george-45010
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.
Duncan Bailey
PTA's greatest film and Daniel Day-Lewis' greatest performance. This epic saga is a tale of greed - not just Day-Lewis' but also Paul Dano's - spanning a lifetime and delivered with all the sensibility of a psychological horror.
seraphin01
So here I am, after wasting over 2:30 of my life on a movie that was SO highly rated I couldn't skip, I had to see it through (sadly I took my parents along, and my dad not being a big fan of cinema hated it so much I doubt I'll ever be able to make him watch another movie with me ever again, thanks), I really thought things will pick up at some point, that there will be a plot, action, drama.. ANYTHING..But no, there is nothing, long silences, embarrassing scenes, irritating music.. the plot? I'm not even sure, some guy that gets rich, looses it at some point without too much of a reason..
Anyway not gonna list all the things I hated about this movie, there are too many, only good things I can point though is the actors, mostly good, some under used for whatever reason.. but yeah that's about itas for the rest I wish the review wasn't some hype train rating, this movie deserves at BEST a 6/10, at which point I would have been a lot more careful to decide to watch it or not, and I wouldn't have put my dad through this for sure..
to me it's not even worth 5, only a niche kind of audience can appreciate that kind of cinema.. yeah the kind that lurk on online reviews and biais the rating like that..So to sum it up, that movie was just pure hype, I'm not even sure most people saw it whole, but the name rings nicely for sure.. other than that it's a terrible movie, so unless you're on your own to watch it, save your friends/family, don't make them go through 2:30 of that
quarterwavevertical
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.
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