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There Will Be Blood | 
 enlarge | Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Actors: Paul Dano, Daniel Day Lewis
Studio: Paramount
Category: Movie
Buy New: $14.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  349 reviews
Sales Rank: 1198
Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: Video On Demand
Running Time: 159
ASIN: B0017I91LI
Theatrical Release Date: January 11, 2008
Release Date: October 1, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
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 The Worst Film of the Year? October 14, 2008
A man is digging beneath ground into rock. He falls and injures his leg. But the ore has gold and silver. Work continues. In a deep well oil bubbles out of the ground. [Was it this primitive in 1902?] Daniel Plainview does his own drilling, he is not dependent on contractors. He offers to work for others who have lands. A young man comes to Plainview with an offer. They settle a deal with cash and a handshake. The Sunday ranch is hardscrabble. [The film is slow paced.] They hunt quail and find surface oil. Plainview buys the ranch and seeks other lands in the area. Finding oil will make the community flourish.
Eli Sunday preaches to cure the sick. [Was this a comment on current culture? The references to drinking suggest Prohibition.] They strike a gusher. Young H.W. is hurt. The oil well catches fire. Dynamite extinguishes the fire. H.W. has lost his hearing. Plainview attacks Eli Sunday when Eli asks for his money. Then Eli disrespects his father! Henry Plainview, his long-lost stepbrother, arrives; he has had bad luck. We learn something about the family. There is a new problem of a fire in the house. H.W. will be taken for a train ride. Some men want to buy out Plainview, and Plainview wants to buy out the lone holdout. He makes a deal with Union Oil. [The film is slow-paced.] There is a surprise involving the stepbrother! Is the surprise believable? Symbolism?
William Bandy wants Plainview to be baptized and join his church to repent his sins and be saved. He has abandoned his child! [Is the church scene too emotional? What is the point?] Now the oil pipeline can go through to deliver low-cost energy to the people. [The film is slow-paced.] Do Plainview's actions suggest he is going insane? Now its 1927. Plainview has a mansion and a radio. H.W. is grown up, and decides to become independent. Will H.W. become a competitor? Does the conversation make sense? Is it a crazy ending? Was the ending a joke on the viewer? The bad ending to a bad movie? Was this the sickest film you've ever seen this year?
[This film was supposed to be based on Upton Sinclair's 1927 novel "Oil". Sinclair's novel must have been much better than this film.]
 amazing film October 11, 2008
this is a great movie. the power of greed is exposed for the destroying machine that it is. upton sinclair would be proud. daniel day-lewis lies and cheats and drinks and kills everything that he touches because he is empty inside and no amount of money can fill the void where his soul should be. this is a magnificently powerful film that compromises nothing and is an essential portrayal of the history of America. you won't be disappointed. the power of unbridled greed and its inherent evil has never been portrayed better.
Awesome! October 9, 2008
This product is awesome because the movie is awesome. One of the best of the last 10 years. The Amazon service is also very good. Thanx!
 DON'T BOTHER..... October 7, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
OK, OK, OK ....Best Actor of the Year....up for Best Picture of the Year...I THOUGHT IT WAS MORE THAN A WASTE OF TIME - IT WAS A REAL DOWNER! Glad I checked this out from the library. Only gave it two stars because of the photography. I recommend you use your time more productively; hopefully on a film that portrays our species in a better light.
There Will Be Greed October 4, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Director Paul Thomas Anderson ("Magnolia") achieves something very rare in films, he manages to create a really extraordinary film whose main character Daniel Plainview played by Daniel Day-Lewis ("My Left Foot") is for the most part reprehensible. With the exception of rare moments of affection for his deaf son, whose deafness is caused by an accident at his father's oil wells, Plainview cares for no one on earth, hates most people, is highly competitive and filled with unstoppable greed and ambition.
The film is based on a novel by Upton Sinclair OIL and is set in the early decades of the 20th century when a lot of Americans acted like Plainview-- to a lesser degree we hope-- in their quest for wealth at whatever expense.
The critics could not get enough of this film. Daniel Day-Lewis earned an Oscar for best actor for his portrayal of Plainview. While he is supported by good performances by other actors, notably that of Paul Dano ("Little Miss Sunshine") as the hell-fire minister of the Church of the Third Revelation, Eli Sunday, the film ultimately belongs to Day-Lewis.
In addition to his statement about greed, Anderson also shoots a nice arrow into fundamentalist, crazy religion. The soundtrack works very well, particularly the use of the beautiful Brahms Violin Concerto.
It will be interesting to see how this film holds up in the years ahead, but for now it is still white-hot.
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