There Will Be Blood

[EightMilesHigh]

http://www.firstshowing.net/img/therewillbeblood-poster.jpg

Paul Thomas Anderson (Boogie Nights)
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Paul Dano (Little Miss Sunshine)
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Daniel Day-Lewis (My Left Foot)

There is really no reason why I wouldn't see this.

[simplephotographinthesun]

i wish they'd release it nationwide already :angry:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ml2Ae2SIXac&feature=related

[Danger Bird]

It's only playing in seattle :angry:

[thedeadwalk!]

Paul Thomas Anderson (Punch-Drunk Love)
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Daniel Day-Lewis (Gangs of New York)
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for me.

I agree with Paul Dano, and I've noticed him in other pictures and he's always stood out for some reason. This could be a breakthrough for him.

[Danger Bird]

There's no way for this not to be ****ing incredible.

[Akira]

This doesn't come out here until next weekend. I am so excited though.

[planewreck]

Came out last weekend. Waiting for my mom to get home to go see it.

[BringHomeTheBacon]

I'm hoping to see it this weekend. PTA is one of my favorite directors. I downloaded the soundtrack by Jonny Greenwood and it's pretty awesome.

[FlyingPaul_83]

I can't wait. Looks so good.

[bradc1988]

Saw a trailer for it yesterday, it looks promising.

[Let's Chop Cats!]

I want to see this so ****ing bad, but the closest theater playing it is 45 mins away and has shitty times.

[EightMilesHigh]

I downloaded the soundtrack by Jonny Greenwood and it's pretty awesome.

PT Anderson films always have killer soundtracks, this looks like it'll be no exception.

[Danger Bird]

When if ever is this getting a broader release

[simplephotographinthesun]

"The film was released on December 26, 2007 in New York and Los Angeles. A sneak preview screening was held in 14 select cities on December 29, 2007. The film will continue to gradually open in selected markets and in a limited number of theatres. By the weekend of January 18, the film is scheduled to play in the top 75 markets and in around 600 theatres."

- Wikipedia

I'd probably say a nationwide release by late february/early march

[Danger Bird]

I hope so because I missed out on Into the Wild because of the limited release

[A Dead Modernist]

Im pretty sure I made a thread on this already, I really want to see this though been pshyced on it for months.

[black guy]

He steals an Asian man's milkshake. The Asian man asks, "What you do?"
His reply: http://idrinkyourmilkshake.com/ .


I am trying not to get my hopes up, but this looks insanely good.

[BringHomeTheBacon]

I saw this today and it definitely didn't disappoint. I felt like a started off a bit slow but the last two-thirds of it had some really amazing scenes, great acting all around. Magnolia will probably remain as my favorite PTA film, but this is right up there with it. 9/10 for me.

[Happymeal]

Watched this on the first day it came out, the last scene was incredible.


"I'm finished!"

[Robert Crumb]

This opened up this weekend here, was going to go see it on Friday but my friend balked. I shoulda gone anyway. I'll probably catch it sometime this next week.

[Let's Chop Cats!]

WHY THE **** ISN'T ANYONE WILLING TO WATCH A MOVIE FOR 3 HOURS, ITS NOT THAT LONG OF A TIME. ****.

[A Dead Modernist]

123

[Akira]

I'll watch a good movie like this for three hours. A bad three hour movie is hell though.

[planewreck]

WHY THE **** ISN'T ANYONE WILLING TO WATCH A MOVIE FOR 3 HOURS, ITS NOT THAT LONG OF A TIME. ****.
where did this even come from

[PshSam]

ugh...3hours? why would a movie be soooo long.

sarcasm is harder to do on the internets.

[planewreck]

no it's fairly easy

[Let's Chop Cats!]

where did this even come from

venting the fact that non of my friends are willing to go see the movie.

[niobium]

i've been wanting to see this since about 4 hours ago.

[planewreck]

venting the fact that non of my friends are willing to go see the movie.
my friends won't go see it because the only one who would (she goes to see almost everything else i do, sans horror films) thinks it looks horrible.

and wtf i mean really

[bradc1988]

I'll watch a good movie like this for three hours. A bad three hour movie is hell though.

