If Snowflake didn't like the film, I say she has excellent taste. I saw it in the theater and it did nothing for me aside from making me acknowledge once again that Day-Lewis is a good actor. That is, until Mousepod nudged me about the whole "John Huston" thing, and that pretty much ruined the only thing I liked about this film.

Thanks LSPE.

Alex, I did not love the cinematography nearly as much as NCFOM (which had real sweep and beauty to me) but I can appreciate your thoughts on it, and the film.

I also did not find Dano weak. You're right, weak against Day-Lewis, but I think a very respectable (if) over the top performace at the end. I do feel like the red-herring of his character dissapearing and then coming in at the end for a hand out kind of a lame plot twist.

That said, I have not read the original novel, either.

Oh, I wasn't comparing TWBB with NCFOM. The latter is far superior in my opinion and that includes cinematography.

My understanding is that TWBB really was "inspired" by Sinclair's Oil and that they are pretty divergent.

It's an adaptation of a single chapter in Sinclair's "Oil," but I've no idea if it's otherwise divergent of the contents of that chapter.


To each his own, my friends. I LOVED There Will Be Blood and I was hardly alone. I was only kidding when I put Snowflake down for poor taste (but never kidding when I do the same to Gemini Cricket, heheh) :p


VIVA LA DIFFERENCE!

Indeed! I still loved iSm when he professed his love for Crash. I just knew we were never, ever going to agree on Oscar movies. (Still, he makes for wonderful Oscar night company.) (And, sometimes, we do agree. When are we going to watch The Orphanage!?!?)

mousepod has it scheduled for soon after the BluRay is released. Eh, perfectionist.

By that time, his thread for that event series should return from seder and boob talk.

We watched I Am Legend tonight.





I'm sleeping with the lights on.... :eek:

Won't they find you if the lights are on? I mean, sunlight was a pretty effective deterrent, but by the end of the movie the scary people didn't seem to mind electric light. Better keep a grenade or two under your pillow.

I saw Superhero Movie! and it's hard to believe someone directed this. Had some funny moments - most of them in the trailer but the worst part about it was during the credits the played "cut" scenes which were actually funnier than most of the film. It's like "stay and watch our names and we'll show you all the funny parts we could figure out where to edit into the film."

I hope there is a "unrated" version on DVD. Hmmmmmm....

Watched Halloween and parts of Cars in BluRay at Cherny's and Gn2Dlnd's. Pretty cool indeed.
Halloween is a great film. In the horror genre it's one of the best. The use of suspense in this films is terrific. I like it when horror movies use suspense rather than gore to entertain.