My wife and I have been on a quest to find movies like National Treasure. Specifically, we were looking for something that had a lot of clue solving (where the characters made you part of their clue solving process), had some fun banter, and had an overall light, upbeat, and fun feel.
In this quest we've tried Romancing the Stone, Sahara, Fool's Gold, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, The Da Vinci Code, Last Crusade, and Raiders. All those films (except The Da Vinci Code) are rather light on the clue solving. Someone on reddit suggested these Librarian TV movies to us. The first one actually had the most clue solving out of any of the movies we've seen, and might be closest to National Treasure, just with a kind of hokey, TV movie feel.
The Librarian movies are about Flynn Carsen (Noah Wyle) who becomes the latest in a long line of Librarians who guard a collection of nearly every fantastical, legendary artefact you can imagine: Excalibur, Pandora's Box, The Holy Grail, and the Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs. In each film Flynn must prevent a powerful artefact from getting into the hands of a bad guy and ending the world.
I've read a lot of reviews saying how the Librarian movies get progressively worse, but I don't find that to be true at all.
After Jonathan Frakes took over directing on Return to King Solomon's Mines the films have felt less awkward and more cohesive. Similar to how sometimes a TV show takes a few seasons to find its stride, the same is apparently true of TV movies.
The Curse of the Judas Chalice is definitely the most fun of the three. It accepts that it's a TV movie about finding magical treasure, and yea, it has vampires in it. But it also finds its rhythm. Awkward, cliched jokes from the first movie now have a punch and a charm. The film zips along with its catchy, infectious theme song. Lighter on the clue solving, but hey, they can't all be National Treasure.
In this quest we've tried Romancing the Stone, Sahara, Fool's Gold, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, The Da Vinci Code, Last Crusade, and Raiders. All those films (except The Da Vinci Code) are rather light on the clue solving. Someone on reddit suggested these Librarian TV movies to us. The first one actually had the most clue solving out of any of the movies we've seen, and might be closest to National Treasure, just with a kind of hokey, TV movie feel.
The Librarian movies are about Flynn Carsen (Noah Wyle) who becomes the latest in a long line of Librarians who guard a collection of nearly every fantastical, legendary artefact you can imagine: Excalibur, Pandora's Box, The Holy Grail, and the Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs. In each film Flynn must prevent a powerful artefact from getting into the hands of a bad guy and ending the world.
I've read a lot of reviews saying how the Librarian movies get progressively worse, but I don't find that to be true at all.
After Jonathan Frakes took over directing on Return to King Solomon's Mines the films have felt less awkward and more cohesive. Similar to how sometimes a TV show takes a few seasons to find its stride, the same is apparently true of TV movies.
The Curse of the Judas Chalice is definitely the most fun of the three. It accepts that it's a TV movie about finding magical treasure, and yea, it has vampires in it. But it also finds its rhythm. Awkward, cliched jokes from the first movie now have a punch and a charm. The film zips along with its catchy, infectious theme song. Lighter on the clue solving, but hey, they can't all be National Treasure.