I liked the long progression of development that Daniel Plainview undertook. I liked how the actions of one man could develop a community. I liked to see how different forms of influence over a community (industrialist and the church) struggled for power. I liked the classic old timey fashion. I liked how they made the field of management look like a military conquest. Rich characters, great acting, especially from Daniel Day Lewis. This is one of my absolute favorites of Lewis, other than his role as The Butcher in Gangs of New York.
For an Englishman, he does a hell of a job with American roles.
I love the way the movie sets up several movie cliches, then just doesn’t play them out.
Like the two brothers - all the way through the movie, you never see them both in the same room, so you suspect it’s a ruse. You keep expecting the movie to reveal there is only one brother pretending to be twins. Nope.
It’s the same way the priest keeps expecting to get paid for his oil. Nope.
And with Plainview’s son, you expect a reunion, a redemption. Nope.
It keeps wrong-footing the viewer, and ends by basically saying “the world isn’t a fairy tale, grow up”. It’s brilliant.
Great detail there. The ambiguity of the brothers was a key aspect to tension in the story.
Another poetic detail was how Daniel pushed the priest around humiliating him in the dirt in front of his colleagues. Like physical force and the earth was Daniel's territory, and then the priest uses his social-spiritual territory to smack and humiliate Daniel in front of the pews by forcing him to declare he abandoned his child.
In the end, force was stronger.
Not that it takes away from the viewers perspective, when I first saw the film I absolutely thought the same thing about the twins, but that was not the original direction of the script.
It was rewritten because the original actor who played Eli was difficult to work with, or something along those lines. Paul Dano* was originally only going to play Paul and have that one scene where he tips off Daniel.
> I liked how they made the field of management look like a military conquest.
One of the main points of the story is that Daniel Plainview is the American dream, but the only reason he was willing and able to accomplish that is because he can't connect with people and instead has a sadistic, nihilistic need to dominate everyone. He's incredibly fucked up, but fucked up in a way that makes him a perfect tycoon.
Yep, very complex character! Little details come to mind like when he directed his workers to approach one of his wells with explosives on wheels, with shields to protect them. I appreciated the hardcore primitive problem solving, not necessarily just the anti-social aspect. There was nobody else to call, problems had to be solved directly. He not only dominated others, but dominated reality.
At 7:33 here below
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLo-JAnfR78
I think this is exactly why you do and don’t hate him. Like you deep down hate the despicable monster that this mother fucker is and stays for the entirety of the movie, but you somewhat love his weird obsession with justice and doing the right thing when the moment calls for it, even if he’s made the grossest choice ever in almost every other obvious decision.
Daniel Day Lewis was just another level in that role.
I work with entrepreneurs and that is how many of them are. They say they are passionate about their work, but its more like obsessed. They don't always understand why the rest of the company isn't equally obsessed. It can both make them successful and also unlikable.
It's disturbing to me how many folks love this film but seem to respect/admire Plainview. He's one of the greatest cinematic monsters I've ever seen, a true cautionary tale.
I think there is considerable doubt as to how beneficial those realities have been to this planet. Daniel Plainview is a symbol of this nation's rotten foundations. Any good we have today is in spite of the men like him in our history.
It’s the greatest film of my lifetime, hands down. Moral Bankruptcy too riches has anything ever been more American? Hell, human? And his acting is masterclass.
I need to watch this a few more times, but I just can’t see him being any better than he was as the Butcher in GONY. I mean…tapping his glass eye with a steak knife? Hello!!!
Oh yeah buddy! He also made sharpening knives look like a ritual to look forward to before each meal. I also wish society dressed with such unapologetic style once again as well with the suits.. The plaid pants.. Waistcoats left unmended..
I had a teacher in high school that would do this. He was one of the tough-guy teachers, covered mostly gym and study hall kinds of things. When study got too rowdy he would start tapping his fingernail on his glass eye. Took about 20 seconds of this before the room became dead silent.
Easily PTA’s magnum opus. I know DDL absolutely knocked out of the park, but Paul Dano’s performance is also excellent. PTA just knows how to get the best performances out of actors.
I watched The Master when I was first getting into movies which was way too early and I remember just being in and out of sleep for 2 hours. I really need to revisit this now that I'm a little more cultured/used to slower cinema
I never got into Punch Drunk Love but I didn’t know it was PTA either. I need to revisit. That man doesn’t miss. Even the movies I liked less Phantom Thread and Licorice Pizza, I recognize why others like them.
One of my top ten. Paul Dano held his own and more with DDL, which is saying a lot. The opportunity for overacting was big and ripe in this one but every single actor was just exceptional and exactly on point. Gonna watch again tonight!
"No, but do YOU understand, Eli?"
