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Nabaza.net-The MarketPlace - There Will Be Blood (Two-Disc Special Collector's Edition)
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Manufacturer: Paramount
Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano, Ciarán Hinds, Martin Stringer, Matthew Braden Stringer
Directed By: Paul Thomas Anderson
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: THERE WILL BE BLOOD - 2-DISC EDITION (DVD MOV
EAN: 0097361325743
Format: Widescreen
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2008-04-08
Running Time: 158
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: 2008-04-08
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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.System Requirements:Running Time: 158 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre:Â DRAMA/HISTORICAL EPIC Rating:Â R UPC:Â 097361325743 Manufacturer No:Â 132574
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Summary: There Will Be Greed
Comment: Director Paul Thomas Anderson ("Magnolia") achieves something very rare in films, he manages to create a really extraordinary film whose main character Daniel Plainview played by Daniel Day-Lewis ("My Left Foot") is for the most part reprehensible. With the exception of rare moments of affection for his deaf son, whose deafness is caused by an accident at his father's oil wells, Plainview cares for no one on earth, hates most people, is highly competitive and filled with unstoppable greed and ambition.
The film is based on a novel by Upton Sinclair OIL and is set in the early decades of the 20th century when a lot of Americans acted like Plainview-- to a lesser degree we hope-- in their quest for wealth at whatever expense.
The critics could not get enough of this film. Daniel Day-Lewis earned an Oscar for best actor for his portrayal of Plainview. While he is supported by good performances by other actors, notably that of Paul Dano ("Little Miss Sunshine") as the hell-fire minister of the Church of the Third Revelation, Eli Sunday, the film ultimately belongs to Day-Lewis.
In addition to his statement about greed, Anderson also shoots a nice arrow into fundamentalist, crazy religion. The soundtrack works very well, particularly the use of the beautiful Brahms Violin Concerto.
It will be interesting to see how this film holds up in the years ahead, but for now it is still white-hot.
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Summary: There will be blood by Brandon
Comment: I thought Daniel Day Lewis was outstanding and evil in this movie, but I thought he was the only thing good in the movie. It has a good story about an oil man, but it is very long and it gets boring.
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Summary: Another one impossible to rate
Comment: There Will Be Blood is another one of those movies that you will either love or hate. Daniel Day Lewis is fantastic in this extensive character study; the acting in general was superb. But the pacing was very peculiar--long passages occur when nothing much happens; and the music was overwhelming more than a few times, literally covering the dialogue. I am a composer myself, and I appreciated the composer's skill, but I think the sound engineer should never work in Hollywood again. All in all, the reviewer below who described this as an "Oily Citizen Kane" was pretty close to the mark, although this movie was more violent. All in all, I was left with too much of a sense that the director was trying too hard to create a film that would last for all time. To my mind, a somewhat more direct method would have made a better film. But perhaps it's me.
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Summary: I don't get it...
Comment: Despite the reviews, I don't get it...
Daniel Day Lewis undoubtedly carries the film powerfully, but outside that, its more like watching an OMNIMAX film featuring breathtaking images of turn of the century American Wild West... complete with gushy pseudo-classical music and great costumes. - - My gosh, why not simply re-issue a wide screen version of Little House in the Prairie... as sparse on plot as the film is, maybe the director should have even watched Little House to get some ideas for secondary stories or enable the development of more interesting supporting characters.
Did I miss something? True, the film is escapist entertainment from the modern world, but the Zen like pacing of the story development borders on quizzical on me. One can't help but think... Is there a reason why? Is something going to happen? and What's this all about? - - As the director attempts to explain this we find out something interesting... ha ha... if the film seems a bit disjointed at times there's a reason... GENIUS ! ! ! ...or not....
Again, I realize my opinion is way in the minority -- but I simply just don't get it...
It takes way to long for the plot to unfold... and thanks to the disjointed nature of the film it seems that Daniel Day's one man show and "the crowd" is so bizarre one wonders if all his scenes were shot in a day, then filled with misc. "breathtaking stuff" - - then again... maybe I missed something...
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Summary: TRITE
Comment: The movie is trite. Yes, good acting, good directing, good camera work, etc; but that doesn't make a Masterpiece or even a great movie. The story: There Will Be Blood--you will find such stories in every sidestreet bar. So what makes a great movie? Welles understtod. Humanity. The movie had no humanity. You didn't take anything away with you you didn't already know. It didn't have "Rosebud".
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