Everything Wrong With National Treasure In 13 Minutes Or Less

Many of you have been requesting this for a long time. Oh, and I think this is our first official Nicholas Cage movie, so... plenty of reasons to bring you Everything Wrong With National Treasure. Is it a fun movie? Yeah, for most. Is it full of sins? Hell yeah it is!
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[@cynthiaking5790]

To me, this movie is one of those movies you watched a ton as a kid and you absolutely loved it. And despite the fact you notice all the faults it has and such, you can't help but love it -- purely because of nostalgia.

[@escapefromtibet2530]

Cynthia King Exactly!

[@firstnamebunchofnumbers5638]

Cynthia King realteable haha I thought this was a great movie

[@realdieperdors]

Me too, I LOVED this movie, Nicolas Cage is pretty much only adult idol that I had back then.

[@cutter4597]

Cynthia King or that its compelling and great in most ways

[@amediumhorse]

Cynthia King This and Brendan Fraser Mummy movies.

[@KatieVanHelsing]

Let’s be fully honest with ourselves, the line “I’m gonna steal the Declaration of Independence” is worth taking at least five sins off for how horribly perfect it is.

[@Decadent1984]

Or "let's change clothes"

[@skatee99]

Thank you for such an obvious, rational observation.

[@DrDoom-fd2gv]

its nic cage, not the line

[@ZPM7]

Damn, I forgot how much plot convenience this movie relies on.

[@ScarriorIII]

I rewatched it, noticed something Sins missed...the fingerprint ink he puts on the coin. How in the earth did she not wash her hands several times before the gala and the champagne glass? The whole thing unravels due to that.

[@farwakhan4423]

welcome to hollywood

[@zeydalynn8634]

Well I think they're just good at noticing their opportunities. Sometimes things in the movie don't go as planned but they still find a way to deal with it.

[@TheRecklessMetalhead]

@@ScarriorIII Just to entertain the audiences and that's what Hollywood always does.

[@anderslind8422]

@@ScarriorIII because they timed the sensors to go off on the declaration when she received the coin, therefore sending her directly to the document, she probably washed her hands after entering the password and put on glove to handle the document

[@companylovesmisery1463]

"I'm going to steal the Declaration of Independence." Sean Bean- "One does not simply walk into Mordor."

[@jjkmovies]

That awkward moment when CinemaSins realizes 300 came out 3 years after National Treasure, thus nullifying it's 3rd sin.

[@bishop8hit148]

That’s 3 3’s maybe it was on purpose

[@Baelor-Breakspear]

There’s still the mummy franchise

[@tshelby5212]

Idiot

[@tylersparrow6526]

That’s the joke guy

[@Goose2992]

Sit down dumb ass

[@cj-saxe]

This dudes voice is in my head whenever I watch a movie

[@shriharihudli]

Hallucinating. Ding!

[@mackenapigo8207]

HAHAHAHA

[@lurker1245]

Yep, ever sense I found CS I can't watch a movie now (especially in Theaters) without Sinning it

[@DukeNightmare]

Omg I thought it was only happening to me

[@packrat2004]

Ikr. If its a movie me and whoever I'm watching it have seen a lot I voice them too. I was sinning the shit out of Tarzan the other day and my sister (who introduced me to the channel) goes "Karissa would be excellent at cinema sins"

[@braysway10]

Don't know why, I still enjoy this movie.

[@General12th]

Because you have shitey shitey taste in movies... and culture... and everything. Really, just don't ever talk about what you enjoy.

[@jacobpaziuk6011]

+Jordan Shank It's his own opinion, fuck off. He may hate movies you hate lol. If the man likes the movie let him like it. i agree the movies suck.

[@jacobpaziuk6011]

+Jacob Paziuk It won't let me edit it so please ignore: lol * movies do suck.

[@General12th]

Jacob Paziuk I really enjoy the movie. But I've come to terms with (or maybe I've been forced into thinking?) the fact that people have guilty pleasures, and other people will rag on them for liking them.

[@ScienceDiscoverer]

+Jacob Paziuk I watched this movie like more than 10 times and will watch it again no problems. I can't even think up reasons why I like it so much, lol... Mb cos I just like adventures, puzzles, treasure hunting, secret societies, secrets? Also very good actors' play? I GUESS ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@Joemamashouse69]

What if Nicolas Cage stumbled across a secret society that wanted to steal the declaration in real life, and he made this movie to warn us about it?

[@secretagentnerd754]

PlOt TwIsT!!

[@idlehour]

He did i thought. It's in the book he wrote called The Prince

[@sundeepkuntimad5339]

Indiana Jones

[@idlehour]

@@sundeepkuntimad5339 Bobby Hill

[@macysondheim]

No.

[@davidcoyle6287]

Sin: Nicholas Cage is not being attacked by bees.

[@SaltyRocksPew]

Cant have a nic cage movie without bees.

[@kysfgt9577]

Quite literally, not the bees...

[@zillafire101]

On that day, Nic-kind received a grim reminder.

[@McLovinEgbert]

All the bees. All. of. them.

[@thatrandomgamer3411]

What that is not a sin

[@mattb1798]

The universe is crying because Sean Bean's name doesn't rhyme.

[@wendybabendy]

Bwhahahahahaha!!!

[@justinamarina3774]

Lol.

[@kellyweingart3692]

“John Hancock was a dick to space”

[@MaCabaret]

🖕🏻

[@jjollie4334]

I refuse to pronounce his name anything other than Shawn Bawn

[@henrymartin9370]

Cinema Sins: everything wrong with National Treasure Me: okay, you've officially taken it too far buddy

[@nadjakari1752]

Idub 28 to me it was when they did “arrival”!!!! I understand the feeling!

[@aedanokelly5794]

Nah National Treasure is a bad movie it’s so unrealistic

[@MrGabeanator]

oh

[@connorhinson5942]

For me it was when he sinned Shrek. That day is a dark day in CinemaSins history.

