man-hungry vixen and the lesbians who consider her to be a lesbian icon.
"They say a good man now rules the union".
"Night at the Museum, Battle of the Smithsonian".
The pharaoh faking being choked by Darth Vader then says, "Oh, I'm kidding, that really doesn't work you know."
And for some reason they left out the Bush like George Custer saying: "Mission Accomplished".
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