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SO it sucks huh? \m/

My good friend (and i actually mean that) David T. Lindsay's review in Atlanta's Stomp and Stammer:

There Will Be Blood [R]: Oil prospector Daniel Plainview is played as a sociopathic monster motivated by unconscionable profit regardless of the intellectual energies expended to find oil reserves, extract the oil and refine it – the movie is only interested in how he screws everyone else. When he says, “I look at people and I see nothing worth liking,” it’s sheer prophesy, predicting how one day oilmen eventually had to beg permission, pay extortion campaign contributions and take the blame for corruption, simply to provide the fuel necessary to heat our homes and keep traffic moving.
Oilmen have earned the right to detest the rest of us, and when I look at Paul Thomas Anderson’s movie I see nothing worth liking! Built around socialist Upton Sinclair’s novel Oil, even the old left understood civilization while today’s Bolshevik-Democrat betrays it.
There Will Be Blood is further proof that Hollywood has no idea what working people – worldwide – endure: they sweat to achieve a future, raise families, build communities, provide for the mutual well-being and do so without being assholes. Hollywood sees them as assholes, exclusively as evil because they produce and profit.
Without oil the lights go out, you freeze, the engines stop, refrigeration trucks sit idle full of rotting vegetables and you walk the distance to the emergency room. Yet Daniel Plainview is a cantankerous monster. Sprawled on the bowling lanes of exorbitant wealth, his life is a metaphor for American waste.
Ho-hum. Everyone who finds his disturbing ambition offensive should abandon their car and walk home.

(Reformatted because DTL doesn't seem to understand the dictum "Mr Paragraph is your friend.")

DTL loves Get Crazy!, though.

I'm really looking forward to seeing this flick, despite the oil-man-apologist reviews out there... ;)

What did you think of the ending? (It seemed kind of silly and out of line with the rest of the movie to me. If they'd just ended it with the scene with the son, it would have been perfect.)

ROCKNROLLPIMP : It was a great flick.

fairportfan : Interesting review .

Scotch: You really gotta check it.

jenny : I dug the ending, thought there was a lot in there that really showed things dealing with the evil side of human nature.