There Will Be Blood was a crap movie. He got the Oscar because they knew his not getting one for Gangs of New York was a total ripoff. The guy who won for The Pianist hasn’t had a decent performance since.
Disagree, it was not a great movie but it most definitely not crap. DDL performance carried that movie, one of the best performances in a movie in a very long time
I saw him last weekend in “A Room With a View” as an hilariously awkward Victorian “intellectual”. I felt he should have been nominated for Oscar but not to be. I love the movie.
The beginning of the movie, with no dialog, just the sound of men working to dig for ore, and then oil, was unique and mesmerizing.
The depiction of the relationships between the oilman, his adopted son, and the preacher was also very compelling.
I highly recommend anyone who hasn't watched it, to make sure and see it the first chance they get.
+1,000,000. I didn't understand it at all, except the symbolism of him lying in the gutter of his bowling alley at the end. A video of a guy chainsawing up a dead elephant would have been more pleasant to watch.