There Will Be Blood [Blu-ray] by Paul Thomas Anderson, starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano, Ciarán Hinds, Martin Stringer, Matthew Braden Stringer: DVDNear.com

There Will Be Blood [Blu-ray]

There Will Be Blood [Blu-ray]
by Paul Thomas Anderson

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Actor: Ciarán Hinds, Daniel Day-Lewis, Martin Stringer, Matthew Braden Stringer, Paul Dano
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Brand: Paramount
Cinematographer: Robert Elswit
Editor: Dylan Tichenor
Blu-ray: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 158 minutes
Blu-ray Release Date: 2008-06-03
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Paramount
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Condition: New
Format: Blu-ray
Closed-captioned; Color; Widescreen

Movie Reviews of There Will Be Blood [Blu-ray]

Movie Review: I get bored easily, and I love this movie.
Summary: 5 Stars

I first saw There Will Be Blood without knowing anything about the plot or who was in it. I'm kind of glad I did it that way now, because nearly every review you read has people on one of two sides: that it's pure genius and one of the best movies of all time, or that it's boring and nothing happens. I can totally see where the bored crowd is coming from, since this really is a movie where nothing really happens. It's more of a character study than it is of anything else, despite what plot summaries may lead you to believe. As for it being one of the best movies ever made...I can't quite say that, though it definitely is in my personal top 10.

Daniel Plainview is running an oil business. Oil and money are the main things that make him live. He has a son of sorts (a baby he took in from an employee who was killed on the job) named H.W., and together they go around getting the trust of towns to let Daniel drill on their land. When he starts to really get things going, he encounters a bit of a road block- a young boy named Eli who's the definition of 'crazy Christian', who can see Daniel for who he is, and also wants in on the money.

That's the basic plot summary, but the majority of this movie revolves around Daniel and showing just how far he'll go to get what he wants. Murdering people isn't a big deal as long as it means making more money, and he even goes so far as to get baptised in Eli's church to win over one man who wouldn't let Daniel drill in his area unless he joined the church. As the movie continues, Daniel essentially snaps and becomes consumed by his hatred. THAT'S what the movie's really about. Eli's in the movie for a good while, but not even half of the run time when it comes down to it. Personally, even with this movie being as long as it is, with 'nothing happening' since it's very dialogue driven, I loved it. Daniel Day-Lewis gives the best performance I've ever seen in a movie, and I'll never forget the name of Daniel Plainview. Even people I know who were bored out of their minds watching this remember the character's name because he did that great of a job with the character. Paul Dano does excellent as well, making you hate him whenever he opens his mouth, and especially when he tries to be seen as a prophet.

There are many long shots where the camera will just pan around or very, very slowly zoom in, and the first 15-20 minutes of the movie is sure to test anyone's patience if they're a casual movie watcher. Don't think I'm one of those artsy movie buffs, I can't stand those types, and I won't call the director a genius, but the fact that I wasn't bored for a second while watching this really says something, where I'm the kind of person who wants story progression at a steady pace and no slow spots. If you're looking for action, this movie doesn't have much aside from an incredible fire scene, some people getting shot, a short fight and of course the final scene that even people who haven't seen the movie know about. I also have to give credit to Johnny Greenwood for providing the film's score. For a period piece, there's a lot of experimental music, and his track titled Convergence was used flawlessly here. If I had to say anything bad about the movie, it's that I would've liked some more closure on things, mostly because so many people argue if the ending was a dream, in Daniel's head or real.

For the blu-ray, this is a standard release, matching the quality of the dvd in every aspect, but slightly better for obvious reasons. So I won't waste time there, but things do look and sound good. Audio is in English, Spanish and French, as are the subtitles if you need them. The special features are all the same as those on the special edition 2 disc dvd set. You get the pictures and research featurette for the making of the movie, the trailers, the Fishing bit, the haircut and interrupted hymn deleted scene, and the Dailies Gone Wild feature. Finally, there's the History of Petroleum short film, made in the 1920s, and eventhough it seems a little out of place here, it's worth a watch, especially since they did such a good job of cleaning up the picture quality for it. The main complaint anyone who cares for special features is that there's no commentary track. I hear Paul Thomas Anderson isn't big on those, and I can respect that. But for everyone whining about the ending, I'd appreciate it if he would just come out and confirm the ending so it can be put to rest. I don't think he'd be one of those 'every movie should be like Fight Club' kind of people.

I doubt a special edition or anniversary set will come out for this movie with the commentary track that everyone wants, so as it is, this blu-ray gets a 3 out of 5 from me. But the movie- the most important thing, gets a 5. Just know what you're getting into before you rent or buy it. This is a character study, plain and simple. But it's a damn good one with one of the finest performances ever, and Daniel Day-Lewis earned every bit of that Best Actor award for his portrayal as Daniel Plainview.

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Summary of There Will Be Blood [Blu-ray]

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.

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

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