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Post by Antioch on Dec 31, 2007 14:41:41 GMT -5
For how much I loved the first film, I thought I'd at least check this one out.
It was ok. Some fun dialogue and action, but I thought the concept of the movie was heavily flawed. They end up finding the lost city of gold, cebola, in the black mountains under Mt Rushmore. It's totally of aztec or miyan design and would have never been there, but rather in Latin or South America.
The whole mom and dad divorced and hate each other and magically erase all their differences after 30 years and love each other again was very cliche.
Overall, I gave it 3 of 5 stars. Entertaining, but not the best movie.
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Post by grond on Jan 2, 2008 17:03:56 GMT -5
Having seen it, I agree with your rating, but the thing that got me was that there seemed to be an awful big jump between find Cebola and proving the great grandfather wasn't a civil war time traitor. Also, the ruins were Olmec in origin, and could possibly be explained by the abundance of gold in the black hills in the first place. For all of the treasure hunting movies out there, I would like to see a plausible schematic for how one of those all stone hidden doors works when the secret catch is on the other side of a water filled stream, or a large crevice. I just don't see an ancient civilization managing a feat of engineering like that. I'll bet modern engineers would hard pressed to pull it off.
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Post by Antioch on Jan 3, 2008 9:13:56 GMT -5
That's good to know it was Olmec in origin. I was really confused by that. What was an even bigger feat than that was the fact that the door completely crumbled. How did they access into the place over and over again if the door crumbled to bits. I sliding door would have made more sense.
I don't know...it was entertaining, but not as plausible as the first one.
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Post by grond on Jan 3, 2008 17:05:44 GMT -5
Well, the crumbling door was likely installed later, if you recall there was a second rolling door that locked everyone inside after they got in. As for repeated access, it seems likely to me that all of the tricks they used to hide the city were only put in place once the Olmecs feared that outsiders might try to steal it. All the same, impossible mechanisms.
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Post by Antioch on Jan 4, 2008 8:38:05 GMT -5
I did notice that rolling stone. Maybe the other stuff was just piled in front to hid it, like you said. I agree that the mechanism would be impossible with a purely mechanical device as it would have been.
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Post by grond on Jan 4, 2008 16:49:00 GMT -5
That, and the wheel that closed the flood gates above the city of gold must have operated on chains or ropes run under the ground and up through the walls and ceiling, but those three surfaces were natural, largely un-worked cave, so how did the Olmecs put these contraptions in the ground and walls? Of course we can point out flaws in dungeon mechanics for just about ever. Indiana Jones probably had more impossible traps and doors if you go back and look for em.
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Post by Antioch on Jan 6, 2008 12:38:22 GMT -5
I love pointing out movie flaws though. It's good times. Especially with an engineering background. There are so many things in movies that just don't follow logic at times.
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