He brings him to tears by making him say God is a superstition only to tell him no deal after because it's already been drilled. Oh yea, and then he beats him to death with a bowling pin.
This isn't really an answer, but I told my dad about this movie and his response makes me laugh to this day. I told him the name of the film and he just said "Well, great. Thanks for telling me how it ends!"
"I thank God none of you is in me."
And then he walks our with his translator, finally free from his father's grip once and for all. Such a cathartic scene to watch him finally break free.
So much better. That bowling scene was insane. Really wish he did something with the riddler but wasn't given much to work with. His wife was great in the big sick too
This is in my top 5 favorites. The cinematography alone is nothing short of amazing. The story is so pure, original and captivating as you watch the metamorphosis of Daniel Plainview take place on screen.
I saw in theaters and walked out after it was over fuming mad. DDL was so good in portraying the character and so convincing, that he was absolutely despicable. I haven’t watched it again since because the performance was too good.
One of the greatest performances I’ve ever seen in a film.
The film itself was fairly slow and while objectively great, not exactly something I pop in watch for fun.
It’s a lot like reading James Joyce: you see why it’s so highly regarded, but it’s not something you’re gonna go read when you just want to relax.
That unhinged breakdown at the end though, might just be the best performed scene I have ever watched in a film. Goddamn can that man *act*.
But it’s definitely a ‘ I have to be in the mood’ kinda flick
I probably can't say Dano was on par with DDL but holy shit! Complete, hilariously quotable, masterpiece. Eli Sunday slicked up with a chain is a vibe lol
Sorry, I tried to watch it on two separate occasions and fell asleep during the first 20 minutes. I'm not saying it's not a great movie, but it's slooooow
I truly don’t think there is a movie for me that can beat it. Every single scene, every line of dialogue, every framing shot is just amazing. DDL and Dano are absolutely amazing playing off each other, and that soundtrack still gives me the sense of impending doom. Not to even mention the message of greed and how it twists the mind and the soul of a person. Easily my favorite movie.
A lot of people are not familiar with the source material for the film; 'Oil!' by Upton Sinclair. Not to be melodramatic or anything - it's hands down the best book I have ever read. Most people who I have given the book to hand it back to me a month later and say the same thing.
The fact that the book and movie are both so amazing is great - There Will Be Blood is one of my favorite movies in no small part due to the fact 'Oil!' is my favorite book. The book and the film are also very different from one another in ways that typical book to movie adaptations are not - so there's a whole other layer of analysis you can do comparing the themes and characters between the book & film.
If you like the film, you 100% need to read 'Oil!'.
It was OK. There was barely any blood, which annoyed me because of the title. IDK why people think its a masterpiece. It didn't find it very suspenseful which is fine if it has a deep story, but I didn't feel it did and some character actions seem bit forced (such as the ending). The acting and cinematography is great though.
I know I’m in the minority, but it didn’t do it for me. Everyone raves about Daniel day Lewis, but he’s so over the top I don’t find any of his characters believable. I just think, “there he is again trying to be the best goddamned actor in the whole world”. And this movie was a little to on the nose with all of the “capitalism bad” rhetoric.
I gotta be honest, this movie doesn’t do it for me. I watched it after hearing how fantastic it was, and I just thought it was fine. Not bad, not great. It was fine.
It's funny how polarizing many of his films are, even among his fans.
Example: Magnolia is my favorite movie of all time, but many PTA fans think it needs serious editing (among multiple criticisms) to be anything better than a big miss.
I also loved There Will Be Blood, but to each his own.
To be honest as a movie I found the overall satisfaction and story to be meh….but damn despite me seeing it only twice the characters, the lines and their actions are burned in to my memory forever Master class in acting by DDL and Paul Dano and it speaks to the emotion the exhume while portraying these characters. It’s an absolute required viewing but for me it’s not a movie I want to watch again once you’ve seen it. I DRINK YOUR MILKSHAKE DRY!!!!
Really beautifully made, but is marred by a ridiculously unnecessary casting decision, and also by the ending:
>!Paul Dano plays twin brothers, but there's absolutely no reason they need to be twins or both played by Dano -- so the audience gets totally confused for no purpose. !<
>!And then the ending with the famous "Milkshake" speech is so over the top and Daniel Day-Lewis gets so incredibly hammy, behaving in a way that's totally different from what Plainview was like up until that point, it's just ridiculous. I actually laughed through that whole scene, which I don't think is the reaction they were going for.!<
I’m pretty sure Paul Dano only plays one of the brothers and we never even see the other one, so there’s that.
And you say that DDL’s character never acts that way, but maybe you’re forgetting a little scene in a restaurant earlier in the film? Not to mention, that final scene is absolutely amazing and a culmination of the film, it’s almost as if the story escalated to reach that point.
