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| ![There Will Be Blood [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51H65X7mJwL._SL500_.jpg)
| Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Actors: Daniel Day-lewis, Paul Dano, Ciaran Hinds, Martin Stringer, Matthew Braden Stringer
Studio: Paramount
Category: DVD
List Price: $39.99
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Rating:  360 reviews
Sales Rank: 3275
Format: Ac-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: Blu-ray
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 158 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 5.4 x 0.5
MPN: PARBR137420
UPC: 097361374208
EAN: 0097361374208
ASIN: B0018QCXH8
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Release Date: June 3, 2008
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 An extraordinary American story September 13, 2008
David Bonesteel (Fresno, CA United States)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day Lewis), a man filled with hatred and disdain for the human race, spends his life sucking oil from the ground and amassing a fortune. His power and wealth allow him to look down on the rest of humanity, but cannot protect him from his own self-contempt. br / br /Paul Thomas Anderson's epic film is a deeply cynical meditation on two forces that defined the rise of America, entrepreneurialism and religion. It features great performances and a magnificent evocation of the oil fields of the West during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. There are many fascinating aspects of this film, but the most interesting may be Plainview's lifelong enmity toward the charismatic preacher Eli Sunday (Paul Dano), whose flock represents for Plainview all that is gullible and foolish in people. The two men humiliate each other in several remarkable scenes, most notably the one in which Plainview is coerced into joining the church in order to gain some land rights; it's a tour de force performance from Day Lewis. Jonny Greenwood's extraordinary, unique soundtrack is unexpected but totally appropriate. I'm sure that this rich film will reward many repeat viewings. br /
 Entertaining but not a truly great movie September 10, 2008
angelpride (NY, USA)
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is an entertaining OK movie. Not one of the greats as many previous reviewers have written. I won't go through the story-line because others have done a good job on that. And yes the cinematography is beautiful. But I have two problems with this film. Firstly, the story itself. OK, two rival characters each tormented by their own obsessions set in an epic historical background. But so what? We've seen that stuff so many times before. It's what Hollywood's about. Which makes it too self-consciously an attempt at 'greatness.' And that's where it goes wrong. Foreign films don't make this mistake the way we do in America. They convey a message and then let the viewer decide whether the movie's great. It's like we're constantly being reminded "this is a great movie, guys." Secondly, I have a problem with Day Lewis himself and found the preacher more convincing. Day Lewis is too perfect. He's such a competent method actor that I found myself wondering - maybe one day we can programme a robot to act perfectly and we won't need actors. Like Meryl Streep. For me when you see a truly great actor perform not only must they be competent but they must seem human. Bogart plays hundreds of different characters convincingly but you somehow can see Bogart's soul shining through as well as the soul of the characters he acts. Day Lewis is a great vehicle but who is Day Lewis himself? Having seen many films of his I still don't know. It sounds strange but he's almost so good at acting that he seems empty himself. br /
 An Oily Citizen Kane September 9, 2008
R. Schultz (Chicago)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
For a while, I thought the arc of this movie was going to parallel the classic "Citizen Kane" trajectory, with Daniel Day-Lewis' character rising from humble beginnings and snatched opportunities as an oil well rigger - to a hollow, rattling, rambling millionaire alone amidst his riches. However, just as I thought I had the character's conclusion pegged that way, the movie made another catapult into new territory. br / br /Everything about this movie proceeds by jagged, akimbo grasshopper leaps, like the ones that might be made by the giant grasshopper-like well pumps that dominate the film's landscapes. "Blood" has a distinctive beat to its plot - just as its score has a distinctive beat marked by industrial clanks and crunches. br / br /The plot is loosely based on Upton Sinclair's book, "Oil," exposing the greed and chicanery rampant in the oil mining industry. However where Sinclair's book made the protagonist's adversaries a consortium of industrialists - this movie made Lewis' main adversaries a group of religious fundamentalists. That was a daring choice, but it does give the action another dimension. br / br /Paul Dano is superb as the two-faced religious leader - so smooth and passively faith-basted on the one hand - so much the raging tyrant on the other. However Daniel Day-Lewis brings in the tour de force performance as oilman extraordinaire. This is a memorable film on all scores.
A Very Brilliant Daniel Day-Lewis September 8, 2008
Martial Arts Damsel (Cypress, Texas United States)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I was blown away by his performance. A Simple story of a man struggling to make a living without the support of a wife.... only a somewhat challenging child. What seems slow at first picks up the pace as new characters are introduced. It is then we get to see people's personalities evolve under changing circumstances. (The preacher man was a riot.)
 Allegorical ho-hum September 8, 2008
Andrew Morgan
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
Slow and not much blood, not that there's anything wrong with that. Only that if you're weighing whether to sit through 2 and a half hours of a movie, you'd prefer to go in with no illusions. This movie is an allegorical story that in both its substance and form deconstructs the illusions we live by. The plot is slow and misshapen, punctuated by sparse moments of triumph and terror and manipulations and murders, and fragile loves across the void. The cardboard, threadbare quality to the characters is undoubtedly part of the allegory. The driven, ruthless man without illusions would seem to have the advantage, but for what? A great question that humanity wrestles with. This film contributes no insight about that, however. It will be remembered only for the iconic line in the final scene, a line that itself is out of place. br / br /Daniel Day Lewis shines.
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