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Watched "There Will Be Blood" last night, looking forward to striking desert photography, and an exploration of the dark heart of capitalism.
Am still trying to clean Daniel Day Lewis's saliva off my shirt.

The last time I saw this much ham on display it was in a butcher's window. I mean, fair enough, it was hardly the most three dimensional character to get your teeth into, but did he have to spend so much time chewing the scenery? He made James Dean in Giant look like Kenneth Williams in Carry on Cleo. This wasn't just a bad, self-indulgent, nonsensical dish of pish, it wasn't even entertainingly bad. Oh, ok, I did burst out laughing as he bludgeoned someone to death, but I'm sure that wasn't the reaction he was going for.

Jack Nicolson, I will never say anything bad about you again.

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OMG, thank you for this review. I was feeling like I had missed some sort of basic film concept when I failed to see what was great in this film, beyond the photography that made me homesick for California. Well, I also thought it might be because I watched it right after No Country for Old Men, which had a similar bleak machismo. I am ready for a lot more anime and musical comedies for the time being. This is the sort of thing that utterly puts me off "serious" film.

Glad to be of service :)

OMG I thought I was the only one who felt that way. I couldn't finish watching it.

And I'm sorry I started.