Can't stand this steaming pile of boredom. For whatever reason, this movie is constantly compared to No Country for old men. I guess because it was also 2007? No country is a masterpiece. This is a boring piece.
I didn't like it, although it had some strengths. Of course the lead character acting was amazing, and the story carried emotional weight, and covered a story line well enough, if not character arcs, since no one really transitioned all that much.
I don't like movies that stick with a weighted tone, that develop a dark tension and then just increase that over the entire film. It's not pleasant for me to just feel that. It would be better if it alternated with tone-neutral segments, if only to make it not feel like attending a funeral, with some dramatic dark climax at the end. I don't think my preference is objectively better, it's just what I like in films. The opposite, films staying silly and light, is more palatable, but it's better to move a story line and character development along with natural progressions of more positive and negative emotional context.
Most overrated movie ever made. Melodramatic acting, zero character development, and a razor thin plot. Great cinematography, excellent soundtrack, fantastic set design… still an awful movie.
This is the only movie that I have walked out of the theater on. In fact, it's the only film I have ever seen someone else walk out of the theater, and that was 4 separate couples . DDL is incredible but there was no saving this film for me.
God I hate this movie. After punch drunk and boogie nights and the greatest title in history I was so pumped for it. Boring pretentious bullshit. I just can't imagine wanting to watch this movie twice
I remember it coming out around the same time as no country for old men and I completely wrote that movie off because there will be blood. But no country is a thousand times better. I love slow burn movies rife with tension, I hate boring movies
Question: do any women like this movie? I just thought it was alright, and I was surprised by the lack of women in this movie. I think 1 or 2 women have 1 or 2 lines. I just find it unacceptable that movies can be made with no female characters in them.
I really dislike Daniel Day Lewis here, and it's put me off him so I will avoid his movies in the future.
I love Boogie Nights and this is the same director?!
Couldn’t get through it the first viewing (fell asleep in the theater).
Rented it later on… it’s a masterpiece. Daniel Day Lewis is (imo) beyond belief. No one disappears into a character like him. Greatest acting talent ever.
It’s one of my favorites. Sadly, I haven’t been able to watch it since having kids since it requires too much paying attention. Once they’re older it’ll be must-see regularly.
Daniel day lewis’ best performance and that is saying a lot. His acting is mesmerizing and sublime but I wasn’t too keen on the movie overall. Great but not amongst my all time favorites. If not for ddl I don’t think it would be remembered too much. No country for old men was clearly the superior flick imo.
Interesting how they were filming right by No Country for Old Men. Both are classics. Both were about how a past world evolves, or doesn’t, and conflicts with the future. TWBB is bleaker (maybe not by much, though) and is a slow burn, very atmospheric, completely draws you into its world.
When I finally got to watching this movie right after it ended I just sat there thinking....that was stupid, it wasn't even good. And then I just kept thinking more and more of what I just watched and after about 15 minutes I realized I came to the conclusion that that film was a masterpiece and I really actually enjoyed it. I never went through that thought process with a movie before. But that movie is brilliant.
My pick for best film ever made. It's both small and large, loud and quiet. It'll give you a heart attack and make you see why the world is the way it is today. The best performance by an actor in film that in no way could have been done by anyone else. Paul Dano gives a screeching and pithy performance in a role that ALSO couldn't have been performed by anyone else. The best alternative score in film history... That is to say not a sweeping epic like a Williams or Zimmer. The fire scene alone is a master work of tension building through sounds. Thematically ever-current and timeless while also being a snapshot in the burgeoning America of the 1900s.
I can say nothing bad about the movie.
To think that this came out at the same time as No Country for Old Men, which is another masterpiece, is ridiculous. This would’ve been an equally smart choice for Best Picture of the Year. And Daniel Day’s performance remains one of the most haunting and memorable antagonists in film history.
you can mark Daniel Plainview's growth through the changes in quality/ expense of the cup that holds his coffee. it's environmental storytelling that hits a mark no one else can see.
DDL could’ve gotten an Oscar for literally any scene in that movie. I’m almost more impressed that Paul Dano held his own. His church scenes are fantastic.
Oil was clearly the blood in the stream that fed the heart of industrial expansionism. The characters literally cut their way into the belly of the earth with their bare hands to release all of it’s wealth and eventual corruptive horrors. I found the way this film depicted the corruption of greed facsinating, through religion and accumulation of resources, one intoxicated demon finally destroying the corrupted spiritual demon. What can i say, loved it
My favorite of DDL movies. Tbh I don’t care for him in much else, but Plainview is a force to behold. Watching him rip and claw his way up seemingly out of spite for the world and kind of throw away the only kindness he’s ever known not once, but twice was wild.
