list/discuss/rate - your recently watched movies

Henry doesn't have any still frames that are as snappy as the official poster, and even if there were, I haven't figured out how to get my computer to take still frames of DVDs without blurriness. And Daniel Day-Lewis is, like, 100% sexier than Kevin O'Connor. The reason I chose Henry over Daniel is that I would rather be HP than DP, which has some unpleasant connatations for those who have been on the internet for very long, it's more likely to be unique in a name database since it's , and I found the idea of giving myself the name of a character's fake name mildly ironic. And while I found the character of Henry fascinating and under-explored in the movie, I'm really much closer to Daniel in my personality.

I saw a deleted scene online (I don't know if it was on your DVDs, I think it may have only been on the special edition--PTA was really stingy with the DVD extras this time around, he's still hurt by people misinterpeting his commentary on Boogie Nights or something), and in it Eli talks to Daniel about people saying he has a drinking problem. I wish they had kept that in, it didn't even occur to me until that the reason he was sleeping on the floor the whole movie was because he was passing out. This is part of a bigger problem I had with the movie, which I think omits too much in the relationship of Daniel and Eli and what happened during the huge time jump at the end, but I suppose that is trying to show the self-centered yet completely not self-aware world of Daniel. In some ways, No Country For Old Men was the better movie, because while I was confused during a couple of parts of it, everything is there, it's just sometimes only implied. There Will Be Blood forces you to guess. But I was apparently the only person who really liked the ending of No Country, so I may be outside the mainstream on that one.

And this is a bit off-topic, but I did a fair amount of reading about There Will Be Blood after I saw it because it seemed there were a lot of things I missed because I'm not an arty movies person (and there was some insight that I had missed, although a lot of it was just liberal arts major w**king), and it really annoyed me how so many people were concluding that it's a criticism of George Bush. Because they're oilmen and Daniel names his son HW! It would be obvious, except by all accounts I've read, the personality of HW and W are nothing like Daniel and his son. I understand that the New York Times is not a W fan, and he may have had a drinking problem, but he didn't spend his term brooding in a corner of the Oval Office and trying to figure out how to make money!

 

Daniel threatening to come into that guy's house and slit his throat was pretty funny.  Daniel's baptism was simply hilarious and the milkshake speach was also a jolly good laugh.  Guess you need to share Daniel's sense of humor.

 

Henry Plainview wrote: In some ways, No Country For Old Men was the better movie, because while I was confused during a couple of parts of it, everything is there, it's just sometimes only implied. There Will Be Blood forces you to guess. But I was apparently the only person who really liked the ending of No Country, so I may be outside the mainstream on that one.

 

To your first point:

You're damn right: it was a better movie, but not by a ton.  They are the two best movies of this century so far.

To your second point:

You are not the only person who liked the ending.  I liked it the first time I saw it and I've come to enjoy it even more with time.  It certainly wasn't typical Hollywood (if it was it would've ended after Anton left Carla Jean dead) but it was faithful to the novel, which finishes in a much more meaningful way than any typical Hollywood movie.