Rate THERE WILL BE BLOOD

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It starts here tomorrow.

So fucking stoked. (y)

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Jonny Greenwood soundtrack to boot...(y)

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Daniel Day Lewis.

Daniel Fucking Day Lewis.











































Daniel Fucking Day Fucking Lewis.

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Daniel Day Lewis.

Daniel Fucking Day Lewis.


Daniel Fucking Day Fucking Lewis.


I second that emotion...I'd like to see him do another Jim Sheridan flick...My Left Foot,In The Name of The Father and The Boxer would make an ideal box set...

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MATT DAMON

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BARRY PEPPER

[YoungRemy]

havent seen this or No Country, but I hope they battle it out for Best Picture when it comes to Oscar time.

PTA and the Coen Bros. are in my top five list of favorite directors working right now...

Bardem vs. Lewis... it's a showdown...

I'll see both this weekend

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havent seen this or No Country, but I hope they battle it out for Best Picture when it comes to Oscar time.



My dream would probably be TWBB (if it's as good as I've heard) vs. No Country vs. Zodiac.



Bardem vs. Lewis... it's a showdown...



Nah. Bardem's got supporting actor, DDL has best actor.

I'd really love to see Steve Zahn get nominated for rescue Dawn, but that won't happen.

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BARRY PEPPER



I really like him. (y)

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I really like him. (y)

If you have not seen "The Snow Walker" snag it,it's great....(y)

[abcdefz]

:confused:

Never heard of it.

*heads to Netflix*

Thanks!

[abcdefz]

Well, I saw it.

Masterfully directed, methodical. DDL is fierce and fantastic, and I get what Anderson was going for, and it works, but I'm not sure
it's a story worth telling the way that he did.

It's very expansive, and you definitely get the sense of DDL's character, Planview, building a vast fortune from the ground up (literally).
It's a pretty unpleasant story, but maybe not quite... I don't know. Sinister enough? I don't know. There's just not a real narrative
drive, I guess.

Beautifully shot. Really terrific framing and staging of shots. Worth seeing in a theater, just bring your patience.

7.5/10.

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If you have not seen "The Snow Walker" snag it,it's great....(y)

This should be landing in my mailbox today.

[adam_f]

I don't like Daniel Day Lewis.

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I don't like Daniel Day Lewis.



You're just digging yourself in deeper, pal. Deeper and deeper with every keystroke.

[adam_f]

Originally posted by abcdefz
You're just digging yourself in deeper, pal. Deeper and deeper with every keystroke.

I used to not mind the guy. You might even say I liked him as an actor. Then I saw his Joker-without-the-make-up performance as Bill the Butcher and it ruined the movie for me. It was so over-the-top and so many other hyphenates that it took me out of the movie and I felt like I was dancing with the devil by the pale moonlight. It was the worst performance I've ever seen that everybody else loved.

[funk63]

damn ya looks amazing

[Yeti]

A to the Z, I read your review. They had a review in my local paper today. The critic bashed the film. I do not have much faith in the reviewer since he tends to be very negative. He called Paul Thomas Anderson a freakishly overrated director and called the film boring. He also bashed Daniel Day Lewis for overacting with a fake Sean Connery voice

If you can believe it---the county I work for is closed due to Lee/ Jackson day (yes, Robert E Lee and Andrew Jackson). We also get Martin Luther King Day off on Monday. Virginia used to celebrate Lee/Jackson/King day together but then decided it was ridiculous and split the holidays so..........
I am going to a matinee today and was planning to see There Will Be Blood. I am now waivering and thinking of seeing the Orphanage. A to the Z, please talk me back into seeing There Will Be Blood.

[Yeti]

I went to see it today & Daniel Day Lewis is excellent. The pacing in the film was a bit slow but it was powerful. The main ingredients in There Will Be Blood are greed, power, deception and religion.

I keep wondering who came in the bowling alley at the end. He was in the earlier part of the movie but somehow I do not remember his character.

Daniel Day Lewis would be very deserving of the best actor Oscar.

I would give it a 8/10 or a B+.

[adam_f]

Daniel GAY Lewis ftw.

[BBboy20]

A++++++++++++++++++

I went there. >_>

[Dorothy Wood]

I keep wondering who came in the bowling alley at the end. He was in the earlier part of the movie but somehow I do not remember his character.



that was eli, the boy preacher. durr.

I thought it was alright. I didn't think plainview had a good enough reason to be so hateful though. I suppose you're supposed to imagine for yourself what he'd gone through in his life. I'm just not sure it was illustrated.

also, I think that he really did love the son...so have mixed feelings on what happened with their relationship.

