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- by mattorama12
- Sun Feb 09, 2014 3:04 am
- Forum: Movie-Specific
- Topic: There Will Be Blood
- Replies: 24
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FarCryss wrote:TLDR: I am a dick but movieboy still has bad taste
Hardly makes you a dick.
My TCI with movieboy is one the highest of the regular contributors to the forum, but I actually agree with him on this one. To me, it's a T9 movie that's brought down to T5 because of how insanely boring it can be. I also don't care for
Paul Dano.
- by Ocelot
- Thu Jan 23, 2014 9:02 pm
- Forum: Movie-Specific
- Topic: There Will Be Blood
- Replies: 24
- Views: 11320
There Will Be Blood is great, but I'm going to bite the bullet on this and say I wasn't head over heels for DDL in it. He was very good, but I'm really not a fan of scenery-chewing in anything, and in this case I'd have like to see him let other actors actually do anything. Paul Dano isn't half the actor DDL is, but I'd have rather seen him try to hold his own in the film only to be shot down as opposed to being nothing but a wall for DDL to yell at.
My favorite performance from DDL is in Lincoln. In that film he's obviously the stand-out, but it didn't feel like he had to stand on everyone else's head to do so as in There Will Be Blood or Gangs of New York. Part of me wonders if it's a directorial thing, but even though I like Spielberg I don't think he's as good as Anderson, or especially Scorsese.
That said, the oil fire scene is one of the best of all time.