Yeah King Kong was torture.

[Montana]

This looks pretty sweet.

[beans]

i saw this movie last night and i was really suprised with it, the cohen bros. did a good job making this one. and yes it is 'long' but its a good movie, one worth seeing in my opinion

[A Dead Modernist]

what? this is pta movie, not cohen bros.

:confused:

that being said, my friends are going to see Cloverfield and am going to go see There Will Be Blood by myself.

[A Dead Modernist]

oldie but goodie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V89yFMHXynk

[Let's Chop Cats!]

Finally got around to seeing this. Its really long and not the most driving movie, but its definitely awesome. DDL's acting is ****ing perfect in it.

[CarnageFairy]

I saw some previews for this and instead of "wow that looks horrible" like every other preview I've seen besides the new Coen Bros. I actually said "wow that looks pretty great"

I'm usually right about these things.

[Danger Bird]

Yay I get to see this after all today with my friends

[Danger Bird]

Oh my god. Holy ****. What a movie. As good as or better than No Country. Not just one of the greatest films of 07, one of the greatest films of all time.

[Robert Crumb]

Yeah, this was pretty awesome. I think I liked No Country a little better because it had a stronger narrative arc but **** if there's a better actor than Daniel Day-Lewis working today. The couple of intense scenes with Paul Dano were just fantastic. Although on a couple of occasions, I kinda feel like Dano was way over the top trying to compete with Daniel Day-Lewis. And that's a mistake.

But yeah, spectacular, fantastic ending, pretty sweet score, brilliant acting, etc.

[Danger Bird]

Only bad part was the dumb assholes laughing during all the intense parts, like when Daniel calls the guy after-birth. The scene in the burning oil well was one of those moments where it's so awesome you just don't know what to do with yourself.

[Robert Crumb]

There were some parts that were kind of so awkward, I just had to laugh. But yeah, that part I don't think was one of them. Although I couldn't help but smirk when DDL makes Dano his bitch.

And yeah, the oil well was just awesome. There was a bit of really nice subtle visual foreshadowing with the boy just a couple minutes before that. I was just thinking, "oh ****, not gonna turn out well for him."

[Danger Bird]

I just have this image burned into my brain of Daniel Day covered in oil staring at the burning well in the dark. So bad-***.

[Robert Crumb]

Pretty much every expression he makes in the movie is just so bad-assed. Also, I gotta admit I chuckled at "I DRINK YOUR MILKSHAKE," which, thinking back, was right about at the after-birth scene I think you were talking about.

[Danger Bird]

That's not so bad but they were snickering throughout the whole false prophet/god is a superstition part and it was really quite infuriating.

[Let's Chop Cats!]

I was 1 of 4 people in the theater when I saw it. I was the asshole laughing at the milkshake thing. PTA said he got that bit from a senator who said that in an official statement back then.

[EightMilesHigh]

Ok, officially going to see this today after various delays.

[Danger Bird]

Congratulations.

[ThePinkPanther]

i just aw it

i loved it.

DDL's acting was so good. so good. i cant even comprehend.

my girlfriend thought it was "just okay" and i promptly told her she was wrong

[planewreck]

I laughed more out of disbelief at the God/superstition part than anything malicious. I laughed basically whenever Daniel Day-Lewis got ludicrous, but it was just this unexpected humor that was both over-the-top and terrifying.

That being said, it all worked for me. The film was just awesome, but could someone enlighten me on the purpose of Paul/Eli? Put spoiler warnings where appropriate.

[Let's Chop Cats!]

They're twins. Eli was recasted at like the last possible second and they turned the brothers into twins since the kid who was playing Paul got the part. There is a deleted scene that helps explain it. But also when Eli starts yelling at his dad he mentions how Paul is his brother.

[planewreck]

I figured that, but then my mom was speculating on if Eli and Paul were the same person, so I was just checking up on that.

So Paul just got the money and left?

[Mr. Ron]

looks amazing

[ThePinkPanther]

I figured that, but then my mom was speculating on if Eli and Paul were the same person, so I was just checking up on that.

