anticiapte "There Will Be Blood" by paul thomas anderson

great trailer. i am anticipating

not sure if this will necessarily be a historic role.

Excited about Jonny Greenwood score, not so sure about the rest of the film. I am PTA-neutral, so will go in with an open mind.

Isn't Jonny Greenwood the same dude who did the score to Bodysong? That was a nice film, and a nice score.

Yes, he was. And yes, nice score.

still looking forward to this in spite of what looks like an(other) embarrassingly forced performance from DD Lewis. i predict an oscar win for him.

this does look kinda mallick-y.

im ready, im psyched. i love boogie nights and punch drunk love but hard 8 and magnolia were kinda bleh. tiebreaker!

There Will Be Blood rivals Giant; Day-Lewis brilliant

Essential to the success of the movie is the original score by Jonny Greenwood, the Radiohead guitarist and BBC composer in residence. In addition to some uniquely haunting orchestral arrangements, there's this insistent string motif that sounds like the buzzing of an insect inside one's head, a sound that grows louder and more unavoidably distressing whenever soulless events are about to occur. Greenwood's astonishing score is sure to be one of the most remarked-on aspects of the movie.

"soulless events"?

As opposed to its soulful events.

"soulless event" = a PTA movie

"soulless event" = a PTA meeting. Anesthetizing, those things are!

Jonny Greenwood’s original score often serves as a dissonant counterpoint to the proceedings, lending a distinct, unsettling edge to many scenes. It’s completely in harmony with the non-romantic aspects of the tale.

http://twitchfilm.net/site/view/fantastic-fest-report-there-will-be-blood-review/

non-romantic aspects AND soulless events! this is my kind of movie

saw the trailer for this at a showing of 3:10 to yuma, the audience started out not paying any attention and by the time it hit THERE...WILL...BE...BLOOD they were practically cheering.

what does practically cheering mean? were they limply waving their arms around and murmuring?

It means they were cheering in a prudent and efficient manner.

the disinterested chatter turned to quiet attention turned to interested murmuring and then appreciative exhortations that almost but not quite rose to a level of enthusiasm i would call cheering.

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anyway i'm practically excited to see this.

One time I was in a theatre that showed a preview for Wimbledon, and the girl in front of me said loudly, "Paul Bettany is soooohotttt." And I said I know, he was all naked in A Knight's Tale. And then the whole theatre turned into loud girls swooning over the Bettany until the preview ended.

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So am I, as a confirmed PTA fan that's no surprise. Intrigued to see what he does without his usual supporting cast (Luis Guzman, Phil Seymour-Hoffman etc), especially looking forward to seeing what Paul Dano makes of the preachers role.

a history opus based upon Sinclair's novel "oil!", that will probbaly have symbols about american capatilsm and what it has done to moral values etc..

In a rut? To the Left-Wing Story Well! It probably came down to this or a movie about "the American Dream gone sour."

HBO shows seem very influential don't they. Seems very Deadwood (set a little later) meets Carnivale (minus circus people and magic) from the preview. Still looks very good.

Oooh symbols and capatilism!

Hollywood Reporter

Day-Lewis plays Daniel Plainview, a prospector introduced in a wordless sequence showing his progression from heavy-bearded miner to civilized man with prospects: In the entire first reel, the only dialogue we hear is a muttered "there she is" as Plainview finds his buried treasure. The soundtrack is dominated by wilding clouds of strings that bethat bestow on petroleum the mysterious power of Stanley Kubrick's famous obelisk.

That music, by Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood, is captivating and sometimes intense, greatly contributing to the sense that tectonic forces lie beneath the drama.

Sorry, I can't help it.

i'm stoked as a motherfucker. more for this than for this season's other late 90s indiewood hero comeback film.

which is?

I'll watch it just for Daniel Day-Lewis, because he is a beast who demands watching. Although he went to the same school as my best friend's dad&was a apparently a CRY BABY and left after a while.

uh 'darjeeling company'

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soulless event = daniel day lewis performance.

i'm stoked as a motherfucker. more for this than for this season's other late 90s indiewood hero comeback film.

-- That one guy that hit it and quit it, Saturday, September 29, 2007 8:25 PM

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anyway i'm practically excited to see this.