[Yeti]

that was eli, the boy preacher. durr

Not Eli. The man that came in after the scene with Eli.

[BBboy20]

Not Eli. The man that came in after the scene with Eli.Don't know, just know he's some butler.

[Deep_Sea_Rain]

Fantastic film. Daniel Day Lewis' best acting....period. I can't really say enough good about the whole thing...

[Yeti]

Don't know, just know he's some butler.

He had some significance. Now that I think about it..........was he Eli's father?

[BBboy20]

He had some significance. Now that I think about it..........was he Eli's father?...I don't think they look a like.

The only significance is that he would probably be the one testifying to Plainview's trial.

[afronaut]

I think its just the butler.

[Auton]

finally watched it. easily my favorite paul thomas anderson movie... very much liked it.

[Bob]

I think its just the butler.

yeah i think it's just a butler

i don't think i'd ever actually seen a daniel day lewis movie before just now so i wasn't sure what all the hype was about but...damn. that there's a guy that you hype up when you talk about him. for example, when he was talking to his (now old) son, and the son tells him he's going to start his own oil company, and plainview says "that makes you...a competitor...." and there's this sort of growl behind the entire line, it was kind of "whoa".

the plot didn't make a whole lot of sense to me, it seemed like it was narrated in a kind of jarring way and i couldn't get the whole picture. then i saw that it was based on a book by upton sinclair and it all made perfect sense suddenly.

[saz]

I thought it was alright. I didn't think plainview had a good enough reason to be so hateful though. I suppose you're supposed to imagine for yourself what he'd gone through in his life. I'm just not sure it was illustrated.

also, I think that he really did love the son...so have mixed feelings on what happened with their relationship.

yeah i agree that plainview really did love his son. after his son left his mansion, they showed plainview recalling the more tender moments he shared with him.

plainview was so hateful and vindictive, and just flat-out evil because he was likely a psychotic sociopath, or at least had very strong sociopathic or psychotic tendencies.

anyways yeah i saw it in the theatre and was completely mesmerized. 2007, ie no country, there will be blood was a coup for noir, or at least unconventional, original filmmaking with vision in hollywood. a nice change from the generic, conventional, off the assembly line spielberg/ron howard fests.

[Bob]

plainview was so hateful and vindictive, and just flat-out evil because he was likely a psychotic sociopath, or at least had very strong sociopathic or psychotic tendencies.

i think his main flaw was being a severe capitalist in an upton sinclair plot. i think they generally communicate via growling and hitting

which was...basically how plainview communicated in the movie, now that i think about it. but it was mesmerizing. what other daniel day-lewis movies should i see? i'm honestly sort of mildly obsessed with him now after seeing this, he was really amazing. like the scene where he's being baptized, and saying "I ABANDONED MY CHILD!" and he just has veins popping out of his forehead in ways that even legitimately angry people rarely do...i guess "wow" is the word i'm looking for.

[saz]

great observation, but the way he dealt with the imposter of his brother, ie murdering him, and then brutally killing the ego maniac preacher boy at the end spoke volumes, hence his psychotic or sociopathic tendencies.

in terms of daniel day lewis films, he was just as psycho and creepy in gangs of new york. it's been bashed on here before but ignore the haters, it was a pretty decent film. my left foot and in the name of the father also have some really gusty performances from him, and his portrayal of the heroic hawkeye in the last of the mohicans was spot on: very noble and badass at the same time. it's probably the most entertaining of the four.

[hpdrifter]

I agree about Gangs of New York. I liked it despite Cameron Diaz and Leo Di Caprio's unfortunate attempts at an Irish accent. I thought DDL was amazing in that. I love how he tailors his voice and vocal cadence to his characters. Very Meryl Streep.

Other of sazi's suggestions work for me too. Just IMDB him and see every movie that pops up.

[Bob]

yeah, i imdb'd him already and i've already got gangs of new york on there (is that the "i'm going to teach you to speak english with this fucking knife" movie or am i thinking of something else?). i was just wondering which of the rest of the list i should be looking at first. i will watch the ones that sazi mentioned.

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DDL and the sets and costume design are pretty much all that's worthwhile about Gangs of New York. Well, and John Reily. It's the only
Scorsese movie I ever walked out on.

For DDL showpieces, you should see:

My Left Foot - Christy Brown in a wheelchair. Awesome performance.

The Age of Innocence - Lewis Archer. Much more quiet performance, but terrific, and one of Scorsese's best. When the There Will Be Blood
boy's parents were deciding whether to let him act opposite Day Lewis, they got Gangs of New York and were horrified. Paul Thomas Anderson
shipped this one off to them, pronto.