So Paul just got the money and left?

spoiler

im pretty sure at the end its mentioned how Paul was the smart one and went to Daniel and how Daniel gave Paul 10,000 down and now owns 3 drilling spots. I think its like Paul betrayed the family and got rich. i may be wrong

[planewreck]

See, I figured all of that but then I just got confused by the fact that it's the same guy and Paul is rarely mentioned ever again except when Daniel brings him up. But yeah, he was brought up with the Dad. I got it now, k thanks everyone.

[Let's Chop Cats!]

spoiler

im pretty sure at the end its mentioned how Paul was the smart one and went to Daniel and how Daniel gave Paul 10,000 down and now owns 3 drilling spots. I think its like Paul betrayed the family and got rich. i may be wrong it shows how Paul was smart while Eli was just getting greedy for his church.

[EightMilesHigh]

If you have a milkshake and I have a milkshake and I have a straw and my straw reaches across the room and starts to drink your milkshake. I drink your milkshake! I drink it up!

Ohhhhhhhh man.

Just got back from this.

This has got to win some oscars this year.

I don't have a lot to say but this was pretty damn amazing.


***SPOILERS BE YONDER***




Apparently at the end, the original script said Daniel was going to hit Elijah with a tumbler and then send him down the bowling lane into the basement and thus causing quite a mess, but PTA thought it would be too over-the-top, especially considering how you just over-the-top Daniel had just gone.



But yeah....damn good film.

[simplephotographinthesun]

That being said, it all worked for me. The film was just awesome, but could someone enlighten me on the purpose of Paul/Eli? Put spoiler warnings where appropriate.

i saw the paul/eli brother relationship similar to daniel/henry. paul appears blatantly to get money. henry has the same goals but is more covert about it. though paul never appears again, i think PT is still referencing the cain and abel biblical story (am i my brother's keeper? business). paul abandons his brother and his family while daniel abandoned his family in wisconsin and ends up killing henry, his "brother"

[Danger Bird]

i just aw it

i loved it.

DDL's acting was so good. so good. i cant even comprehend.

my girlfriend thought it was "just okay" and i promptly told her she was wrong

Break up with her.

[Time]

Alright I'm fixing to go see this tomorrow, hopefully it'll meet my expectations. My friend said it was boring but my friends are all immature so I don't trust that opinion

[VomitStainedCretin]

i just aw it

i loved it.

DDL's acting was so good. so good. i cant even comprehend.

my girlfriend thought it was "just okay" and i promptly told her she was wrongReminds me of when I saw 'The Assassination of Jesse James...' and some guy in front of us, plainly enjoying the movie, was henpecked by his girlfriend, who blatently wanted to leave, for most of it (they left 15 minutes before the end).

[ThePinkPanther]

Reminds me of when I saw 'The Assassination of Jesse James...' and some guy in front of us, plainly enjoying the movie, was henpecked by his girlfriend, who blatently wanted to leave, for most of it (they left 15 minutes before the end).

well luckily it wasnt like that. just afterwards i was like "holy **** that was so good" and she was like "why did you like it so much. it was just okay"

i like died when she said that because ive never heard such a blatant lie in my life.

[Time]

this blew my mind...I was uneasy at first but there were so many great scenes and the acting was phenomenal

[CarnageFairy]

Ballin.



I loved the last few scenes, **** I loved all the scenes.

[Danger Bird]

well luckily it wasnt like that. just afterwards i was like "holy **** that was so good" and she was like "why did you like it so much. it was just okay"

i like died when she said that because ive never heard such a blatant lie in my life.

Why haven't you broken up yet

[iarescientists]

Just got back

Fastest/Greatest 158 minutes of my life

[Danger Bird]

My history teacher told us we could watch it for extra credit, and then hated it when he saw it. What an old cunt. Said he was checking his watch the whole time. Compared it to reading an Upton Sinclair novel.

[iarescientists]

Does he know it's based off an Upton Sinclair novel, or is he just being a wiseass?

[tablespoonful]

daniel day lewis' acting: 12/10

the final scene i knew i was witnessing something absolutely classic

I DRINK YOUR MILKSHAKE!

[Interstate]

This sounds really good, I'm going to have to see this at some point.

