a5c7b9f00b Attack of the mutant calculator! Shortly before exams: A science-student studies for his final test. When suddenly his calculator decides to grow and attack its owner, a journey through many aspects of a surreal nerd's life commences. And that's just the beginning of a tough fight... A satirical music-video, featuring lots of references to current Internet-phenomena!
Attack of the pocket calculator: A satirical music-film.
a5c7b9f00b While Ben Gates is presenting new information about John Wilkes Booth and the 18 pages missing from Booth's diary, a man by the name of Mitch Wilkinson stands up and presents a missing page of John Wilkes Booth's diary. Thomas Gates, Ben's great-grandfather, is mentioned on the page. It shows that Ben's great-grandfather was a co-conspirator in Abraham Lincoln's murder. When doing more research, the conspiracy takes Ben, Abigail Chase, and Riley Poole to Buckingham Palace (which they break into). They discover a plank that has early Native American writing on it. The plank has only one symbol that Patrick Gates can identify. The symbol is Cibola (see-bowl-uh) meaning the City of Gold. In order to define the rest they have to go to Ben's mother, Patrick's divorced wife. After 32 years it brings back old arguments. After that the other clue is in the President's desk in the Oval Office in the White House (which Ben and Abigail sneak into) to discover that the clue lies in The President's Book. But in order to see the book, their choice is either get elected president or kidnap the President of the United States. Which do they choose? It's obvious. With Wilkinson close on their tail, they find the book in the Library of Congress. The conspiracy then crosses to Mount Rushmore where the clue was on the hills, but (according to the Book) President Calvin Coolidge had the faces carved in so no one can find the City of Gold. When they get there they find out that they must work with Wilkinson since he has some clues of his own. Who will claim Cibola? And will the name of Gates be known as murder? Ben Gates and his father have lobbied to get their ancestor Thomas Gates, the man who was entrusted with the secret of the Templars treasure, honored as a historical hero. They believe that Gates was approached by two men who unbeknown to him were members of a group loyal to the confederacy, and one of the men, John Wilkes Booth, gives him his journal and shows him something they want him to decipher. Booth then leaves to assassinate Lincoln. Gates completes the deciphering and discovers that it's a clue to a great treasure but when Gates learns who they are, he rips out pages that had the clue and tried to burn them, he would then be shot. At the unveiling, a man named Wilkinson stands up claiming to have in his position one of the pages that Gates tried to burn and in it, is something that claims that Gates may have been involved with the plot to assassinate Lincoln. So now Thomas Gates is labeled a traitor. But Ben and his father don't believe it. So they acquire the page and discover what Gates was deciphering and sets out to prove that Gates is innocent. But Wilkinson is following him. Ben's trek takes him to France, England, and eventually back to Washington but they hit a road block. And to find the clue Ben is forced to kidnap the President. Okay, first things first: Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, and the right to vigorously express that opinion, especially when it comes to movies, and definitely here at this site. Having said that, no one can tell me with a straight face that they had no idea what they were getting themselves into, when they went to a theater to see or rented NATIONAL TREASURE: BOOK OF SECRETS. I mean, c'mon. Like its predecessor, it's a WALT Disney FILM, co- produced by JERRY BRUCKHEIMER. If you were expecting THE GODFATHER or LAWRENCE OF ARABIA, you should've gone to the video store and rented one or both of them.<br/><br/>Just like the first TREASURE, it's another preposterous knockoff of the INDIANA JONES films set in post-modern times, without the grit and gravitas of Harrison Ford. (No offense to Nic Cage, but it's HARRISON FORD!) And like a 2-D version of a Disney theme park ride, this is not meant to stimulate the deep-thinking portions of your frontal lobe, parietal lobe or cerebral cortex whatsoever. Pleasure centers ONLY, people. The bombastic, ridiculous plot points wash over you, including all the leaps in logic and plot holes the size of Jupiter. You won't remember most of what happened two hours after seeing this anyway. I certainly didn't.<br/><br/>All you need to know is this: Cage is back as Benjamin Franklin Gates, and now he's determined to clear the Gates family name when an opportunistic fortune hunter (Ed Harris), floats the theory that Ben's great-great grandfather was one of the group of conspirators who aided and abetted John Wilkes Booth in the Lincoln assassination. Mirth, mayhem, vigorous chases through several different locales in various countries ensues, and none of it is too exciting or too threatening for the kiddies. In other words - all the earmarks of your typical Disney blockbuster.