Miscellaneous Movie Musings

[innerSpaceman]

No of course I won't buy it for that reason. But I do want it, so I'm going to examine the packaging carefully.

I remember being upset that the Simpson's Heads packaging was so shoddy it would fall apart after opening twice. If this appears to be the same, it likely would indeed affect my consumer decision.

The Simpsons offered regular packaging as an alternative, btw. A reasonable compromise, imo.

[Snowflake]

Okay, I have not gone back and read previous postings on There Will Be Blood. Thanks to Netflix I saw it last night.

Let me preface, I loved Paul Dano and Daniel Day Lewis. I did not love the film. I really thought it was a colassal bore. I did not get the EPIC nature of the film at all.

I loved the nuance at the very end in DDL's cry I'm Finished (in more ways than one). Paul Dano was, I think, creepier than Javiar Bardem in NCFM (which I loved as a film and will buy on DVD)

What am I missing here?

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

Originally Posted by Snowflake

Okay, I have not gone back and read previous postings on There Will Be Blood. Thanks to Netflix I saw it last night.

Let me preface, I loved Paul Dano and Daniel Day Lewis. I did not love the film. I really thought it was a colassal bore. I did not get the EPIC nature of the film at all.

I loved the nuance at the very end in DDL's cry I'm Finished (in more ways than one). Paul Dano was, I think, creepier than Javiar Bardem in NCFM (which I loved as a film and will buy on DVD)

What am I missing here?

Everyone has such a different take on this film, which is maybe the most interesting thing about the movie, the first hour excepted (because I loved it so much).

I actually didn't care for Dano, and most people seemed to. Times I liked him, times I thought his performance was terrible.

And though I also think DDL overdid the last 15 or 20 minutes, I also very much like his delivery of that final line. That was, as you said, nuanced.