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Magic Hate Ball posted:I can't disagree that the ending of There Will Be Blood is kind of frustrating, but I don't think it's much of a revivalist western. In a way the film could have taken place anywhere, so long as it was still about Plainview, the amoral opportunist. It's more of a Citizen Kane film, demonstrating that fulfilling the American Dream doesn't mean jack poo poo if you're an empty, unfulfilled person (that it doesn't matter to Plainview is even more disturbing - you could draw parallels to all kinds of ruthless CEOs). Eh, I think it wouldn't have worked nearly as well. Oil is such a big part of the story, plus the first 5-10 minutes or so with Plainview out mining by himself and managing to drag himself out of a deep mineshaft with a broken leg or ankle. There's definitely the theme of him conquering the West in his own way - instead of using the railroads that conquered the land before him, he buys all the land and lays the pipeline through it. the Bunt posted:TWBB ending You pretty much summed up my major issue with the movie. They seriously needed at least a montage of scenes showing the intervening years there to make it not feel so slap-dash.
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Ego-bot posted:Would it be The Adjustment Bureau? I think he was based on Werner Herzog - don't know if that's been confirmed by anyone connected to the show, however.
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fenix down posted:I thought Immortals was pretty decent but I do wish they would have told us who the gods were. I am woefully ignorant of Greek mythology. Let's put it this way - you're probably better off NOT being familiar with Greek mythology. About the only thing the movie has in common with the source material is the names of the gods and the main character.
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twistedmentat posted:Yea, its like Tarsim has a vague knowlages of the Classical gods, and just kind of made the rest up. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That aside, it was a beautifully-filmed movie and I dug the slow-mo CGI gore at the end. It wasn't a great movie but it was pretty to look at.
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