There Will Be Blood [Blu-ray]

There Will Be Blood [Blu-ray]
by Paul Thomas Anderson

There Will Be Blood [Blu-ray]

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Actor: Ciar?n Hinds, Daniel Day-Lewis, Martin Stringer, Matthew Braden Stringer, Paul Dano
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Brand: PARAMOUNT HOME VIDEO
Cinematographer: Robert Elswit
Editor: Dylan Tichenor
Producer: Scott Rudin
Producer: Eric Schlosser
Producer: David Williams
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 158 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-06-03
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Paramount

DVD Reviews of There Will Be Blood [Blu-ray]

DVD Review: There Will Be Blood
Summary: 1 Stars

I ordered There Will Be Blood, and was was so disappointed to find the disc faulty. I returned it, and asked for another, but it, too, was bad. So...........I don't know how to rate this! I'm sure I would have loved it, if I had been able to view it!

DVD Review: Greed, Deception, and An Odd Ending -
Summary: 2 Stars

This movie did not appeal to me. It is a overly long epic on a greedy, crazy, deceptive man, Daniel Plainview (played by Daniel Day Lewis). The movie is based on the 1927 Sinclair novel Oil! It begins in 1902 showing Plainview as a mineral and silver prospector in the Southwest. The first 30 minutes drag on as there is little dialogue. After one of his workers dies in an accident, Plainview adopts the man's orphaned son. We find out later the mother also died in childbirth. He names the boy H.W. (Dillon Freasier) and uses him to establish himself as a family man and set a good image.

Several years later, 1911, Plainview meets Paul Sunday (Paul Dano) who comes to his office with a proposal. He knows of an oil deposit under his family's property in Little Boston, California and will let Plainview in on the secret for $500. Plainview agrees travels out with H.W. asking to camp and quail hunt with his son. After dinner with the Sunday family one evening he asks to buy the land at $3,700, which he feels is a good deal. Paul's twin brother Eli (also played by Paul Dano) understands Plainview's deceptive offer and holds out for $10,000. He wants part of his father's money to found a church. Finally Plainview agrees and oil producton on the Sunday land begins.

Eli asks Plainview to bless the oil well at the dedication. Plainview, for some reason feels this is a power-play, and grabs Mary Sunday (a family member who does not like to pray) and dedicates the well holding her hand.

Soon an on-site accident kills a worker, deafens his adopted son, and also catches the rig on fire. You wonder if Eli should have blessed the well.

Later a visitor (Kevin J. O'Connor) comes to Plainview's home saying he is his half brother and needs work. Plainview takes him in, and H.W. discovers flaws in his story an attempts to kill him by setting his bed alight. Plainview is upset at his boy's behavior and sends him to a school in northern California.

The movie then goes into deals and offers with Union and Standard oil, a murder, deals and insults from Eli. Later, in 1927, H.W. (Russell Harvards) finishes school and marries his childhood sweetheartr Mary Sunday (Colleen Foy). His father, Daniel Plainview lives in a mansion alone. He is obsessed with business and alcohol. H.W. (through a sign language interpreter) to let him establish his own business. This means disolving their partnership. Plainview makes fun of his son's deafness and tells him of his origins and that he was adopted.

Later, Eli visits Plainview, now head of a larger church and a religious radio show. He needs money and goes to Plainview. The odd ending shows that Plainview wants Eli to confess he is a false profit and God is a superstition. Eli finally does so after much humiliation. The setting is the mansions bowling alley. More anger and dialogue about land and oil ensue between Eli and Plainview, then Plainview uses an oversized straw to drink Eli's milkshake from across the room. Then an angry Plainview chases Eli around the room with a bowling pin beating him to death with it. The only servant in the house comes down to see what is going on. Plainview says "I'm finished" and the film ends.

So the film bores, shows the worst of capitalism, greed and deception, and the ending is bizarre. Daniel Day Lewis does a fine acting job, but the insane greedy character was not worth watching despite all the awards he and the movie received.

DVD Review: Far too long, but Lewis is outstanding as always
Summary: 3 Stars

3.3 stars

Who edited this thing, or rather, didn't? It just draaaags at many points. Some might call it sweepingly epic, though the term pointlessly overblown also applies.

The real dealbreaker for me was the music, which is horridly manipulative from the very start, portending doom during simple expository shots and generally calling notice to itself all the time. I love a good score, but only when it fits hand in glove with the movie. This stuff is more like foot on hand.

Lewis is the highlight, and he is indeed excellent, making us care about a man who's not very worthy of much love. Upton Sinclair's story is somewhat overdone here, though; despite some fine moments, I just stopped caring about what happened to whom about 90 minutes in, and knowing we were in for another 70 minutes was somewhat sigh-inducing.

Which is too bad, as this film would have wowed me if cut to about 100 minutes, or at most two hours. But maybe that's just me. I'd heard so much for so long that I expected too much and got much less than hoped for. Excepting Lewis, always a treat to watch.

Nonetheless, there is no way I'd want to see this again for a year or three, even for a barrel of oil.

DVD Review: Whats all the packaging fuss about?
Summary: 5 Stars

Movie came in standard blu-ray case. No scratches/blemishes/issues whatsoever. Excellent 5 stars for the movie and the packaging!

DVD Review: Capitalism vs religion. . . and itself
Summary: 4 Stars

Wow. This is an impressive venture. For about the first 14 minutes, there is no talking whatsoever, just Daniel Day-Lewis mining alone for oil in the middle of nowhere, but that time is well spent and there's never a dull moment. In fact, what you see in that quiet beginning foreshadows what lengths Day-Lewis's character, Daniel, will ultimately go to in order to protect himself and his company. For the most part, I understood why Daniel behaved as he did throughout the movie, lying to, killing and rejecting those around him. Daniel is, generally speaking, a likeable character until he eventually goes off the rails toward the end, a selfish man alone with his money. Daniel Day-Lewis gives an outstanding performance here, totally Oscar-worthy. The guy really knows his art.

Description of There Will Be Blood [Blu-ray]

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Unmistakably a shot at greatness, Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood succeeds in wild, explosive ways. The film digs into nothing less than the sources of peculiarly American kinds of ambition, corruption, and industry--and makes exhilarating cinema from it all. Although inspired by Upton Sinclair's 1927 novel Oil!, Anderson has crafted his own take on the material, focusing on a black-eyed, self-made oilman named Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis), whose voracious appetite for oil turns him into a California tycoon in the early years of the 20th century. The early reels are a mesmerizing look at the getting of oil from the ground, an intensely physical process that later broadens into Plainview's equally indomitable urge to control land and power. Curious, diverting episodes accumulate during Plainview's rise: a mighty derrick fire (a bravura opportunity that Anderson, with the aid of cinematographer Robert Elswit, does not fail to meet), a visit from a long-lost brother (Kevin J. O'Connor), the ongoing involvement of Plainview's poker-faced adoptive son (Dillon Freasier). As the film progresses, it gravitates toward Plainview's rivalry with the local representative of God, a preacher named Eli Sunday (brimstone-spitting Paul Dano); religion and capitalism are thus presented not so much as opposing forces but as two sides of the same coin. And the worm in the apple here is less man's greed than his vanity. Anderson's offbeat take on all this--exemplified by the astonishing musical score by Jonny Greenwood--occasionally threatens to break the film apart, but even when it founders, it excites. As for Daniel Day-Lewis, his performance is Olivier-like in its grand scope and its attention to details of behavior; Plainview speaks in the rum-rich voice of John Huston, and squints with the wariness of Walter Huston. It's a fearsome performance, and the engine behind the film's relentless power. --Robert Horton

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