Thursday Movie Picks - A Dig

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This week's theme from Wandering Through the Shelves are movies featuring a dig. This is a really interesting topic, but also one that I don't love a ton of movies from. So in a Good, The Bad, and the Ugly fashion, I'm bringing in one movie I loved, one I hated, and one that is definitely a bad movie but I liked it anyways.


1) Jurassic Park - A classic movie that starts off with a dig that got millions of kids interested in dinosaurs. It's amusing to me that they keep trying to make the Jurassic franchise happen when none of them have even come close to being as good as the original.


2) The Dig - This movie was so dull. You know it's bad when Carey Mulligan, one of the best actresses working today is incredibly miscast. I hated this. 


3) The Exorcist: The Beginning - Okay, I KNOW this is technically a bad movie, but before it goes completely off the walls, I thought it was legitimately creepy. 


Comments

  1. BirgitMarch 3, 2022 at 10:14 AM

    I agree that the first Jurassic Park is the best and it scared the bejeezies out of me. I do want to see The Dig because I love Ralph Fiennes so we shall see. I think I saw the last one but don’t remember so it must be bad...hahahaa.

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    1. Brittani BurnhamMarch 3, 2022 at 8:11 PM

      The Dig is so freaking boring lol. The Beginning was *technically* bad, but I liked it.

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  2. SJHoneywellMarch 3, 2022 at 12:27 PM

    I'll be posting something about The Dig on Saturday. Suffice to say I liked it more than you did.

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    1. Brittani BurnhamMarch 3, 2022 at 8:10 PM

      I'm glad! I never want anyone to be bored when watching a movie. Like I was...immensely..watching this.

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  3. WandererMarch 3, 2022 at 2:28 PM

    But people love dinosaurs so they'd watch anything with it. The Jurassic movies still make loads of money right?

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  4. joel65913March 3, 2022 at 4:33 PM

    That's a very specific theme!

    I'm not the biggest lover of the first Jurassic Park, it was big, adventuresome and exciting while I was in the theatre but I've never rewatched it but I agree that none of the follow-ups have been nearly as good. I did see The Lost World and just the other day watched Jurassic World (because I needed background noise and it was on demand) and they were forgettable.

    It took me a while to appreciate the first Exorcist-it played foreverrrr in the third run movie theatre where I had my first job as an usher and by the time it left I was so very, very sick of it-but when it was re-released in a remastered form for its anniversary and I went with a group of friends to give the film another shot it really was masterful and unsettling. Any follow-ups to it that I've seen, which doesn't include the one you picked, though have been middling to downright garbage.

    I've never heard of The Dig, and from your description I think that's a good thing.

    The only thing that popped into my head is an abomination of a film called The Awakening. It was yet another Exorcist ripoff wherein archeologist Charlton Heston compromises an Egyptian Queen's tomb despite multiple warnings and the vengeful queen's spirit possesses his daughter. It's even dumber than it sounds.

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    1. Brittani BurnhamMarch 3, 2022 at 8:09 PM

      The Awakening sounds like...something. lol. The Exorcist scared me to death as a kid, but I have such an appreciation for it now. I wish I could give Linda Blair that Oscar.

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  5. thevoid99March 3, 2022 at 5:34 PM

    Who hasn't seen Jurassic Park? I do love that film though I went with a completely different franchise from Steven Spielberg. I haven't seen The Dig as I'm not sure about seeing a movie where Lily James is married to a guy who played her dad in another movie. I saw some of The Exorcist: The Beginning as it was... eh as I was more interested in the Paul Schrader version.

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    1. Brittani BurnhamMarch 3, 2022 at 8:07 PM

      I actually preferred The Beginning to Dominion, but I feel like the majority of people disagree. lol

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  6. ThePunkTheoryMarch 6, 2022 at 3:54 PM

    I almost chose the Exorcist movie as well, but when a different way in the end. I really didn't expect anybody to think of it. 😅

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    1. Brittani BurnhamMarch 7, 2022 at 10:32 AM

      That's hilarious! I'm glad that also popped into someone's mind.

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  7. SaraMarch 9, 2022 at 6:13 PM

    I couldn't think of 3 movies! So embarrassing. But these are great!

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