Depends upon your taste?????????

Rating: 4/10 (28 January 2008)

Well what do I say about this movie, depends upon if you watch movies to be amused by great story telling, strong plots filled with twists & turns, suspense & edgy spine tingling fear. Or if your just like artistic film & good not "great" acting because thats about all it has. Okay there is one good line about the milkshakes, but other than that even dialog is pretty weak. Remember one important thing though you can have great acting, but the movie can still blow its not the actors fault the story doesn't lead you anywhere.
Im not going to say it was awful, but Im definitely not going to buy it. As a matter of fact if you want to see Daniel Day Lewis perform well watch Gangs of New York ( Now thats more than 2 hours worth watching). DDL's performance was good at best in TWBB, but the lack of plot, development of characters that really lead nowhere and horrible ending that has no pay off just didn't do it for me.
The only good thing for me was the artistic aspect of filming, using a lot of dark shots with slight draws of light not sure the word for it, styles used in a lot of Oliver Stones films. Great scenery not to mention a lot filmed in Texas, also I know people in the movie, yeah if you do decide to see TWBB my brother in laws girlfriend her dad is the bartender. Sights & sounds of the movie were astonishingly more pleasing than the movie itself.
A good screen writer will tell you a movie/film should do 3 key things 1 grab your attention 2 hold you 3 give you a pay off. TWBB grabs you, holds u about as much as a person with arthritis could and leaves you asking yourself what, I get it but thats all? So the grab is a mysterious score which I do say was probably the only thing that keeps the movie even remotely interesting and the fact that one man has such passion for his oil (or so we are lead to believe). Is he a good man is he bad thats what ticked me off the development of the main character was lack luster. We see he has a heart by taking on this child HW, but does he really care about him or is he just baggage that DDL uses to show he has some family value in order to obtain peoples land.
2nd the hold, I think the only thing that holds you is the question, this soundtrack is creepy what the hell is gonna happen? Then you keep waiting & waiting & waiting & then 2 hours 45 minutes have gone by & your like what the hell is this all about. I see the story about a money hungry greedy man that gets what he deserves by having no one at the end, but why? Why is religion introduced into the movie just to shoot it down? What is the purpose of trying to make a mockery of religion or is it just to show that there are some people out there that get a little to crazy with religion? Still a piece of the plot that never really took off.
I guess its worth seeing to just figure out your take on it, but assuredly not if you aren't an open minded individual. Really the whole thing is depressing and dreary, creepy & weird and just doesn't deliver with any sort of mental, emotional, moral or even spiritual satisfaction. Isn't that what movies are supposed to do??? Well good luck on your decision, mine is save your money till it comes out in the McDonalds 1$ rental & then sit down on a day you have nothing better to do, but watch a movie for almost 3 hours.
Good Luck.