The Official Movie Thread

[cookiecutter]

Somebody help explain There Will be Blood.
I haven't made the connection as to why he went crazy...
Tell me why I should love this movie.
I'm willing to talk about this... I hated No Country when I first saw, but after talking about it, I loved it... Please help me enjoy this movie.

I'm lookin' at you, Cookie.

what makes the movie great isn't necessarily the plotline, it's how Daniel Day Lewis delivers as an actor. it's his performance (and the soundtrack and cinematography) that make the movie amazing

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It was all good... but plot makes the movie imo. You could have great acting and cinematography in Ultraviolet, that doesn't make it a great movie.

If you didn't think the plot was at least adequate then you are missing something. You got to see the rise and fall of a powerful but flawed man and how it helps or hurts the people around him. This plot could go badly with bad actors, but the acting is so good that it is extremely engaging and emotional

 

[rms]

Um, his son went permanently deaf, he's in rabid competition with other oil tycoons, he's got some religious looney giving him hell, he's got a guy who visited and lied about his relation to him, his son left the family business....

He doesn't even care about his son, I knew it on the first scene they showed together.

 

[seedofvengeance]

Like I said... it was good, just not great. Perhaps I was expecting too much... I was expecting to be blown away and absolutely amazed, but was only entertained to a normal degree.

 

[seedofvengeance]

He doesn't even care about his son, I knew it on the first scene they showed together.

He cared... hence the whole scene when he was "saved", and when he brought him back. I think he didn't really know how to show it. He felt a little distance with H.W. not being his biological son as well, but he still loved him.

 

[Vegard Pompey]

Watched Dogma yesterday. Certainly one of the better comedies I have seen. Gonna watch 2001 tonight.

 

[rms]

he said it at the end of the movie the only reason he was around was to be used as a business ploy

 

[cookiecutter]

He cared but I think he had a hard time showing it and was easily angered

EDIT: Yeah he said that, but I think he really did care for him

 

[seedofvengeance]

he said it at the end of the movie the only reason he was around was to be used as a business ploy

He was angry and bitter, you say fucked up things under those conditions.

He obviously cared about him, as showed from the scenes when they were alone.

 

[rms]

I dont believe that at all, I didn't see his character as loving etc, if it wasn't for his oil business he wouldn't have had that at all.

 

[cookiecutter]

What about the scene where they are hiking together. I thought that seemed pretty loving

 

[panzerfaust666]

watched eastern promises last night.great film.

 

[Psychonaut]

Um, spoiler alerts?????

Dammit.

 

[Einherjar86]

Fuck! This whole page was basically the plot of the film. I'm avoiding this thread for a while

 

[Einherjar86]

watched eastern promises last night.great film.

Hells ya. Viggo is fuckin' awesome in that. The bath house scene is kickass.

 

[Vegard Pompey]

Watched 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Eh? I don't get it. That was one of the most boring movies I have ever seen in my entire life.

 

[waif]

It was my understanding that that was almost the point.

 

[Einherjar86]

Watched 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Eh? I don't get it. That was one of the most boring movies I have ever seen in my entire life.

Haha, It's probably because it doesn't cater to any common and modern sense of viability in film. It has long scenes with no dialogue, a very strange musical score, uneven plot lines, sometimes hardly ANY plot line, an ending half-hour that would have made Syd Barrett shit his pants, and a final shot that seems to make no sense.

However, the film is highly intellectual. It's about the creation of the human race, what forces were behind it (the monolith doesn't necessarily mean "aliens;" it could mean whatever you want it to), the path evolution takes, the reason for our existence, etc.

I don't think there are any definite answers embedded in the film, or in the book for that matter. Arthur C. Clarke has stated of his novel that "If you understood what I meant by writing 2001, then I failed." Or something along those lines.

 

[waif]

What a stoner.

 

[Einherjar86]

You know, actually, not that much. I just really love Stanley Kubrick and 2001: A Space Odyssey is my favorite film of his.

 

[waif]

Kubrick is awesome. This is known.