World's Quickest Movie Reviews, Take II
Friday, January 25, 2008

"There Will Be Blood" -- could've/should've been called, "There Will Be Boredom." In short, don't bother. Everything you need to see is in the trailer.

Salon.com sums it up nicely in this review: Paul Thomas Anderson's "There Will Be Blood" is an austere folly, a picture so ambitious, so filled with filmmaking, that its very scale almost obscures its blankness.

At the very best, it overreaches as a film. At the worst, though, it is incomplete and/or poorly-thought out. Go ahead and see for yourself, but don't say you weren't warned.

Posted by Erin 11:06 AM

4 Comments:

  1. Anonymous said...
    1/25/2008 3:26 PM
    What she said.
    Zzzzzzzzzzzz
    Anonymous said...
    1/25/2008 3:27 PM
    In fact, if you want to use your money and time wisely, just go see Old Country for Old Men twice instead of seeing this at all.
    xt4 said...
    1/25/2008 8:06 PM
    Ha! Too bad, I think whatsizname is a pretty great actor.

    Next, you should see and review Eastern Promises, starring Viggo Mortenson and that girl from The Ring. Of particular interest is the gnarly steamroom fight, in which Aragorn's hobbit is seen flopping and flipping freely about. As I was unprepared for this level of masculinity, I was averting my eyes like...well, you... at the site of Professor Snape's bloody arterial splash from the blades of Jack Sparrow Scissorhands.

    Still, a solid renter, I thought.
    Anonymous said...
    3/31/2008 2:37 PM
    finally got to see the infamous There Will Be Blood... Daniel-Day Lewis' performance was top-notch. He takes well to the overbearing, violent father-figure role -- he also did this in Gangs of New York.

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