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Paul Thomas Anderson's Christmas Gift For All Us Movie Fans!
Hey folks, Harry here... Paul knows that with the holidays being what they are - that we could all use a midnight dip into cinematic bliss... so in a limited number of cities there will be a midnight show of THERE WILL BE BLOOD - and he cut together a little special trailer so we could all get giddy in a special way for seeing this masterpiece from PTA. Here ya go:
If you're in one of those cities, run and check this out - this is my very favorite film of 2007.
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Time I ever had sex, it was awkward.
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that was just strange...
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Now that that's out of the way, I promise that I'll never do it again. And I sincerely promise that I will never do it again. Having said that, I am looking very forward to this movie, but am doubtful that I'll get toi soon. I'm still waiting for No Country for Old Men to come to the cinemas in my city.
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Not in my remote vicinity. DDL is one of my faves. His rrepressablility (sp?) in My Left Foot, is frankly amazing. I gotta watch that one again.
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I went to a screening of this movie last week in LA. It is as amazing as this preview would have you believe. Astonishing is the only word. Paul Thomas Anderson and Daniel Day Lewis are in the Mike Tyson-knocking-everyone-out-in-twelve-seconds stage of their careers. They're at the height of their powers. If they improve from this point our brains will just reject it. We'll start vomitting and swearing up and down that all we saw was a blank screen.
NOTE: I did not like Boogie Nights or Magnolia. I liked Punch-Drunk Love though. -
Do I still wish I lived in Chicago. This film's trailers have given me chills from frame one. I don't cream my fruit of the looms for many flicks, but this one glazes my Dub X's Krispy Kreme style...
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damn vodka.
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this movie kicked infinite ass and I can't wait to hit it up again = word
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Thank you, Paul...
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Dec 22, 2007 2:06:26 AM CST
Yes, it will cost me roughly $600 to see this movie...
by julius dithers
...if we include air, ground trans & lodging, but still.
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Disapointing for a trailer.
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Nothin' ever comes to North Carolina. Thanks a lot, PTA.
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Though we did get No Country. Hahahaha! Suck it!
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I went and used my last vacation days to go see Gunther and The Sunshine Girls. Should have waited I guess. Nah! That show was AWESOME!!! I will touch Paul Thomas Anderson's Tra-La-La if he asks me though
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and PTA will fuck shit up !!!!!!!
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Well I'm sold...
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any good new film a masterpiece?
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any good new film a masterpiece?
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I'm pissed off that I'm in one of these cities. Now I'm going to have to deal with my super-nerd film friends trying to drag me to it. Oh yeah, I want to go to a movie by the same filmmaker who made a 3 hour movie about raining frogs and people on deathbeds that we don't care about. This guy is a Malick wannabe with this REALLY EXCITING MOVIE about oil shooting up in the air. WOOOOO-HOOOOO!!!
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this preview of a guy getting his hair cut shows just how pretentious of a prick PTA is.
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Why is every movie set in a prairie a Malick rip-off? Did the guy invent dead grass or something?
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and he invented the sun and the sky as well!
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I wasn't aware of that. I apologize. Sincerely
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Because your mom is working on me.
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AHHH
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had a special Christmas gift for all us movie fans as well: his retirement.
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Daniel Day Lewis is amazing. And he's not being "pretentious" with this clip, he's just giving us a deleted scene...this isn't even in the movie. Not to mention that any 15 second clip (other than a few of the DDL/Paul Dano confrontations) won't do the film justice. Just see it. And see it again.
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And merry Christmas to ya.
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just one show at one theatre, described as a "special advanced screening"
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Sorry, although in Toronto it's playing at 10:30, not at midnight.
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Showing a 160-minute film like this at midnight? Great movie, but I'm not sure I would want to start watching it at midnight. Oh, there will be blood all right...