[@MrGabeanator]

@@connorhinson5942 wow for me it was shrek 2

[@JustinVanTrump]

John Hancock signed his name as large as he did on the Declaration of Independence to make sure King George III could read it with out his glasses

[@veronicabaranowski6976]

If true that is hilarious.

[@ballisticboo7808]

It was more of an insult

[@justanotherbaptistjew5659]

That’s likely untrue. Hancock signed his name large on everything.

[@BryonLetterman]

It was his way of giving the finger to King George

[@earlofbroadst]

That's a legend, but unfortunately untrue. Hancock signed his name first and largest because he was President of the Continental Congress.

[@Tahanok2]

It almost makes me think that in the original script, Riley was working for the bad guys, which would explain how they keep getting the info they need. You might even say that the attempted murder at the beginning was all a ruse to get Ben to trust Riley more by them surviving together, and then Riley could keep tabs on Ben. And if the idea was supposed to be that the bad guys were smart enough not to need all the clues, why did they keep ending up one step behind?

[@secretagentnerd754]

...I've always wondered about that...

[@MrSuperabhinav]

what

[@blakeharris58]

Huh? They stumbled onto the bell by asking the little kid.

[@doodlenoodle8516]

@@blakeharris58 and using Google which wasn’t around in 1776

[@ifIOnlyHadABrian]

@@doodlenoodle8516 It wasn't google. They used Yahoo, which was invented in 1775. Do your research...

[@jamesblond6053]

3:16 This was something I actually thought about. In reality, you can't see lasers in air because light has to bounce off something in order to be reflected to your eyes. At raves or light shows they pump smoke into the air so that the entire trail the laser takes can be seen. So, in reality, that laser is probably invisible and is being shown for the viewer's sake.

[@jamesblond6053]

James Blond 4:29 Also not a sin- the cipher was not made originally with the document, it was made afterwards. It used letters from it corresponding to a numbered code written way later, which Franklin was probably (fictionally) a part of many years later, saying, 'hey we need some important documents to base this cipher on, I wrote something when I was 15 we could use'

[@OperationDEEZ]

Jerry Mitchell III ^No one cares about you not caring

[@Savebabygorilla]

You cared enough to reply to both the comments.

[@davidmcqueen1521]

Actually a high intensity green laser is fully visible. I have one.

[@moiralinn5062]

James Blond I agree with David, such lasers are visible, because dust is a thing.

[@DoctorJaguarChannel]

Sean Bean is later killed in prison in the directors cut. ...just kidding. We all needed a Sean Bean joke about him dying. You can go on now.

[@whisu7196]

He ends up in the Suck Zone™.

[@xplaney1703]

Dam you got me!

[@WoFDarkNewton]

How on earth didn't you sin the fact that the "2:20 PM position" of the shadow would depend on the time of year, given the earth's axial tilt?

[@JasonGroom]

Exactly, it would only be correct one day a year, and close enough for maybe a few weeks each side of that day.

[@mikeljackson9192]

Because...he didn’t think of it lmao

[@harriffanconshertini8804]

"Amazing it still burns"? Cold dries things out, making them EASIER to burn. Just ask any Antarctic scientist.

[@cbyrne9703]

This is especially the case for what is presumably black powder, as damp is what prevents it from igniting. If black powder is protected from moisture it can remain viable for over a hundred years.

[@quanahhurtt1833]

The colder it gets here in Oklahoma, the faster the ice puddles dry up.

[@mnealbarrett]

I'm sinning CinemaSins for overlooking the obvious sin of the treasure room exit that would have been an easy entrance.

[@discoshark7767]

Marc Barrett TRUE-

[@dancrane3807]

Yes, but it says 'Exit'. So no one would ever go in that way.

[@Stevesk0011]

Or the million other movies where a place that was nearly impossible to get into has a super convenient exit.

[@isaacfesmire1465]

But they didn’t know about it. There would have no way to find the exit from the outside

[@lonewanderer2894]

If i knew the winning lotto numbers in advance i'd have an easy way to riches.

[@Mr12Relic]

The main plot hole I noticed was that Ben's father said "And that clue will lead to another clue" and that he spent like 20 years searching and didn't even know Charlotte was a ship. That was only the first clue, so he had no way of knowing that there would be a chain. Instead of dismissing the treasure as a myth, he should be overjoyed that any semblance of progress was made, since he was useless.

[@Diceverses]

I can’t believe he missed the fact that Abigail hasn’t washed or wiped her hands once since touching the coin before she came to type her password. She hasn’t touched enough of other things to have all the residue naturally get wiped off of her fingers.

[@recursor9469]

According to a simple google search, Benjamin Franklin *is* the first person to ***suggest*** a concept of daylight savings time. Albeit, he did it as a joke: "American inventor and politician Benjamin Franklin wrote an essay called “An Economical Project for Diminishing the Cost of Light” to the editor of The Journal of Paris in 1784. In the essay, he suggested, although jokingly, that Parisians could economize candle usage by getting people out of bed earlier in the morning, making use of the natural morning light instead." So the movie isn't totally wrong.

[@TheGodsTeamOfficial]

Shh..they'll never know.

[@dontcallmestupid7698]

I remember having a huge crush on that sidekick guy

[@SofianaRiana]

lmao me too

[@phantomlord5707]

Riley*

[@nitish.anand99]

Don't call me stupid aa

[@AngelineProductions]

Don't call me stupid SAME

[@SesamUbe]

Odessa Same but the awkward part is that I have a friend just like him....named Riley . _ .

[@FireflyProductions]

3:16 This one isn't a sin, really. It's an invisible beam that is being shown for the sake of the viewer knowing what's going on. It'd been more of a sin not to show it, you'd just see Riley point the camera at an old lady and press a button that does nothing.

[@TarfuLuke]

You'll find he does that a lot, gotta pad that sin counter

[@BoleDaPole]

Wow you are really taking cinema sins seriously Hahahabahaha

[@ifIOnlyHadABrian]

@@TarfuLuke You padding the sin counter, bro? ...crunches chips... Cuz, I think you're padding the sin counter.

