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Post by mllemass on Mar 5, 2021 0:29:52 GMT
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Post by sgev1977 on Mar 9, 2021 14:26:31 GMT
5 BAFTA nominations. Not bad!
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Post by sgev1977 on Mar 9, 2021 14:34:34 GMT
This photo!
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Post by mllemass on Mar 9, 2021 16:17:17 GMT
How did The Dig get nominated for anything? Besides The Mauritanian, it’s the only other nominated movie I’ve seen. I don’t mind slow, quiet movies. In fact, I prefer them to loud blockbusters. But The Dig is barely interesting. I kept thinking it was leading to something good, but it just lay there. And I couldn’t help comparing it to the Detectorists series, which is slow, quiet and absolutely riveting.
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Post by sgev1977 on Mar 9, 2021 16:29:27 GMT
I remember people on Twitter loving it.
It's indeed a very "calm" movie. I saw a parody in which one of the jokes was the Carey Mulligan's character saying she was safe in this movie after the doctor tells her that she is very sick and should avoid any strong emotion! Lol
I think it's a good film with some pretty nice shots but nothing extraordinary. I don't understand why Film Twitter could strongly hate some conventional period British movies and love this at the same time!
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Post by roverpup on Mar 9, 2021 17:08:29 GMT
I really liked The Dig. Yes, it was quiet but it contains some very interesting cross-connected themes. I reviewed it earlier in a post about recently viewed films. Just a look back at what I said and I still stand with my views even upon reflection...
"And finally we come to The Dig. A "small feel" movie with Ralph Fiennes and Carrie Mulligan (among others) that moves at a glacial pace but exciting in its own way. It's about an important archeological dig on a dying widow's farm in England just before WWII. It ties many themes together and does it subtly without forcing them. It's all muted colours and English rain and mud but it makes you feel like you are out in the fields digging along with the doggedly determined excavators and living with the quiet and sad Mrs. Pretty in her large, dark country house with her cheerful young son. Just a beautiful and deep film about people lives and what fulfills them. Shout out to Lily James who is the polar opposite of her character on Downton Abbey! And of course RF and CM were perfect!"
Character driven drama and fulfillment and expectations. I got really involved in these people's lives, so it successfully drew me in. I think it was "nom worthy". And I have to argue that it is a "conventional" movie... after all if it were conventional it probably would have had a bit more action, don't you think?
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Post by sgev1977 on Mar 9, 2021 17:28:46 GMT
I don't know. I think an unconventional slow movie is something like maybe some Eric Rohmer movies or Apichatpong Weerasethakul or, I think one director who does really slow moving films that you really have to prepare yourself before watching them but are really satisfactory at the end, is documentalist Kazuhiro Soda.
I don't think this movie is particularly slow, it is just very calm, without too many big open emotions. I guess, very British! There's a moving reflection about death and legacy but maybe because the style of the film, it feels a little underwhelming at the same time. It's a good movie but I don't think it's too different to other prestige British films. Again there are a few nice shots but apart of that, it's not diferrent to a standard BBC production. It's very well made and the actors are all great.
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Post by queenzod on Mar 9, 2021 18:41:51 GMT
I liked The Dig very much, and I was riveted through the whole thing. Fiennes was terrific!
If you want a quirky VERY slow movie, try First Cow. 😃
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Post by mllemass on Mar 9, 2021 20:29:38 GMT
Yes, I remember your review, and that’s why I watched it.
I did find the subject interesting and the location beautiful, but nothing about it made me think “awards”. I think they took a little story and dragged it out until it was movie-length. And then they realized they had dragged it out too much and were almost at 2 hours, so they ended it without actually coming up with a good ending.
I guess I just wasn’t as wowed by it as everyone else seems to be.
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Post by sgev1977 on Mar 10, 2021 0:47:26 GMT
OT but I just saw this tweet and I remembered it. This is a slow movie. Literally a slow movie!
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