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re: Re: There Will Be Blood
Posted on 12/2/13 at 10:15 am to Rickdaddy4188
Posted on 12/2/13 at 10:15 am to Rickdaddy4188
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The movie wasn't for me. Nothing happened the entire movie.
This. Sorry movie snobs but it isn't the masterpiece you make it out to be.
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Posted on 12/2/13 at 10:19 am to AngryBeavers
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Nothing happened the entire movie.
Character development and great great dialogue happened.
Posted on 12/2/13 at 10:30 am to AngryBeavers
quote:Interesting that the ones in this thread that didn't like a very popular and well acclaimed movie are calling others movie snobs
This. Sorry movie snobs but it isn't the masterpiece you make it out to be.
Posted on 12/2/13 at 11:55 am to Melvin
Not saying everyone liking it is a snob. But the movie isn't special. Sorry it hurts your feelings.
Character dialogue consisted of tense, awkward, short, moments. Or consisted of Malachi hollering at me the whole time about the third revelation. After that Daniel Day Lewis is drunk as a skunk talking about milkshakes.
Early Malachi forces Daniel to say something he doesn't want then later Daniel returns the favor, before bringing out his big boom roasted milkshake moment. Think the writers thought everyone would fricking eat that up, but it didn't work. It was a slow movie with no deep plot. He wanted more and more and told his son to leave him. Also, just out of nowhere, kid is married and thirty years old, wtf.
Character dialogue consisted of tense, awkward, short, moments. Or consisted of Malachi hollering at me the whole time about the third revelation. After that Daniel Day Lewis is drunk as a skunk talking about milkshakes.
Early Malachi forces Daniel to say something he doesn't want then later Daniel returns the favor, before bringing out his big boom roasted milkshake moment. Think the writers thought everyone would fricking eat that up, but it didn't work. It was a slow movie with no deep plot. He wanted more and more and told his son to leave him. Also, just out of nowhere, kid is married and thirty years old, wtf.
This post was edited on 12/2/13 at 11:56 am
Posted on 12/2/13 at 12:00 pm to IndependentGeorge
Guess we'll just have to agree to disagree
Posted on 12/2/13 at 12:36 pm to IndependentGeorge
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Early Malachi forces Daniel to say something he doesn't want then later Daniel returns the favor, before bringing out his big boom roasted milkshake moment.
What does this say about the character of the two men? What does this say about the ability of the two men?
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He wanted more and more
Why? To what end? How?
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and told his son to leave him.
But why?
Posted on 12/2/13 at 12:45 pm to IndependentGeorge
FWIW, I did not like it either. Was not for me, to each his own.
Posted on 12/2/13 at 2:30 pm to Peazey
Because he was a greedy a-hole. Pretty straight forward. Didn't take two and a half hours to figure that out.
Posted on 12/2/13 at 2:41 pm to IndependentGeorge
It had nothing to do with greed. Did you listen to his speech to his "brother"? He doesn't just want to win, he wants everyone else to lose. The dude's a sociopath. He adopted his son as a marketing gimmick.
Posted on 12/2/13 at 2:47 pm to Brosef Stalin
Posted on 12/2/13 at 2:54 pm to Brosef Stalin
There's also some ambiguity of his true intentions when he tells his son to get away from him that I think is interesting.
Posted on 12/2/13 at 2:56 pm to Baloo
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I think the movie is utter crap as well. It's not character driven, as the characters go nowhere, and are in the same place they started. It's not plot driven, as nothing really happens. It's not emotionally driven, as every character is too distant to care about. It's also, most damningly, the only movie in which DDL has ever repeated himself. Usually, his characters are made out of whole cloth from scratch... here, he just played Bill the Butcher a second time. Very disappointing role from our greatest living actor.
However, it did work well as a comedy of DDL overacting Bill the Butcher v2.0.
Posted on 12/2/13 at 3:00 pm to Cdawg
Hated it as well. I understand what I was supposed to like, I just thought it sucked.
Posted on 12/2/13 at 3:20 pm to Cdawg
quote:Yeah because no actor has ever played two similar roles
However, it did work well as a comedy of DDL overacting Bill the Butcher v2.0.
Posted on 12/2/13 at 3:23 pm to Melvin
They aren't similar.
Posted on 12/2/13 at 3:28 pm to Blue Velvet
I don't think so either but you are going to have to fight that battle without me. I just don't have the energy anymore.
Posted on 12/2/13 at 3:28 pm to Baloo
Only made it about a third of the way through. I don't know that I was really in a mindframe to enjoy it at all, so I will have to give it another shot, but this:
was pretty much what I thought.
quote:
he just played Bill the Butcher a second time
was pretty much what I thought.
Posted on 12/2/13 at 4:31 pm to IndependentGeorge
I watched it once. I didn't like it. I don't get the hype this movie gets.
Posted on 12/2/13 at 7:04 pm to IndependentGeorge
Movie is awesome. You must have great taste in movies.
Posted on 12/2/13 at 7:34 pm to NastyTiger
Well first it's a period piece and that is something I like but not all do and it's based on Uptan Sinclairs novel OIl which is a great read. Or it's closely or loosely written on that basis and gives not only some social insights but a nice narrow look at the early California oil boom which most people dont really realize existed or how big a roll California has played over a hundred years in American oil.
I liked it for what it was. I'm in between Franzia and Silver Oak.
I liked it for what it was. I'm in between Franzia and Silver Oak.
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