[@justinbisafag23]

CinemaSins Sin: gunpowder lights just fine in frozen conditions, even hundreds of years old.

[@DrTank-s7y]

As long as black powder, doesn’t get wet it will still work

[@bigdrippy4104]

Every frame of this movie is a masterpiece dammit.

[@HAL-vm3wn]

Except for the ones where "not-nicolas-cage" is not Nicolas Cage, of course ...

[@milton7763]

Is this a failed attempt at irony?

[@jondunmore4268]

Every frame of this movie is not a masterpiece, dammit. There, I fixed what you meant to write.

[@zeydalynn8634]

Everytime you screenshot nicholas cage he's beautiful. No matter what. 100% of the time.

[@BoleDaPole]

Agreed . How this film didn't win an Oscar or Emmy is beyond me.

[@RoyalCrustle]

I loved the National Treasure movies as a kid. :3

[@nightcorechar6714]

Same ^^

[@ThePetro420]

Both of y'all don't know good movies then

[@NickFrmCA1]

I love the National Treasure movies as an adult.

[@ScienceDiscoverer]

I loved it as a kid and I still love it now!

[@gamezob]

I love Crustle

[@AlphaBiggotz]

Cinema sins criticize the good guys not going to warn the FBI, then later has a go at the FBI for not responding to the tip they got.

[@HMSConqueror]

+AlphaBiggitz #CinemasinsLogic

[@Bokks87]

+AlphaBiggitz then defended the FBI's inaction for pointing out all the wild and crazy stuff they get tipped about!

[@ptwlt]

+AlphaBiggitz Also they complain about the "treasure clues" being in the Franklin letters saying "Who entrusts treasure clues to a 15 year old" but the letters weren't written with the clues in it. They are simply used as a key to Arnold cipher.

[@meredithmiller1890]

AlphaBiggitz n

[@CaesarSuriano]

Simply Put CinemaSins is a CinemaSin It's a comedy channel not a "how to make a decent movie" lol this channel is quite literally a joke

[@AL-ov9wx]

“Why would you steal the Declaration?? Just tell the FBI!!!” **3 minutes later** “Of course the FBI wouldn’t believe them!!!”

[@henrypadilla7973]

I wondered if anyone else caught that.

[@Celtics20]

Yeah he’s reaching quite a few times in this video..

[@Nevae_696]

Just because their not gonna believe you doesn’t mean you shouldn’t tell them that’s stupid

[@TheWisherable]

Despite all its flaws, it's one of those movies I could watch again and again.

[@youtubeAgent007]

No

[@intergalacticgaming802]

@@youtubeAgent007 yes

[@Isa-qz9mb]

Me whose watched it 5 times in 3 days 😐

[@meaganwillcott3177]

All jokes aside the treasure room scene was seriously lit.

[@guardingdark2860]

Well yeah, there were lights everywhere, of course it was lit.

[@meaganwillcott3177]

Twas the pun

[@MrKlausbaudelaire]

11:25 why would he be worried about booby traps? this whole treasure hunt had no booby traps whatsoever, we are talking about freemasons, not egyptians or mayans.

[@SuperBuildsInMC]

*ding*

[@jefflusty38]

The Templars were known for building underground labrynths.

[@harunanase1696]

This was one of my favorites as a kid! I know a lot of people gave it shit for being so "ridiculous" but to me I loved the adventure and how it felt like they were living the dream. I'll always get goose bumps when he says "I'm going to steal the Declaration of Independence" and at the end when he lights up the room 💙 also Riley is a mood and I love him 🤣

[@RedwoodTheElf]

The bit about the cipher in the letters, the information wasn't IN the letters when they were written, it was an Ottendorf cipher, which can use any book or set of papers.

[@Voyhkah]

Can I just point out that, for fifteen years, the nuclear launch code was "00000000"? Now THAT is an insecure password.

[@King-gr3zv]

new one is probly 10101010

[@Y0uKnowMyName]

Huh. The combination code on my bikechain is "1,2,3,4,5" and noone stole it yet.

[@dostimesnoah]

no, thats the best password. lol

[@ZeroKelvin440]

To be fair, the military just did that out of spite, thanks to their rivalry with the civilian groups trying to make nuclear armament safer. Every time the "safety" guys got a political victory, the military did the biggest in-your-face-no-way move they possibly could. Hence, the mandatory code became eight zeros. (did we read the same book?)

[@AugPirate]

You know my name. if you live in america then the reason is people are too lazy.. lol you could give away free bikes and no one would ride trhem

[@gocanuckurself1]

I love this movie.

[@triptaylor2903]

it loves you

[@gocanuckurself1]

Trip Taylor Nicholas Cage loves me :)

[@dluureviews9110]

Can I interview you for my channel?

[@ricky100593]

you're an idiot

[@mikaelleonbriones6356]

Me too.

[@cbyrne9703]

Sins; The bell in the Tower is not the Liberty Bell, its the Centennial Bell. The Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776, at which point the Liberty bell was located in the old wooden steeple of Independence Hall. The steeple was pulled down in 1781 and the bell moved to the lower brick part of the steeple with the existing tower seen in the film not being added until 1828. The wings of the building were demolished and rebuilt in 1812, and then later in 1898. Basically no information, maps or guides used in the film should have had any real relation to the current building at the time they were written. The Liberty Bell wasn't called such until 1835, and wasn't really considered a national symbol until around 1865 after Lincoln's death. So no one involved with the Declaration would have called it the 'Liberty Bell' nor regarded it as anything special.

[@AuntieL_ATL]

The clues did not refer to it as the Liberty bell. Only the pass and stow reference. Also makes sense that if real the Masons would refer it to an ordinary old bell they made that they had no idea would become famous.

