There Will Be Blood

Cassiel said:
It is a damned good film. Saw it twice. And I never see a film in the theatre twice.

"Draaaaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiinaaaaaggggggggge!"

lil_tuffy said:
It took 3 hours but there was, indeed, blood.

lil_tuffy said:
I drink your milkshake! -Daniel Plainview

I drink your milkshake, even though I opposed drinking your milkshake four years ago. -Mitt Romney

I drink your milkshake, but only if the Bible says it's allowed. -Mike Huckabee

I may drink your milkshake for another 100 years, if that's what it takes. -John McCain

I drank a milkshake on 9/11. -Rudy Giuliani

I'll drink your milkshake a few months after everyone else does. -Fred Thompson

I drink your milkshake, but I'm paying for it with gold. -Ron Paul

America deserves a new milkshake. -Barack Obama

I will fight the corporations so that you can drink your own milkshake. -John Edwards

I have 35 years of milkshake-drinking experience. *sob* -Hillary Clinton

I peacefully drink your milkshake. -Dennis Kucinich

It depends on what your definition of "milkshake" is. -Bill Clinton

I voted for drinking your milkshake before I voted against it. -John Kerry

Global warming is melting your milkshake. -Al Gore

We're making good progress in the war on milkshakes, and make no mistake: we will prevail. -George W. Bush

lil_tuffy said:
I drink your milkshake! -Daniel Plainview

I drink your milkshake, even though I opposed drinking your milkshake four years ago. -Mitt Romney

I drink your milkshake, but only if the Bible says it's allowed. -Mike Huckabee

I may drink your milkshake for another 100 years, if that's what it takes. -John McCain

I drank a milkshake on 9/11. -Rudy Giuliani

I'll drink your milkshake a few months after everyone else does. -Fred Thompson

I drink your milkshake, but I'm paying for it with gold. -Ron Paul

America deserves a new milkshake. -Barack Obama

I will fight the corporations so that you can drink your own milkshake. -John Edwards

I have 35 years of milkshake-drinking experience. *sob* -Hillary Clinton

I peacefully drink your milkshake. -Dennis Kucinich

It depends on what your definition of "milkshake" is. -Bill Clinton

I voted for drinking your milkshake before I voted against it. -John Kerry

Global warming is melting your milkshake. -Al Gore

We're making good progress in the war on milkshakes, and make no mistake: we will prevail. -George W. Bush

Morgan said:
I just need somebody to SEE this goddamn movie with me.

Morgan said:
I just need somebody to SEE this goddamn movie with me.

jerky said:
This movie isn't playing within 100 miles of me. Hooray for culturally dead zones. lame.

Cassiel said:

malkav11 said:
Those are indeed great. Although I'm starting to feel like I'm the only one who didn't like this movie.

A) It felt like a largely disconnected series of vignettes, only loosely forming anything resembling a narrative. I really find that frustrating. Now, I guess this isn't terribly new for Anderson (I think Boogie Nights was similarly structured and I don't remember anything about Magnolia except the rain of frogs, but I think it may have been also). But I think I was able to handle it in those movies because interesting things were happening to interesting people. I didn't like anyone at all in this movie and, well...

B) I found significant portions of it to be extremely tedious and drawn out. That whole silent opening twenty minutes or so, for example. I was actually fighting sleep not long before

.

C) I found Eli to be pretty consistently overacted and Plainview sometimes.

D) I'm pretty sure I missed a lot of subtlety. This would be entirely my fault, of course. For example, I read one discussion where people were talking about the

I totally missed this, and was wondering why the camera lingered even when seemingly nothing was happening.

That said, there were some really good scenes, particularly those at the end of the movie in Plainview's mansion. So I don't claim it's a bad movie, just didn't like it.

I saw "No Country for Old Men" right afterwards and was entranced.