There Will Be Blood (Two-Disc Special Collector's Edition)
by Paul Thomas Anderson
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Actor: Ciar?n Hinds, Daniel Day-Lewis, Martin Stringer, Matthew Braden Stringer, Paul DanoDirector: Paul Thomas Anderson
Brand: Paramount
Producer: Paul Thomas Anderson
Writer: Paul Thomas Anderson
Producer: Daniel Lupi
Producer: David Williams
Producer: Eric Schlosser
Producer: JoAnne Sellar
Writer: Upton Sinclair
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 158 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-04-08
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Paramount
DVD Reviews of There Will Be Blood (Two-Disc Special Collector's Edition)
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.DVD Review: P. T. Anderson Realizes His Potential with the Help of Daniel Day-Lewis
Summary: 5 Stars
Finally! A P. T. Anderson film that shows off his many directorial talents while restraining himself just enough to subordinate his virtuoso tendencies in the service of telling the story at the heart of his movie. Anderson is wise enough to trust Daniel Day-Lewis to do his thing in the lead role as an obsessed oil man named Daniel Plainview who conquers fertile lands like a capitalist Alexander the Great. Few, if any, actors can get as far into character as Day-Lewis can, and this towering performance ranks among the best of his distinguished career. Plainview may be a wicked misanthrope who rebels against his own humanity at every turn, but Day-Lewis makes you watch him carefully. In particular, his interactions with a pompous and deceitful pastor (Paul Dano), which go from wary to openly adversarial, are both defining and amusing. The sacrifice of Plainview's sanity, as well as his ability to connect with another human being, as he becomes the master of all he surveys makes him someone who compares with the Holy Grail of cinematic over-reachers, Charles Foster Kane of Citizen Kane. Anderson is gutsy enough to welcome the obvious comparison, and Day-Lewis is talented enough to pull it off. Bravo!DVD Review: Five star movie gets a two star treatment
Summary: 5 Stars
There Will Be Blood is one of those films that is just perfect in every sense. It is based on Upton Sinclair's (one of my all time favorite authors) terrific novel Oil! It features the perennially underrated Daniel Day Lewis in the starring role. The direction is bold and ispired. Paul Thomas Anderson manages to say more without a single word in the opening twenty five minutes of this film than most directors say in a lifetime. The soundtrack is haunting and could not suit the subject matter more perfectly. Is it music? Not always, but this film does not call for that. This is not an Indiana Jones flick, I mean, come on. This film wades in the same waters and Johnny Got His Gun and No Country For Old Men. In fact, had it not been released in the same season as the latter, this surely would have won Best Picture. Daniel Day-Lewis does finally collect the Oscar for Best Actor which one can name numerous other performances such as Butcher Bill in Gangs of New York which should have garnered the same accolades. This is a soul-shattering meditation on a man driven by money. He is so obsessed with his own struggle for success that he poisons all those around him. His cruelty will surely touch even the most jaded movie-goer. His candor, however, drives even the most seemingly pious among the cast of characters to sacrifice their own values and beliefs to bend to the will of such an imposing character as Daniel Plainview. You must see this film. The only problem with it is the babre-bones presentation of the production in DVD and Blu-Ray. But, be warned. Guard your milkshake. Five stars.
Description of There Will Be Blood (Two-Disc Special Collector's Edition)
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.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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