comment #1

BurmaShave says ...

Not very different actually. What the hell is he talking about?

*spoilers*

The only major thing I can think of is he doesn't really "kidnap" the President exactly so much as detain him . I also don't remember Voight's gloriously dumb line in the film: "What is it about treasure that makes history so interesting?"

Still, it's a harmless and diverting film, just like its predeccesor. The trailer conveys that well.

comment #2

BurmaShave says ...

Okay having read the article he's complaining about missing dialouge and also some of the scenes in the trailer were from the first movie, which I myself found odd. Why the fuck was that in the New York Times? Anything that's someone's "Corner, Post, Beat" should be in a local paper at best, especially if they have a fucking cartoon as their picture. Also stop talking about your kids. Hang it up.

comment #3

Mike Schaefer says ...

Technically, it wasn't "in the NY Times", it was on a blog on their website. Newspaper websites are littered with goofy blog postings these days -- nearly every employee gets pressed into service to write a blog (for which they usually don't get paid extra) to increase hits on the site. So here in SF we get Mick LaSalle proving he can be an idiot about subjects other than movies.

comment #4

the king says ...

It just makes me care even less.

"Walk Hard" did some of this too. Some of the jokes weren't in the movie. The whole bit about Dewey Cox sausages. "Tastes like Cox."

comment #5

Mark says ...

I was disappointed that Ed Harris and Hellen Mirren weren't even in the actual movie. Granted i was sleeping through much of it.

comment #6

Griff says ...

I've noticed a lot of trailers have scenes that aren't even in the finished film. Makes sense considering the trailers are cut before most films are finished.

But what's worse is the trailer that shows you the WHOLE DAMN FILM.

comment #7

Jay T. says ...

I have to say, I HATE, HATE HATE IT when a catch phrase or a memorable piece of dialogue is used in the trailer and then not in the actual movie. It's just irritating.

The one exception I can think of was the campaign for Ocean's Eleven when Clooney is being interviewed for parole and they ask what he might do for work if he was released. In the trailer he says something like, "how much does your job pay" and then in the movie he's just silent, but you can almost sense him thinking that because it was so prominent in the trailer. That I actually liked because it would be total BS for him to act so disrespectful and then get released.

comment #8

insidah says ...

Good lord, what's with the success of these National Treasure movies? I guess people are so starved for Indiana Jones -tyle adventure, they'll settle for Nick Cage's bad hair and Ed Harris and Helen Mirren's slumming appearances.

comment #9

Sean says ...

I noticed a rather memorable scene from There Will Be Blood's initial trailer featuring Eli Sunday and his father sitting around a campfire, where the father says "My son is a healer" didn't make the cut. Thought that was strange.

comment #10

actionman says ...

Wells--didn't you say you were going to pay to see this movie? Well...did you? And...did you like it?

comment #11

Movie Watcher says ...

My son and I always hate that about trailers. We come home from a movie, and it's 'what the hell, man?' The last Bourne movie, jumps thru the glass, in the movie, no glass. It's irritating as hell. I'm dishing out for tickets, snacks and I don't get what brought me to the movie in the first place? Do the studios have a lot of extra footage, or they just say 'screw it', and piece together something, knowing we'll go see the movie anyway?

comment #12

nakedmanatee says ...

This reminds me of the "Alvin and the Chipmunks" trailer where they show Alvin eating the piece of chipmunk crap. Then in the actual movie it's Theodore! It's so disillusioning to see the filmmakers sell out their original artistic vision. Maybe someday they'll rectify this egregious error in judgment and release a director's cut so we can finally enjoy the humor of the original narrative structure, because frankly, seeing Alvin, the leader of the chipmunks, eat crap is a far more powerful statement against the American hegemony than it is if Theodore eats it.