Dis Drawma Kingg is in the midst of digging a big ol’ hole. I can’t quite seem to remember what inspired me to do this. Maybe it was that Skinny Puppy song – Dig It. Yeah, it had to be that. COMPLETELY UNRELATED, I did go see a Tom Cruise movie earlier tonight. OK, I have a little confession here: I go to see movies even when I think I’m not going to like them in the first place. Sometimes all the movies coming out each week aren’t particularly appealing. Regardless, I’ll probably still be going to see one of them brand new moving pictures, most of which being in color nowadays. A lot of weeks I’ll ask Skinny Puppy for their opinion on which movie I should go to see, but they usually just tell me to rewatch Repo! The Genetic Opera. Oh yeah, the movie this week! I went to see Digger with Tom Cruise despite thinking the movie looked bad. There just wasn’t anything else I’d rather see. Yup, we’re having one o’ dem weeks.
Uh-oh I dug too far, fell into my own hole, and now I’m in freefall! There’s weird stuff down here! I even see DIRT! Plus there’s no industrial music playing, which is pretty dumb. Wait, I see something. A glowing shine, like buried treasure…since I’m already stuck down here in this deep hole, I’m gonna use my tools to try to get to the shiny [some]thing. Almost there. [Reaching a dramatic hand through] Got it! A container with alien writing on the outside! Never mind, I had it upside down. Probably English, I just can’t tell for sure because of my illiteracy. Should I perhaps OPEN it?
All right, all right, I’ll talk about the Com Truise movie (or whatever that guy’s name is). Hmmm that’s pretty odd. I usually interrupt the movie review with a non sequitur, but this time I’m interrupting the non sequitur with my movie review. Whatever, so this Digger movie (which had zero Skinny Puppy songs I might add) started out really good. Without giving it away, the narrative takes a drastic turn maybe about 45 minutes into it. I kind of lost interest once it does the switcheroo. I was basically sitting there mad, because a movie that had my full engagement suddenly lost me. Now, events take a second drastic turn a little bit later on. This drastic turn somewhat pulls you back in, just not all the way.
Is It Worth Watching?: If you’re someone that likes quirky and odd movies, you’ll probably enjoy it. Personally, Digger is definitely not one of my top movies of the year.
Final Thoughts: 7/10 Crowns maybe. Digger gets this high of a Crown Rating for being a pretty well put together film, and the acting was also very good. In terms of how much I liked the film, 7 is a little bit high. This was a weird movie-theater experience with how it pulled me in when I was expecting a dull movie only to spit me back out when the things I don’t wanna spoil happened. I guess you probably wanna know what’s in the buried container with unreadable (for me) letters on it. Prying it open now with my kinggly hands — BEHOLD a cassette tape of Back & Forth by Skinny Puppy! Wow, my review turned out to have more Skinny Puppy than that digging movie I just saw.
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