There Will Be Blood

[The NZA]

 

All i know is Daniel Day-Lewis, a story around oil, and a metric fuckton of award nominations. Looking to check this one out soon, just wanted to see what anyone knew about it/impressions so far.

[Logan_Snikt!!]

havent seen it yet, but i can't wait. he was the only good thing about gangs of new york

 

[soldier of fortune]

This film is meant to be amazing.

Can't wait to see it.

[Lycaon]

Great movie. The baptism scene is pretty amusing, in particular. Surprisingly little blood, given the title, though.

[alive she cried]

This film is meant to be amazing.

Can't wait to see it.

 

next meetup?

[Aartemys]

I drink your milkshake!

[Lycaon]

I drink your milkshake!

That scene was great, too!

[TulipO]

This movie was incredible. Day-Lewis performance as usual: brilliant. It was SO Upton Sinclair-frought with symbolism (Think on this H.W=Human Weakness) but not in a way that makes you go "for the love of god you're fucking smart ok!?! Now get over yourself!" I thought the parallells were beautifully illustrated between Plainview and Eli-etc. And the end was awesome.

 

"I'm finished!"

very Brechtian. Awesome. not to mention that Tim does a really creepily good impression of "the milkshake scene." which keeps me laughing for ever!

[Silent Bob]

Eh, I was left unsatisfied. One act of masterpiece, one act of greatness and one act of mess. Yeah, Day-Lewis was incredible as usual, but if Gangs of New York proved anything it's that a movie takes more than an incredible Daniel Day-Lewis performance to be successful.

 

The thing that impressed me the most was Paul Dano. The guy's younger than I am but he was able to hold his own with a giant like Day-Lewis - especially impressive considering he had about a weekend to prepare for the role, compared the the full year that Day-Lewis took.