Then it shouldn't have spent so much time creating and examining threads and characters that it would NEVER develop.

I can't understand why the hell people don't like this movie! I am so glad there are no F's or D's uo there. There are people all over the internet and people at my school who hated it. If you have a good reason to hate a movie I understand but the pure fact that some people say "The first part was so boring because no one talked." or "It is so boring because oil is boring." And this is straight from IMDB (the people here are so stupid.)"what was with that musical score? it was soooo bad, it sounded like an orchestra tuning their instruments before a performance. thats not music, thats tuning, and it gets very annoying and cringing. no one wants to hear that they want to hear the actual music." and "Day-Lewis only made three movies since 1999...oh yeah a great actor, not! Why is everyone dribbling from the mouth over his performance. It's sucked and so cliched. Fake American accent borrowed from John Houston, over the top squinting and an appearance borrowed from any 1970s' porn star. I give this movie - 200! It's *beep*"

Grow the fuck up! Have a real fucking reason to hate the movie!

Are you angry at people outside, or in this topic? Because I wouldn't describe anybody in this topic as being that shallow.

I mean, what do you expect from a movie like There Will Be Blood? It's not a movie for the general audience.

Like I said, the movie is about Daniel Plainview. I can think of one scene off the top of my head that features Eli without Daniel present (the scene with his family at dinner), and the purpose or need for that scene is fairly obvious and shouldn't be in question. So to say the movie spent an exorbitant amount of time on Eli is a bit of a stretch considering the threads always lead back to Plainview.

I've gotta agree with makeshift there. It is about Plainview and that's the way it should have been too.

People outside this topic

Until the last 20 minutes, I liked the film a lot but was minorly disappointed... However, it ends on such a high note that I'm tempted to give it a drastically higher grade as a result of it, the end makes everything before it seem better than it probably was. I really think the bowling alley scene might be one of the very best I've ever seen, as well as the final shot itself.

No need to talk about Lewis, but I echo the praises for Paul Dano here too. He's the real deal, and I can't wait to see more performances from him in the future.

As a whole, I do think the movie is a very good character study and one of the best on-screen showing of capitilism I've seen, that at times shows flashes of brilliance but maybe doesn't hold it consistently. In particular, other than the end, I thought the burning tower, opening sequence, the abandoning of the child and the later church exclamation of it, were particularly well done.

I think I agree with Lecter on some of its faults though - The brother sequence didn't really fly with me too well, I understand its purpose in further wrecking Plainview, but I found the result neither devestating nor shocking and I wasn't a fan of the actor who played Henry at all. I also agree with him that the actual storyline, concerning the oil and pipeline and etc. wasn't really engaging. I know the real meat of the movie is Plainview's character, but it still left me feeling a bit off.

I think I'd probably give it a 4/5 or A-, it's a very good movie, but I think No Country for Old Men deserved the Oscar it got.

These pretty much exemplify how I feel about Blood. It felt like it should be a masterpiece and seemingly has all the key ingredients and depth, but I never really fell in love with it like I did other movies this year.

Yeah - - we were certainly told to think it was a masterpiece enuf times! I wonder why the experience of the movie differs from the marketing hype? That's so weird.

I feel the same way. I need to see both of them too. I mean, I did see them in a period of 48 hours, but still...

I saw TWB with two friends. One who though NCFOM was his fave film in the last 5 years and one who hated NCFOM. The first guy liked it alot but preferred NCFOM. The other loved TWB and still hates NCFOM.

I preferred NCFOM ove TWBB.

I actually totaly agree with Mr. Pink on this,, loved this film, Daniel Day Lewis is awsome

A+

10/10 -> A

The best film of 2007. And a masterpiece that will be remembered.

From the very beginning when the first thing we hear from Mr. Plainview is his animal scream which comes off not as a scream for help or his life, but as a scream for his silver we know we're in for quite a ride.

I dare to say there really isn't a central plot in here. There's no central piece of story around which everything revolves. There are sporadic happenings throughout the years that bounce off from Plainview who is the movie. If he doesn't enchant you, then you'll probably like this film a little bit less or won't like it at all.

I've been trying to set my impressions for two days know, I'd like to see the movie a few more times. But unfortunately I saw it on the last day of its distribution, so I'm waiting for a DVD (or maybe they even show it in our art theatre).

Wow - - this thread had a short half life...

I just read a quote from another thread (the Atonement review thread) which captures some of the wild-eyed lunacy that surrounded this disappointing picture only eight short months ago...



Heh.

Sounds like the same kind of spittle spraying blather which later coated TDK in it's slimy cult of idolatry.

Still it's another example of the amazing power of hype, and it will be interesting to see this film's reputation falter as time marches on - - after all, there's that great first hour in TWBB before it goes off the rails in a train wreck of indulgent bloat. I just hope the hangover coming down from all the histrionics ain't too grim for any of them deluded fanboys...

Oy vey Bradley

I still think this is the best movie released in years...

The problem with TWBB is that it takes a life out of you. It is immensely rewarding, but equally exhausting.

Wow, this movie blew me away. Certainly one of the most fascinating films I've ever seen.


A

It's probably the most deserving Oscar win of all-time.

Also, the score is somehow even more amazing the more times I listen to it. Simply stunning. Fuck the Academy for disqualifying it.

this is one of those posts that one regrets later on, trixster.

Seriously, though. Look at Oscar's history. They so rarely get it right. This is one time they did.

I'm not ashamed to say that this is one of my favourite movies, ever. And I doubt I'll be editing this later.

wow, very good mag.

Paul Scofield in A Man for All Seasons.

Yeah, seriously. Major fuck-up.

Now I really liked Atonement's score, but sorry, TWBB should have walked away with this.

Looking back, I stand by what I have said. The directing is simply superb, the acting top-notch and the screenplay pretty strong. But I still couldn't really connect to it in any way, thus a slightly lower-than-perfect grade.


I must say that since my original viewing I must have rewatched the bowling alley scene for about 10 times since my first viewing of the movie.

I can connect with it in its utter insanity. I love insane epics like this, except it's short-scaled enough to not be really flawed.