was i the only one watching

Rating: 7/10 (14 January 2008)

let me explain that i do not like westerns before you read any further. i actually think that the western genre was almost extinct before this year because we longer have a 'wild wild west'. western's only exist in a period piece sense. having said that i went to see 'there will be blood' with an open mind because i enjoy pt anderson movies. the sets, the script, the acting, the costumes... all of this was superb. my problem lies in my love for pt anderson and the lack of his direction in this movie. i felt like this was a movie that was directed by all of these other elements, and anderson really had no influence on anything that was going on. yes, it is possible that anderson liked westerns and really wanted to create a western and he was inspired by all of this... but in all seriousness, it felt like it wasn't enough. i felt like the movie went on a half an hour too long. by the end of the movie i wanted to die. this was probably because i had to urinate and also because i hate being in movie theatre's with the amount of riff raff that goes to the movies these days (thank god for VIP theatres). i was kept in the theatre by wanting to see something that would redeem the movie. i was wrong in thinking that something would. by the end of the movie i was left wondering if there was something i didn't get. afterwards i was left thinking that most people that had seen the movie, because of the intelligence level of the audience, didn't actually like the movie, but felt like they should like the movie because critics told them to. or maybe i am wrong and i just didn't get it.