Should we just all sound the Oscar award for Best Actor siren now? Damn if Daniel Day-Lewis doesn’t look bone-chillingly scary in this film. This is the third version of the “There Will Be Blood” trailer so far, but man if people’s appetite for this film is being barely served. And the critics that have seen it are going ape shit.
Variety: “an obsessive, almost microscopically observed study of an extreme sociopath who determinedly destroys his ties to other human beings.”
Icontention.com: “One of the most fascinating films ever crafted. It is operatic and sinister, all at once beautiful and magnetic in its depiction of a deplorable human being through and through.”
Anne Thompson: “Cinephiles will revel in this. As a writer-director, PTA will earn the respect of critics and peers. But a wide-audience spectacle this is not.”
We wouldn’t have thought a film about a 19th century oil man would be exciting for the online audience, but it’s a testament to Paul Thomas Anderson (it’s nice to see his audience will follow him, well at least so far…).
Fans of Jonny Greenwood, the Radiohead guitarist who has composed the score will get to hear more of the music therein and it’s decidely creepy yet understated.
