There Will Be Blood

[The AIDS Virus]

Anyone seen it? I thought it was fantastic, Daniel Day Lewis and Paul Dano did a fantastic job.

[***Duo***]

The message it sent was dead on, but I absolutely hated the movie.


-Duo

[Zander]

I'd never heard of this movie until this thread came to be.

[The AIDS Virus]

Well, it was low entertainment value. I just thought it was possibly the most interesting movie I've seen in a couple of years.

I'd never heard of this movie until this thread came to be.

If you haven't heard of it, you probably wouldn't like it. Actually I imagine most people wouldn't like it, I'm just curious to hear opinions.

[Hugh Junit]

I have no excuse for myself.
I've wanted to see this movie for weeks, and have instead seen Cloverfield ( twice ) and ...um...Rambo.
But I am going to see it, and it looks and sounds incredible. Daniel-Day Lewis comes out of hiding to do a movie once every few years, and the director ( Paul Thomas Anderson ) has done some incredible films, and also tends to drop off the map for years between projects.
I think Lewis is the front-runner for the Best Actor Oscar. That's it. I'm seing it this weekend.

So I guess I could have just waited to post until after I actually saw the movie.
Yeah, that would have been better.

[The AIDS Virus]

I have no excuse for myself.
I've wanted to see this movie for weeks, and have instead seen Cloverfield ( twice ) and ...um...Rambo.
But I am going to see it, and it looks and sounds incredible. Daniel-Day Lewis comes out of hiding to do a movie once every few years, and the director ( Paul Thomas Anderson ) has done some incredible films, and also tends to drop off the map for years between projects.
I think Lewis is the front-runner for the Best Actor Oscar. That's it. I'm seing it this weekend.

So I guess I could have just waited to post until after I actually saw the movie.
Yeah, that would have been better.

No, I believe your purpose behind this post was to force yourslef to see it so you could tell the world what you thought of it. Lewis will get best actor, there is no question in my mind. And I believe Anderson also did the script which is loosely based on Oil! by Upton Sinclaire.

[Hugh Junit]

Okay, I saw it.
Daniel Day Lewis was incredible, and he was pretty much in every scene and every second of this 2 hour and 40 minute movie. It's all about his character, Daniel Plainview, and Danile Plainview is a real son of a biznitch.
There's nothing redeeming about him, and there's nothing really redeeming about the message of the movie. It's long and dry and depressing and hard to watch, but it's brilliantly acted and directed. Real movie fans need to see it.
I couldn't decide if Plainview was a monster all along, and we just saw more and more evidence of that as the film went on, or if he had at one time been a semi-decent man who was corrupted by greed, power, envy and hate. It's hard to say.
Glad I watched it, and it deserves all the awards it gets, but it's not a movie I'll be rushing out to see again.

[Mephistopheles]

Yes, one of the years finest films, although I am sure it will get snubbed at the Oscars just like most quality films do. Daniel Day Lewis was flawless in his portrayal of Plainview, one of the finest (If not THE finest) actors working today. Anyone who is a fan of film should see this movie just to see what good acting really looks like, since it seems to be in short supply today.

The score was amazingly created by Jonny Greenwood from Radiohead, a superb mix of classical music and the bizzarre dronings that Radiohead are known for with some amazing drum work to boot (the scene with the fire).

Day Lewis should win best actor, though I think No Country for Old Men deserves the nod for best picture. While this was a fantastic movie, it would have been near unwatchable without Day Lewis.

[Supersmiley :-)]

It's really just like the Aviator. I didn't enjoy it

[Killing Unicorn]

actually meph, the complaint is that quality films are given too many awards and that the oscars should go back to being about the popular movies and leave the spirit awards for the critics favorites.

[The AIDS Virus]

Great Reviews, I agree with Hugh and Meph more though.

[Mephistopheles]

actually meph, the complaint is that quality films are given too many awards and that the oscars should go back to being about the popular movies and leave the spirit awards for the critics favorites.

KU, I have to disagree with this point. Popular films are already rewarded by the amount of money that they earn, that is usually their end goal anyway. Awards are 'supposed' to be a way to acknowledge artists for their efforts that they put into making the film. Knocked Up was a wildly popular movie last year, should it have won an Oscar for best picture? I think this would have been quite an insult to actual artists who were pouring their heart and soul into their work.

I'm not saying that I don't enjoy movies like that, I'm just saying that they are already rewarded by the $100million+ that they make at the box office. More artistic movies usually don't draw that kind of crowd because there is a large part of the population that go to movies for 'light' entertainment, they don't want to have think too much to be entertained. Once again, there is nothing wrong with this, I go to movies for this reason sometimes too. Awards are a great way to point people towards quality art that they may not have sook out on their own.

There are definitely far too many awards shows these days, but that is mostly due to the large number of egos in Hollywood who constantly need to be patted on the back and told how amazing they are. The Oscars, however, is the award show that actually 'counts' for something. No one is going to care in 5 years who won a SAG award in 2008. So yes, quality movies should be rewarded with an Oscar for their hard work and artistic vision. The only problem is that this usually doesn't happen...

Just my 2 cents...:)

[Killing Unicorn]

but the oscars were not originally intended for that purpose. they used to give awards to the movies people loved to watch.

[gryph89]

I saw this movie. I loved it.

[Ächilles]

This movie was amazing. Everything about it was amazing.

It reminded me of all the classic mobster flicks in the sense that it was a very to the point story, very centralized, not a ton of action, no twists and turns. It was long, and just chronicled the deterioration of a man.

One thing I loved about it is that they developed the characters as horrible people without the typical formula of violence + excessive swearing. I think that's what made it a bit different than most movies that use this formula (Goodfellas, Casino, the Godfather, Raging Bull, etc...). There was actually hardly any violence at all. And virtually no swearing. I think I counted three swears the entire movie.

This is certainly worth seeing if you're a true movie fan. I'm sitting next to a rack which houses American Beauty, A Clockwork Orange, Raging Bull, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, etc - so I mean REAL movie fan. If you're looking for a Johnny Depp crapathon that the rest of the world wants these days, go see Pirates of the Carribean 52: Jack Sparrow vs Pirate Ghandi or whatever bullshit teeny bopper movie is out now.

[The AIDS Virus]

I loved how they it depicted man's corruption and greed in this movie. A true accomplishment.