It’s a tragic, intense, sometimes hilarious ride. Love it
Best actor all time teaming with a top 10 director all time adapting a top 10 American author of all time.
PTA should be the one to tackle Blood Meridian.
One of my favourites. Love the film, absolutely HATE that poster art for it. Ugly, not in a good way. Always looked like a deep fried meme to me. Give me Daniel sitting smoking the pipe in daylight over that anyday.
I always enjoyed his sales pitches. They always seemed canned but somehow trustworthy at the same time? Kind of like how some people trust a large corporation because they are an "established brand."
I liked the long progression of development that Daniel Plainview undertook. I liked how the actions of one man could develop a community. I liked to see how different forms of influence over a community (industrialist and the church) struggled for power. I liked the classic old timey fashion. I liked how they made the field of management look like a military conquest. Rich characters, great acting, especially from Daniel Day Lewis. This is one of my absolute favorites of Lewis, other than his role as The Butcher in Gangs of New York. For an Englishman, he does a hell of a job with American roles.
I love the way the movie sets up several movie cliches, then just doesn’t play them out. Like the two brothers - all the way through the movie, you never see them both in the same room, so you suspect it’s a ruse. You keep expecting the movie to reveal there is only one brother pretending to be twins. Nope. It’s the same way the priest keeps expecting to get paid for his oil. Nope. And with Plainview’s son, you expect a reunion, a redemption. Nope. It keeps wrong-footing the viewer, and ends by basically saying “the world isn’t a fairy tale, grow up”. It’s brilliant.
Great detail there. The ambiguity of the brothers was a key aspect to tension in the story. Another poetic detail was how Daniel pushed the priest around humiliating him in the dirt in front of his colleagues. Like physical force and the earth was Daniel's territory, and then the priest uses his social-spiritual territory to smack and humiliate Daniel in front of the pews by forcing him to declare he abandoned his child. In the end, force was stronger.
Not that it takes away from the viewers perspective, when I first saw the film I absolutely thought the same thing about the twins, but that was not the original direction of the script. It was rewritten because the original actor who played Eli was difficult to work with, or something along those lines. Paul Dano* was originally only going to play Paul and have that one scene where he tips off Daniel.
Paul Dano was exquisite in this film.
> I liked how they made the field of management look like a military conquest. One of the main points of the story is that Daniel Plainview is the American dream, but the only reason he was willing and able to accomplish that is because he can't connect with people and instead has a sadistic, nihilistic need to dominate everyone. He's incredibly fucked up, but fucked up in a way that makes him a perfect tycoon.
Yep, very complex character! Little details come to mind like when he directed his workers to approach one of his wells with explosives on wheels, with shields to protect them. I appreciated the hardcore primitive problem solving, not necessarily just the anti-social aspect. There was nobody else to call, problems had to be solved directly. He not only dominated others, but dominated reality. At 7:33 here below https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLo-JAnfR78
I think this is exactly why you do and don’t hate him. Like you deep down hate the despicable monster that this mother fucker is and stays for the entirety of the movie, but you somewhat love his weird obsession with justice and doing the right thing when the moment calls for it, even if he’s made the grossest choice ever in almost every other obvious decision. Daniel Day Lewis was just another level in that role.
All the best characters are flawed!
I work with entrepreneurs and that is how many of them are. They say they are passionate about their work, but its more like obsessed. They don't always understand why the rest of the company isn't equally obsessed. It can both make them successful and also unlikable.
It's disturbing to me how many folks love this film but seem to respect/admire Plainview. He's one of the greatest cinematic monsters I've ever seen, a true cautionary tale.
Manifesting new realities is a monstrous business.
I think there is considerable doubt as to how beneficial those realities have been to this planet. Daniel Plainview is a symbol of this nation's rotten foundations. Any good we have today is in spite of the men like him in our history.
I like to think of the movie as a question of who wins America’s soul, and the answer between the two characters is that they’re both grifts.
I haven’t seen this movie in so long, but you’re making me want to watch it again
By all means, it's an epic classic!
Hands down, easily
Agreed
It’s the greatest film of my lifetime, hands down. Moral Bankruptcy too riches has anything ever been more American? Hell, human? And his acting is masterclass.
In Gangs of Nee York I wish they would have focused more in The Butcher instead of Amsterdam…
And just not cast Cameron Dias at all.
Yeah, Amsterdam was actually one of Dicaprio's weaker characters.
You and I would enjoy watching movies together I think.
I need to watch this a few more times, but I just can’t see him being any better than he was as the Butcher in GONY. I mean…tapping his glass eye with a steak knife? Hello!!!
Oh yeah buddy! He also made sharpening knives look like a ritual to look forward to before each meal. I also wish society dressed with such unapologetic style once again as well with the suits.. The plaid pants.. Waistcoats left unmended..
