Anyone see The Dig yet?

Very true , Paul . Good point about the excavation of the Anglo-Saxon King coinciding with 
the rise of the Nazi Holocaust . And I think the reference to Arthur might also fit Churchill . 
You actually do see the artifacts in the ground as they are discovered . I think I preferred that . 
It was a very moving and atmospheric film . Ralph Fiennes as the homegrown archaeologist was
an outstanding performance . I should mention that the author of the novel , The Dig , was the 
nephew to one of the excavators on the site , Peggy Preston . 

I like archeology. I like the credit given to Basil Brown and Edith Pretty (those were real people). I understand Edith's health was failing. I appreciate the national museum trying to strongarm their way into control over the dig. I understand it all takes place under the impending WWII. And I liked the love triangle depicted between an unemotional, unromantic, and disinterested husband, an unappreciated and uninspired wife, and an adoring military pilot.

But I don't know, the whole thing was kinda boring and slow. Unlike other viewers, I didn't find the English lanscape to be dramatic. Kinda flat and boring. And the English in general are often extremely unemotional and undemonstrative.

I don't get all these people on the old IMDb giving it 8s, 9s, and 10s. It's a good movie. The subject material was interesting. But the movie itself is kinda boring and slow.

(I struggled to give it a 7.)