<br/><br/>There is some continuity, at least. Jon Voight and Justin Bartha return as Ben's dad and his trusty, put-upon sidekick, respectively. Diane Kruger returns as Ben's now-estranged lady friend and partner in treasure-hunting. (And at least her American accent has gotten a little bit better). Ed Harris is fittingly menacing - a role he seems to specialize in these days - so it's kind of a jolt when his character does a '180' at a certain point (you'll know when that is.) And though I could watch Helen Mirren pull weeds out of her garden, I'm surprised to see her here as Ben's mother, (though she is still terrific.) <br/><br/>Plus, we get a HUGE red flag I have learned to spot in any movie that features any kind of political intrigue or drama. In WHAT UNIVERSE, for Christ's sake, would the U.S. President ever be a man as handsome, well-spoken and laden with integrity as Bruce Greenwood? EXACTLY. Anytime I see him and he's playing the Commander-In-Chief, my "Uh-Oh" Meter zings into the red. <br/><br/>And that's not even mentioning the whole linking the Statue of Liberty, the Library of Congress and matching Resolute Desks in the US and England to Mt. Rushmore and the legend of the city of Cibola thing. (DON'T ASK.)<br/><br/>So this NATIONAL TREASURE sequel is not a great movie. It may not even be a GOOD movie as far as most rational-thinking movie-watching adults are concerned. But I have wasted two hours on a lot worse films than this. And did I happen to mention it's got HELEN MIRREN??? If you liked the first one then heres more of the same. A fast moving, simple adventure story with plenty of action, twists and turns. It manages to out-do the first movie with the major "kidnapping". Nicholas cage isn't my favorite actor as I believe he is often miscast as a serious hero. This is more his style as a tongue in cheek hero. good support from Angelina Jolie's dad and Helen Mirren. I enjoyed the purported links to factual evidence as in the links to civil war heroes and villains, the twin desks, one at buck house and the other in the oval office. I never knew there were in fact three Eiffel towers(if it is indeed the case). A sit back and enjoy the ride movie. The movie does feature a nice, teasing chemistry between veteran actors Voight and Mirren (who clearly relishes the chance to break out of stuffy melodrama), but this shallow, empty puzzle requires more than playful banter to satisfy audiences willing to pay to play. Historian Ben Gates (<a href="/name/nm0000115/">Nicolas Cage</a>) learns from treasure hunter Mitch Wilkinson (<a href="/name/nm0000438/">Ed Harris</a>) that a missing page from the diary of John Wilkes Booth implicates Ben's great-great grandfather Thomas as a co-conspirator in the 1865 murder of Abraham Lincoln. Ben sets out to clear the Gates' name by following clues that take him to Cibola (the City of Gold), Buckingham Palace, the Oval Office, and the President of the United States. National Treasure: Book of Secrets is the sequel to <a href="/title/tt0368891/">National Treasure (2004)</a> (2004), a Disney Production that was co-written by numerous screenwriters, including American screenwriting team Marianne and Cormac Wibberley. The Wibberleys also wrote the screenplay for National Treasure: Book of Secrets. <a href="/title/tt1197627/">National Treasure 3</a> is currently in development with no release date known. The Book of Secrets refers to a book kept by the President of the United States and, in turn, handed down to each succeeding President. It contains secrets known only to the Presidents, e.g., the truth about Area 51 and the assassination of President Kennedy. The first clue leads to a replica of the Statue of Liberty that sits on the Île aux Cygnes near the Grenelle Bridge in Paris, France. On the statue is written (in French): "Across the sea, these twins stand resolute to preserve what we are looking for. 1876". Ben interprets that second clue to refer to two desks made from the timbers of the Resolute, a British ship trapped in ice during an Arctic exploration. One of the desks now sits in the Queen's study at Buckingham Palace, London. The other is the desk of the President of the United States sitting in the Oval Office at the White House. Ben's referring to the fact that, when the monarch of England is not in residence at Buckingham Palace, the Union Jack is displayed. When the Queen is in residence, her royal flag is displayed. Since the Queen wasn't in residence, her royal flag was not flying. Emily deciphers the carved wooden plank found in the Queen's Resolute desk as Olmec writing meaning, Find the noble bird, let him take you by the hand and give you passage to the sacred temple. She concludes that the reference is to Cibola, the City of Gold. But the reference is incomplete without the plank from the President's desk. Unfortunately, that plank was found by President Calvin Coolidge [1872-1933] and destroyed. The only clue to its message lies in the Book of Secrets. This is from a book that Ben reads aloud: In 1527, a Spanish ship wrecked on the Florida coast. There were only four survivors. One was a slave named Esteban who saved a local tribe's dying chief. As a reward, he was taken to their sacred city, a city built from solid gold. Later, when Esteban tried to find the city again, he