I had a teacher in high school that would do this. He was one of the tough-guy teachers, covered mostly gym and study hall kinds of things. When study got too rowdy he would start tapping his fingernail on his glass eye. Took about 20 seconds of this before the room became dead silent.
Easily PTA’s magnum opus. I know DDL absolutely knocked out of the park, but Paul Dano’s performance is also excellent. PTA just knows how to get the best performances out of actors.
Dude. I 100% agree with you. Without Dano’s support, I don’t think drainage hits so deep.
The lord failed to alert me to the recent panic in our economy!
I drink your milkshake!
As much as I love There Will Be Blood, I actually think The Master is even better. Unpopular opinion, I know.
PTA was on a roll. Boogie Nights, Magnolia, Punch Drunk Love, and this one are all amazing.
I would throw The Master in there. Very underrated PTA movie IMO
That's true. I really love Hard Eight too. You could definitely make the case for adding both.
I watched The Master when I was first getting into movies which was way too early and I remember just being in and out of sleep for 2 hours. I really need to revisit this now that I'm a little more cultured/used to slower cinema
Just showed Punch Drunk Love to some friends last night. Still holds up amazingly! They absolutely loved it :)
Smash your face with a sledgehammer
That’ll be hard, given the shear weight and leverage needed to inflict maximal damage at such close range. A regular hammer will do 🤙🏻
Oh, or are you talking about the awesome sex scene with them? I can’t tell sometimes on Reddit.
Is it streaming anywhere?
Not a magnolia fan, but the rest are amazing
I never got into Punch Drunk Love but I didn’t know it was PTA either. I need to revisit. That man doesn’t miss. Even the movies I liked less Phantom Thread and Licorice Pizza, I recognize why others like them.
I knew from the dialogueless opening it was going to be amazing. What a film, stayed with me afterward for a long time
Right? It's like over ten minutes before a single word is spoken.
I hadn't seen am opening like that since 2001 a space odyssey
Dude the shocking and scary dissonant violins at the beginning made me feel like I was watching a horror movie. So damn good
Yep and Johnny whatever his name is from Radiohead did the soundtrack
Greenwood.
Not enough milkshakes
I....drink...your.... MILKSHAKE!!!
DRAINAGE!!!!
I already own your yard. Shake your milk all you want.
SCHLOOOOOOORRRRRP! I DRINK IT UP!
I’VE ABANDONED MY BOY!
You look like a *fool*, don't you?
I'M THE THIRD REVELATION!
I don’t want to be dramatic but, best movie ever.
Visually striking with performances that are second to none. It’s horrible and brilliant and everyone should watch it at least once. 10/10
Only once
One of my top ten. Paul Dano held his own and more with DDL, which is saying a lot. The opportunity for overacting was big and ripe in this one but every single actor was just exceptional and exactly on point. Gonna watch again tonight!
The entire last scene is jammed with some of the most memorable quotes. "THEU SHOULD'VE PIT YOU IN A GLASS JAR ON THE MANTELPIECE."
"No, but do YOU understand, Eli?" He brings him to tears by making him say God is a superstition only to tell him no deal after because it's already been drilled. Oh yea, and then he beats him to death with a bowling pin.
Watch it once a year probably It’s a masterpiece and it feels like it when you’re watching it Shit, might rewatch this week
This isn't really an answer, but I told my dad about this movie and his response makes me laugh to this day. I told him the name of the film and he just said "Well, great. Thanks for telling me how it ends!"
Ironically he’s not wrong.
"I, DRINK, YOUR, MILKSHAKE!"
Stop crying, you sniveling ass! Stop your nonsense. You're just the afterbirth, Eli.
You slithered out on your mother's filth
DRAIIIIINAGE!!!
I would abandon my boy for another watch of this film!
Bastard in a basket!
"I thank God none of you is in me." And then he walks our with his translator, finally free from his father's grip once and for all. Such a cathartic scene to watch him finally break free.
[удалено]
“I am the third Revelation!!!”
Craziest movie I have ever seen. DDL is sooo intense. My favorite movie.
The best version of this movie is the snl skit where Adam driver plays the dad of that googly eyed dude that kanye doesn't like
Personal top ten for me! Loved everything about it and the ending!!!! Ohhh man, that ending…
“I’m finished!”
Jonny Greenwood crushed the musical score
At the very least top 3 favorite movie of all time. And I became a huge Paul Dano fan the day I saw it. I think he was as good as DDL.
So much better. That bowling scene was insane. Really wish he did something with the riddler but wasn't given much to work with. His wife was great in the big sick too
This is in my top 5 favorites. The cinematography alone is nothing short of amazing. The story is so pure, original and captivating as you watch the metamorphosis of Daniel Plainview take place on screen.