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so should i arrive at the theater at 11:59 p.m. friday? or 11:59 p.m. saturday? because midnight saturday -- technically -- would mean having to show up friday night. and has anyone been able to get tickets to the screening at the mayan in denver? the link is at www.therewill beblood.com, but it says no tickets are available for any shows that day -- as of yet. maybe i'll just give the mayan a phone call and see what's up.
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Can't wait for this flick. My kind of film.
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DDL looks sprightly in this one, I'll be looking forward to it. Seems a return to form after PDL (I'm a Magnolia, Boogie Nights, Sydney fan - what can I say). Toodles.
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man that movie was terrible
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I have gone to the Alamo for years. I love it. I have gone to the gimmick shows, the special screenings (most recently The Mist), and to just about every scenario. Yet I cannot, I will not, see There Will Be Blood at the Alamo. It is too noisy and not as good quality as other theaters in town. I am dying to see this movie. But I want to be lost in it. But you can't do that at the Alamo. It is too loud and, lets be honest, it is not the best theater in town. And by that, I mean it is not the be sound and picture theater in town.
I am chomping at the bit to see daniel day lewis tear it up on screen yet again. But alas, I will have to wait till January. I love you Alamo, but you are not the place for me, with this movie. -
to get tickets to the austin show, go to alamodrafthouse.com and click on the alamo ritz. then just go to december 29.
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Because he has long tracking shots suddenly he's aping Scorsese? Er--no, he's aping Altman? Or wait...now it's Malick? His greatest influence on this movie was "Treasure of the Sierra Madre", which he said he watched every night, so if anything he is aping John Huston. If you don't like his movies, that's fine. But let's not pretend he is a bad filmmaker when it comes to craft or style. And let's not pretend that his movies are that awful either. I'd rather see 100 PTA films then watch "Fred Claus" once. And I hope to God you would too. Go see the film and then you can decide whether you want him to make any more movies.
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that would be a gift.
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What theatre in Toronto? Cumberland? Varsity?
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Yeah, I mean, look at these reviews: "The watershed achievement of both Day-Lewis' and Anderson's careers", "A Masterpiece from PTA", "Boldly and magnificently strange, 'There Will Be Blood' marks a significant departure in the work of Paul Thomas Anderson", etc. etc. Here's one for you comicgeek: "Too real to keep popcorn audiences interested, but for more patient moviegoers Daniel Day-Lewis's hypnotic performance makes it a must see". Oh yeah, and it won 5 NY Film Critic Awards, including Best Director, and is nominated for Best Picture of the Year at the Golden Globes. So, yeah, his career is really going downhill right now.
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and go to another theatre and have to deal with people speaking over the movie and babies crying? no thanks.
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Dec 22, 2007 11:10:32 AM CST
How is that character any different than Gangs of New York?
by terrymalloy
Well, in TWBB Day-Lewis plays an oil tycoon in the turn of the century California who feels alienated from the entire human race, even his own family. Seems to be a greedy man as well. In Gangs of New York, he plays a butcher in 1846 New York City who hates immigrants and is basically a violent monster. They both hate people, but for different reasons. And if you can't tell that there is a difference in the characterization, then I can't help you. I am amazed that anyone would criticize Day-Lewis for not changing between role to role. That's kind of why he is the best actor alive today.
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I looked on AMC's website and they are selling tickets for the midnight show at the Boston Commons. Just an FYI for any beantown folk interested.
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A good 85% of Americans that insist on seeing this will come back to this thread, angry and $10 poorer.
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I agree that babies crying and people talking over a movie should be punished by death....with that said, I would rather see a movie like There Will Be Blood, (where there is a fifteen minute stretch of no dialogue from what I understand), at a theater that has better quality in picture and in sound. And at the Alamo you are guaranteed to have waitstaff make noise, the sound of beer opening, and the general noise of people eating. (don't get me wrong, I love seeing master pancake there and other fun movies)
I plan on seeing a noon showing of There Will Be Blood at a theater with a better system. Less people, less noise, WAY better movie quality. -
I'm somewhat neutral on Punch Drunk Love, so I'm very ambivalent about this one. But, dangnabit, Boogie Nights ruled so I'll give this one a shot. (Argh, Magnolia, though. ARGH!!! What crap!)
