There Will Be Blood

Movie is a solid 10! The acting, score, everything about this movie was excellent. Only wish it was longer.

Leaked footage of Daniel Day-Lewis announcing his retirement from acting:

"I'm finished"

This is a very slow burn movie. It really is a character study about a man whose greed knows no end. Daniel Plainview is such an interesting character and Daniel Day Lewis really brings him to life and it’s the best performance of his career.

Quotes like these really show what kind of person he is:
"I have a competition in me. I want no one else to succeed. I hate most people."
"There are times when I... I look at people and I see nothing worth liking. I want to earn enough money I can get away from everyone."

Everything else with the movie, the cinematography, the score, are all fantastic too. Paul Thomas Anderson is one of the great directors today.

“I. Drink. Your! Milkshake! I DRINK IT UP”

There will be blood is a masterpiece one of my favorite and one of the greatest movies of all time. The beginning had me skeptical at first I had read and heard a lot of great things about it. After the first 30 minutes of the film I was hooked on it. The story and writing is great it’s historically accurate with the acting, costumes, and really everything else. The acting is phenomenal from Daniel- Day- Lewis, he did the greatest performance of all time his performance really was completely perfect. Paul Dano was also surprisingly fantastic he should have won or at least been nominated for a supporting actor Oscar. It’s directed very well by P. T. Anderson( This was the first movie I’ve seen of his and I really want to watch more of his films) he was very passionate about making this film and you can tell. The cinematography is great like the wide shots of the mountains and the oil plant being on fire while
Daniel sits in the mud watching. The score is thrilling and very well made it fits the movie very well. So many great quotes and shots in this movie Almost every scene is memorable.
The minute the film ended it was thinking about watching it agin. The ending is fantastic one of the best ending to a film ever! I love that the last line of the movie was “ I’m finished “ after all of Plainview’s choices through out the movie. Overall it’s a close to perfect movie with the greatest performance of all time that is really unforgettable. 2007 really popped out two of the best movie of all time, No Country For Old Men and There Will be blood I honestly don’t know which one I like better.

( 10 out of 10)

_10 - Totally Ninja!_

Great movie about the oil rush and real family businesses trying to make it big. What an ending as well. Great acting, great storytelling

I DRINK YOUR MILKSHAKE!!!

This movie is absolutely amazing.

“Get out of here ghost, get out of here ghost”

Take it from someone who is NOT a fan of old west movies or period pieces in general; this is a perfect film. Should be up there with Shawshank and Jaws and Schindler's List.

Trying to decide what direction to take when expressing an opinion about a film that is so different and so intriguing is tough to do. Random thoughts follow.
Let's get Daniel Day-Lewis's performance out of the way. He's remarkable here as Daniel Plainview. He's intelligent, ruthless, vicious, and greedy. There's literally nothing to like about him. Paul Dano is Eli Sunday, a crooked preacher who is the primary rival of Plainview. Eli is also unlikeable. He's greedy, manipulative, and naive. The story centers around these two characters and their mistrust and hatred of one another.
Plainview has a son and there is an event that occurs around the halfway point of the film that builds some sympathy for Plainview, but we end up hating him even more as Plainview rejects his son because he will be unable to run Plainview's company when he's dead. It's really cruel, but it makes perfect sense. From what we know about Plainview, it's entirely consistent with his character's traits.
The story starts humbly with Plainview digging for gold and growing his oil business to the point where he can have anything he wants. However, what he wants is to destroy his competition. Competition is what drives him. Some will watch this film and decide that this is a commentary on the ills of Capitalism and Religion. Those that pay less attention will believe it to be a finger-pointing parable about the evils of "Big Oil". But this is a story about a man whose competitive spirit could ultimately destroy him.
The film is beautiful to look at and is appropriately slow moving. It takes it's time to build and when it does, things get very tense. The ending is sudden but appropriate and allows the viewer to finish Plainview's life story on their own.