Corrected entry: When Ben is carving out the brick with his knife at the Liberty Bell sequence, he somehow is able to carve into cement like it was clay. You can even tell it wasn't cement because it didn't crumble right away. It had more of a cutting look to it.
Sereenie
18th Jun 2006
National Treasure (2004)
30th Apr 2006
National Treasure (2004)
Corrected entry: Dr. Chase gets the invisible ink on her hands from the campaign button Gates sent her. Several hours later, she attends a gala and leaves her nice and clear fingerprints in the invisible ink on her glass, where Gates retrieves them. Time has passed, and she has dressed up and gotten ready for a gala event - and she has not washed her hands even once?
Correction: The invisible ink was not meant for him to take her fingerprints at all, but to figure out what is her password to access the preservation room. He doesn't need any sort of ink to take her fingerprints - just the superheated Crazy Glue and the Ziploc bag which he uses in the restroom. The fact that she showered has no bearing on that, because she went down to the vault and entered her password much earlier in the day, soon after getting the button from Gates.
22nd Feb 2006
National Treasure (2004)
Corrected entry: In the scene when Riley sets off the sensors of the Declaration of Independence, to get it into the preservation room, it is broad daylight. Cage steals it much later, in fact its pitch black outside when he does. The Declaration would not be in the preservation room for that long.
Correction: Why not? A defective sensor (which is what they are suspecting) likely needs more than a cursory verification. Not only that they have exact replicas on display when working on the housings and the documents. So it is entirely likely that the orthogonal would be there for an extended period while diagnosing any potential issues.
She also says that she wants all the sensors changed out, which probably would take a fair amount of time.
28th Jun 2005
National Treasure (2004)
Corrected entry: When they are buying new clothes, Ben sells his watch to the clerk to get his $100 bill back. However, later, e.g. when he dives off the boat and when they find the treasure, he is wearing the same watch that he sold.
Correction: He doesn't sell it to the clerk: he's giving it as a guarantee that he just won't run away with the bill. The clerk gave him the watch back after he handed back the bill.
16th Jan 2005
National Treasure (2004)
Corrected entry: When the treasure hunters have gone into the basement of the church they smash open a tomb and a bare skeleton comes flying out. Not even in an excessively dry area like Egypt could this happen, let alone a damp one like around New England, especially after a period of only 200 or so years. Even if the dead guy WAS in a stone tomb. I'd expect to see mummified remains.
Correction: To be naturally mummified, a corpse has to be kept in a very dry area. New England is a damp region, and the stone church would have exarcebated that dampness, thus accelerating the rotting of the soft tissue, leaving only a skeleton.
26th Nov 2004
National Treasure (2004)
Corrected entry: When Mason is in the Bell Tower trying to find the answer for the clue, 2:22pm, the shadow points to a certain brick at that time. 2:22pm in June would show the shadow at a different angle than it would in October. How did they know what time of year the clue was taken from?
Correction: The shadow didn't show a specific brick, but a specific wall. When Ben got there, he knew which brick was important because it had the Free Masons' mark on it.
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Correction: The brick was set in a way to make it easy to get it out. It's no biggie replacing the mortar with another substance that simulates it (so as to remain undetected for as long as necessary) while being easy to remove. In addition, over time the binding agent in mortar leaches out, and the remaining substance is actually very easy to scrape out.
Sereenie