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There Will Be Blood (Two-Disc Special Collector's Edition) 
Actors : Daniel Day-Lewis, Kevin J. O'Connor, Jacob Stringer, Matthew Braden Stringer, Ciarán Hinds
Director : Paul Thomas Anderson
Studio : Paramount
by Paramount
Brand : THERE WILL BE BLOOD - 2-DISC EDITION (DVD MOV
Release Date : 2008-04-08
Publisher : Paramount
Availability : Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Number of Items : 2
EAN : 0097361325743
UPC : 097361325743
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 221 reviews)
List Price : $34.99
Our Price : $15.43
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Product Description |
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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: DRAMA/HISTORICAL EPIC Rating: R UPC: 097361325743 Manufacturer No: 132574 |
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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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there will be blood |
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what a long, long, long and boring movie!!! i thought it would never end. i didn't want to turn it off as it was so boring i knew i would never put it on again and i wanted to see if anything worth seing actually happened. it didn't. there's 2 1/2 hours of my life i will never get back. |
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Oscars For This Film Well Deserved |
Daniel Day-Lewis was deserving of the Academy Award he received for his portrayal of an intense, driven and obsessive oil man in "There Will Be Blood". The initial stages of the film are a mini-documentary of the dangerous, dirty and labor intensive process of drilling oil wells in early twentieth century California. Day-Lewis's character, Daniel Plainview, strives to become an oil tycoon using strong arm sales pitches to acquire land, relentless effort to drill wells and strategic vision in applying new pipeline technology to bypass the railroad monopoly and deliver his product to market. His nemesis is an equally ambitious pentecostal preacher who manipulates the simple townfolk that ranch the land above Plainview's oil fields. Ultimately both men are destoyed by their respective obsessions.
The flow of the film falters a little at the end. However, Day-Lewis's best performance of his career (surpassing strong performances in "The Age of Innocence" and "Gangs of New York") make this one of the best films of 2007. |
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There Will Be Greed |
The many ways that greed manifests are countless in this film. Virtually no character goes without claim on some level of selfishness when oil is discovered on otherwise useless California properties. The lives of the inhabitants of a small farm community are turned upside down when the reality of what wealth can be gained dawns on them, as well as when they realize the price they will pay to have it. The story is a believable exploitation of the land and lives of those striking out on the American frontier. Central to its conflict are Daniel Plainview, a slick oil prospector with the sincerity of a snake oil salesman, and Eli Sunday, the ambitious young pastor of a struggling country church.
Day-Lewis Truly deserved all the accolades he won for his performance of Daniel Plainview in this film. The range of his skills was wholly evident in this film, from the overall reserved and refined mannerisms of Plainview, to his later explosive and subtly vitriolic snide treatment of others. In truth, every performance in this film was flawless. In particular Paul Dano, Sunday, should have gotten more attention for his supporting role. His passionate sermons were frightening and moving in his ability to swing from demure to suddenly thundering. The physicality he brought to the character was entrancing as much as creepy. I'm excited to think of what work he will do from this point forward.
Overall the direction of the film seemed to be spot-on in delivery. Most impressive to me were the great gaps in dialogue. I'm always impressed when a scene is forced to move forward without speech. That said, I'm not quite sure to what the poor pacing and seeming gaps in sequencing should be attributed. In some places the film moved quite slowly, while sudden artless segués seemed to leave out huge chunks of time and plot development. I also found the score to be extremely distracting throughout most of the film. Indeed it was innovative and not what one would expect in a western... Still, the musical arrangements were not only ill-suited for a lot of the film, but they were flat out too loud in much of it.
All-in-all, the film is well done. It will be a feather in the cap of its cast, even if the final cut was a bit dodgy. |
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The worst soundtrack, of any movie, ever |
I had to stop watching after 1 hour because the soundtrack was driving me crazy.
It is too loud, the music is totally inappropriate for the scenes being played and it is just plain awful. I have never , ever watched a movie where the score is so distracting and annoying.
If you can turn the sound off and lip-read, then for all I know the movie might be OK. |
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There Will Be Long, Boring Sequences... |
That the "critics" will eat up. Only the performances of Daniel Day-Lewis as Daniel Plainview and Paul Dano as Eli Sunday save "There Will Be Blood" from being a terrible film. Director Paul Thomas Anderson empties out a bag of tricks in order to make this movie appeal to award-giving crowd, thus eliminating the interests of most movie-goers. Lewis is a greedy, driven oilman intent on getting the most profit from his victims by using his own down-to-earth sales pitch and cute son. Dano plays a preacher intent on doing the same thing, but through conning the crowd as a fire and brimstone preacher. The two lock horns when Plainview buys Sunday's family farm from his father at a bargain and then blowing of Eli and his requests for money for the church.
The film runs about an hour too long and is littered throughout with long shot sequences, erratic music and, in actuality, very little blood. Many have accused Anderson of either stealing from Stanley Kubrick or paying homage to him through this film. Either way, he's no Stanley Kubrick.
Lewis and Dano play their respective characters very well. Plainview is a complete jerk, even to his son. There is a very matter-of-factness in Lewis' delivery of lines that makes the character worth struggling through the plodding script to see. Dano's Sunday is just as vicious, but in a much more sinister and silent way. Only when he's preaching does he really raise his voice. He also has a violent streak, as the viewer will witness during an interaction with his father.
Overall, this film is average. There is nothing entirely terrible about it but there's nothing entirely great either. Dano and Lewis do great jobs with what they're given, but it's not enough to give "There Will Be Blood" more than three stars. Recommended as a rental, unless you believe that every film that's ever won some type of award truly deserved it. |
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