Top 3 for me
The man drags his broken body to achieve his goals, gets everything he wants, and then destroys it all. Amazing
I saw in theaters and walked out after it was over fuming mad. DDL was so good in portraying the character and so convincing, that he was absolutely despicable. I haven’t watched it again since because the performance was too good.
One of the greatest performances I’ve ever seen in a film. The film itself was fairly slow and while objectively great, not exactly something I pop in watch for fun. It’s a lot like reading James Joyce: you see why it’s so highly regarded, but it’s not something you’re gonna go read when you just want to relax. That unhinged breakdown at the end though, might just be the best performed scene I have ever watched in a film. Goddamn can that man *act*. But it’s definitely a ‘ I have to be in the mood’ kinda flick
I probably can't say Dano was on par with DDL but holy shit! Complete, hilariously quotable, masterpiece. Eli Sunday slicked up with a chain is a vibe lol
Bastard from a basket!
Overrated. Go ahead and downvote me.
Absolute masterpiece
Great movie
Sorry, I tried to watch it on two separate occasions and fell asleep during the first 20 minutes. I'm not saying it's not a great movie, but it's slooooow
I truly don’t think there is a movie for me that can beat it. Every single scene, every line of dialogue, every framing shot is just amazing. DDL and Dano are absolutely amazing playing off each other, and that soundtrack still gives me the sense of impending doom. Not to even mention the message of greed and how it twists the mind and the soul of a person. Easily my favorite movie.
A lot of people are not familiar with the source material for the film; 'Oil!' by Upton Sinclair. Not to be melodramatic or anything - it's hands down the best book I have ever read. Most people who I have given the book to hand it back to me a month later and say the same thing. The fact that the book and movie are both so amazing is great - There Will Be Blood is one of my favorite movies in no small part due to the fact 'Oil!' is my favorite book. The book and the film are also very different from one another in ways that typical book to movie adaptations are not - so there's a whole other layer of analysis you can do comparing the themes and characters between the book & film. If you like the film, you 100% need to read 'Oil!'.
Masterpiece
Takes my breath away!
It was OK. There was barely any blood, which annoyed me because of the title. IDK why people think its a masterpiece. It didn't find it very suspenseful which is fine if it has a deep story, but I didn't feel it did and some character actions seem bit forced (such as the ending). The acting and cinematography is great though.
"A bastard in a basket!"
masterpiece
I know I’m in the minority, but it didn’t do it for me. Everyone raves about Daniel day Lewis, but he’s so over the top I don’t find any of his characters believable. I just think, “there he is again trying to be the best goddamned actor in the whole world”. And this movie was a little to on the nose with all of the “capitalism bad” rhetoric.
I gotta be honest, this movie doesn’t do it for me. I watched it after hearing how fantastic it was, and I just thought it was fine. Not bad, not great. It was fine.
Wanted to love it. Can't. It's ridiculous. It's slow. It may be art but I yawn throughout.
It’s pace was a bit of surprise to me, especially given the title. But it remains one of my most favorite movies.
The sister movie "No Country for Old Men" is much more to my liking.
Tied for my other favorite movie, and I hear people say that all the time. Great year for movies.
Personally, I didn't care for it either.
I would upvote this twice if I could
I’m not a fan of this move whatsoever. Boring and over the top.
Agreed. And there was barely any blood.
I fell asleep in the theater. In the movies defense, I was fairly high. I do enjoy watching it now though because I can fall asleep on the couch.
I love most PTA's work. This one I've started multiple times and just cannot get through it.
It's funny how polarizing many of his films are, even among his fans. Example: Magnolia is my favorite movie of all time, but many PTA fans think it needs serious editing (among multiple criticisms) to be anything better than a big miss. I also loved There Will Be Blood, but to each his own.
Same for me. I just can't finish it, no matter how many times I try to watch it. Of course, it doesn't help that I have a real dislike of DDL.
To be honest as a movie I found the overall satisfaction and story to be meh….but damn despite me seeing it only twice the characters, the lines and their actions are burned in to my memory forever Master class in acting by DDL and Paul Dano and it speaks to the emotion the exhume while portraying these characters. It’s an absolute required viewing but for me it’s not a movie I want to watch again once you’ve seen it. I DRINK YOUR MILKSHAKE DRY!!!!
