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

[@NateSean]

Problem being you probably didn't notice the flaws as a kid. If you did, my hat is off to you, but most kids aren't so critical. It's why when I was a kid I absolutely loved The Last Starfighter but now... I'm convinced Robert Preston was just trying to pay off medical bills at the time and cooking meth wasn't an option.

[@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."

[@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

[@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"

[@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

[@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.

[@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)_/¯

[@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

[@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

[@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.

[@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!

[@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 . _ .

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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...

[@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.

[@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

[@AlphaBiggitz]

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

[@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.

[@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 😐

[@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

[@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.

[@ibtgb2]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@meikavorotsky1778]

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

[@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.

[@noahtimesdos]

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

[@cherubiccherry1619]

Everything wrong with Sharknado 1 and 2!!

[@BaconManProd]

*Everything's

[@arthuralpaca]

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

[@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.

[@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 🤣

[@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?

[@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.

[@thejimmysofgatsby]

This is extremely true. Thank you. Also, I guess movies don t take into account how difficult it is to set up even simple booby traps, so a complicated one is generally pure hollywood.

[@SuperBuildsInMC]

*ding*

[@jefflusty38]

The Templars were known for building underground labrynths.

[@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

[@aval1na28]

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

[@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

[@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.

[@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

[@taburde]

Sin: Reilly grinding the gears in his new car

[@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?

[@TheTrueChuster]

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

[@greymajickjedi]

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

[@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

[@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

[@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.

[@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. 🤡🤡

[@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!

[@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

[@rileyscammahorn3586]

Sin: Riley grinding the Ferrari’s gears

[@timmarzullo5069]

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

[@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

[@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.

[@MargoMB19]

I really love this movie, saw it way too many times when it first came out on dvd, but I just watched it again and now I can't stop noticing everything that was pointed out in this video.

[@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.

[@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!

[@JacobEHunziker]

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

[@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

[@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.

[@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.

[@GrungeHead47]

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

[@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.

[@Daszkal]

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

[@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.

[@jakobjurisch8777]

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

[@i_so_late]

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

[@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.

[@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?

[@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?

[@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.

[@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.

[@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?

[@knockoutking3764]

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

[@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

[@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]

...

[@Ragefeast95]

1:16 "an historian"?! No it's *a* historian.

[@Ragefeast95]

*ding*

[@WimsicleStranger]

***** Both are acceptable.

[@greg.sym.4115]

We're an 'h' is concerned it's not always that straight forward.

[@GrahamCStrouse]

English uses the soft H. An historian is correct.

[@driftways01]

No, it's not.

[@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!

[@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! 😃

[@greentriumph1643]

The scene with the shadow from the clock tower really bother's me. The shadow would be a different angle every day of the year. Just like in celestial navigation you would need a sight reduction table. The shadow would only be right twice a year.

[@jlollyfull]

Your improper use of an apostrophe bothers me.

[@FallingPicturesProductions]

Sin 58 Shadows are also located at different places due to the positioning of the sun at different times of the year. Unless it was the exact day or within a few days of that exact day, they'll have no luck whatsoever. Of course, this is countered with sin 65, but it still is a sin.

[@JamieDenAdel]

Plus, they'd be seeing it in black and white, back then.

[@FallingPicturesProductions]

Also, another sin. NO ONE DECIDED TO RENOVATE ANY OF THESE PLACES IN THE MEANTIME!?

[@leobrad2199]

Sean Bean survives the entire movie without dying...

[@ekswfrenwn7]

Everything wrong with "The Wicker Man". Do it. Do it.

[@Tenwaystospoildinner]

I wonder how many sins he'll take off for the bear punching scene? Not that it matters, they'll be replaced once he gets to the bees.

[@ekswfrenwn7]

He has to take off a lot for the bear costume scene. But my favorite scene is when he punches sister Beech

[@sypoth]

You know the bear scene would actually be a sin taken away moment.

[@solomonchen877]

@7:52 Blaze it my friends

[@irahoel7745]

Lol I was watching this when that notification came up.

[@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.

