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Summary: Magnificent
Comment: You're gonna love this film inless you're solely into braindead fests of XXX and Shoot Em Up - both
lots of fun, but only when considered part of a healthy balanced diet.

The photography
and acting are among the best - Day-Lewis is peerless as ever, and the preacher-boy a necessary
weakling! The multi-layered script and almost comedy ending haven't been bettered by anything out of
Hollywood in 30 years. One of the few films I've seen which you just wanted to keep rolling after
the 2:30hours.

P.T. Anderson does seem to be trying to create a Citizen Kane of our
time, and only time will tell whether this is a true classic (and I believe it is). The subtext of
greed both in the oil industry and in religion, the 2 props holding up America at this time, hits
the nail squarely on the head. An amazing film.

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Summary: There Will Be Sleep.....zzzzzzz
Comment: This film is similar to The Assassination Of Jesse James and No Country For Old Men. Why is it
similar? I'll tell you. It's because all three movies are acclaimed as masterpieces but are actually
detested by people who actually know something about quality cinema. There Will Be Blood manages to
be even more pointless than the other two and has literally nothing going for it. The story is
insultingly dull, the characters are uninteresting, the running time is excrutiating and Daniel Day
Lewis' performance is far too similar to the one he gave in Gangs Of New York. Frankly, I couldn't
give a toss about some meglomaniac jerk who travels the country in search of oil. If you manage to
stay awake until the end credit, it's YOU who deserves an award, not Daniel. Unmitgated crap.

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Summary: BEST FILM I'VE SEEN
Comment: Until I saw this the best film I'd seen was back in 1969; it was called 2001: A Space Oddysey.
Strange, because the first part of this film has the same feel: epic, ominous, grand in scope,
intense...

And it just never lets up.

DDL should have had several Oscars
for this: he IS Daniel Plainview. It would be a great film anyway but he lifts it as high as the
black gold blows.

AMAZING.

I've read some negative reviews (each to their
own). One person preferred Transformers. So I guess to be fair I should say that if you're the sort
of person that goes to see a film like Transformers you should maybe not watch this film. It's for
adults.

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Summary: Judge By The Cover
Comment: Firstly the majority of people who watch this film will probably struggle with the lenght, the bleak
tone, the distinct lack of humour-romance-or winning underdog. Also the fact its set at the turn of
the last century.

However it is a drama, a drama with a excellent script, excellant if
down beat soundtrack, wonderous acting and cinematopgraphy and scene by scene by scene it works
again and again until the tention just implodes. The structure and storyline is spot on.....but
again worned out. Its a film you will have to be in the right mood to watch, and something you will
not watch often but it is undenialable a masterpiece

People who hated "No Country For
Old Men" won't like this, people who hate long films obviously won't like it, but people who have a
lot of patience and are open minded it is probably the best film you ever see.

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Summary: Draaaaaiiiinage!
Comment: 'There Will Be Blood' is probably THE Marmite film of the decade. If you're not from the UK, you
might need me to explain. We have a foodstuff called Marmite which is made from yeast extract, a
bi-product of the brewing process. It's got a weird, salty, beefy kind of taste, but it's quite
tasty on toast. Well... some people think it's tasty. People who like Marmite LOVE Marmite, and
people who hate it retch at the very thought of it. Thus, 'There Will Be Blood' is a Marmite film.
Personally, I'm in the camp that loves it.
The cinematography is stunning, as good as Kubrick
at his best, and Johnny Greenwood's jangling, atonal score suits the film's jittery, tense mood
perfectly. Day Lewis's performance eventually reaches the point of hysteria that others have
criticised, but only after almost three hours of very nuanced and subtle delivery. His Daniel
Plainview is the core of the film and a brilliant creation. That last scene (those who have seen it
will know what I'm talking about) is a shock to the system, yes, and the point at which the film
tumbles into the depths of madness, but I see it as the explosive geyser of oil spurting up out of
the bleak prairie. The rest of the film IS slow, and not much happens in terms of dramatic action,
but film making like this is a brilliant antidote to the flash-bang MTV style editing of directors
like Michael Bay.
I realised how much I'd loved this film not the minute I'd walked out of
the cinema but the following day, when I realised I was still thinking about it, and the day after
that, and the day after that. A week later I went to see it again, and I've seen it once more since
then.
Only time will tell whether we can consider this a masterpiece - a title that's earned
after years, not months, of continuous praise - but if I could put money on it being thought of as
such in twenty years' time I would.

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