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Summary: There Will Be BOREDOM
Comment: This has to be the most over-rated, uninspiring, hyped up rubbish I have ever had the misfortune to
endure. And yet it has all the critics squealing about how 'wonderful' and 'inspiring' it is. Most
people seem to be afraid to admit that it is completely unengaging and you spend the majority of it
waiting for something to happen (it never does). Instead they choose to wax lyrical about it being
the best film of the century - ever heard of The Emperor's New Clothes?

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Summary: There will be many disappointed spectators
Comment: Daniel Day-Lewis deserves his Oscar for the best male performance but for me the movie was a
disappointment. Upton Sinclair is not the greatest story-teller but something could and should have
been done with the script. There will be blood is a series of mixed events with no tension
whatsoever to hold them together. It's incredible that the script writer has systematically missed
all the opportunities to make this movie a great one. There is no major conflict that would be
solved in the end. The final scene is accidental with nothing leading to it. As such it is simply
not credible. The main character dominates the scenes but it is not clear for what reason. All other
characters are not his match. In most cases they are one-dimensional and flat, if not simply boring.
Sometimes there is a hint of a conflict arising but then it quickly fades away or is solved
arbitrarily like the one between Plainview and his half-brother. The main conflict between Plainview
and religiously oriented younger Sunday is poorly developed and leads nowhere. Maybe something is
boiling (with a lot of alcohol) inside the main character Plainview but the average viewer has no
idea what it is. The main character is said to be greedy and ruthless but I was not convinced. He is
not kicking people out of their homes, there is no true suffering because of his actions. I don't
count as true suffering that the young preacher runs after the main character because his church has
not been paid 5000 dollars. I don't count as particularly cruel that Plainview is sending away his
deaf boy because an oil field is hardly a place to raise a child. So the main evidence to convince
an average viewer about the greediness, ruthlessness and cruelty of the main character is to look
Daniel Day-Lewis who wants to look greedy, ruthless and cruel. OK, he kills two men but these
killings have nothing to do with the actual story and very unconvincing story elements. The grand
finale comes more or less unexpectedly with disastrous but very unconvincing consequences (although
drunk people sometimes do terrible things; what a twist but unfortunately, this movie is not about
alcoholism). What a great movie the Coen brothers could have made of this! Needless to say that
there is not a hint of humour in the whole film. This is not to say that there has not been a lot of
trying all the way. The facts and details seem historically accurate. The scenery looks authentic.
The music is unconventional and interesting. Unfortunately, it is not enough to make a great story.
I gave it 3 stars because of the lot of trying part.

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Summary: 9/10. Citizen Plainview
Comment: Paul Thomas Anderson's latest film has been a long time coming and fittingly it is an epic of far
broader thematic scope than his previous work. To confirm and elevate his status as one of the
premier young directors at work today, `There Will Be Blood` is a daringly original and challenging
piece coming in a year shaping up to be one of the best for film in recent memory. Revolving,
sometimes claustrophobically, around Daniel Day Lewis' turn-of-the-century "Oil Man" Daniel
Plainview, an obsessive prospector and entrepreneur with an unbending thirst for success. Featured
unflinchingly in nearly every scene, Day Lewis' studied performance is work of classic method acting
that charms as much as it revolts. From the Irish-American drawl (said to be modelled on John
Huston's) to the ambling gait, it is a totally unique portrait of a man who is at once compelling,
unknowable and vile. Given his enormous presence in `There Will Be Blood`, the film gambles on Day
Lewis being able to deliver a performance that holds our attention for two and a half hours, and he
delivers in spades.

The closest comparison that can be made to `There Will Be Blood`
both thematically and stylistically, is `Citizen Kane`. Both films centre around a ruthless and
charismatic loner whose appetites - however successful they become - are never sated. Both films
deal with the corrosive power of greed and show men at their most despicable in pursuit of fortune.
Plainview - a man who openly admits his misanthropy - begins his quest gnawing away at the earth as
if driven by some innate (or indeed divine) instinct. The first, wordless, 15 minutes or so, follow
his obsessive journey from sole prospector to "Oil Man" as if to depict one crucial step in human
development. This sequence, which has been compared to the opening scenes of `2001: A Space Odysey`,
builds ominously under Jonny (Radiohead) Greenwood's Kubrick-esque score. The torrents of oil that
gush from these primitive wells bring deaths - both accidental and, later, intentional - and it is
clear what the blood of the title refers to. But oil also brings the inexorable tide of progress
that 20th century America was built upon, and contributed to its transformation into a
superpower.

Plainview is a an alternative take on the mythological figure at the heart
of the `American dream', the adventurer-entrepreneur. As with Senator Kane or the real-life Howard
Hughes (or at least the version of Hughes presented in Scorcese's `The Aviator`), Day Lewis' "Oil
Man" is the capitalist visionary anti-hero that runs against the more idealised and acceptable
versions such as Jimmy Stewart's George Bailey in 'It's a Wonderful Life`.

In a complex
film riddled with loaded parallels there are numerous baptisms of blood, both of oil and holy water.
Others are force-fed oil and, alternatively, milk laced with whiskey in separate acts of misguided
paternalism. Parental failure and surrogacy are themes that resonate throughout Anderson's films and
it could be argued that There Will Be Blood's world is a motherless one in which fallible male
figures compete to feed and educate their flock. Plainview competes with a boy preacher to show
their community a path to salvation - one to fortune and progress, the other to God. But are these
sermons for the good of the people or motivated by greed? In a theatrical final sequence we are
forced to recognise the fallibility of both - and the ultimate absence of salvation for both - in
the historically significant setting of the Depression.

It is a bleak vision that
burns indeliably on the mind. There are characters forced to publicly denounce everything they
believe in for money, to accept the lowest humiliation in search of fortune. A dispiriting view of
human nature that is suggestive of more contemporaneous evils committed in the pursuit of oil, it
shows humans at their lowest. A singular and uncompromising masterpiece by Anderson, `There Will Be
Blood` challenges - along with the Coen Brothers' `No Country For Old Men` - as one of the films of
the year, if not the decade.

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Summary: I'm finished !
Comment: "There Will Be Blood" is an excellent film ; a sprawling epic that is unique and different from
anything you are likely to watch this year. It is set in the early part of the 20th Century and it
tells the tale of a complex,misanthropic oil prospector who, together with his young taciturn son,
builds up a lucrative oil empire. Daniel Day Lewis gives a commanding ,charismatic performance as
the oilman Daniel Plainview, one of the most memorable characters I have seen in recent years. The
film highlights the impact Plainviews drilling and pipeline laying has on a small community and the
relationships he has with his son, a young evangelist minister and a man who claims to be his long
lost brother.All of this is set against an infernal backdrop of oil,flames,mud and machines, not to
mention murder. Plainview is an immense figure; driven , individualistic, determined, ruthless,
deceitful, vindictive and cruel with his only saving grace being his relationship with his son,
which is fraught at times. "There Will Be Blood" is a powerful,gripping film boasting superb acting
and characterisation and a great story. Highly recommended.

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Summary: Excellent performance, mediorce movie
Comment: Such performance i have never seen in my life. The man could stand there speechless for...15 whole
minutes and the least which he deserved was the oscar which he finally earned BUT unfortunately this
was the only reason which this movie deserves to be watched.
A 2 and 1/2 hours movie which is
TOO SLOW and boring at times and which is impossible to see for a second time.
Daniel's
performance saved the day but not to the point to call this movie an epic and to give it 5
stars.
So i give it 3 stars just for daniel's performance.

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