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There Will Be Blood | 
 enlarge | Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Actors: Paul Dano, Daniel Day Lewis
Studio: Paramount
Category: Movie
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Rating:  368 reviews
Sales Rank: 4319
Genre: Drama
Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: Video On Demand
Running Time: 159 Minutes
ASIN: B001A4LYN2
Theatrical Release Date: January 11, 2008
Release Date: October 22, 2008
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| Synopsis:
A sprawling epic of family, faith, power and oil, THERE WILL BE BLOOD is set on the incendiary frontier of California?s turn-of-the-century petroleum boom. The story chronicles the life and times of one Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis), who transforms himself from a down-and-out silver miner raising a son on his own into a self-made oil tycoon. When Plainview gets a mysterious tip-off that there?s a little town out West where an ocean of oil is oozing out of the ground, he heads with his son, H.W. (Dillon Freasier), to take their chances in dust-worn Little Boston. In this hardscrabble town, where the main excitement centers around the holy roller church of charismatic preacher Eli Sunday (Paul Dano), Plainview and H.W. make their lucky strike. But even as the well raises all of their fortunes, nothing will remain the same as conflicts escalate and every human value ? love, hope, community, belief, ambition and even the bond between father and son ? is imperiled by corruption, deception and the flow of oil. |
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 great movie January 6, 2009
Fiendship Fun (MD, USA)
this has been one of the best movies i've seen in a long time. the acting is fantastic and the story line drags you right in, gorgeous score as well. i'm reading a lot of negative comments about the packaging but i don't think that ought to win this fantastic film only one star. actually, i think its rather creative. i could understand the issue with scratching but i haven't experienced it myself.
There Will Be Bloody Good Acting January 3, 2009
musicfanatic (Arizona)
There Will be Blood is EXCELLENT. I have not seen filmaking of this quality in some time: Consistent brilliant acting, flawless directing, phenomenal music, great editing, etc., etc. Daniel Day Lewis owns every scene he is in.
TWBB stands alone in a vast sea of "&^%$ films" that are coming at us at an unprecedented scale. It is refreshing that hollywood has taken a risk in creating a film of this nature. Hopefully we can have more (knock on wood).
 Interesting But Flawed Character Study December 30, 2008
Bryan A. Pfleeger (Metairie, Louisiana United States)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Director P.T. Anderson has created a moumental but flawed film about one man's ambition as it comes into conflict with the concept of faith. Based on Upton Sinclair's novel Oil!, There Will Be Blood tells the story of independant oilman Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis) as he struggles to get rich in turn of the century America.
Day-Lewis,channeling John Huston, gives a career defining performance as a man totally alone in his ambition to become rich. This film is a character study more than an action narrative. Daniel Plainview is a complex man with no friends, no sense of history and presumably no morals as he attempts to control his destiny in the growing oil business. When he comes into conflict with an evangelical preacher Eli Sunday (Paul Dano) true colors are shown and a fight to the finish is begun.
The performance by Day-Lewis won him a deserved Best Actor Oscar. Also of note is the great camara work by Richard Elswit and the unique musical score by Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead.
I viewed the two disc edition which features the film on disc one and special features on the second disc. The special features include 15 minutes of stills and research to a Greenwood score, two trailers and some deleted scenes. These extras run for about 30 minutes. The main feature here is The History of Petroleum (1923-27) a silent black and white film produced by Sinclair Oil and the US Bureau of Mines. This short is also scored by Greenwood.
This film is definately worth checking out but may be a better rental than purchase. One further note the packaging on this set is horrible. The discs are squeezed into cardboard sleeves that virtually insure scratching with repeated viewings.
Five Stars- Enough Said December 23, 2008
jewessjen (Minneapolis, MN)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
So this film is for intelligent people with an attention span who have an afternoon or an evening to spare. Go get your favorite thing to eat. For me, that'd be California rolls, I'm mad for those, and San Pelligrino lemonade.
Rent this, or buy, I can see buying, it's that good. I could also see watching it with someone of equal intelligence, just so long as you don't have to spend any time explaining things. I hate having to explain story line, plot, you catch me.
This movie is amazing. Enjoy yourself.
 Can I be the first to say the movie's awful and the box is fine? December 22, 2008
George Robinson (Sherwood Forest, England)
0 out of 5 found this review helpful
After enduring the longest and most painful two and a half hours of my life watching this ghastly, pretentious, ridiculous and nauseous drivel, I came to the Amazon site expecting a flood of one-star reviews saying exactly the same.
Instead, I see hundreds of whinges about the DVD box! Who cares if it's cardboard or plastic or solid gold? For crying out loud, if it's packaging that turns you on, why don't you spend your money on corn flakes instead, and put your reviews on the Kelloggs website?
My one-star review is entirely about this film. Daniel Day Lewis, eyes all blacked up to make him look mean, plays it like some silent movie villain out of a Laurel and Hardy film. Which is all rather apt as for the first half hour of this bum-numbing eternity of torture, nobody actually says anything!
When they do start talking, it's a relief... but only for a few moments. After just a few minutes of DDL's grimy mumblings I was starting to grind my teeth. As he tried to bond with his loathsome kid, I started pacing the room, slapping abaseball bat in my sweaty mitts. But the final straw was when that odious teenage preacher started screaming and raving in his squawky pre-pubescent voice in his 'church'.
"That's it!" I told the wife. "I'm going outside to get some half bricks to lob at the screen!"
In fact, as this turgid, plotless and hideously over-rated guff unravels, you end up wanting to throw bricks at every single character who shows up. What a load of dross!
Is it all a metaphor about human life? A searing indictment of man's capacity to carry revenge through several generations? What powerful emotional undercurrents are at work here in the corrupt frontier land of early 1900s America?
I couldn't give a flying fig.
All I want to know is... when am I going to get my money back for this shameful corruption of my OWN emotions... and when will Mr Day Lewis apologise for his terrible hammy performance and hand his Oscar back?
Those idiots who complain about the cardboard DVD sleeve should count their blessings... at least you've got something to line the bottom of the budgie cage.
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