[@piramatrix5691]

There's also the fact that the ending scene of the movie that is set at "The Old North Church" is actually filmed in California, despite almost all the other scenes in the movie being set at the actual monuments/places.

[@FEJK82]

Genius, the letters in the Silence Dogood letters we used as part of the cipher AFTER they were written. That is how Ottendorf Ciphers work. Duh.

[@funkycrunkis3763]

lol was thinking the same thing

[@lukenewman9972]

I scrolled down to say the same thing.

[@quanahhurtt1833]

The letters were written in 1722, the declaration 1776. Using existing literature is necessary to create the code. Or would you rather write the code, then create a book or manuscript to fit the code?

[@NoiceRoice]

Are we gonna ignore the fact they found the Charlotte a foot under the snow

[@extralook1826]

yeah because historic remain are found everywhere just a foot under snow like my Viking ship that I found behind a hill behind my house

[@thereisalwaysarainbowafter1364]

Roasted Just Fine lmao

[@meikavorotsky1778]

Honestly I wish they made more of these. They weren’t flawless but they were very entertaining

[@Peakock-0]

"john Hancock was a dick to space" bahahahaha too funny I almost had my chicken soup come out my nose laughing so hard

[@Willysmb44]

Around 7:30 you should have dinged them for not acknowledging that the sun is in different places at the same time of day during different times of the year. 2:22 PM on June 10, for example, will be in a different spot than it will on 2:22 PM on December 10, so they wouldn't have a clue where to look in regard to where the sun would be on the day the clue giver had in mind...

[@williamflickinger2505]

True. The shadow would be higher or lower on the wall depending on the season. Also, time zones weren't invented until the 1800s, when the railroads needed them. Back then, they used local mean time. Although Philly is very close to the 75th meridian, the center of EST, Cincinnati (9.5 degrees West) would have an LMT 38 minutes later.

[@ibtgb2]

"Jesus, this henchman must be FROM Philadelphia!" 😂😂😂

[@aval1na28]

The fact that the bad guys manage to keep up the entire time is completely inconceivable

[@goORIOLES236]

Has anyone noticed that Nicholas Cage doesn't freak out once in this movie? I feel like that's the biggest sin.

[@RootinrPootine]

Yeah he does. He says “ AND BURNED!”

[@ifIOnlyHadABrian]

@@RootinrPootine Exactly. That scene where he Yells "If caught, they'd burn our entrails!" was so out of character from the rest of the movie, it felt like it was put in as a joke for the audience bc Cage always freaks out in every movie.

[@lucasvidz9488]

What about when he yells at Riley that there is no treasure?

[@lizthedisjointedzebra692]

It always bugged me, too, how not only did they happen to luck out with a sunny day so the shadow could fall on the bricks, but it's completely unrealistic to assume they also lucked out getting the right day in the right season. The sun's angle drastically changes over the course of a year, so that's a lot of freaking luck.

[@Restless_Hermit80]

Because John Hancock wrote his name so much bigger than the others "John Hancock" became a synonym for a signature. It used to be anyways, haven't heard it much lately.

[@secretagentnerd754]

It still is.

[@TymP321]

Founding father bashing is all the rage these days. College kids are trained to mock and hate them. Older people still use it though...

[@secretagentnerd754]

@@TymP321 That's really sad. I'm almost college age and I use "John Hancock" all the time. I really admire and appreciate the Founding Fathers for getting America started. Is it perfect? No. But their work is still praiseworthy.

[@patricksnoring4739]

@@secretagentnerd754 it’s a movement that directly opposes what is traditionally taught, i.e. the founding fathers being perfect, Christopher columbus a hero, etc etc. Teachers and journalists point out the other end of the stick for the sake of objectivity, but it ends up being a bashing by the end of it. It’s the confusion that everyone has to go into a box of good or evil for us, which is why you see historical figures being portrayed in either the best or worst possible light with hardly any inbetween. It’s a shame that textbooks can never seem to find a balance to actually be objective, not just flip the tables and bash traditional teachings for the sake of claiming objectivity.

[@mikeljackson9192]

@@TymP321 Shut the F up. If your HS education didn’t teach you that those 1600s whiteguys owned slaves, don’t get butthurt because colleges teach actual facts. 🤡🤡

[@julianyc422]

If anyone else was acting like this, the Judge would order a mental evaluation test, WHICH IS WHAT SHOULD HAPPEN BEFORE YOU RUN FOR PRESIDENT.

[@kingelthibardunbroch4529]

Also towards the beginning when Ben explained, "They are not going to heed a warning about something they think is safe." You should have said that Ben would be good at cinema sins.

[@SirWulfrick]

The Silence Dogood letters were existing documents when they decided to use them as the key. They were not written as a part of the plan to make a key. You DID have a great point with the bad guys not knowing the DoI would be in the repair room though. I never caught that.

[@buccos2324]

(4 years later but here we go haha) I’m inclined to not sin the fact that Ian knew the declaration was in the preservation room. I think the assumption is Ian went to the archives after Riley shot the laser at the declaration, it just wasn’t shown in the movie. Presumably the declaration was already downstairs in the vault or preservation room when Ian showed up. So, Ian would’ve known it was at least in that hallway, either in the vault or preservation room. Anyway…4 years later lol. Had to give me 2 cents since I love this movie lol

[@InstaDashDrew]

@@buccos2324yeah but they put a replica in place of the real one when they took it to the preservation room. Ian should have been trying to steal the fake one because he wouldn’t have known any differently.

[@XDependent]

Another thing wrong with this movie - there is 0 chance that they ran from 5th and Chestnut to City Hall, which is on fuckin' close to 13 miles away.

[@derrickwomack9018]

"ding"

[@Mj10906]

Try 10 blocks, lol

[@knockoutking3764]

Justin's voice is perfect for narration, Cinemasins is AWESOME!

[@FultonLMiller]

I like how the video points out early on that they didn't need to steal the Declaration because they could have just notified the FBI and waited for Ian to get caught trying to steal it, then it goes on to acknowledge the fact that Gates did tip off the FBI and they totally weren't at fault for not believing him. +5 sins to CinemaSins.