never could. But the legend grew, and every explorer came to the new world in search of it. When General Custer's search for gold ended at his last stand at Little Big Horn, it became clear none would ever find it. Ben believes that, if the cipher on the diary page leads to Cibola, the City of Gold, this would prove that Thomas Gates threw the page into the fire to prevent the Confederates from finding the gold (a treasure that might have changed the outcome of the Civil War), not to coverup the names of the conspirators in the Lincoln assassination. The President (<a href="/name/nm0339304/">Bruce Greenwood</a>) mentions that he was an Architecture History major at Yale, so secret passageways (especially under such a historical site as Mount Vernon) would be of extraordinary interest to him. Coupled with this is the fact that Ben was famous (based on the previous movie) for exploring old buildings, national treasures, and such. In light of this, Ben would be the closest thing to an expert. Therefore, the President would probably feel safe with him. Besides, it was only a little jaunt into the cellar, and the President's guard was behind him the whole time. Ben and Mitch finally meet up at Mount Rushmore and agree to work together to find the treasure. Ben finds the "islands of stone" and Mitch adds the last clue: The answer will only be revealed under a cloudless rain. Sprinkling the rocks with their water bottles, they uncover the figure of an eagle. The final clue, possessed by Mitch, say to "surrender your hand to the heart of the warrior." Ben sticks his hand in the hole in the middle of the eagle, pulls a lever, and a rock doorway opens. Ben and Mitch, accompanied by Abigail (<a href="/name/nm1208167/">Diane Kruger</a>), Riley (<a href="/name/nm0058581/">Justin Bartha</a>), Patrick (<a href="/name/nm0000685/">Jon Voight</a>), and Emily (<a href="/name/nm0000545/">Helen Mirren</a>), make their way into the cave, encountering several traps along the way. Patrick and Emily get separated, but they all end up at the same place—Cibola, the City of Gold. Mitch apologizes for smearing the name of Thomas Gates and explains that it was the only way he could get Ben to join in the search. Suddenly water starts seeping into the city, threatening to block their way out. Noticing that the water seems to be draining, they follow it to a drainage tunnel beneath the city. One person will have to stay behind, however, in order to hold open the stone door. Mitch demands to go first by holding a knife to Abigail's neck, so Ben agrees to stay behind. Everyone gets out except for Mitch and Ben, who become trapped because of the current. Ben is stuck in the door, and Mitch is the only one who can open it. Mitch decides to open the door, letting the current push Ben through but asks Ben to let the world know that it was he (Mitch) who found Cibola. Ben is immediately taken into custody by FBI special agent Sandusky (<a href="/name/nm0000172/">Harvey Keitel</a>), but the President exonerates him by explaining that Ben did not kidnap him but actually saved his life when the door accidentally closed in the secret tunnel they were exploring. He shows Ben an article for tomorrow's newspaper that names Thomas Gates a national hero and asks him whether he read page 47 on the Book of Secrets. Ben nods and replies, "It's life altering." Everyone, including Mitch Wilkinson, is given credit for finding the City of Gold, Emily can be seen later cataloging the treasures, and Ben and Abigail get back together. In the final scene, Riley sees his red Ferrari bearing a note from the President reading, "Tax free". He jumps in, starts up the engine, and backs into the car behind him. It is never made clear in the movie what was on page 47, and some speculate that it exists as a cliffhanger solely to set up another sequel. On the DVD commentary, director <a href="/name/nm0005509/">Jon Turteltaub</a> thrice says something about the contents of page 47, but his microphone fails mysteriously all three times. He also rebuffs the sequel theory, saying that the references to page 47 exist to show how much the President began to trust Ben Gates and to establish a closeness between the characters. Mitch wanted to be acclaimed for finding Cibola, but he knew that tricking Ben into find it for him would be much easier, especially if there were any brushes with the law. There were two aircraft in the hangar, both A-3 Skywarriors. The plane was versatile, filling the roles of both bomber and tanker during the Vietnam War and as a spy plane during the Cold War. It was retired from service in 1991.
a5c7b9f00b The surrounding environment is full of sounds that the human ear can hardly perceive. 'Hertz' is the story of Valentina, a cellist who is lost in a labyrinth with no way out, the labyrinth of auditory distortions. Trying to evade, Valentina will go out of her mind, and violently destroy her apartment. Her hart beat and the sound of her breathing is perceived as being something outside her, and ' being' is something that happens only in the mind. An experimental film because it focuses on the actual frequencies of sound in the surrounding environment, trying to reproduce auditory hyper sensibility and perception.