[Kage]

I'll never forget the shot coming in on Daniel Day Lewis in the dark with Jonny Greenwood's twisted music playing.

[Danger Bird]

^When the oil well's on fire? That's what stands out to me too.

I DRINK YOUR MILSHAKE is dominating all my conversations now.

[iarescientists]

All of Eli's sermons and that last scene are the ones that stuck out to me most, i think

Paul Dano gets my vote for best up and coming actor

[EightMilesHigh]

The oil scene was fantastic, everyone is panicking and all Daniel can see is that there is oil.

****, just imagine going and picking out all the various symbolism that they used in this.

[tablespoonful]

and things went all silent cuz at that very moment the oil burst out his "son's" hearing went out its like a metaphor for his own connection with the world and then it was all down hill

[Aeaon]

As the days keep going by, I am more anxious for this film.

[thedeadwalk!]

Trailers are coming out now with this line, and I've still yet to see it, so I must ask: what's the deal with this "I drink your milkshake" bit? I feel I should laugh, and yet it's not humorous. It would seem this is partly shown to deflate its surprise when people see it, and yet, it seems very out of place.

[iarescientists]

it's used in the movie pretty much to show how delirious and disconnected from society he's become

it kind of causes some laughs from disbelief in the context of the film, but I'd say in the context it's more sad/frightening than funny, but out of context it's ****ing awesome

[thedeadwalk!]

It seems a line that's too out there for its own good. But I'll be damned if Daniel Day-Lewis isn't just an amazing actor and can pull it off.

[Danger Bird]

^tr00f

I could understand people laughing at that particular part in the scene, but they were laughing throughout that whole ending, when he called him afterbirth and made him renounce God and stuff. It was so aggravating.

[Kage]

Just wait until you see the movie, it makes perfect sense.

[ThePinkPanther]

i loved all the symbolism and foreshadowing in it

like when Daniel and his "brother" were on the beach and daniel was in the light and the brother was in the shade you knew what was going down

[Kage]

^tr00f

I could understand people laughing at that particular part in the scene, but they were laughing throughout that whole ending, when he called him afterbirth and made him renounce God and stuff. It was so aggravating.

Yeah, I know. THe whole time I was just thinking, "this is in no way funny."

[iarescientists]

i really loved paul dano in this and thought he did a fantastic job

but i mean, it was kind of distracting when his voice cracked when Daniel started slapping him in the field

[tablespoonful]

^tr00f

I could understand people laughing at that particular part in the scene, but they were laughing throughout that whole ending, when he called him afterbirth and made him renounce God and stuff. It was so aggravating.

i chuckled under my breath when i saw the tables turn but i noticed that some people were lovin it too much

i didnt expect the conclusion of you know what scene after all the ostensibly comical bits but then it happened I was like "whaaaa?" but then the last line of the movie came in and i realized how that "purge" worked

[simplephotographinthesun]

i loved all the symbolism and foreshadowing in it

like when Daniel and his "brother" were on the beach and daniel was in the light and the brother was in the shade you knew what was going down

i really enjoyed P.T. Anderson's new spin on his trademark father-son relationship, so many parallels and inversions between:

eli and abel
H.W. and daniel
jesus and god

[ThePinkPanther]

ok so i just read this review of This Will Be Blood and want to kill a baby

REVIEW: "There Will Be Blood"
...But there shouldn't be a movie
By George Grella on Jan. 23rd, 2008

Mighty books, Herman Melville reminds us in "Moby Dick," demand mighty themes, a dictum that the makers of "There Will Be Blood" and all the reviewers gushing over the movie might keep in mind. Although advertised as an epic by its publicity machine, making it easy for the useful Advertisementsycophants of the media to invoke the term, the film really only qualifies for that designation through its enormous length and deliberate pace, creating an empty amplitude, a large space without much significant action or thematic grandeur.

Adapted from a book by Upton Sinclair, the movie, which takes place in the early 20th century, tells one of those familiar American stories, the rise of an ambitious man to great heights of wealth and power, who pays for his accomplishment with the coin of his soul. Daniel Day-Lewis plays Daniel Plainview, an independent mining engineer who learns of a rich source of oil near a hamlet called Little Boston, in California. There he purchases land from a young, presumably self-ordained preacher named Eli Sunday (Paul Dano) who runs the Church of the Third Revelation, with a specialty in casting out devils.