[@timmarzullo5069]

I got a sin at 11:34 you misspelled important....now you must give me a job sinning movies

[@cherubiccherry1619]

Everything wrong with Sharknado 1 and 2!!

[@BaconManProd]

*Everything's

[@bleh-v8q]

3 hours video?

[@TheFinalSmash]

I suggest watching the films.

[@INameIsGood]

it would only be one sin. 1 . movie sharknado 1 and 2 Also i dind't saw it, is it so bad it's good or so bad it's just bad. ? :D

[@ocordova114]

INameIsGood "dind't saw it" great spelling there friend xx

[@erinnicholeharris]

“Go tell the FBI who Ian is and what he plans to do. They’ll take care of him.” Two seconds later “We shouldn’t be upset with the FBI for ignoring their tips. It was two dudes with no evidence.”

[@Juan-zl3fy]

That's cinemasins. It doesn't need to make sense, only to criticize.

[@bigd2664]

But he also pointed out that if Sean Bean's character successfully steals the Declaration, they would know who did it, and where to find them.

[@double0_kevin]

Dude, the painting on the back of the hundred was done in the 1780s. It doesn't matter that the $100 was printed in 1928.

[@greymajickjedi]

Your logic is flawless! \V/_ Face it: this guy loves to piss all over the works of art others spends millions of dollars and years of their life producing. It's what he does.

[@double0_kevin]

It's funny, though. LOL

[@General12th]

+greymajickjedi You could say the same thing for Roger Ebert. He was beloved for building his whole career around pissing on other people's attempts to make art. He could even tear down the objectively best movies out there. When he wasn't lambasting everything he could fit through his eyeballs, he was writing crappy poetry about how this and that made him feel. And the worst part of all? He wasn't even funny about it. CinemaSins makes me laugh and better appreciate the things I enjoy. "Serious" critics just make me sad.

[@promontorium]

No you couldn't. Outside of the internet, "critics" actually say good things about movies too. It's only on KZbin where there's a pile of bitter assholes who only see the worst in everything and shit on literally everything.

[@jakobjurisch8777]

One of the rare movies in which Sean Bean is not dying.

[@TheTrueMerrio]

Nicolas used his Cage-Card to buy the Declaration of Independence.

[@greymajickjedi]

Wouldn't it be a Coppola card? O.o

[@maasawdreamt8521]

My favorite is when Abigail stops him from using the lemons on the Declaration, we see Ben just about to straight up douse it in lemon juices with no tact whatsoever.

[@CarolineXLiu]

Technically, Benjamin Franklin was actually the first person to suggest daylight savings time in 1874, except he was not taken seriously until 1895, when George Vernon Hudson set the plan in motion, but the latter suggested a two-hour shift instead of the conventional one. So the movie was in reality, correct.

[@JacobEHunziker]

You missed how when Abigail put the password in on the keyboard, she didn't actually type, "Valley Forge."

[@mrmact23]

You could devote an entire month to Nicholas Cage.

[@mrmact23]

Oh wait, Nostalgia critic did that already.

[@cassidylush]

Thomas Flanigan Well, this isn't Nostalgia Critic...BRING ON THE CAGE!

[@SkaiCyan]

Thomas Flanigan Cinemasins and Nostalgia Critic need to do a crossover. The rage would be glorious.

[@jedisfedora]

SkaiCyan Everything Wrong with Kickassia in 15 Minutes or Less.

[@benh5336]

Cassidy Lush You can't cage the RAGE!

[@taburde]

Sin: Reilly grinding the gears in his new car

[@Sparrow-lh9qk]

How about the fact if they'd actually rolled the Declaration up, it'd have probably fallen apart in their hands? Or would parchment have held up better than modern paper? I actually don't know this one...

[@jasakiewiczsutton7625]

No your right it would basically just turn to dust by simply bending it.

[@BologneyT]

Now I wonder how well it's held up too. I wonder if it can survive being rolled up now myself.

[@Sparrow-lh9qk]

I honestly doubt it'd hold up... It's so old, even if parchment is made to hold up well, I doubt it would...

[@BologneyT]

MrCrazyGirl2012 Yes, but how it's made would only really be for if it was left out normally. The Declaration of Independence was put into a preservation chamber thing a long time ago (not sure how long) so that of course would give it a boost. I don't know, but I'd truly like to believe that it's just above disintegration... I hope it can tolerate being rolled up and unrolled once...

[@Sparrow-lh9qk]

BologneyT I can't even pretend to be an expert on this stuff. XD

[@JoshuaH688]

National Treasure is one of my all time favorite movies... one of the kind I could watch again and again. It's OK for a movie to have plot holes. Good stories often aren't particularly realistic. They're fantasies... and fantasies are more about the glamour of an idea than the plausibility of a plot. For me, National Treasure evoked a sense of wonder. That said, of course... it's very corny if you really think about it too much... and this video is entertaining.

[@tomharding]

Please keep making these videos forever.

[@Jarack123]

He may you know...he's only human...

[@AlkisGD]

CinemaSins are you listening? Make a vocaloid out of Jeremy, have kids if you don't already have any, and train them in the art of sin hunting! The show must go on. At all costs!

[@AlkisGD]

That is a great idea my symmetrical friend! Jeremy and Chris should sign their souls over to the Lucifer in exchange for immortality ... but only so long as they keep doing the show! Mwahahaha! Haha. ::cough::

[@dik4316]

Yes, and riddle them with puzzles and clues leading to that one movie without a sin. Plz.

[@AlkisGD]

Di, k But ... butbut ... there's _no_ movie without sin!

[@JacobEHunziker]

“The cake is a lie, am I right?” This subtle Portal reference literally made my day and I will now always think about Portal during that scene.

[@Daszkal]

"New lovers are almost always fuck-faces." Truth, easy.

