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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: Blu-ray Brand: PARAMOUNT PICTURES EAN: 0097361374208 Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen Item Dimensions: Label: Paramount Vantage Languages: Manufacturer: Paramount Vantage MPN: 137420 Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Paramount Vantage Region Code: 1 Release Date: June 03, 2008 Running Time: 158 minutes Studio: Paramount Vantage Theatrical Release Date: January 11, 2008 Editorial Review: Product Description: A sprawling epic of family faith power and oil THERE WILL BE BLOOD is set on the incendiary frontier of California s turn-of-the-century petroleum boom. The story chronicles the life and times of one Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis) who transforms himself from a down-and-out silver miner raising a son on his own into a self-made oil tycoon. When Plainview gets a mysterious tip-off that there s a little town out West where an ocean of oil is oozing out of the ground he heads with his son H.W. (Dillon Freasier) to take their chances in dust-worn Little Boston. In this hardscrabble town where the main excitement centers around the holy roller church of charismatic preacher Eli Sunday (Paul Dano) Plainview and H.W. make their lucky strike. But even as the well raises all of their fortunes nothing will remain the same as conflicts escalate and every human value love hope community belief ambition and even the bond between father and son is imperiled by corruption deception and the flow of oil.System Requirements:Running Time: 158 minutesFormat: BLU-RAY DISC Genre: DRAMA/INNOCENCE LOST Rating: R UPC: 097361374208 Manufacturer No: 137420 Amazon.com: Unmistakably a shot at greatness, Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood succeeds in wild, explosive ways. The film digs into nothing less than the sources of peculiarly American kinds of ambition, corruption, and industry--and makes exhilarating cinema from it all. Although inspired by Upton Sinclair's 1927 novel Oil!, Anderson has crafted his own take on the material, focusing on a black-eyed, self-made oilman named Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis), whose voracious appetite for oil turns him into a California tycoon in the early years of the 20th century. The early reels are a mesmerizing look at the getting of oil from the ground, an intensely physical process that later broadens into Plainview's equally indomitable urge to control land and power. Curious, diverting episodes accumulate during Plainview's rise: a mighty derrick fire (a bravura opportunity that Anderson, with the aid of cinematographer Robert Elswit, does not fail to meet), a visit from a long-lost brother (Kevin J. O'Connor), the ongoing involvement of Plainview's poker-faced adoptive son (Dillon Freasier). As the film progresses, it gravitates toward Plainview's rivalry with the local representative of God, a preacher named Eli Sunday (brimstone-spitting Paul Dano); religion and capitalism are thus presented not so much as opposing forces but as two sides of the same coin. And the worm in the apple here is less man's greed than his vanity. Anderson's offbeat take on all this--exemplified by the astonishing musical score by Jonny Greenwood--occasionally threatens to break the film apart, but even when it founders, it excites. As for Daniel Day-Lewis, his performance is Olivier-like in its grand scope and its attention to details of behavior; Plainview speaks in the rum-rich voice of John Huston, and squints with the wariness of Walter Huston. It's a fearsome performance, and the engine behind the film's relentless power. --Robert Horton Average Rating:
 Rating:  - TragedyThe central character in "There Will Be Blood", oil tycoon Daniel Plainview (played by thoroughbred thespian Daniel Day-Lewis) is a fascinatingly repugnant character. He's greedy, ruthless, cruel, and shamelessly manipulative, to be sure ... but it's really the touch of humanity he occasionally displays that truly makes him tragic, because you can see that beneath all his contempt is a sad, broken-hearted man. Although capable of affection, whenever Daniel feels abandoned or betrayed he reacts viciously ... Read More Rating: - An effective presentation of the explored subjectThis will not be everyone's cup of tea, and considering the subject matter, I did not think this film would be mine either but thanks to some creative work from the writers and director, and a perfected performance from Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood was a pleasant joy ride of entertainment. The film begins with music one would expect to hear out of a horror film, while the director has us gazing across a desert on a sunny day, in the western U.S. The music is erie and perhaps grants ... Read More Rating: - Movie: 3.5~4.25/5 Picture Quality: 3.75~4.75/5 Sound Quality: 4/5 Extras: 2.75/5Version: U.S.A (Paramount) / Region Free VC-1 BD-50 Average Video Bit Rate: 26.07 Mbps Total Bit Rate: 33.80 Mbps Running time: 2:38:25 Movie size: 40,161,970,176 bytes Disc size: 48,617,189,620 bytes Dolby TrueHD 5.1 24-bit # 15 Minutes (HD, 15 minutes) # Fishing (HD, 6 minutes) # Haircut/Interrupted Hymn (HD, 3 minutes) # Dailies Gone Wild (HD, 3 minutes) # Trailers (HD, 3 minutes) # The Story of Petroleum (HD, 26 minutes) ... Read More Rating:  - There Will Be Bad MusicThis was a fantasy film, as with most Daniel Day-Lewis films. However, at times I nearly had to turn off the sound because I found the music score was the worst I had ever heard. That would include ALL Ed Wood films and the music of The New World. Not sure what the music director was trying to accomplish, it did NOT work. Rating:  - Don't waste your time, seriouslyThis movie really never goes anywhere with the plot. I want my 3 hours back. Summary: A man who really doesn't like anyone pisses off everyone. The End. |
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