{"id":13273,"date":"2021-08-19T08:00:29","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T12:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.itwaslikemagic.com\/?p=13273"},"modified":"2026-08-17T13:42:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T17:42:19","slug":"thursday-movie-picks-treasure-hunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/thursday-movie-picks-treasure-hunt\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday Movie Picks: Treasure Hunt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wanderingthroughtheshelves.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"follow external noopener noreferrer\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">Wandering through the Shelves<\/a>\u00a0hosts a weekly movie challenge in which you choose 3-5 movies based on that Thursday&#8217;s theme and explain why you chose those movies.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s theme is\u00a0Treasure Hunt\u00a0so here are my choices!<\/p>\n<figure itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/92.png\" alt=\"Thursday Movie Picks: Treasure Hunt\" height=\"675\" width=\"1200\" title=\"Thursday Movie Picks: Treasure Hunt\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t<\/figure>\n\t<h3><strong>Fool&#8217;s Gold (2008)<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Funnily enough, I just watched <em>Fool&#8217;s Gold<\/em> and <a href=\"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/fools-gold-2008\/\">reviewed it<\/a>. I was not a big fan. But it fits the theme as Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey play an estranged married couple who find clues to a sunken ship that&#8217;s said to carry a treasure. It has a fun premise, but it&#8217;s a mess of a movie.<\/p>\n<figure itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/91.png\" alt=\"Thursday Movie Picks: Treasure Hunt\" height=\"675\" width=\"1200\" title=\"Thursday Movie Picks: Treasure Hunt\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t<\/figure>\n\t<h3><strong>The Hobbit Trilogy (2012-2014)<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>While clearly not as good as <em>The Lord of the Rings<\/em> trilogy, I did enjoy <em>The Hobbit <\/em>trilogy, even though I think it relied way too much on CGI. Bilbo Baggins is recruited by Gandalf and a group of dwarves to travel to the Lonely Mountains to reclaim the treasure taken from them by the dragon Smaug. There&#8217;s no reason why this adaptation needed to be three movies, but money is money, and New Line knew they could profit from dragging the story out.<\/p>\n<figure itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/93.png\" alt=\"Thursday Movie Picks: Treasure Hunt\" height=\"675\" width=\"1200\" title=\"Thursday Movie Picks: Treasure Hunt\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t<\/figure>\n\t<h3><strong>Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><em>Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade <\/em>is my favorite Indy film. Harrison Ford and Sean Connery are pure magic together. It&#8217;s a hell of a fun premise too &#8211; searching for the hottest of all treasures, the Holy Grail. Action, romance, and so much humor&#8230; I adore it.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday Movie Picks: Treasure Hunt: Wandering through the Shelves hosts a weekly movie challenge in which you choose 3-5 movies based on that Thursday&#8217;s theme and explain why you chose those movies. 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