There Will Be Blood - Paul Thomas Anderson
02-24-08 | 04:17 PM
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Saw this and thought it was a humorous idea it absolutely failed to deliver any humor (like just about everything on SNL in the past 4 years or so.) The David Spade video was much funnier. But here it is ....
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02-24-08 | 06:46 PM
#478
DVD Talk Gold Edition
I saw "There Will be Blood" today. First off, Daniel Day-Lewis was absolutely unbelievable. He better win Best Actor. I'm still pissed off he didn't win for "Gangs of New York."
As for the Paul/Eli thing:
I only made it through the first 12 of the pages in this thread, but the one thing I haven't seen anyone ask in this whole thread that confused me:
Finally, as others have mentioned, a lot of the media coverage of Daniel Day-Lews' character have portrayed him has just a plain evil SOB. I try to avoid any kind of media coverage for movies I want to see in the theater, but I couldn't avoid it.
As for the Paul/Eli thing:
Spoiler:
I only made it through the first 12 of the pages in this thread, but the one thing I haven't seen anyone ask in this whole thread that confused me:
Spoiler:
Finally, as others have mentioned, a lot of the media coverage of Daniel Day-Lews' character have portrayed him has just a plain evil SOB. I try to avoid any kind of media coverage for movies I want to see in the theater, but I couldn't avoid it.
Spoiler:
02-24-08 | 06:59 PM
#479
DVD Talk Hero
Originally Posted by Numes
I only made it through the first 12 of the pages in this thread, but the one thing I haven't seen anyone ask in this whole thread that confused me:
Spoiler:
Spoiler:
Last edited by RichC2; 02-24-08 at 07:02 PM.
02-24-08 | 07:34 PM
#481
DVD Talk Legend
Saw it today, and really liked it a lot. It's definitely worth being nominated for Best Picture, which is more than I can say for most of the other nominees.
I've been hearing for ages that both this and No Country had endings that audiences hated or didn't get. I can see why that was the case with No Country, but I don't really get the hatred for the ending for this. What exactly is the root cause for most people's problems with the ending?
I've been hearing for ages that both this and No Country had endings that audiences hated or didn't get. I can see why that was the case with No Country, but I don't really get the hatred for the ending for this. What exactly is the root cause for most people's problems with the ending?
02-25-08 | 08:08 PM
#484
DVD Talk Hero
yup, perfect ending.
02-25-08 | 08:19 PM
#486
Member
Very good movie, but DDL was the reason why any of it was great (performances anyway, everyone else was fine, but didn't match DDL). Hence why I think the right movie won Best Picture and the right guy won Best Actor.
02-25-08 | 08:45 PM
#487
DVD Talk Godfather
Originally Posted by Brack
Very good movie, but DDL was the reason why any of it was great (performances anyway, everyone else was fine, but didn't match DDL). Hence why I think the right movie won Best Picture and the right guy won Best Actor.
02-25-08 | 08:53 PM
#488
Member
why is it unfair? I don't think the rest of the characters were important enough for me to call it the best movie of the year.
02-25-08 | 09:05 PM
#490
Member
Originally Posted by Brent L
There is more, far more, to TWBB than just DDL's performance.
Last edited by Brack; 02-25-08 at 09:08 PM.
02-25-08 | 09:09 PM
#491
DVD Talk Hero
But then, what movie would?
02-25-08 | 09:11 PM
#492
Member
Originally Posted by RichC2
But then, what movie would?
02-25-08 | 09:15 PM
#493
DVD Talk Hero
If it wasn't DDL it'd be a different movie, I agree. It'd still be a great flick if it was somebody else giving a really good performance, but it would by no means be the same.
I know what you're getting at, I disagree. Even without DDL, Plainview would still be an interesting character.
I know what you're getting at, I disagree. Even without DDL, Plainview would still be an interesting character.
02-25-08 | 09:17 PM
#494
Member
I consider a great movie where everyone gives great performances. DDL might've been too good, if that's possible.
02-26-08 | 12:12 AM
#495
With DDL winning last night, I thought I'd finally give My Left Foot a shot as it had been sitting on my shelf for over a year.
Wow.
Possibly the greatest performance ever.
Now back to There Will Be Blood.
Wow.
Possibly the greatest performance ever.
Now back to There Will Be Blood.
02-26-08 | 12:20 AM
#496
DVD Talk Hero
Originally Posted by RichC2
If it wasn't DDL it'd be a different movie, I agree. It'd still be a great flick if it was somebody else giving a really good performance, but it would by no means be the same.
I know what you're getting at, I disagree. Even without DDL, Plainview would still be an interesting character.
I know what you're getting at, I disagree. Even without DDL, Plainview would still be an interesting character.
02-26-08 | 08:05 AM
#497
DVD Talk Hero
Now that I agree with. One of the few movies where I was constantly wondering how they knew this or that would work.
Last edited by RichC2; 02-26-08 at 08:11 AM.
02-26-08 | 10:50 AM
#498
Member
I don't think Plainview would've been interesting without DDL performance. It wasn't what Plainview said or did that I found interesting, but how convincing DDL was doing it.
02-26-08 | 10:53 PM
#499
Originally Posted by brizz
I don't think i've ever heard a more ridiculous statement in my life 
You clearly enjoy being the guy that hates something everyone loves - the problem is you are hating on something that is truly great. TWBB isn't Crash. It's one of the most amazing pieces of cinema ever composed. It is brilliance from beginning to end, and it captures the ethos of the period with such incredible adroitness that I was simply floored. It's at once gritty and beautiful, and the twin themes of the moral bankruptcy that lies beneath the birth of the American Dream in the Industrial Age and that of religious revivalism are so incredibly well done that I was just in awe. I don't know that I'll ever get to see something as good on the big screen again in my lifetime. And if you can't see what Plainview's character says about capitalism in this particular period, you just don't want to for the sake of being the guy who needs to laugh at the peons for not being as smart as him.
You clearly enjoy being the guy that hates something everyone loves - the problem is you are hating on something that is truly great. TWBB isn't Crash. It's one of the most amazing pieces of cinema ever composed. It is brilliance from beginning to end, and it captures the ethos of the period with such incredible adroitness that I was simply floored. It's at once gritty and beautiful, and the twin themes of the moral bankruptcy that lies beneath the birth of the American Dream in the Industrial Age and that of religious revivalism are so incredibly well done that I was just in awe. I don't know that I'll ever get to see something as good on the big screen again in my lifetime. And if you can't see what Plainview's character says about capitalism in this particular period, you just don't want to for the sake of being the guy who needs to laugh at the peons for not being as smart as him.
02-26-08 | 10:56 PM
#500
Originally Posted by darkessenz
There will be blood is such a great title for the film on so many levels. You have the concept of blood relationships, and the lack of them. DDL has a son, but he is not "blood." Then he has a brother, but he is not blood either. He rejects both of them, his son twice. He tries to take Jesus as his blood savior, but fails to do this in the end. Finally he only has blood in violence, mined like the oil he so desperately wants.