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12. "I really wanted to like There Will Be Blood"
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-Daniel Day Lewis was great, but he seemed like he was acting for a totally different movie. His accent is out of place with the environment, nobody else even comes close to it, and his over-the-top performance sticks out lick a sore thumb.

-Paul Dano as the preacher stuck out too. It was almost but not quick at Lewis' level over going overboard, but...I don't know, it seemed like the movie wasn't even trying to depict a real time, but create some alternate universe where shit like dialect and culture all overlapped haphazardly.

-The soundtrack would've been great if I was watching a zombie movie. If it had been Lucio Fulci's There Will Be Blood than everything would've been cool.

-What the fuck was with that milk shake garbage? He could have said almost anything else and the scene would have worked. Man he could've repeated word for word Ezekiel 25:17 and completely copied Sam Jackson from Pulp Fiction and it still would've made for a better ending than that milk shake line. It was so out of place and out of character, you can just tell it was some shit that P.T. Anderson read somewhere and just had to use.

Sorry, I know many people around here liked it, and that's great. I really wanted to. It's just, I thought this movie failed at all the things I thought No Country for Old Men succeeded at.

  

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in retrospect..no country for old men vs. there will be blood [View all] , al_sharp, Tue May-20-08 05:34 PM
 
Subject Author Message Date ID
no country for old men
May 20th 2008
1
No Country all the way
May 20th 2008
2
precisely.
May 21st 2008
14
And there it is
May 27th 2008
27
Ding Ding Effing Ding
May 27th 2008
28
that isn't really a defining answer tho
May 28th 2008
32
      did you just type this?
May 28th 2008
33
      im in the "No Country is overrated" camp i guess
May 28th 2008
35
           I think it's Coen's second best.
May 28th 2008
39
                Miller's Crossing is definitely overrated, i luv Raising Arizona tho
May 28th 2008
41
                     you misspelled Fargo
May 29th 2008
51
                          yup, Fargo too.
May 29th 2008
60
      NCFOM was a better film though
May 28th 2008
34
           u wanna talk about slow pacing?
May 28th 2008
36
                Acronyms are easier to type
May 28th 2008
38
                     bien, pienso it's apenas una cosa del gusto.
May 28th 2008
40
                          Okay I lied
May 28th 2008
42
                          ...this wasn't a machine translation, was it? Be honest.
May 29th 2008
45
                          lol. it's more mechanised than the mufuckn T1000.
May 29th 2008
46
                          Mini-postjack: let me test my rusty Spanish with translating this
May 29th 2008
47
                               i don't even know, i can't remember what i wrote lol
May 29th 2008
49
I give Blood a slight edge
May 20th 2008
3
Agreed
May 20th 2008
4
same here
May 20th 2008
5
no country got this one
May 20th 2008
6
Phuck a milk shake, use a air gun.
May 20th 2008
7
I liked '..Blood' better.
May 21st 2008
8
the ending is explained pretty well in the NCFOM ptp post
May 21st 2008
15
No Country
May 21st 2008
9
Have opinions changed that much in 5 months
May 21st 2008
10
mine go back and forth...i'm too torn to vote...
May 21st 2008
22
well, I never saw them in the theaters, so
May 21st 2008
23
it's not being fickle. it's just perspective.
May 28th 2008
37
I honestly don't know what I'd pick now....
May 21st 2008
11
that's exactly what happened with the milkshake line
May 21st 2008
16
Can I go off the board & take The Assassination of Jesse James
May 21st 2008
13
I agree with you on both counts
May 21st 2008
17
the only part of that movie I liked
May 21st 2008
18
      I had no idea that was Nick Cave
May 21st 2008
20
daniel day lewis' performance>>>>>any performance in no country
May 21st 2008
19
AMEN
May 29th 2008
54
I can agree with that but I didn't like the movie overall as much
May 29th 2008
57
No Co
May 21st 2008
21
no country for old men by fucking miles
May 27th 2008
24
Blood drinks No Country's milkshake
May 27th 2008
25
No Country with pressure in the tank to spare.
May 27th 2008
26
haha... excellent.
May 27th 2008
29
red...
May 28th 2008
30
DRAAAAAAAIIIINAAAGGGEEE! (er...There Will Be Blood...easily)
May 28th 2008
31
RE: in retrospect..no country for old men vs. there will be blood
May 28th 2008
43
Michael Clayton.
May 28th 2008
44
lol...nah
May 29th 2008
52
that's just ridiculous
May 29th 2008
53
I fell asleep during this and I wish I wouldn't have
May 29th 2008
58
then Bloods overthetopness? yep
May 29th 2008
62
*shoots you with a silenced shotgun*
May 29th 2008
48
there will be blood
May 29th 2008
50
It's criminal how people are overlooking Javier's performance in here.
May 29th 2008
55
"No Country For Old Men"
May 29th 2008
56
RE: "No Country For Old Men"
May 29th 2008
59
how the fuck yall be watchin Blood over n over?
May 29th 2008
61
Yep. It was hard enough getting through it once.
May 30th 2008
63
not with that movie score i'm not.
May 30th 2008
64
I don't know but I've seen it three times...
Jun 01st 2008
67
cos it's much better the 2nd and 3rd times than it is the 1st...
Jun 02nd 2008
68
I liked it a lot the first time I saw it, then loved it with each subseq...
Jun 02nd 2008
69
I feel ya but you got to have shit planned out
Jun 02nd 2008
70
RE: cos it's much better the 2nd and 3rd times than it is the 1st...
Jun 03rd 2008
73
i wanted to watch it again the minute it ended
Jun 03rd 2008
72
not me: it was like viewing Gangs of NY
Jun 03rd 2008
74
Funny thing, the second time I watched it was like a black comedy
Aug 11th 2008
76
No Country for me but Daniel Day Lewis killed TWBB
May 31st 2008
65
RE: in retrospect..no country for old men vs. there will be blood
Jun 01st 2008
66
both seem like Horror flicks to me
Jun 02nd 2008
71
RE: oh shit i missed this discussion
Aug 11th 2008
75
nah, but Assassination is closer to No Country than Blood
Aug 11th 2008
77
To be honest I don't even get how people can love There Will Be Blood
Aug 11th 2008
78
i feel like there's more to There Will Be Oscars
Aug 11th 2008
79
yes, the main thrust of the film is on the meta level of deconstruction
Aug 11th 2008
80
      My bad, I can now see the true radical and worthwhile point
Aug 11th 2008
83
NCFOM=Acting ensemble/TWBB=Directoral wet dream
Aug 11th 2008
81
RE: NCFOM=Acting ensemble/TWBB=Directoral wet dream
Aug 11th 2008
82

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