I’m not entirely sure what I think about its ending, but I will say this: There Will Be Blood doesn’t feel like a two-and-a-half-hour movie. There’s not a single moment when it seems to drag, when what’s on screen doesn’t seem absolutely essential — perhaps because Daniel Day Lewis, who is riveting in the film, is on screen nearly all the time. Nathan Rabin called it, “a fascinating anomaly—a rip-roaring two-fisted epic concerned almost exclusively with the tormented psyche and spiritual death of a single man.”
I’m sure if I’d managed to see it a week ago, it would have made my list of the best films of 2007. I can’t imagine how it won’t make my list of the best films I’ve seen in 2008.
Absent also from your list was Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead. If that’s because you haven’t seen it, you seriously owe it to yourself to check it out. It would easily make my Top Ten of ’07 list, if I had one. If you have seen it and didn’t include it, you must be on drugs.
Are you on drugs? I don’t think you’re on drugs.
I haven’t seen it, although I do plan to at some point.
I’m not on drugs.