-- tipsy mothra, Friday, 28 September 2007 20:05

haha. u tell em tipsy.

this looks good

you know who i bet is really excited about this movie based on the title alone?

http://www.ils.unc.edu/dpr/path/horrorfilms/dracula.jpg

Ok, looks pretty sweet . If it clocks in at under 3 hours I'm all about it.

158 minutes.

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/11/06/magazine/11magcov395.1.jpg

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/11/magazine/11daylewis-t2.html

daniel day lewis is the modern day robert newton, and that is a good thing - true of false?

The preview for this was pretty amazing. I am anticipating.

I am seriously excited about this film. I'm a little worried about Paul Dano though.

stoked

The film parallels "Barry Lyndon" more than anything. I def prefer the Kubrick film, but mostly because of the lush cinematography and the decadent setting. TWBB is surprisingly dark, considering P.T.A.'s last few films.

And yeah, Daniel Day-Lewis is gonna win the surprisingly heavy statue next year. His characterization is fascinating. It's all-consuming and oversized, and it's such a "performance" that it blocks you from fully transporting into the story, but it's its own work of art.

IC SIN 1997
Oil! : a novel
Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968.

No copies currently available. (Estimated wait is 80 days)

;/;
~

Sinclair lived until 1968? Whoa.

top of my list to see next (unless I end up getting to Margot before this opens)

HIPPEEZ KILDT HIM

They're putting it back in print for the movie, but not until a week before it opens. Wah.

I really want to see this now.

i gotta see this again.

Was it good?

It just swept the LA Film Critics awards...

Had seen the trailer online, but having caught the big-screen version ahead of the theatrical release of the Blade Runner final cut this weekend definitely convinced me that this shit is gonna be awesome. DDL really does come off pretty fearsome. Stoked, for sure.

"There Will Be Blood" is much more inspired by it rather than an adaptation of it; furthermore, according to Wikipedia the movie was really only influenced by the first 150 pages, so it makes sense to me that the story isn't as fleshed out or as Socialist-oriented as the book would have been.

Exactly

I also felt like the film was missing something, as I wrote on this thread a ways back:

I don't think the film would have worked better as an allegory (although it might have) but I felt that it seemed to be aiming for something like that but falling short. Or else perhaps it was dramatizing something personal - some inner conflict - that the audience is never quite fully let in on, but not in a vague and mysterious way that would invite the imagination to do some work - but rather in a somewhat hermetic and standoffish way.

I'm not sure if more historical context is the answer, but it probably wouldn't have hurt. As it is, the film ends up feeling strangely slight for something so long and ostensibly epic.

I'm firmly in camp of people who didn't think Magnolia was all that great but like TWBB, too.

yeah magnolia sux, there will be blood punch drunk love and boogie nights are all classique, the other one is just meh

"there will be blood punch" is the next Twilight movie iirc

this movie is kind of bad!

that's true, but it was very entertaining. directors that think they're fantastic auteurs should make sweeping biopics more often imo.

i'm not sure i will finish it. i don't think i can deal with just 'entertaining' unless it's a comedy. the score is annoying, DDL is corny, they said "brother from another mother," everything is way over the top and nothing happens except what you know is gonna happen. well i only have like 70 minutes left.

ah it's very pretty and DDL is always worth watching when he starts going on.

i like this movie a lot, but the 'brother from another mother' line threw me, too. is this expression older than I think it is?

'brother from another mother' is a thing? Like, some rap crap?

directors that think they're fantastic auteurs should make sweeping biopics more often imo.

do you know what a biopic is?

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it really deteriorates in the last hour! i'm frustrated that people love it so much.

i mean i can usually accept when people love stuff i hate but i expected to like it u_u

Also hated the score

no placement on that 00s film poll sticks in my craw more than ilx apparently thinking this movie is the 5th best of the decade, i mean jesus

do you know what a biopic is?

i know what it means in my head, but fully accept that that's probably not accurate.

but to pick another film w. similar themes, i thought 'book of eli' did the power/religion/natural resources thing better.

