There Will Be Blood.. Meh..

I went to Blockbuster today before work and picked up 3 movies. I recently went through imdb.com's top 100 reviewed movies, and choose a few to watch. I went for movies that I didn't think my fiance would like, so I could watch them at work. Shh, don't tell anyone, I'm not actually training. Muhahahaha...

The first one I watched was There Will Be Blood.

This was one of those movies that you see when it comes out, and it looks good, but never get around to seeing it for whatever reason.

It starts out ridiculously slow. How slow was it? Umm... how about the fact that there wasn't a spoken word for the first 14 minutes! Now normally I would condemn it from the get go for that very reason, but there is noise. And the noise and music are probably the most important part of the movie.
As I said, the movie moves so slow. And at times it feels as if the only thing moving the movie forward is the use of tempo in the music. Without it the movie would come to a halt. And sometimes its almost as if the music moves faster than the action. That came off kinda odd.

The whole movie centers around a turn of the 1900's "oil man". Reason I call him an "oil man" is that DDL (Daniel Day-Lewis was wayyy to long to type over and over) says that about himself about 15 friggin times. "I'm an oil man... I'm an oil man..." Ok, we get it. GAWD.

Now to say DDL is a dick would be a understatement. He's that guy that actually enjoys making others miserable. We all know a guy like that.. This is the story of that guy with money and power. Sorta like this guy minus the politics.

Now I won't ruin the movie for you, so I won't go to deep into the story. Plus, there isn't much story to get into, since hardly anything happens

Here's the key points: DDL is a dick, and he's an "oil man".... Yep, thats about it. Oh, there's a creepy preacher guy, pictured here.

So score time. I'd give the sound/music a 4 (how often do you realize good sound during a movie?) I'll give DDL's performance a 3, and creepy preacher a .4. So thats 7.4 for TWBB.