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Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Actors: Daniel Day-lewis, Kevin J. O'connor, Jacob Stringer, Matthew Braden Stringer, Ciaran Hinds
Studio: Paramount
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  228 reviews
Sales Rank: 126
Format: Widescreen, Color, Dolby, Dubbed
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Number Of Items: 2
Running Time: 158
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.2 x 5.5 x 0.5
MPN: 132574
UPC: 097361325743
EAN: 0097361325743
ASIN: B00104QSOM
Theatrical Release Date: April 8, 2008
Release Date: April 8, 2008
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Product Description
A sprawling epic of family faith power and oil THERE WILL BE BLOOD is set on the incendiary frontier of California s turn-of-the-century petroleum boom. The story chronicles the life and times of one Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis) who transforms himself from a down-and-out silver miner raising a son on his own into a self-made oil tycoon. When Plainview gets a mysterious tip-off that there s a little town out West where an ocean of oil is oozing out of the ground he heads with his son H.W. (Dillon Freasier) to take their chances in dust-worn Little Boston. In this hardscrabble town where the main excitement centers around the holy roller church of charismatic preacher Eli Sunday (Paul Dano) Plainview and H.W. make their lucky strike. But even as the well raises all of their fortunes nothing will remain the same as conflicts escalate and every human value love hope community belief ambition and even the bond between father and son is imperiled by corruption deception and the flow of oil.System Requirements:Running Time: 158 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA/HISTORICAL EPIC Rating: R UPC: 097361325743 Manufacturer No: 132574
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Unmistakably a shot at greatness, Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood succeeds in wild, explosive ways. The film digs into nothing less than the sources of peculiarly American kinds of ambition, corruption, and industry--and makes exhilarating cinema from it all. Although inspired by Upton Sinclair's 1927 novel Oil!, Anderson has crafted his own take on the material, focusing on a black-eyed, self-made oilman named Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis), whose voracious appetite for oil turns him into a California tycoon in the early years of the 20th century. The early reels are a mesmerizing look at the getting of oil from the ground, an intensely physical process that later broadens into Plainview's equally indomitable urge to control land and power. Curious, diverting episodes accumulate during Plainview's rise: a mighty derrick fire (a bravura opportunity that Anderson, with the aid of cinematographer Robert Elswit, does not fail to meet), a visit from a long-lost brother (Kevin J. O'Connor), the ongoing involvement of Plainview's poker-faced adoptive son (Dillon Freasier). As the film progresses, it gravitates toward Plainview's rivalry with the local representative of God, a preacher named Eli Sunday (brimstone-spitting Paul Dano); religion and capitalism are thus presented not so much as opposing forces but as two sides of the same coin. And the worm in the apple here is less man's greed than his vanity. Anderson's offbeat take on all this--exemplified by the astonishing musical score by Jonny Greenwood--occasionally threatens to break the film apart, but even when it founders, it excites. As for Daniel Day-Lewis, his performance is Olivier-like in its grand scope and its attention to details of behavior; Plainview speaks in the rum-rich voice of John Huston, and squints with the wariness of Walter Huston. It's a fearsome performance, and the engine behind the film's relentless power. --Robert Horton
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 There Will Be Some Serious Movie-Watching May 15, 2008
Wow! Even after seeing director Paul Thomas Anderson's vision come to life in "There Will Be Blood," you're not quite sure what to make of it. Is it a character study of a complex man? Is it a moral tale of what depths men will stoop to in the pursuit of money? Is it a tale of good and evil, community? Is it part heavy drama and part seriously twisted comedy? Well, it might be a little bit of all these. Watch it yourself to see what you make of it.
Daniel Day-Lewis turns in a phenomenal performance--nuanced at times (something he really isn't known for) and over the top as you would expect. His over the top moments though fit as his oil wildcatter subject, Daniel Plainview, is peeled back like an onion layer after layer until all that's left is this stinking rotten psycho inside...a complex and evil character indeed. All performances are finely played and perhaps the most interesting things about the flick are tied between the cinematography and the script. The writing is sparse allowing the characters to tell the tale through both action, word, and deed.
Threaded throughout there is this issue of religion and what it does for people's motivations and how it's juxtaposed to a man almost without conscience. The sense of community and religion even scratch Daniel's oil-slicked and slate hardened skin as it leads him to seemingly have a moment of regret in his relationship with his son.
By the end of the movie, despite the title, there really isn't that much blood. Comparing this to that year's other big Oscar nominated movies, Juno and No Country For Old Men...well it's a better flick than No Country and skillfully told with far less blood and Juno well...there isn't as many pregnant teenagers...but that's beside the point.
The point is, see this flick. By the time you arrive in the bowling alley, you won't know whether you are supposed to be laughing or horrified to the core. And you don't really know who the Plainview character is which seems to be just what the director, actor, and writer intended. A fine fine human study...this flick is. Get it. ...mmw
there will be blood May 15, 2008
All I can say is "intense". New, bold, unlike any other movie I have seen in a long time. Action packed, no, but the intensitey of the moment keeps you glued to the screen. What an ending, from prospector to insane. If anyone has felt motivated for their own cause this move will strike a note. Watch it to the end. I loved it.
 Great movie cheap container May 14, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I loved this movie and that's why I purchased it but it didn't come in a plastic DVD holder. Instead it came it a printed cardboard envelope which is not as durable over time.
 I WILL GUM YOU!!!! SPOILERS!!!! May 14, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
To me, this is a typical PT Anderson film. It has great sequences in it. It also has incredibly bad ones. It's overlong (and I love long films).
