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Rating: 1/10 (18 February 2009)

Well. This officially becomes the most idiotically boring piece of crap I've ever seen. Ever.
All the artsy-fartsy reviewers need to clue in to facts. Movies are ENTERTAINMENT. They can be art, and Im the first person to admit that. But you know what you call art for arts sake? BORING CRAP.
I understand nowdays its trendy to go against the basic layout of a story, initiating event, conflict, climax, and all that. But this bucks the trend so much all you end up with is "Nothing happens, and then nothing happens, and then more nothing happens".
You people can spout off about cinematography and shot framing and all that stuff, but you know what those terms really mean? Technical means that support a storyline, and make a film greater than the sum of its parts. Praising a pointless art movie like this one for these things is like praising a computer game with photorealistic graphics that lacks gameplay. All fluff, no meaning.
God I hope one day the artsy-fartsy crowd gets kicked out of movie making. I hope one day the academy awards mean more than pointless art crap. I hope one day a movie that succeeds on all fronts will win awards. But I don't hold out hope when someone can get millions of dollars to put together a pointless piece of crap like this movie.
I can only assume that the director intentionally named this movie "There Will Be Blood" as a satirical joke. Because the only other possibility is that Anderson has completely gone off the rails.
But please. Keep it up. Watching you film school nerds praise a 3 hour long snooze-fest is hilarious. It just shows the rest of us that cluelessness is timeless.