Last night Lexy and I went to see There Will Be Blood. First, I will say that this movie is now on my list of fucked up movies. Fucked up in a good way.
There Will Be Blood, starring Daniel Day-Lewis in an Oscar-winning role, is about an oil prospector in the early 1900s and his quest for a particular town in order to drill. The movie revolves around the main character Daniel Plainview (Day-Lewis) and his son H.W. Daniel competes with other, larger oil companies and attempts to strike it rich with some almost-forgotten land and tries to broker a deal to build a pipeline in order to avoid railroad shipping costs. The drama is generated from an accident during drilling and the ultra-religious church in the town he is drilling around. I won’t go too much into the story, as the movie really speaks for itself.
Daniel Day-Lewis is, by all accounts, the greatest actor of our time. His ability to capture the essence of a character and make it flow onto the screen is absolutely amazing and There Will Be Blood is no exception to his abilities. The rest of the movie is also excellently performed and adds a degree of realism and stunning that I don’t think I’ve seen matched in any other recent film. That is not to say that I don’t have my issues with this film. My biggest problem is that there were several times that the audio clipped (was too loud for the speakers). Now, I can account this to being in a theater stuck in the back of the 20-plex (we were in theater 18), so that is not the movie’s fault. The music direction was… interesting. It could be rather distracting and quickly pulled me out of the experience of the movie at least a couple times. In a lot of the more intense moments, it was more along the lines of an audio cacophony rather than music, but more often than not, the style of music worked for the scenes.
There Will Be Blood is definitely a movie that everyone should see. The life and wonder generated around these characters and this world is so fascinating that it completely enthralled and captured me. Very good, very interesting movie. Completely recommend. Too bad its Blu-Ray life is still up in the air with the recent death of HD DVD.
In other movie news a new, full Iron Man trailer was just released on MySpace. The awesome part is that even though I don’t have a MySpace account, I can still embed the trailer here. Muahaha. This is one of my most looked-forward to movies of the year. Maybe ever. I have always been a huge fan of Iron Man and the idea of Robert Downey Jr. playing Tony Stark just blew me away. It was a perfect choice. How could he mess that role up? He can’t, that’s how. Maybe this should be a good time to start reading some Iron Man. Yeah, even though I have been a fan of Iron Man, I haven’t read any of the the comics. I just never had the money or the access to a good comic store. Oh well, I’ll figure it out and grab a few collection books or trades as they are called, I think.
I swear, I watched this trailer like five times. Gonna be awesome.
