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musingaloud) wrote2008-02-24 08:58 am
musingaloud) wrote2008-02-24 08:58 am
Academy Awards tonight
We went to the movies last night with friends. We decided to see "There Will Be Blood," even though I had some idea that it was a very dark and disturbing movie; the men-types wanted to see it as being Academy-Award-worthy. I should know better. Most movies that the critics and the Academy love and rave about, I hate. The main thing I hated about this movie was the background music. It sounded worse than nails on a chalkboard to me, just grating without any melody. I don't like dark movies that show the ugliness and reality of life. Or books and stories. Although I tend to write stories like that. How's that for a conundrum?
Anyway, I guess I can agree that Daniel Day Lewis gave an Oscar-worthy performance. But really I thought the movie could have used a lot more editing. It druuuuugggggg for me. The long pauses between conversation and the slow manner in which Lewis's character spoke, well really Eli did the same I guess, made me want to yell at them, "Just spit it out, dammit!" I suppose it was a great moral tale in the effects of greed and an over-active competitive spirit on a person, but it just left me feeling .... ugh.
Anyway, I guess I can agree that Daniel Day Lewis gave an Oscar-worthy performance. But really I thought the movie could have used a lot more editing. It druuuuugggggg for me. The long pauses between conversation and the slow manner in which Lewis's character spoke, well really Eli did the same I guess, made me want to yell at them, "Just spit it out, dammit!" I suppose it was a great moral tale in the effects of greed and an over-active competitive spirit on a person, but it just left me feeling .... ugh.