[@Kanglar]

Cold and dry is the perfect conditions to store gunpowder, getting wet from humidity is what ruins it. Just sayin... -ding

[@noahhuffstutler2686]

Actually, gunpowder doesn't work well in extremes. Most likely is that the sulfur in the gunpowder froze and became brittle, ruining the gunpowder.

[@lieutenantdan8541]

+Noah Huffstutler gunpowder is made from potassium nitrate which loves to absorb moisture and when that happens it is useless. Gunpowder is made from 75 parts potassium nitrate, 15 parts charcoal powder and 15 parts sulfur powder. Gunpowder will work in extremes but not as well, that is why they survived, if it was good fresh powder it would have gone the less than a second after the flare hit it and would have been much more violent and deadly

[@lieutenantdan8541]

+sean mergner sorry 10 parts sulfur powder

[@hautetopic6254]

Just do "Everything Wrong with Nicolas Cage". Not just his movies, but any and everything that he has even breathed on.

[@cassidylush]

Everything wrong with Nick's previous toilet seat.

[@tomdeacon7734]

don't dis our true God

[@OfficialHuMan]

"Everything Wrong with Nicolas Cage in 500 minutes or more"

[@tomstonemale]

There's actually nothing wrong with the guy...he just worked in several bad movies.

[@Krapvag]

tomstonemale ...in the past year

[@kayleighbaker2015]

Deli lady: Ma'am, you can't be back here. Abigail: I'm hiding from my ex. Deli lady: You mean Baldy? Abigail: Yes. Deli lady: Honey, stay as long as you like. Love that bit.

[@travisclark8952]

Nicolas Cage wasn't burned alive and/or had a cage full of bees put on his head at any point in this/these movies. *DING*

[@imperialguard28]

2:03 Actually, John Hancock signed it big so King George III could read the Declaration of Independence without his spectacles🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@MegaEssj408]

Im trying to binge on cinema sins but, having the trailer for "the boy" keep playing at the start of every video is a sin itself.

[@xplaney1703]

And you cant skip that shit either -__-

[@pinktribble]

I keep getting Peter Rabbit ads! 😃

[@pauliporcupine]

Bless you for pointing out the fact that Ian's plan revolved around getting the declaration down to the restoration room but not showing how he would know it was down there when he breaks in

[@GrungeHead47]

Wait Sean Bean doesn't die in this? No he has to die, he always dies.. Maybe in the credits?

[@i_so_late]

fav line from the movie: "I'm hungry... This car smells weird."

[@jessekiger2235]

You can't count shit like that one sin where "John Hancock was a dick to space" sin because, thats the way it actually is in real life.

[@bobbyisawesome49]

yes, he can, he just did. -_-

[@jessekiger2235]

Bobby is-awesome I know that, i'm just saying it's bullshit

[@thetroglidite]

Shut

[@ericzhang3535]

It's just a joke they always put in their videos. "Someone is a dick to someone else or something". Try not to take youtube to seriously

[@ferrosplice8460]

Cinemasins: They should have just told the FBI. Also Cinemasins: Of course the FBI wouldn't believe them, they were just two people with a crazy story!

[@noahbrady562]

say what you will, this is still one of my favorite movies of all time

[@Isaac_Jordan]

It's still a good movie Every movie has tons of flaws

[@elliehaynie9932]

Same

[@morgannichole2020]

Yup. Amen. Both of them are great and a very interesting plot.

[@leobrad2199]

Sean Bean survives the entire movie without dying...

[@rileyscammahorn3586]

Sin: Riley grinding the Ferrari’s gears

[@DanteYewToob]

About all the lack of security... I'd argue it's pretty accurate. I've always been a curious person, and I've casually wandered into some pretty crazy places without any bother. Store warehouses, construction sites, I once ended up in the back area of an aquarium here in FL, ran into 3 employees and casually just said hi and was polite and not one of them asked me to leave... lol Think about it, as a normal everyday citizen if you see someone walk somewhere odd, do you immediately call security or the police? No, you just assume it's someone else's problem and go on with your day. Sad but true. I've walked into secure places at a few places I wont mention and was VERY surprised at how little security there is, or how bad they are at their jobs. Just look at how many people get away with casual shoplifting in stores filled with cameras and who have security whose sole job it is to prevent theft, but people just casually grab stuff and leave. I think the lack of security in movies is very accurate, and I have my own living proof of it. I used to be a "rooftopper" with my girlfriend, until someone we followed on social media died, but Google Angela Nikolau for an example of what we would do. It involves bypassing a lot of security to climb buildings or cranes, or towers for fun. But surprisingly, again, it's less mission impossible, and more a casual stroll. People just don't care. They don't. Everywhere I've been, I've never been arrested or aggressively removed from anywhere, I've been asked nicely to leave or what I'm doing, and that is it. Sometimes if you're polite and honest, and just say you're curious and just harmlessly wandering, some people have left me alone, or offered me a tour (Behind the scenes at Busch Gardens, a girl gave me a tour a showed me where the giraffes sleep. Super cool girl. Very nice.). It just comes down to the word I keep using "casual" be casual, don't act suspicious or nervous and you'll be okay. If someone sees you, don't avoid them, look at them and wave or acknowledge them. Be cordial and respectful, and if you're confronted be respectful and see their position, "Hi, I'm just a curious person. If you'd like me to leave, I understand but I'm just so curious about this stuff, I bet you see cool stuff all the time working here! Tell me about some on our way out?" and you'll be surprised how often a bored employee will say fuck it and show you around, or let you go with a promise to not get into trouble. Acknowledge you understand the rules, not touching stuff, be careful, be respectful, and they will see you aren't gonna break anything or get hurt. Most places are off limits because people are idiots, show you aren't an idiot, and you'll be welcome. Have fun, stay safe and don't break the law. If someone asks you to leave. Leave. But be kind about it, they may change their mind! Get out there and SEE ALL THE THINGS!

