There Will Be Blood

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Thumbs up. Daniel Day Lewis is a great actor.
Second desolate violent film I've seen in the past month. (No Country for Old Men)

[EvanAgee]

I haven't seen this yet but it was highly recommended on Filmspotting, a great film podcast that I listen to. http://www.filmspotting.net

[mmmiddle]

I thought it was great as well. He deserves at least an Oscar nomination.

[bobafrett]

great movie...since i saw it everytime i take a piss i scream throughout the house...DRAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIINNNNNAAAGGGGEEEEE!!!!!! !

[iago]

I saw it tonight. Pretty great. It has a feeling of eerie menace almost throughout.

The ending? Wow. It makes the ending of No Country For Old Men seem conventional.

[PurpleSabbath]

This movie is mindblowingly great.

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I couldnt recommend this movie. The moviemaking skills were obvious ,it was a decent enough story ,acting and all else was good,even the background music was on target. It was simply boring.There should have been more killings and beatings and scary people and accidents.Im serious. It was convincing ,you forgot you were watching a movie ,that for me is one trait of a good film but it just takes more. The main thing is you dont want it to end. I was glad when it finally got over with.

[Born2Run]

i'm anxious to see it. he was such a good actor in Gangs of New York, I didn't even realize it was him until the credits started to role.

[marcellis]

I missed something, apparently. I thought it was totally over-rated. "No Country for Old Men", OTOH, is the best American Western* I've seen since "The Wild Bunch".

*I consider it a Western.

It's the second-best movie I've seen this year.

The Best? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L'%C3%82ge_d'or)

Now that's a great movie! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcasqBRzeeA)

[music_nick]

Daniel Day Lewis is amazing. The performances were great and much of the story was moving. I found unclear whether Paul and Eli Sunday are in fact the same person. Some of the most wonderful aspect of the movie was Daniel Day Lewis acting, and clash between the preacher and Plainview, funny!

[mewithoutlouie]

They were different people, twins though.

[Snufkino]

It's worth it for the last scene alone.

[AL Guitar]

I enjoyed it but like No Country for Old Men, I felt there was really no lesson to be learned, no moral, no consequence.

[Snufkino]

I couldnt recommend this movie. The moviemaking skills were obvious ,it was a decent enough story ,acting and all else was good,even the background music was on target. It was simply boring.There should have been more killings and beatings and scary people and accidents.Im serious. It was convincing ,you forgot you were watching a movie ,that for me is one trait of a good film but it just takes more. The main thing is you dont want it to end. I was glad when it finally got over with.

You know how you say "It was convincing ,you forgot you were watching a movie" just there? Well with "more killings and beatings and scary people and accidents" you wouldn't get that. You'd just get an utterly shit film.



Where are my bowling pins? I'm finished.

[jamesp]

TWBB was an utter shit milkshake and PTA fans will "drink it all up" like KoolAid. The guy has visual skills but he screws it up in the writing process, which in the PTA-verse means: improv by actors. There's no doubt that he can direct, and lord knows he's been bailed out by good acting before this, but for the love of celluloid Paul, hire a friggin' writer!

[Folky_Grunge]

I didn't really like this movie very much. It was very overrated.

The only thing I saw that was right with this movie was that the acting was good. Other than that, it was a total disappointment.

The movie had very little plot for being 2 1/2 hours. It seemed like it was just random events strewn together, and it didn't seem to have a point or message at all. It was also very boring, and I didn't get the sense anything was happening throughout most of the movie.

It had some good points, but I'd give it about 3/10. No Country for Old Men was better.

[bdemon]

I liked it. Lewis is amazing as usual. Dano was a fantastic preacher/weasel-type. But I agree, PTA's films get long and indulgent, where a 90 minute/two hour film would probably be great. But he gets all these props doing what he does, so what do I know? :)

[Dr Sunshine]

bastard in a basket.

[arracado]

Now I'm really interested in seeing this after reading this thread. I tend to lean towards what most people are saying in here regarding PTA films...I remember seeing Magnolia in the theater and waiting for this amazing experience, then when it was over thinking, "Geez, that was kinda boring and lame."