So bad, it hurts!

Rating: 4/10 (12 June 2008)

I have to say that even though I don't agree with all of the hype surrounding this movie, I do feel as though "There Will Be Blood" should get some kind of Oscar nod - for Best Acting in the most Mind-Numbing movie of 2007. I watched this movie on DVD, after listening to the raves of critics, and the opinion of my movie-buff baby brother. What was I thinking? This movie was excruciatingly painful to watch. It was SOOOOOO SLOOOOW, I was missing "crucial" parts of the movie and had to rewind often. (This was because I would periodically space out due to boredom.) In fact, characters would engage, scenes would change, and terrifying music would play with no rhyme or reason as to why. Often, I would reverse and replay thinking, "I had to have missed something." But alas, the only this I missed was 2+ extra hours of sleep. And speaking of music, whose idea was it to use a hurricane/earthquake/nuclear bomb siren as background noise? I actually paused the video and turned to the news channel during the opening scene because I thought I needed to take cover from a tornado. Worse, they used this irritating music throughout the movie. I think the person responsible felt it was best in order to wake the audience up every so often. My poor mother and sister showed up and caught the last half of the movie, yet we were all equally as bored and confused. Fortunately, our boredom gave way to anger once we got to the very end of the movie. The ending was so random and ridiculous, that I thought I was watching a different movie altogether. I gave it a 4 out of 10 only because of the beautiful camera shots and the flawless acting of Daniel Day Lewis.
In the end, I asked my brother why on earth did he ever say TWBB was a good movie? He stated "Because Daniel Day Lewis was in it." "Just because Daniel Day Lewis is in this, does not make this a good movie," I replied.
He said, "If you're a true fan of Daniel Day Lewis, you like all of his movies."
Sorry, Daniel. I'm not as much of a fan as I thought.