― the archetypal ghetto hustler (history mayne), Tuesday, March 2, 2010 6:51 PM (3 months ago) Bookmark

are u fucking kidding me dude

not even

watched eli last night, besides some neat technical stuff it was pretty awful dude

felt like one of those left-behind-apocalypse-jesus movies that could have been funded by a church group or something, like "knowing"

yeah kinda

that didn't bother me, and i liked the "technical stuff", ie decent fight scenes

also tho, unlike the left behind movies, it said the good book could be used for bad purposes too amirite

it's unusual to have a film that takes seriously the bare fact that a lot of people -- especially in the wake of a crisis -- end up getting god. sorta think PTA's take on religion was very shallow and studenty. the lil guy was totally outclassed by DDL.

i must check out "knowing"

also thought it was weird how every bible ever could be destroyed, considering how there are more of them than any book ever, in like every house and hotel ever, and it was after the apocalypse that destroyed everything, wouldnt think there were resources for a massive bible hunt

everyone must check out "knowing"

know1ng

also thought it was weird how every bible ever could be destroyed, considering how there are more of them than any book ever, in like every house and hotel ever, and it was after the apocalypse that destroyed everything, wouldnt think there were resources for a massive bible hunt

― delanie griffith (s1ocki), Monday, June 14, 2010 3:59 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark

it's just kind of part of the universe of the film

i mean, no-one could possibly *know* that every bible had been destroyed, it's sillie

it's unusual to have a film that takes seriously the bare fact that a lot of people -- especially in the wake of a crisis -- end up getting god.

really? Aren't there always crazy cult stuff in apocalyptic movies? I haven't seen Eli but the whole Bible Quest thing sounds pretty ridiculous even compared to the religion-clinging in films like The Mist.

kind of but 1) i reckon this was done well. you can see why mila kunis, who has been raised in a completely lawless world, would get into it. 2) it isn't crazy cult stuff but the king james bible, so that 3) i kind of admire the hugheses for just doing it straight: no invented mythology thing but actual christianity. im not any kind of religious fwiw.

it isn't crazy cult stuff but the king james bible

challops?

to me it was the kind of fantasy that i imagine appeals to left behind types... a lawless fallen post-apocalyptic world... one brave prophet, sowing the seeds of faith in the face of cynical bad guys... his chaste relationship with a hottie convert...

twbb has a milkshake so point in favor there

xpost yeah otm

i don't entirely mean this coz PTA's film is clearly more critical, but you can't help what fans u get. imagine TWBB has a lot of yuppie douchers into quoting it a la "scarface" or "glengarry glen ross"

Really? There are kids going "There are times when I look at people and I see nothing worth liking. I want to earn enough money that I can get away from everyone" and "One night I'm gonna come to you, inside of your house, wherever you're sleeping, and I'm gonna cut your throat"?

Okay I kind of see your point but also wondering if you just straight-up trolling

quoting movies is fun iirc

can't imagine who these patrick bateman types are quoting from twbb tho

ah come on "i drink your milkshake" is a meme

i misquote a bit of TWBB quite a bit: "the real money that we should be making"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pswQpPgBi2s

i say hello to your little milkshake

older yuppie douches are totally yelling "I ABANDONED MY BOY" ironically after divorces and shit

lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIUYFoDU4_w&feature=related

i say hello to your little milkshake

:D

older yuppie douches are totally yelling "I ABANDONED MY BOY" ironically after divorces and shit

― da croupier, Monday, June 14, 2010 12:03 PM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark

hahaha

loled massively at that I ABANDONED MY CHIILLLD

"it's unusual to have a film that takes seriously the bare fact that a lot of people -- especially in the wake of a crisis -- end up getting god. sorta think PTA's take on religion was very shallow and studenty. the lil guy was totally outclassed by DDL."

DDL does get god in the wake of a crisis, in the sense that Dano as God's proxy guilt-tripped him into bringing lil' DDL back from boarding school.

Whenever Daniel Day-Lewis shouts in this movie it sounds like he's imitating Larry David's George Steinbrenner impression

what a great movie this is

Watching this while my cinnamon bun dough rises and noting a moment where Daniel Plainview is sleeping in his clothes on the wooden floor of his little cabin, a telling little choice for this character who is a howling void insensible even to the simplest comfort

anticiapte

“Do you think God is going to save you for being stupid?”