It has great performances, and it has bad ones. It's dialogue is awful. It has great cinemtography and production design, and thematically it's a mess. In other words, There Will Be Blood is an incredibly uneven film, which is consistent with all of PT Anderson's work.
PT Anderson is an anomaly in his age bracket. He's a Gen X director, but has no real sense of Gen X "irony" or smugness. He has ambition coming out of every pore of his body. You have to admire the hell out of him for that. He wants to make the great, grand picture. Most of his peers make very shallow films (Tarantino's Grindhouse is a good example). I can't imagine PT Anderson watching Switchblade Sisters and saying "this is a great film". I can see him saying "that chick is hot, but I still shouldn't be watching this garbage". Having said that, he just can't make a really consistent film. This was his first film in nearly 6 years (the last one was Punch Drunk Love), and overall, There Will Be Blood is a mess.
There was a lot of good here. The cinematography is gorgeous. It's one of the best shot films I've seen in a while. The production design is fantastic (by Jack Fisk, one of the best in the business). The acting by Daniel Day Lewis is mesmerizing. He may be doing a John Huston voice, but you still can't take your eyes off of him. There are some downright surreal, intense scenes. When Daniel Day Lewis kills his "brother", it's one of the most effective scenes in the film. Music, look, acting, it all gels. The next scene (in a church) is overlit, and continues the surrealism. It's very good. The rest of the film continues the haunted look, which I really liked.
Unfortunately, these good things are undone by many bad things. The dialogue here has to be some of the worst I've heard in a long time. Andreson has never been able to write really good dialogue, and here it's really bad. Lewis's monologues are really obvious, and the infamous line "I drink your milkshake" has entered into movie folklore, but not for the majesticness of the speech, but for the camp value. There's also a really, really bad line in one of Paul Dano's (Eli Sunday is the name of the character. Rather obvious for a preacher, eh?) where he says "I will gum you!". The townspeople are portrayed as simpletons, something that seems to always happen in period pieces like this. There is no real motivation for Lewis's character other than he is greedy. Thematically, his desertion of his son (he does it twice in the film) makes no sense. One scene he is playing with the boy, then the boy goes deaf, then Lewis puts him on a train. Then he comes back. Then later in the film, Lewis tells his son he's an orphan who Lewis just used as a prop to get people to go along with his plans. This is obviously not true, but there is no explanation, narratively or artistically, as to why there's such inconsistency. PT Anderson seems to be stuck between a straightforward narrative and a surreal tone, and it doesn't work. And the final scene, while beautifully shot and designed, is unintentionally funny, much like the frogs finale in Magnolia.
Dano's character is poorly drawn. Many have said he was miscast, but I would argue that he just didn't have a good character to build on. He's the cliched preacher. The rest of the character are caricatures. The music score is another problem. Sometimes it's perfect (like in the brother's death scene), other times it's so out of place. Anderson was trying to do someting different obviously, but it just doesn't work overall. The score is reminiscent of Stravinsky and Mozart, and sounds more like a symphony than a film score. Many have said that Johnny Greenwood's score would make a good listening experience in itself, away from the film. They're right.
Many have said that PT Anderson borrows (or steals) from Kubrick here. He does. The leaps in time recall the abrupt time changes in 2001 and Full Metal Jacket, the madness of Lewis recalls The Shining, and the eerie, deliberately uttered dialogue in the final scene is reminiscent of the billard room scene in Eyes Wide Shut. Anderson also said in interviews he wanted to emulate the Dawn of Man sequence in 2001 in the opening of the film (which has minimal dialogue). Regardless of whether Anderson is ripping off Kubrick or simply being influenced by him (there is a difference between the two), the whole film still doesn't gel, like 2001, The Shining, and Eyes Wide Shut do.
So, overall, this film has enough great moments in it to view it. It is not as good as Citizen Kane or Giant. Those films had a lot of depth and character that this one simply lacks. See There Will Be Blood (great title, by the way) for Daniel Day Lewis, the cinematography, production design, and, if you're into that sort of thing, laugh at the unintentionally funny scenes.
Best American movie since Raging Bull May 14, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is my favorite American movie since 1980's Raging Bull (Special Edition). It's clearly one of those movies you will either love, or hate... just read the reviews here for proof. I loved how a reviewer in Entertainment Weekly trashed the film on it's first viewing, but quickly recanted and after seeing several times now regards it as a classic. The movie, if given a chance, will grab hold of you and demand multiple viewings. I paid to see this movie 6 times when it was in theaters, there was just something about it that I couldn't get enough of. The cinematography, top notch; screenplay, memorable; music, brilliant score that compliments the imagery; editing, perfect and well paced; direction, perfection and the performances, you couldn't have picked a better cast.
One of the reasons why I think some people absolutely hate this movie, is because it's paced and done more like a movie from the 1930s than from a movie of today (this has nothing to do with the era the story takes place in). Plus, the surrealistic elements of the story probably don't help either. Paul Thomas Anderson doesn't hit his audience over the head with meaning, he leaves a lot of the movies meaning to be interpreted by the audience, and I for one welcome that. For example, are Paul and Eli really two separate people, or does Eli have a split personality? No one ever comes right out and says so, but if you listen to the dialogue and connect the dots, you're given enough information to come to your own conclusion.
"There Will Be Blood" manages to capture a moment in our past that has shaped the future of our country and maybe even decided our fate (our country's dependance on oil) thru a character study of a man who loved children, despised adults and was willing to do anything to succeed. It's as ugly and tragic as it is beautiful and epic. It's a modern day classic that will be remembered by movie fans for decades to come.
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