[@tvctaswegia497]

Agreed, if you act official and like you belong people believe it, and are pretty blind most of the time. Check out the prank where the guy steps behind a fast food counter and starts serving customers. No one even blinks, not even the staff right next to him who have to open the till as he 'forgot his card'.

[@xLurycz]

Wait, cinema sins says that they should have contacted the FBI saying to someone was going to steal the decleration of independence, and put it as a sin... But they did tip them off, and they did nothing about it...

[@CinemaSins]

Sigh, the point of that sin was that Ben did not HAVE to steal it. "Tell the FBI, then sit back and wait" was more of a general thing meaning "you've done all you need to do." That sin isn't exactly about saying he should have done some communication with the FBI that he did not. I hope this confuses the issue even further. :)

[@dantesinfernape3499]

CinemaSins Please do the Matrix Revolutions.

[@GordonLee97]

CinemaSins I like your sense of humor

[@Zellio2011]

CinemaSins But then you wouldn't have a movie

[@Lupirio23]

CinemaSins Considering Ian would be willing to kill in order to get what he wants, was Ben not stealing it in order to not put lives in danger other then his own? (and possibly friends and family) Your sin still makes sense, just I don't think it was something lost in foresight.

[@Mycroft616]

Two more sins: Historical braggart (Ben) fails to mention the original Declaration of Independence is not the original Declaration of Independence, but the lone survivor of several copies made by the US Founding Fathers for town criers to read aloud to the patriots across the colonies. The original was sent to King George III so as to formally declare their independence from Great Britain. Ian has the grave stone of Parkington Lane destroyed before documenting anything on its surface or even making a modest effort of examining it without knowing if its face contains anything of importance to the treasure hunt.

[@odysseusrex5908]

Umm, no. The actual, official Declaration, the one carefully engrossed by hand on parchment and physically signed by the members of the Continental Congress (mostly in August) was preserved, hidden when the British took Philadephia, and Washington, D.C. in a later war, and is the one on display at the National Archives. No copy was formally sent to Britain, that was unnecessary, though of course ships carried printed copies across the sea.

[@JJohnston4Life]

Apparently, the plan for stealing the declaration was so perfect that after this movie was released they had to redo the security setup.

[@myspacebarbrokenevermindif9892]

Really?

[@LoneGamerNerd]

I actually really enjoy this movie, but I still love your video!

[@MrMageofHeart]

This better be 15 minutes of dead air because there was nothing wrong with this movie whatsoever. It was beautiful cinematic excellence with no sins at all.

[@MegaAlexc123]

No movie is without sins.

[@MrMageofHeart]

*National Treasure - is without sins ~ FTFY

[@karoomay]

Nope.avi

[@amog849]

LOL. No

[@MrMageofHeart]

...

[@SargonofAkkad]

_A_ historian! The "h" isn't silent! +1 sin!

[@ajramos5417]

Oh haii Sargon

[@displacer43]

The first movie at least is still a super fun watch.

[@jreed136]

Sargon of Butt

[@ajramos5417]

jreed136 dude gtfo

[@jreed136]

AJ Ramos I like Sargon.

[@seanroney1622]

You should totally do Everything wrong with Scott Pilgrim vs the World. That would be great!

[@RaineKugami]

Second this

[@ReptilesEat]

***** Third this

[@fig4558]

Fifth This.

[@sharongrantham5558]

Eh hi

[@isaacpeneha1610]

this guy is a genius and it makes more sense now I just like how he adds the facts that were missed out.

[@MsMaggyW]

