>you're missing my point. it's an oscar bait movie. these are
>things you typically see in them.

I think you're going to have list things that aren't oscar bait yet are still signifiers of quality filmmaking.


>the final clash w/eli scene. eli exorcising demons scene.

Any time you unintentionally drool in a scene, I'm gonna say you acted your ass off.
But I can see the exorcism scene seeming a little funny. I think that's just a risk an actor has to take to portray batshit crazy individuals.

>>the plot is about a father and his
>>child and the dynamic of their relationship with Day-Lewis'
>>greedy oilman enterprise as the foundation.

^ The Truth. (I know this was biscuit.)

>>>the score annoyed the hell out of me. there were these
>loud,
>>>eerie, shrieks like they were out of a hitchcock movie.
>>>problem is, nothing was happening. the score was so overly
>>>dramtatic i found myself laughing.

I wasn't too keen on the soundtrack either. I thought the dissonant string pads were lame. I didn't take umbrage with their approach (making "horror movie" music), I just thought it wasn't taken far enough. As in, if you're gonna go left and score something so dissimilar, really fucking go left. I thought the best pieces were the rhythmic sections that played during the derrick explosion and the journey to Bandy's land.