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You've got the touch. You've got the power.
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ever since the trailers landed this has been the one to watch for me. so far i'd say this year is a tight race between no country for old men and into the wild, but that's just me. i'd also put eastern promises, rescue dawn, zodiac, 4 months 3 weeks 2 days, and brand upon the brain in the highest echelon, with like another 20 movies the next notch down. damn it's been a great year for film. but there will be blood looks like it's going to own the year, and i can't even believe i have to keep waiting into 2008 for it. i also plan to see a matinee in some big cattle feed megaplex, so i can be assured that i will have an empty theater free of distraction. paul thomas anderson has a pretty good track record. i love boogie nights, like magnolia, don't like punch drunk love (although, to be fair, there is not a single adam sandler movie that i do like) and haven't seen hard eight. regardless of what he's done, there will be blood looks like masterful filmmaking.
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I just think he derailed that movie with that ending. Great characters.That's what I personally found so dissapointing...I was emtionally invested with them,and the payoff?...FROGS. You dont tag on cutsie,clevr whimsy to the end of heavy character drama like that. Such a thing as being TOO clever for your own good. That's why he gets the 'pretentious 'label. That's just artsy bullshit.
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Never mind, Daniel. TWBB starts at 10:30 at the Varsity theatre on Bloor, and tickets are already on sale. Just printed off two!
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looks like this movie starts its regular theatric run at the mayan on jan. 4. so i'm not sure if it's worth going out of your way to attend the midnight screening less than a week earlier.
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Big FU to the city that gets everything cool. Damn it.
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now, uh, where do I go to get more info and tickets?
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Magnolia's rain of frogs didn't come out of nowhere. Go back and pay attention to how many visual references there are in the film to the book of Exodus, and how much the story is about people making judgments about each other, we the audience making judgments about them (before their real motivations are revealed), and ultimately, God judging everyone as the plague of frogs arrive and cleanse the palate for renewed lives.
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i believe it opens in several theaters in both new york and los angeles that same weekend, so a midnight screening in either would be rather pointless. this is for us little people who don't live in either.
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but i have to disagree about Rescue Dawn. Check out this site to see all the factual in accuracies that movie contained. http://www.rescuedawnthetruth.com/ Yes it was a great cinematic experience but it gets degraded once you know the truth of what really happened. I pick Zodiac so far as the best film.
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Good to know, thanks. I'll be seeing it new years day.
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...but I'm assuming everywhere else too. How is it a sneak preview to see it on the 29th?
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look easy.
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so much for Warner's movies. Maybe Dark Knight's success and critical success wil wake Warner the fuck up and they will get Mark Waid and Doug Lyman on Flash and then Geoff Johns and Steven Spielberg on Green Lantern. Nothing worse than a movie that needs style being directed by someone without it and without any vision.
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The only Portland that matters (read: Oregon).
Thankfully I live there (or here, rather), so this works out well. -
I'd have to drive 15 minutes to get to Sacramento ... oh ... : )
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Not yet you scallywag. First of all comicgeekoid, it doesn't make sense to say that PTA is imitating a filmmaker if you can't identify the filmmaker he is imitating. Or if you can't figure out exactly how he is imitating him/her. PTA has many influences that inform his style (just like we all do), but these influences combine to create something altogether new. Believe it or not, even Scorsese had filmmakers that inspired him. Same with Altman. And Malick. I believe "There Will Be Blood" will force you to realize that he does not "ape" anyone. Even if he did, the world could use more people that imitated the likes of Scorsese and Malick. Oh yeah, and my nuts have been numb recently, how the hell did you know that?