Then I'd grab the one-two punch:
My Beautiful Laundrette - Johnny (street punk)
and
Room with a View - Cecil

They showed up in the theaters on the heels of each other and the two characters and performances were so different it pretty much landed
him immediately. Laundrette is directed by Stephen Frears (The Grifters, High Fidelity, Desperate Liaisons) and it's not quite as good plus it
does have some dude on dude stuff, but also some real laughs and an alcoholic uncle who's a prize. Room with a View is another period piece,
but the cast is fantastic and you know pretty much all of them if not by name: Helena Bonham Carter, Julian Sands, Maggie Smith, Denholm
Eliot, Day Lewis, Rupert Graves... If you bother to see them back to back you'll get some sense of the shock of the time -- who the hell
is this guy!?

Unbearable Lightness of Being is good but long. Some pretty sexy stuff in there, though, with Lena Olin.

In the Name of the Father is good, straightforward drama.

Most underrated performance: The Ballad of Jack and Rose. Hippie father and his daughter live alone in a house he's building. He's still got his
communal ideals and stuff, but there's creepy sexuality going on, too. Day Lewis' wife directed it -- she's Arthur Miller's daughter (Death of a
Salesman).

[Documad]

Well, I saw it.

Masterfully directed, methodical. DDL is fierce and fantastic, and I get what Anderson was going for, and it works, but I'm not sure
it's a story worth telling the way that he did.

It's very expansive, and you definitely get the sense of DDL's character, Planview, building a vast fortune from the ground up (literally).
It's a pretty unpleasant story, but maybe not quite... I don't know. Sinister enough? I don't know. There's just not a real narrative
drive, I guess.

Beautifully shot. Really terrific framing and staging of shots. Worth seeing in a theater, just bring your patience.

7.5/10.

I finally saw it, on blu ray with good sound. I agree with everything you said. Jonny Greenwood should score more movies.

I also agree with your recommendations re other DDL movies. I love him as Cecil in A Room With A View. A small part, but I love that movie and it's lovely to see his range over the years. I like him better in the mannered roles, like in Age of Innocence. I wish he would do something more fun sometime. He could trade places with Clive Owen for a while.

I so far behind on movies now that I rarely go to theaters.

[BBboy20]

the plot didn't make a whole lot of sense to me, it seemed like it was narrated in a kind of jarring way and i couldn't get the whole picture. then i saw that it was based on a book by upton sinclair and it all made perfect sense suddenly.Well, you might also consider it as a voyeuristic trip into the dark side of the American dream.

[rirv]

I remember when I watched this in the cinema I realised my jaw was actually hanging open at the final scene. I didn't know what to make of the preacher being bashed to death with a bowling pin.

[rirv]

Also I felt that DDL/Plainview - and thus the whole film - changed at the moment when his son is rendered deaf by the explosion and you see him glowering in the dark with the oil fires behind him. To me that was the pivot point in the film. If that makes sense.

[Videodrome]

i watched this earlier in the week and thought it was amazing. i gave it a 10.

[BangkokB]

I remember when I watched this in the cinema I realised my jaw was actually hanging open at the final scene. I didn't know what to make of the preacher being bashed to death with a bowling pin.
It shows that Greed triumphs over Religion and the Bowling Pin was a display of how the knocked over can become the master when in the wrong hands.

[Nuzzolese]

This movie, I haven't seen since it was just released for home rental. I loved it. It was so visually stunning. Why is that? I guess that's what they mean by cinematography. The scenes were amazing feasts for my eyes - especially the close-ups of DDL. I never noticed how mesmerizing his face is. Did anyone else find him especially physically beautiful and grotesque and captivating in this movie? I don't remember him being that facially powerful in The Last of the Mohicans.

When he said :
"I have a competition in me. I want no one else to succeed. I hate most people...There are times when I look at people and I see nothing worth liking. I want to earn enough money that I can get away from everyone...I see the worst in people. I don't need to look past seeing them to get all I need. I've built my hatreds up over the years, little by little"

I found that I could perfectly understand that, and yet it was so cruel and without shame or any indication that he saw a reason to overcome such hatred. Were those lines in the Upton Sinclair book?

His dislike for society and his bitterness and ambition were like the embodyment of the oil industry, and I don't think very many people took that away from the movie. Maybe I'm reading more into the story than was actually there. In any case it was an incredible movie, for the senses and the mind.

Some people were critical of the music but it added incredible emotion to the scene where the son was hurt: those odd sounds and mechanical noises as if symbolizing the industrialization of the land itself being some powerful menacing force that was larger than mankind, larger even than Plainview.

[Lyman Zerga]

it was boring a bit