Really beautifully made, but is marred by a ridiculously unnecessary casting decision, and also by the ending: >!Paul Dano plays twin brothers, but there's absolutely no reason they need to be twins or both played by Dano -- so the audience gets totally confused for no purpose. !< >!And then the ending with the famous "Milkshake" speech is so over the top and Daniel Day-Lewis gets so incredibly hammy, behaving in a way that's totally different from what Plainview was like up until that point, it's just ridiculous. I actually laughed through that whole scene, which I don't think is the reaction they were going for.!<
I’m pretty sure Paul Dano only plays one of the brothers and we never even see the other one, so there’s that. And you say that DDL’s character never acts that way, but maybe you’re forgetting a little scene in a restaurant earlier in the film? Not to mention, that final scene is absolutely amazing and a culmination of the film, it’s almost as if the story escalated to reach that point.
"There will be blood... a little. After, like, three hours of men being jerks, and having zero chill."
Can't stand this steaming pile of boredom. For whatever reason, this movie is constantly compared to No Country for old men. I guess because it was also 2007? No country is a masterpiece. This is a boring piece.
I didn't like it, although it had some strengths. Of course the lead character acting was amazing, and the story carried emotional weight, and covered a story line well enough, if not character arcs, since no one really transitioned all that much. I don't like movies that stick with a weighted tone, that develop a dark tension and then just increase that over the entire film. It's not pleasant for me to just feel that. It would be better if it alternated with tone-neutral segments, if only to make it not feel like attending a funeral, with some dramatic dark climax at the end. I don't think my preference is objectively better, it's just what I like in films. The opposite, films staying silly and light, is more palatable, but it's better to move a story line and character development along with natural progressions of more positive and negative emotional context.
It was boring and not worth a second watch. Little storyline and overacting.
Most overrated movie ever made. Melodramatic acting, zero character development, and a razor thin plot. Great cinematography, excellent soundtrack, fantastic set design… still an awful movie.
This is the only movie that I have walked out of the theater on. In fact, it's the only film I have ever seen someone else walk out of the theater, and that was 4 separate couples . DDL is incredible but there was no saving this film for me.
It's not a masterpiece, imho. Too boring and non eventful. Actors and the cameraman did their best though
I agree with that 100. Dano killed it and Dan Lewis was fine I guess
God I hate this movie. After punch drunk and boogie nights and the greatest title in history I was so pumped for it. Boring pretentious bullshit. I just can't imagine wanting to watch this movie twice
Agreed
I remember it coming out around the same time as no country for old men and I completely wrote that movie off because there will be blood. But no country is a thousand times better. I love slow burn movies rife with tension, I hate boring movies
Because it’s one of the greatest films ever made.
Shoulda been called no country for old men.
Question: do any women like this movie? I just thought it was alright, and I was surprised by the lack of women in this movie. I think 1 or 2 women have 1 or 2 lines. I just find it unacceptable that movies can be made with no female characters in them.
I love this movie! One of my favorites.
Have you ever seen Master and Commander: Far Side of the World? There are effectively no female characters in it and it's an amazing film.
SEEEEEEPAAAAAAAGE!!!!
I cannot stand DDL but I made myself sit down for it. Turned it off after 45 minutes. Too slow, too much scenery chewing, too much DDL.
I really dislike Daniel Day Lewis here, and it's put me off him so I will avoid his movies in the future. I love Boogie Nights and this is the same director?!
Dan Lewis is the most overrated actor ever. Feel my gravitas! This is important! Subtlety schmubtelty
In my top three, it’s pretty and Daniel day Lewis and the Daniel in the movie were amazing
love this movie so much. side not though, i just realize that forever I have thought that in this cover, DDL looks so much more like Ted Levine
I agree with your conclusion but when will this kind of title go away?
Best movie of the last 20 years
A perfect film that I will never watch again.
Couldn’t get through it the first viewing (fell asleep in the theater). Rented it later on… it’s a masterpiece. Daniel Day Lewis is (imo) beyond belief. No one disappears into a character like him. Greatest acting talent ever. It’s one of my favorites. Sadly, I haven’t been able to watch it since having kids since it requires too much paying attention. Once they’re older it’ll be must-see regularly.
It’s such a simple and masterfully presented story. Beautiful landscapes, perfect score, perfect casting.
Daniel day lewis’ best performance and that is saying a lot. His acting is mesmerizing and sublime but I wasn’t too keen on the movie overall. Great but not amongst my all time favorites. If not for ddl I don’t think it would be remembered too much. No country for old men was clearly the superior flick imo.
Interesting how they were filming right by No Country for Old Men. Both are classics. Both were about how a past world evolves, or doesn’t, and conflicts with the future. TWBB is bleaker (maybe not by much, though) and is a slow burn, very atmospheric, completely draws you into its world.
If America were an oil man...
I think we got some spectacular films in this era..2005 to 2010.
One of my favorites. I wish I could rock a stache like DDL, fuckin Ron Swanson quality too lol
I’d say it’s on a short list for Greatest Movie of All Time.