[@imperialguard28]

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

[@dbrandeau]

I wonder if the people who constantly ask on every video what "ex machina" means have no access to Google or haven't heard of Wikipedia yet.

[@1LIFEtoWIN]

Exactly, I've currently ran out of internet, and have to wait for it to recharge in order to search "ex machina"

[@TheOnlyFonzie]

Well google owns KZbin, so I can kinda understand the confusion

[@Jarack123]

This sucks...I can use the computer for entertainment and jackassery but not research

[@AlkisGD]

In Greece they teach that in middle school, along with Aristotle's definition of tragedy and a bunch of other Ancient Greece-related things. I guess the people over at the ministry of education thought, "Gee, what if some foreigner asks a random local what 'ex machina' means and the random local doesn't know? That would ruin our country's image!" >.>

[@crushermach3263]

Άλκης Δ. I think every country teaches local history like that with varying degrees of success/excess.

[@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*

[@nicoaramarcel2177]

CinemaSins you are the best! But I will always like that movie. Let me tell you a story: A kid got sick, his lungs were fucked up, the doctors didn't knew what was wrong with him, and they were changing diagnostics like money counting. 6 months of investigations,weight loss and breathing months followed. The child wasn't even able to go outside because of his medical condition, So he searched through his Family DVD BOX and found a movie called ,,National Treasure" , during that course of 6 months he watched it even more than 100 times, and that's no exaggeration. The kid made it, He survived, Got well and then went on training and doing a lot of sports. That kid was me.

[@mattfoley4425]

God bless you.

[@minecrafterjonowono]

aren't you dumb. You could have at least watched the avengers

[@idontneedaname318]

Jonathan Mommers *slaps you*

[@thebigbrobango5480]

Cliche sad KZbin story. *Ding*

[@joshandrews36]

Nicoarã ø Marcel ok

[@Caden-Ericzon]

This is a great movie, I can’t be told otherwise

[@virturegd5247]

otherwise

[@MadChickenAttacks]

Why do Americans act like the declaration of independence is the word of God? you don't see English people praising the magna carta every day...

[@arkhamfivehundred]

''Warning: Pretentious text wall incoming.'' Because the Declaration of Independence is a document that contains a lot of historical and cultural importance for America. It was basically a statement to the world (especially to Britain) that America would no longer be servile to any country, but instead become its own independent country. I don't know what country you live in, but for us, the Declaration is a lot more than an old piece of paper from three centuries ago.

[@theblargh151]

Because you touch your Magna Carta Libertatum at night

[@arkhamfivehundred]

theblargh151 Dude, no need to be rude.

[@MadChickenAttacks]

GundamFan527 I find it funny how the declaration is all about freedom from the british etc but they copied parts from a british document made 400 years earlier...

[@arkhamfivehundred]

I admit, I don't know much about the Magna Carta, but I do know that it itself is a document that set limits on the British Monarchy's power. Also, many early American colonists were of English descent, so it's only natural that they'd use an English document as part of their argument.

[@wihzard]

hi im nicholas cage and i talk like this

[@theblargh151]

You talk with all lowercase text with no punctuation?

[@wihzard]

youre sitting here correcting my grammar and im out there stealing the declaration of independence like lol

[@theblargh151]

st4rcat I didn't correct your grammar. I just pointed out your idiocy.

[@wihzard]

oh my, you are the man! do you realize how many people probably look up to you because of your snappy remarks and clever retorts on youtube? one day I hope to be like you :)

[@theblargh151]

st4rcat You flatter me. I'm so glad I can impart my wisdom.

[@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 :)

[@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.

[@PolyMathKing]

Dear CinemaSins, I wrote but you still ain't callin I left my cell, my pager, and my home phone at the bottom I sent two letters back in autumn, you must not-a got 'em There probably was a problem at the post office or somethin

[@deven9565]

You got your pregnant fiancé in your trunk?

[@IMmephiles]

did you just quote an Eminem song?

[@IMmephiles]

Didn't finish the video, I get it now.

[@giovannigreco3659]

god dammit Stan nobody is going to answer you if keep being so needy

[@KingNana24]

Maybe u should call them their number is in the description