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 PICTURES
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: Alas Death to the Protagonist
Summary: 1 Stars
I have a theory----If you're miserable, hate rich oil people, hate religious people, and have numerous personal issues yourself (maybe bad marriage, bad parents, bad kids) or you just feel deprived of something even though you have the world on a silver platter. And especially if like Oscar buzz movies despite it being yet another a dark cliche
Then this movie IS FOR YOU!
DVD Review: There will be BAD Blood
Summary: 1 Stars
Visually stunning and morally bankrupt. While the movie provides an powerful sense of time and place it also makes you wonder, why bother? The characters seem to revel in the most negative aspects of human nature. The film seems intended to drain the viewer of hope and I found one viewing to be more than enough.DVD Review: The worst soundtrack in the history of movies
Summary: 1 Stars
I'm watching this movie and attempting to enjoy it but the music is just awful. I mean the music is really, really bad. Never in my life have I watched a movie like this where the music actually distracts one from enjoying the movie. Whoever the sound engineer was for this movie should never be allowed to work in movies again. DVD Review: Pointless
Summary: 2 Stars
It is 1898, and Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis) has just struck oil for the first time. As the years pass, Plainview becomes a wealthy oilman, traveling the countryside with his son, buying land and building oil wells. When he buys one farm, he begins an antagonistic relationship with a young preacher.
I didn't "get" this movie. I know critics praised it for being a great piece of art but for me it was two and a half long hours of monotonous tedium. The only thing interesting about it was the soundtrack which created an eerie, ominous mood, making me believe it was building to some exciting action. But the plot, such as it is, just rambles through the years and we learn nothing of the oilman's background or his thoughts beyond the oilfield. We don't know why he's so angry and cold.
There is minimal dialogue and when people do speak, there is no emotional connection (except for Plainview and his odd son, but even that deteriorates - and again, we don't know why). The young preacher wasn't believable at all; he seemed weak and silly, not at all an equal adversary for the heartless Plainview. No one in the cast was sympathetic or interesting and I gave up caring about them.
DVD Review: There Will Be Blood
Summary: 5 Stars
"Ladies and gentlemen, if I say I am an oil man, you will agree." And so begins our affair with Daniel Plainview. He is an intense man. He squints out of one eye, glaring at the rest of humanity over a drunken-gaze. Completely ruthless. A vicious, cut-throat bastard whose ego is only matched by his wealth. The only thing this man has, or will, ever love is money. Basically, he's Charles Foster Kane without the regret. And yet, you can't help but root for him at every turn in the story. Why is that? As I mentioned, he's completely ruthless. (As demonstrated in the scene where he is talking with H.W. about buying the Sunday family's ranch. "I'm not going to give them oil prices. I'm going to give them quail prices.") Perhaps it's his charisma. He just exudes it. Almost to the point of being able to dupe us as easily as he dupes all of the citizens of Little Boston. The only person who sees right through him is the local preacher, the young Eli Sunday. Eli knows that Daniel is a fake. Because he himself is a fake. The only thing these two have in common is their drive to achieve wealth. This is an epic film. Monumental. Paul Thomas Anderson is without a doubt the greatest film-maker working today. And he only keeps getting better and better. I look forward to his next film. (Though how he's going to follow this, I have no idea...) Many people, including myself, have compared this film to Citizen Kane. I do so, too, because, like Kane, this film was basically ignored by the Academy. There Will Be Blood is one of those once-in-a-lifetime films that will be remembered as being one of the greatest of all-time. If not, it most certainly contains one of the most memorable quotes in years. I don't want to spoil it for you here, though.
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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