|
There Will Be Blood (Two-Disc Widescreen Edition) | 
| Studio: Paramount Vantage
Category: DVD
List Price: CDN$ 42.07
Buy New: CDN$ 18.00
You Save: CDN$ 24.07 (57%)
New (9) from CDN$ 18.00
Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 4975
Format: Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
UPC: 097361325767
EAN: 0097361325767
ASIN: B0013ZGN8E
Release Date: April 8, 2008
Availability: Usually ships within 1 - 2 business days
Shipping: International shipping available
Condition: has never been opened
|
| Similar Items:
|
| Customer Reviews: Read 1 more reviews...
 The Lust for Oil! July 11, 2008
Set in the period between the late 19th century and the Great Depression of the 20th century, when oil was discovered in the Los Angeles Basin, this movie portrays the best and the worst in the human race. On one hand, there is the collective drive to open up America to all its great untapped wealth. This was a period when families like the Rockefellers of New York went west to make their fortunes in the oil business. Big corporations like Union Oil and Getty Oil cashed in on the the oil booms of Venango County, Pennsylvania, the Texas Panhandle and Lower California. On the other hand, the rush to acquire this wealth brought out the insatiable greed and ruthlessness in individuals bent on destroying others who ever got in their way of becoming rich. This movie is a retelling of the story of one man, Daniel Plainview, and his underhanded efforts to lease private properties in order to obtain the critical drilling rights. Daniel, as played by Daniel-Day Lewis, is a despicable character who takes shut-cuts with his workers, exploits relationships, lies, kills, and browbeats in order to build up his oil fortunes. To create a greater sense of balance in the storyline, the director produces a curious religious countervail or distraction to the commercial designs of Plainview and his kind. The frontier evangelist and his Church of the Third Revelation should combine to be the force that offsets all that is bad in the valley where oil derricks are springing out of nowhere. But it won't be long before the viewer discovers otherwise. This is truly a dog-eat-dog environment where everyone and his 'brother' names their price and there is no honor among thieves. Day-Lewis definitely plays a sparkling role in conveying the brutal side of life. One should have no problem seeing him as an unrepentent villain who cares for no one, including himself. Be prepared for an interesting ending that speaks to the heart of man's passion to compete. This is the best film on the Robber Baron/Gilded Age I've seen since "Citizen Caine".
I'm Henry Plainview & I'm an oil man... June 30, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I'm speechless this film is #1 in our time.
The movie is perfect. The cinematography, the erie music, the disturbing & chilling acting. I only wish it was longer.
If you watch it once & don't enjoy it; then, take a break & watch it again. Let Daniel Day Lewis take you on a ride of a lifetime!
 "There will be Boredom" May 25, 2008
3 out of 13 found this review helpful
I love movies and will watch almost any genre if it is good but this movie is terrible....I was afraid it might be too wierd or arty or something when it got academy award nods...but seriously...it has nothing redeeming about it...it is too long and boring and basically pure torture and hard to understand...is it a rant against religion?/...are paul and eli the same alter ego/person?/ ...we should have saved our money and rented alvin and the chipmunks
The worst soundtrack of any movie, ever May 10, 2008
2 out of 9 found this review helpful
I had to stop after 1 hour because the soundtrack was driving me crazy.
It is too loud, the music is totally inappropriate for the scenes being played and it is just plain awful. If you can turn the sound off and lip-read, then for all I know the movie might be OK.
How Crude April 14, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
'There Will Be Blood' is an amazing movie worthy of the accolades awarded. Daniel Day-Lewis plays Daniel Plainview an oil prospector and magnate as he becomes the ruthless, money hungry oil man. But honestly that is what he is throughout the entire movie, extremely ambitious, highly competitive, mistrustful set in a desolate and wild California transitioning from the 19th century and 30 years roughly into the 20th circa the Great Depression. This movie plays very much like theatre work with a story-line that moves forward with really powerful acting and only small references about the past of the main characters. Daniel Plainview an oil tycoon in the making a cut up of the American Dream and the desperate lengths people go to get theirs. Plainview has an adopted son, which he appears to have a familial bond to, but that changes when the boy becomes deaf in an accident. Plainview is more the actor constantly in pursuit of his goals that have consumed him, he will say anything, he will work the deal from every angle, like selling to him will help to improve the small towns he basically drains dry.
The audience isn't supposed to love Daniel Plainview, you are supposed to love to hate Daniel Plainview and the great performance of Daniel Day-Lewis who delivers the role perfectly. Throw in a falsely religous scammer and preacher Eli Sunday, who was the former big fish in Little Boston, a town Daniel Plainview begins to pump oil out of and basically takes over, Eli Sunday more wants to control the minds and hearts of people, Daniel Plainview wants to own it all.
Not to ruin the film, this is a very good movie, well acted there are very few sympathetic characters this being somewhat of a moral play where there is a reason for it being called 'There Will Be Blood', this movie is excellent.
|
|
|
Powered by Associate-O-Matic
| |
