I loved this movie, but I can see why some people wouldn't.

Rating: 10/10 (9 March 2012)

I watched this movie on AMC a few months ago because of the hype surrounding this movie. It was released the same year as No Country for Old Men and I heard a lot of people say this should have won best picture that year and is one of the best movies of the century so far. I had no idea what this movie was about aside from drilling for oil, so I didn't know what to expect.
The movie starts out with no dialog for over fourteen minutes and focuses on Daniel Plainview mining gold and then oil but when they strike oil a young father is killed in an accident and Plainview takes in his infant son.
The movie then flashes forward to a now moderately wealthy Plainview being told of oil in a small desert California area and he sets out to buy the land.
He then meets a young preacher boy who distrusts Plainview and wants money from him to start his own church, and the two form a lifelong dislike for one another.
As the oil fields begin to prosper Plainview begins to get more greedy and miserable and ends up pushing away everyone close to him
You'll have to watch the film yourself to see what else happens but I must say this film has some of the best acting I have ever seen in a movie, Daniel Day Lewis and Paul Dano completely blew me away and the movie is hard to look away from.
That being said however you do have to have patience while watching this movie and those who don't like talkative dramas probably won't like this movie, but I loved it and now consider it one of my favorite films and I do think it should have won best picture over No Country for Old Men.