The film follows, very slowly, the progress of Plainview's fortunes, as he and his crew drill a number of successful wells and bring in a series of gushers. It also follows the intermittent conflict between Eli and Daniel, as each attempts to outwit the other; Eli wants Daniel to pay for the construction of a new church, and Daniel simply wants more land and more oil, without the burden of living up to any agreement. In revenge for Daniel's insults, deceptions, and falsehoods, Eli forces him to undergo a humiliating public confession and baptism, an act that Daniel himself avenges at the end of the picture.

Daniel speaks often of his dislike for humanity, and indeed the protagonist of this alleged epic seems motivated as much by sheer misanthropy as by greed. His young son (and partner, as he says), the 11-year-old H.W. (Dillon Freasier), represents his one soft spot, the only person he loves; when H.W. is deafened by a mine explosion, he sends the young boy away to school, in effect abandoning him. The act amounts to the first step in a gradual process of isolation and alcoholic insanity that alienates everyone he deals with and ultimately determines his fate.

The director spins out his essentially simple, linear story at great length, taking an inordinate amount of time to cover a series of mostly minor details in a puzzling mixture of obvious, heavy-handed repetition and opaque allusion. Despite that length and a structure based on events plodding after each other in dull and solemn lockstep, the narrative unfolds clumsily and haphazardly, signaling changes in dates with incongruously Gothic lettering on the screen and omitting large chunks of important action. It takes the director so long to arrive at his point that his picture fizzles out rather than attaining some sort of meaning in its conclusion.

The movie suffers from a number of troubling problems, most of them apparently the fault of the director, Paul Thomas Anderson, the man who, lest we forget, gave the world "Boogie Nights." Its loud, insistent, discordant score, for example, often drowns out the dialogue when it isn't simply filling up time while the camera pauses in one of the innumerable long shots of the arid vistas of the oil fields.

Daniel Day-Lewis occupies the center of just about every scene, even every shot in the picture, and that much exposure of an entirely static, basically incomprehensible, and utterly unlikeable character over two and a half hours becomes unbearable - some things an audience should not have to look upon. As Plainview he refines the snarling, sneering posturing of his character in the also long, dull, and repetitive "Gangs of New York" into something a degree or two less ridiculous, but retains the nasty narcissism that mars so many of his performances.

Both his acting and the movie test the endurance of the human spirit for sheer inanity and wretched excess.

[DanD]

the trailer does absolutely nothing for me

[planewreck]

ok so i just read this review of This Will Be Blood and want to kill a baby
summary: i was v bored by this movie about greed and daniel-day lewis' mustache. idk too many small scenesl ike that one where he runs away from his deafened son to watch oil go psssssh i mean what is the point of that

.5/5 because i giggled at the milkshake

[ThePinkPanther]

and the plot was like "lol wut happened to like 10 yrs in the movie"

[iarescientists]

hai guyz this movie is called there will be blood but i didn't c any blud

-1/5

[planewreck]

there was blood all over dem drenches

[iarescientists]

hmm i must hav missed it checkin my watch cuz the movie wuz so lng!!!

[simplephotographinthesun]

this george grella fellow sounds like a real cunt.

[BringHomeTheBacon]

i loved all the symbolism and foreshadowing in it

like when Daniel and his "brother" were on the beach and daniel was in the light and the brother was in the shade you knew what was going down
Yea, I noticed this when Bandy is asking Daniel to join the church and repent for his sin where Daniel puts up his hand to shield a blinding light in his eyes.

[planewreck]

He's also very hungover and sunlight isn't going to help, but I get where you're coming from.

[simplephotographinthesun]

also more symbolism/imagery of the human hand vs. god's hand

[tablespoonful]

why would anyone complain about the time gaps in there will be blood... 2001 a space odyssey had 1000's years gap

[iarescientists]

it probably makes them feel smart to pick at things that don't matter.

[tablespoonful]

yeah any argument resting on a hefty sum of adjectives tends to be a bad one