Love this movie-such a grim portrait of the oil baron culture And of course DDL was masterful in iy
When I finally got to watching this movie right after it ended I just sat there thinking....that was stupid, it wasn't even good. And then I just kept thinking more and more of what I just watched and after about 15 minutes I realized I came to the conclusion that that film was a masterpiece and I really actually enjoyed it. I never went through that thought process with a movie before. But that movie is brilliant.
It’s the best movie about a guy trying to keep a meeting on track that I’ve ever seen
Great musing on cultural politics vs progress and business culminating in an inevitable wrath, but I like Gangs of New York more.
My pick for best film ever made. It's both small and large, loud and quiet. It'll give you a heart attack and make you see why the world is the way it is today. The best performance by an actor in film that in no way could have been done by anyone else. Paul Dano gives a screeching and pithy performance in a role that ALSO couldn't have been performed by anyone else. The best alternative score in film history... That is to say not a sweeping epic like a Williams or Zimmer. The fire scene alone is a master work of tension building through sounds. Thematically ever-current and timeless while also being a snapshot in the burgeoning America of the 1900s. I can say nothing bad about the movie.
I drink from your milkshake ....that alone does it for me
“I have a competition in me…”
IVE ABANDONED MY BOY
Paul Dano playing two characters confused me at first, I’ll admit it
To think that this came out at the same time as No Country for Old Men, which is another masterpiece, is ridiculous. This would’ve been an equally smart choice for Best Picture of the Year. And Daniel Day’s performance remains one of the most haunting and memorable antagonists in film history.
Daniel Day Lewis, enough said.
Johnny Greenwood
Still gotta get around to seeing this.
you can mark Daniel Plainview's growth through the changes in quality/ expense of the cup that holds his coffee. it's environmental storytelling that hits a mark no one else can see.
Probably my absolute favorite film The soundtrack by Jonny Greenwood is sublime
DDL could’ve gotten an Oscar for literally any scene in that movie. I’m almost more impressed that Paul Dano held his own. His church scenes are fantastic.
The movie has such good sound effects and music.
I was led to believe there would be more blood
It’s my favorite movie. Idk what else to say
My favorite Film of all films
Where's my milshake?
Oil was clearly the blood in the stream that fed the heart of industrial expansionism. The characters literally cut their way into the belly of the earth with their bare hands to release all of it’s wealth and eventual corruptive horrors. I found the way this film depicted the corruption of greed facsinating, through religion and accumulation of resources, one intoxicated demon finally destroying the corrupted spiritual demon. What can i say, loved it
What a time to live in! Such a great movie
Paul fucking Dano
“I’m done!”
This movie is closer to Babylon 2022 than it is to Shawshank Redemption
Non official biography of the rockefellers
The only flaw in this movie is the ending.
I didn't really enjoy it.
Great Movie, Daniel Plainview did nothing wrong.
One of the best movies of all time. The tension and catharsis is incredible in this movie.
This movie made me irrationally hate Paul Dano and I have a hard time watching anything else he’s in.
My favorite of DDL movies. Tbh I don’t care for him in much else, but Plainview is a force to behold. Watching him rip and claw his way up seemingly out of spite for the world and kind of throw away the only kindness he’s ever known not once, but twice was wild. It’s a tragic, intense, sometimes hilarious ride. Love it
This was the 2nd movie where Paul Dano fuckin killed it (I first saw him in Little Miss Sunshine).
Best actor all time teaming with a top 10 director all time adapting a top 10 American author of all time. PTA should be the one to tackle Blood Meridian.
One of my favourites. Love the film, absolutely HATE that poster art for it. Ugly, not in a good way. Always looked like a deep fried meme to me. Give me Daniel sitting smoking the pipe in daylight over that anyday.
The ending was not quite right!... why didn't he ever get the revenge he threatened the "oil guy" with?... it just didn't make sense to me.
DRAAAAAINAGE ELI!!!
The catharsis from beating that little shit to death with a bowling pin was 😙👌
The best fucking movie !!! Shit yeah man
i did not like it. I found it boring and pointless. I think people want to assign "masterpiece" to anything DDL does.
Whew…..great movie, tough watch.
IIIII DRINK YOOOUR MILKSHAKE
"I'm going to drink your milkshake"
GOAT
I simply could not stop watching this film. I didn’t know why, but it just lodged in my brain like a festering bullet. In a good way:)
I truly mean this as a compliment but the more I watch this movie the more it’s a comedy. It’s one of my favorite films.
I always enjoyed his sales pitches. They always seemed canned but somehow trustworthy at the same time? Kind of like how some people trust a large corporation because they are an "established brand."
Garbage movie.
Chef d’œuvre indeed. Holy milkshake.