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There Will Be Blood | 
 enlarge | Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Actors: Paul Dano, Daniel Day Lewis
Studio: Paramount
Category: Movie
Buy New: $3.99
Rating:  332 reviews
Sales Rank: 72
Genre: Drama
Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: Video On Demand
Running Time: 159
ASIN: B001A4LYN2
Theatrical Release Date: January 11, 2008
Release Date: September 2, 2008 (New: This Week)
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 Tragedy September 4, 2008
The central character in "There Will Be Blood", oil tycoon Daniel Plainview (played by thoroughbred thespian Daniel Day-Lewis) is a fascinatingly repugnant character. He's greedy, ruthless, cruel, and shamelessly manipulative, to be sure ... but it's really the touch of humanity he occasionally displays that truly makes him tragic, because you can see that beneath all his contempt is a sad, broken-hearted man. Although capable of affection, whenever Daniel feels abandoned or betrayed he reacts viciously and often violently, destroying any possibility of authentic relationships.
Throughout the movie his character's fate is tied to that of Eli Sunday, a theatrical minister who, despite superficial differences, is as ruthlessly ambitious as Plainview is. Sunday is Plainview's nemesis and mirror ... their mutual hatred is due to the fact that they surely see all of their own loathsome qualities reflected in the other. Throughout the film the two characters spar, compete, play mind games and torture each other.
Although the film ends with a final confrontation between the two characters in which one apparently "wins", powerhouse director P.T. Anderson makes it clear that there are no real winners in this film, just empty characters who sold their souls to the devil long ago. "There Will Be Blood" is an indictment of human nature, the destructiveness of anger and greed, and the American Dream gone horrible awry.
An effective presentation of the explored subject August 31, 2008
This will not be everyone's cup of tea, and considering the subject matter, I did not think this film would be mine either but thanks to some creative work from the writers and director, and a perfected performance from Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood was a pleasant joy ride of entertainment.
The film begins with music one would expect to hear out of a horror film, while the director has us gazing across a desert on a sunny day, in the western U.S. The music is erie and perhaps grants us immidiate forshadowing of what is to come throughout the film. I did not realize it at first, but there is no spoken dialouge for the first 15 minutes of the film...I practically jumped when the first words came across, as the 15 minutes of spoken silence where quite effective, giving us an insiders look at the stages of extracting oil in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Daniel Plainview's persistence pays off, as his oil business steadily grows and expands, while raising his young son in the early 20th century. From the get-go, Daniel is not the nicest or most honest man around, and any gentlemenship he displays is out of business rather than kindness. For awhile we only know the business side of Daniel, yet desire to know more, which eventually comes around but not until later on in the film. The desire to understand this man more kept a certain suspense going. Things are fairly calm throughout the first hour of the film, and you expect (even hope) for something to go wrong to make things interesting. They do, certain tragedies strike and tensions build, primarily between Daniel and Eli Sunday (Paul Dano), the leader of the local church. The deeper meaning of the story begins to unfold, when we discover the villainous (in his own ways) Plainview and Sunday are more alike than different as would like to believe.
Though the film has it's moments and messages that are interesting and make a point, it's the performance of Day-Lewis that is unforgettable and make this film sharp. He brings all the right elements as a perfected actor should, allowing the role to come alive as if it were the very real thing.
Acting - 5
Characters - 4
Drama - 4
Story - 4
Overall - 4
Movie: 3.5~4.25/5 Picture Quality: 3.75~4.75/5 Sound Quality: 4/5 Extras: 2.75/5 August 29, 2008
Version: U.S.A (Paramount) / Region Free
VC-1 BD-50
Average Video Bit Rate: 26.07 Mbps
Total Bit Rate: 33.80 Mbps
Running time: 2:38:25
Movie size: 40,161,970,176 bytes
Disc size: 48,617,189,620 bytes
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 There Will Be Bad Music August 27, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
This was a fantasy film, as with most Daniel Day-Lewis films. However, at times I nearly had to turn off the sound because I found the music score was the worst I had ever heard. That would include ALL Ed Wood films and the music of The New World. Not sure what the music director was trying to accomplish, it did NOT work.
 Don't waste your time, seriously August 24, 2008
0 out of 5 found this review helpful
This movie really never goes anywhere with the plot. I want my 3 hours back.
Summary: A man who really doesn't like anyone pisses off everyone. The End.
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