Sarge wrote:Gil-Martin wrote:C'mon, HSH, There Will Be Blood can't really be best described as dull. It does have at its heart a huge flaw - surprisingly the one aspect that most people rave about - in Day Lewis' perormance; viz the way he almost totally incorporates his Bill 'The Butcher' character from Gangs of New York into his Daniel Plainview character.
Certain parts of that film left me gobsmacked. The soundtrack is fantastic. And the scenes where Plainview's son (or not) struggled to cope with his deafness were astonishingly good.
To be fair, he was playing an intensely driven & money hungry character...just as his character in GoNY was power hungry & racist.
They were both very similar characters. (bar a few slight changes)
That's a very good point, and the one sensible way in which it can be explained. Perhaps it was just the fact that TTWB was the next big thing he did after Gangs, and it seemed that he was getting squeezed into typecast, or that was all he had to offer. Which, looking at his history, would be grossly unfair.
However....it is
uncanny.
HSH28 wrote:I found the whole thing to be dull personally.
There are a few good scenes and some of the performances are pretty special...but mostly it just plods along.
I suppose I can understand why some wouldn't like Into the Wild, but I think if you go into it in the right frame of mind it'll blow you away.
Actually these responses remind me of some of my friends when they were persuaded to watch Spaced and just didn't get it one little bit, they think its terrible.
And what did you think of Spaced?
