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Whether you believe There Will Be Blood is a transcendently powerful movie or merely damn good, there’s no debate that Day-Lewis’ performance as Plainview is something to behold. Coen brothers, Paul Thomas Anderson drinks YOUR milkshake! This is the best buy dvd of 2007. Hands down. A very, very well made film that elicits more of an intellectual than emotional reaction. I know you’re out there.
Individual scenes and sequences are too strange, haunting and emotionally right for the film to be dismissed. There should be no attempt or temptation to dismiss it. Daniel Day-Lewis’ performance is the best of 2007, a towering portrayal of searing hatred.
Land, oil, blood. There will be lots of all in Paul Thomas Anderson’s stunning new movie. ‘No!’ is the first word spoken in There Will Be Blood, and it should be the last said in response to Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest pretend epic.
The original Beverly Hillbillies, only sans the cement pond. If Day-Lewis isn’t front and center, the buy dvd drags with themes such as oil vs. religion, and greed is always around. I hate the way the film forces us into its epic structure and purposefully fractured narrative as if the audience is a puppy having its little nose shoved in a puddle of its own making.
A Sergio Leone epic about the foundation of a specific aspect of the American character. And the winner of the overrated Oscar front-runner award goes to
