hyped garbage

It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

Main theme is about how Money, Power and Greed turn a hardworker miner to a heartless monster but this theme putted into a very boring story. The film was very powerful in Technical viewpoint and Daniel Day-Lewis presents one of the best performance in history. Paul Thomas Anderson tried to show the details perfectly, which it cost him a Film that is boring and over runtimed.

The movie was bad enough, slow, plodding and populated with unpleasant characters, but it is accompanied by the worst score in history. The music never matches the action and whoever did it had a tin ear. Then a couple of classical pieces are misplaced and are completely out of context; i.e. Brahms Violin Concerto at the end. This so detracts from the rest of the film that its few virtues get buried. Sure, there is Daniel Day Lewis performance, but despite 2 hrs and 38 minutes we don't learn much about his character or why he's doing what he's doing. I had looked forward to this with anticipation but was deeply disappointed. The treatment is just terrible and watching it is a very unsatisfying experience.

I watched TWBB on cable a few days ago. I needn't have bothered.The movie lasts more than two and a half hours but it feels like it's longer. It crawls at such a slow pace that one could stop watching and, say, play a round of golf, come back and continue watching without having missed anything.As well, there are a number of gaps or sudden jumps in the story, which made me wonder just what actually happened between scenes.Daniel Day-Lewis is a talented actor but he seems to wear the same expression throughout the movie. Then again, there's little development of his character. I find it hard to believe that his performance was worthy of an Academy Award.Sadly, none of the other characters are properly developed as well. For example, how and, for that matter, why did the preacher go into the ministry?As social commentary, this movie didn't say anything new and it didn't say it very well.The musical score, such as it is, is dull and uninspiring.Avoid this movie if one doesn't want to be bored. I would put it in the same league as "No Country For Old Men"--dull, lifeless, and over-promoted. Sadly TWBB and NCFOM are symptomatic of the fact that Hollywood no longer knows how to tell stories, let alone make movies.If you want to see a good movie about the oil industry and its development over the years, I can recommend "Giant" with James Dean's character of Jet Rink being the counterpart to Daniel Day-Lewis's.

Basically we all know that Daniel Plainview is a slick man. He's a businessman, greed was in that man's nature. We all saw it when the rig exploded and he didn't care about HW at all. The fire represent the bad in him, the devil that made himself him. And hypocrites do live in this world, just like Eli Sunday. You don't mix religion with economy. I disagree to Eli Sunday's point of view. But after all, greed is in one man's nature and it destroy humanity just like the whole movie showed us through Daniel Plainview.