For the record, I love Cinema Sins :) I'm just nitpicking for the sake of nitpicking! 4. The clues on the money are only part of the bigger clues... they wouldn't make sense on their own. Like when Ben didn't know what time to be at Independence Hall and checked on the 100$ bill. Anybody else wouldn't even have known what to look for at that time, but he did because of the Silence Dogood riddle. 23. Ian won't wait around; as soon as he gets the map he'll dispose of the Declaration, because he doesn't care for historical artifacts, and if he turns it in he'll get arrested. The FBI won't have enough time to find him before he gets rid of it. 24. Riley meant that it was like stealing a monument only in the sense that it's impossible. Obviously the reasons why it's impossible are very different, but that was the point he was trying to make. 26. Ben had a book that described everything that goes on in the preservation room (it's actually a real book), and what with the security there, and the amount of guests all over the place, I think it's safe to assume the guards would be upstairs keeping an eye on things. Also, there's the fingerprint scan and password required to get in, so the odds of that happening must be pretty low. 31. I assumed the laser, like many other similar type lasers, can only be seen where it touches something. So the lady would only have seen a green light on one of the sensors, which easily goes unnoticed. I figured we were seeing the whole laser just so we can understand better what's going on. Lasers usually are invisible. 32. He probably put the watch in his tool belt and put it back on after, but why bother showing that... 35. If she pressed the E and L twice, then Ben should have told Riley so he included it twice when he typed in the letters for the anagram. If the anagram automatically took into account any of the letters being pressed any number of times, the list would be neverending. 36. I'm guessing his plan was break into the vault where the Declaration is when it's not on display. They probably wouldn't have had the real Declaration up there during a gala... just guessing here. But Ian & co. had plenty of tools and explosives and could probably have busted into the vault. The hallways they arrive in is called the vault hallway, so it probably gives access to the vault as well as the preservation room. 43. The FBI could have at least opened a file and written down the informant's name, just in case... that would have taken just a few seconds! Then at least they'd have some sort of lead... 45. At the time Ben Franklin wrote the letters, he probably didn't know the clue yet. Abigail and Ben mentioned how ciphers can be based on random news articles or books, whoever wrote the cipher (probably Franklin himself) just decided to use bits of the Silence Dogood letters, but he could have used any text at all, as long as the letters he needed for the clue were all in there. 49. Well... I dunno, Ben was just going to squirt it all over the place, at least Abigail put a spread out enough amount that it didn't damage the document as much. 55. He knew there was something in the letters, just didn't know what. I guess it's best to go check it out then have no clue what could be there, and he probably figured Ben would eventually show up as well. The dude's smart. 56. I'm guessing if the kid wrote the whole clue down, he could go tell it to anyone else after; it wouldn't be safe. Bit by bit like this, he won't possibly remember everything. Also, if he'd written down the whole thing, anybody else in the institute could have seen what he was writing, whereas just a few letters don't matter. 58. Honestly, I've seen much worse dressing rooms. At least the doors aren't transparent and the walls are pretty high between the two. 59. Doesn't matter when the drawing was put on money; it's based on a painting done in the 1780s... at which time daylight savings wasn't in effect. Presumably, if the artist was a friend of Franklin's, he knowingly incorporated the clue in his painting, and whoever designed the money decided to incorporate the clue without changing the time on it... they probably didn't even know that the time on the clock mattered. 65. It'd probably be longer to have to examine every brick one by one, especially since they're not exactly supposed to be there. 69. Since they pretty much stopped where they were and stayed there, Ben would have ended up seeing them eventually anyway... he did say it was amazing to be reading the Declaration at the place where it was signed, so he was probably just looking around the room in awe. He's a little weird. 76. There was nobody in the cemetery, but just in the little clip showed we see one person walking by and a car too. 77. Shaw told Ian they were headed for City Hall, and Ian said he was on his way. Clearly, he was waiting for them there. 83. They couldn't very well imprison him with 0 proof. 85. To be fair, they didn't kidnap Abigail. They pretty much saved her and Ben even told her to go away, but she refused to because she didn't want to let the Declaration out of her sight. 89. Much better than standing there not reacting at all. 90. He said he'd come back for them if he needed them... he really didn't think there was any way they could get out of there. 97. That wouldn't have been very smart, the treasure would have blown up too! They obviously didn't design it as a booby trap, for fear of harming the treasure. 99. Ben did steal it, but he helped get it back, AND found the treasure, AND tried to warn the FBI somebody would steal it but nobody believed him. Meanwhile, Ian destroyed plenty of government property, tasered a guy (he could have killed him), kidnapped Abigail and Ben's dad, shot at almost everybody in the movie and left Ben, Riley, Abigail and Patrick to die in under the church. Not to mention he has a criminal past. Hmm... which is more worse... 103. Ben didn't kidnap anyone, or attempt murder. 104. They probably wanted to keep him around in case they didn't find Ian and had to chuck Ben in jail. You missed two sins though: 1. Shaw shoots everybody and anything that moves in the entire movie, but when they break onto government property to steal an uber-important document, he just tasers the guard. Also, NOT ONCE did he manage to actually shoot someone, not even Ben and Abigail two feet away from him from the back of the van, and this time he jumps from behind a wall, barely aims, and boom! 2. That guy from Ian's crew who sounds Scottish... what on earth is his name? Going into the tomb, Ian told Viktor and McGregor to stay behind, and since we already knew everybody's name except him, I figure he was McGregor. But he went with them! So does that mean Phil is called Phil McGregor? If so, why on earth did Ian call him by his last name when he calls everybody else by their first? And that seems like an odd name for somebody who looks and sounds middle-eastern...

[@iievilbearii6560]

Obvious nitpicker is obvious.

[@MsMaggyW]

ii EviL BeaR ii Oh yeah! I really do love their cannel! Jus having fun :)

[@MsDarkarely]

What about doing a sin video on the Mummy movies? The mummy(1999), the mummy returns(2001) and the mummy: tomb of the dragon emperor(2008)?

[@KnightsaysNi]

You want them to break the sin counter, don't you?

[@MsDarkarely]

Well, it be fun

[@KnightsaysNi]

Not saying it wouldn't , but "Dragon Emperor" would definitely push it over the edge.

[@MsDarkarely]

still would be fun to see what sin they find, i found a lot while i was re watching the first movie

[@jedisfedora]

Why not go all the way and start with the 1932 film and its sequels?

[@spentlizard353]

Sin #36: Actually, if you remember, the reason why Riley f*cked with the temperature sensors was to get it into the preservation room, which Ben said was "across the hall *from the vault*". You can see the vault door at 3:54. Ian and co. were originally planning on getting it out from the vault, which is why earlier on they had a huge pack of C4. They didn't plan on Ben being there.

[@rayaqin]

Spent Lizard that still is a shitty plan though

[@spentlizard353]

Bálint Ujvári What was?

[@rayaqin]

blowing up the wall with C4

[@spentlizard353]

Bálint Ujvári Which is why Ben said that Ian would destroy the Declaration.

[@rayaqin]

that is not the only reason why it is unpreferable

[@deprimada3560]

John Hancock signed his name bigger than most people because he REALLY wanted King George to know he was being defiant

[@adeebchowdhury8973]

I love the new sound KZbin makes when you "like" a comment. Try it!

[@floofzykitten5236]

Does it make a sound for reporting?

[@c.ockmuncher9678]

There's a new sound when you jump off a building, try it!!!

[@floofzykitten5236]

It's quite pleasant,but,it does remind me of Corpse Party.

[@risingfire8352]

Wow it makes an even better sound with the dislike button.

[@adeebchowdhury8973]

I agree.

[@alexsmart007]

You should do everything wrong with Journey to the Center of the Earth, I can just imagine the can of sins it would have.

[@zerothefaceless4888]

Most of their sins are based on things no one else would notice or care to notice. That's one of their sins.

[@l-boi8173]

The sequel would have more sins.

[@SunflowerLilypad]

Which one? The old one or the new one?

[@jasonbrown4526]

You do realize that there are probably half a dozen versions of that movie, right?

[@dreadz3758]

"New lovers are almost always f*ck faces." Wow, was that last line a sin or a statement of fact? haha

[@jlm0rr1s]

Seeing as how this was posted in 2014 I don't think you'll read this but in case you do thank you. I love your channel and no matter my day is always brings you always bring a smile to my face. Happy New Year brother.