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...but rather allow ourselves the freedom of enjoying a film that - amongst a few other this year - may be some of the best cinema unleashed in America this decade. Enjoy it for what it is and stop attempting to mimic the local over-zealous, amateuristic film critic. "I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty." --James A. Garfield
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are the same people who cant agree about who or what hes ripping off in PDL or TWWB for that matter. Talk about hypocrites.
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can you be more specific please? You're arguments are like bland oatmeal.
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Sorry, had to do it.
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already got my tickets. anybody who doesn't like PTA doesn't like me and uh...well...that's fine with me, i guess, but you're missing out because i'm a fantastic sort of guy.
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was obviously a direct rip off of Bonny and Clyde. How dare Malick ape Arthur Penn. See how silly that sounds? Although it may be true, does that make Badlands any less of a great movie? Besides I'm not famliliar with Malick's movie about oil, religion, and greed.
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This movie looks fucking amazing. If you hold the opposite opinion, well then i hope you enjoy ALIEN VS PREDATOR: THE FIRST ONE WAS RATED PG-13 AND A BUNCH OF PEOPLE MADE SOME NOISE ABOUT THAT AND THEN DIE HARD WITH A VENGEANCE HAPPENED SO MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT THE RATING OF THIS MOVIE, IT IS RATED R AND WE PUT IT IN THE FUCKING TITLE JUST SO EVEN THE VERY MOST BRAIN-DEAD OF FUCKWITS WOULD HAVE NO QUESTIONS ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT IT IS RATED R (rated r). A green christmas to all.
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I too am near Sacramento, sir, and can not find any information as to where it will be. I assumed one of the multiplexes, like Greenback maybe, but then I thought possibly the Crest. If you come back and see this, let me know if you hear anything, and I will return the favor if I hear anything as well.
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... that I love Paul Thomas Anderson. LOVE.
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Saw it, liked it. Good perfomances all around, and YES, PTA's direction was still a bit of a "mix tape," specifically from Chinatown. Biggest weaknesses, movie seemed too long for what it was saying. It would have made an amazing short subject (40-50 minutes) but the running time made it seem bloated.
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How anyone can diss either this or No Country for Old Men is beyond me. And for the record, I would love to see what movies from this year those people did enjoy. This just goes to show that some people will talk shit about anything. "That Citizen Kane is a real piece of shit." Death to the PTA haters.
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She did. I saw the footage.
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DIS? Wow, I didn' know PTA was your "homie." It's always a sign of total sanity to take a personal stake in work that isnt your own and people you dont know.
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Use apostrophes in "don't" and "isn't." That will ALMOST make you seem intelligent, fucktard.
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Hey homo joe, here's an apostrophe for ya': don't. As in...you don't have an argument...you don't have a life...you dont matter and you don't have anything going and you dont get a check for anything PTA or any other real worker gets. You're a faggoty dork and I fucked your mom on Christmas morning. That was my gift to HER.
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Do the world a favor and fall on your saber, my friend.
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die on new years eve, because really, what have you got going to live for? or has your dad shoved his man balls down your throat so often that you've actually begun to like it?
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...to see two guys fight like little girls. Closet cases. Just come out like men, and admit you're hard for each other and get it over with. Sheesh.
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that I like ur mom's tight ass, MattGuy. Nice name "Guy." You like guys, "guy"?
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Kicking myself that I didn't order tickets early, but I don't know what I was expecting really. I guess I've waited tihs long, I can wait another week. Still disappointed though.
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and Berwyn
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so they moved it to a bigger cinema and apparently sold tickets at the door. hopefully some of you made the trek to toronto (or live in the city and went)...it's a fantastic movie.
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Caught the Denver midnight show this morning, and was amazed by what I saw and heard. Beautifully warped, flawed, incredible movie. I still don't think it's as good as No Country For Old Men, but an awesome accomplishment nonetheless.
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I can't believe I missed this!!!!
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