[Rhodes22-list] Movies

[ben]

I haven't seen There Will Be Blood, but I heard a reviewer on the radio 
call Lewis's performance, "The best acting performance in the history of 
cinema."  That's probably a  bit far, but it seems like it's at least a 
performance that I should check out.

With the addition of a toddler to our family this year, I've seen about 
2% of my usual movies, but "No Country" was one of the few I did see.  I 
had read the book, and I was pretty geeked to find out that the Coens 
were making the movie.

They might have actually toned down the violence, but they stayed 100% 
true to the book, and I think it was even better as a movie.  How often 
do you hear that from a reader?

Ben


Steven Alm wrote:
> We saw "No Country for Old Men" and "There Will Be Blood."
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> No Country was a great movie.  Very compelling and provocative.  Thumbs up!
> I love our MN home boys--the Coen Brothers--Fargo, O, Brother, Raising
> Arizona, Big Labowski etc.
>
> There Will Be Blood is something of a conundrum.  My wife hated it and said
> the movie was boring.  I liked it but we both agreed that Daniel Day-Lewis
> was nothing less than operatic in this roll.  This is an epic roll..  He was
> stellar and wonderful as a less-than-savory dark hero.  It's very dark and
> too long but Daniel Day-Lewis gives the greatest bad boy performance I've
> seen since Al Pacino in Scarface.
>
> Slim
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