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post #1 of 15
1/6/08 at 3:44pm
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Anyone see this yet? I saw it on Friday night. It was hard to get tickets, but it was well worth it. We arrived an hour early to find the show already sold out, but we were able to get the last tickets to the next show. The line to get in to the theater started queuing up an hour before that showing began...

As for the film itself, it was incredibly well done, and I really enjoyed it I have always enjoyed Paul Thomas Anderson's work and Daniel Day Lewis's work, so this was a treat. There are a number of elements that I really loved, but I don't want to spoil anything just yet in case no one else has seen it.
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post #2 of 15
1/6/08 at 7:49pm
I saw it last weekend at the midnight showing and thought it was fantastic. I think it could be the best movie of the year.
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post #3 of 15
1/6/08 at 9:30pm
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I saw it last weekend at the midnight showing and thought it was fantastic. I think it could be the best movie of the year.

My favorites of 2007 are There Will Be Blood and No Country For Old Men. I saw both on the same day... and in 2008.
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post #4 of 15
1/6/08 at 9:33pm
Those are my two favorites as well. On any given day I'd rather watch No Country, but it doesn't break ground like There Will Be Blood.
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post #5 of 15
1/7/08 at 12:03am
Am I the only one who found There Will Be Blood a little pokey? Too many dramatic, epic-with-a-capital-E shots that didn't go much of anywhere in particular? Thought Daniel Day-Lewis was overdoing it just a bit, giving a self-consciously large performance in keeping with the theme of the movie? A number of reviews have said that he seems to be channelling John Huston, but I think these reviewers are full of it. He's channelling Sean Connery. I thought Paul Dano was excellent.
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post #6 of 15
1/7/08 at 12:48am
On the return of big acting: http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/...235026,00.html
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post #7 of 15
1/7/08 at 2:34am
Harvey Keitel's performance in Bad Lieutenant - which the article mentions and which I think is a great performance - was the second one to cross my mind when I read the headline of the article. The first was another Keitel performance in Fingers; a grubby, nasty little movie (that's a compliment) from the late '70s in which a lot of actors are good and Keitel is superb. The article mentions Zodiac as an example of a recent movie with low-key naturalistic performances, but Robert Downey Jr. gives a performance in that which is both big and subtle. To my eye, at least. Downey has a knack for that; he does it all the time. So does Philip Seymour Hoffman, who the article mentions. Sean Penn does big acting and is often nuanced along with it. A recent performance by an actress which is both big and subtle? Uma Thurman in Kill Bill 2 comes to mind, although she has the advantage of all those larger-than-life fight scenes. Naomi Watts in Mulholland Drive?
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post #8 of 15
1/7/08 at 7:36pm
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Harvey Keitel's performance in Bad Lieutenant - which the article mentions and which I think is a great performance - was the second one to cross my mind when I read the headline of the article. The first was another Keitel performance in Fingers; a grubby, nasty little movie (that's a compliment) from the late '70s in which a lot of actors are good and Keitel is superb. The article mentions Zodiac as an example of a recent movie with low-key naturalistic performances, but Robert Downey Jr. gives a performance in that which is both big and subtle. To my eye, at least. Downey has a knack for that; he does it all the time. So does Philip Seymour Hoffman, who the article mentions. Sean Penn does big acting and is often nuanced along with it. A recent performance by an actress which is both big and subtle? Uma Thurman in Kill Bill 2 comes to mind, although she has the advantage of all those larger-than-life fight scenes. Naomi Watts in Mulholland Drive?

I would say the Uma Thurman performance in Kill Bill is a good example of bad "big" acting.
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post #9 of 15
1/7/08 at 7:56pm
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He's channelling Sean Connery .


Excellent, now I definitely want to see this!
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post #10 of 15
1/7/08 at 8:29pm
This movie did not seem 2 or so hours. Brilliant cinematography and PT Anderson deserves a nomination. Daniel Day Lewis alone is worth seeing the movie. Not wild about the supporting actor , Paul Dano though.
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post #11 of 15
1/7/08 at 8:34pm
What'd you guys think about the music? Soundtrack by Johnny Greenwood of Radiohead.
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post #12 of 15
1/7/08 at 8:34pm
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He's channelling Sean Connery
Was he wearing something like this?

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post #13 of 15
1/7/08 at 8:49pm
Zardoz: Best move ever.
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post #14 of 15
1/7/08 at 10:04pm
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I would say the Uma Thurman performance in Kill Bill is a good example of bad "big" acting.

I liked Uma Thurman's performance in that because she threw herself into it completely. She did things that stars don't have to do, and usually don't.
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post #15 of 15
1/31/11 at 10:19pm
http://www.valleycentral.com/news/st...4903&id=541868
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