| There Will Be Blood [Blu-ray] | ![There Will Be Blood [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51H65X7mJwL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Actors: Daniel Day-lewis, Paul Dano, Ciaran Hinds, Martin Stringer, Matthew Braden Stringer
Studio: Paramount Vantage
Category: DVD
List Price: $39.99
Buy New: $22.95
You Save: $17.04 (43%)
New (25) Used (17) from $22.49
Avg. Customer Rating:  332 reviews
Sales Rank: 732
Format: Ac-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: Blu-ray
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 158
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 137420
UPC: 097361374208
EAN: 0097361374208
ASIN: B0018QCXH8
Theatrical Release Date: January 11, 2008
Release Date: June 3, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
|
| Similar Items:
|
| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
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
Product Description
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.System Requirements:Running Time: 158 minutesFormat: BLU-RAY DISC Genre: DRAMA/INNOCENCE LOST Rating: R UPC: 097361374208 Manufacturer No: 137420
|
| Customer Reviews: Read 327 more reviews...
 Tragedy September 4, 2008
The central character in "There Will Be Blood", oil tycoon Daniel Plainview (played by thoroughbred thespian Daniel Day-Lewis) is a fascinatingly repugnant character. He's greedy, ruthless, cruel, and shamelessly manipulative, to be sure ... but it's really the touch of humanity he occasionally displays that truly makes him tragic, because you can see that beneath all his contempt is a sad, broken-hearted man. Although capable of affection, whenever Daniel feels abandoned or betrayed he reacts viciously and often violently, destroying any possibility of authentic relationships.
Throughout the movie his character's fate is tied to that of Eli Sunday, a theatrical minister who, despite superficial differences, is as ruthlessly ambitious as Plainview is. Sunday is Plainview's nemesis and mirror ... their mutual hatred is due to the fact that they surely see all of their own loathsome qualities reflected in the other. Throughout the film the two characters spar, compete, play mind games and torture each other.
Although the film ends with a final confrontation between the two characters in which one apparently "wins", powerhouse director P.T. Anderson makes it clear that there are no real winners in this film, just empty characters who sold their souls to the devil long ago. "There Will Be Blood" is an indictment of human nature, the destructiveness of anger and greed, and the American Dream gone horrible awry.
An effective presentation of the explored subject August 31, 2008
This will not be everyone's cup of tea, and considering the subject matter, I did not think this film would be mine either but thanks to some creative work from the writers and director, and a perfected performance from Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood was a pleasant joy ride of entertainment.
The film begins with music one would expect to hear out of a horror film, while the director has us gazing across a desert on a sunny day, in the western U.S. The music is erie and perhaps grants us immidiate forshadowing of what is to come throughout the film. I did not realize it at first, but there is no spoken dialouge for the first 15 minutes of the film...I practically jumped when the first words came across, as the 15 minutes of spoken silence where quite effective, giving us an insiders look at the stages of extracting oil in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Daniel Plainview's persistence pays off, as his oil business steadily grows and expands, while raising his young son in the early 20th century. From the get-go, Daniel is not the nicest or most honest man around, and any gentlemenship he displays is out of business rather than kindness. For awhile we only know the business side of Daniel, yet desire to know more, which eventually comes around but not until later on in the film. The desire to understand this man more kept a certain suspense going. Things are fairly calm throughout the first hour of the film, and you expect (even hope) for something to go wrong to make things interesting. They do, certain tragedies strike and tensions build, primarily between Daniel and Eli Sunday (Paul Dano), the leader of the local church. The deeper meaning of the story begins to unfold, when we discover the villainous (in his own ways) Plainview and Sunday are more alike than different as would like to believe.
Though the film has it's moments and messages that are interesting and make a point, it's the performance of Day-Lewis that is unforgettable and make this film sharp. He brings all the right elements as a perfected actor should, allowing the role to come alive as if it were the very real thing.
Acting - 5
Characters - 4
Drama - 4
Story - 4
Overall - 4
Movie: 3.5~4.25/5 Picture Quality: 3.75~4.75/5 Sound Quality: 4/5 Extras: 2.75/5 August 29, 2008
Version: U.S.A (Paramount) / Region Free
VC-1 BD-50
Average Video Bit Rate: 26.07 Mbps
Total Bit Rate: 33.80 Mbps
Running time: 2:38:25
Movie size: 40,161,970,176 bytes
Disc size: 48,617,189,620 bytes
Dolby TrueHD 5.1 24-bit
# 15 Minutes (HD, 15 minutes)
# Fishing (HD, 6 minutes)
# Haircut/Interrupted Hymn (HD, 3 minutes)
# Dailies Gone Wild (HD, 3 minutes)
# Trailers (HD, 3 minutes)
# The Story of Petroleum (HD, 26 minutes)
Version: U.K / Japan (Miramax - BVHE) [Region Locked]
VC-1 BD-50
Average Video Bit Rate: ???? Mbps
Total Bit Rate: ??.??
Running time: 2:38:25
Movie size: ??? bytes
Disc size: ??? bytes
LPCM (48 khz / 16-bit / 4.6 Mbps) English / Japanese
 There Will Be Bad Music August 27, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
This was a fantasy film, as with most Daniel Day-Lewis films. However, at times I nearly had to turn off the sound because I found the music score was the worst I had ever heard. That would include ALL Ed Wood films and the music of The New World. Not sure what the music director was trying to accomplish, it did NOT work.
 Don't waste your time, seriously August 24, 2008
0 out of 5 found this review helpful
This movie really never goes anywhere with the plot. I want my 3 hours back.
Summary: A man who really doesn't like anyone pisses off everyone. The End.
|
|
|
