Bi-Weekly TST Movie Thread (November 22-24 - There Will Be Blood)

[jamo]

I nominate… @jamo to find the five movies people have mentioned most (if there's a tie it's your pick which make the list and which don't) since Thursday and to make the poll.

Posted. There were six movies mentioned since last week, so I went with the first of the two movies @Jeremie Boop mentioned (because that one looked more interesting to me). They are: There Will Be Blood The Prestige Children of Men Memento Equilibrium

[iacas]

Three movies are tied, so I'm re-listing the poll with just those three. Vote TODAY!

[Jeremie Boop]

I guess I'll let you all decide, didn't much care for the prestige and neither of the other two were of much interest to me.

[mvmac]

Voted

[mmoan2]

I didn't know, or hadn't remembered about the "X's", but that's really cool.  A few other fun bits of trivia (all courtesy of IMDB):

Mark Wahlberg based his performance on the police officers who'd arrested him about two dozen times in his youth, and the reactions of his parents who had to come bail him out with their grocery money.

This is the movie with the most uses of the word "f*ck" and its derivatives (237) to win the Best Picture Oscar.

Jack Nicholson refused to wear a Boston Red Sox hat during filming and instead wore his New York Yankees hat.

Ray Liotta was the original choice for the role of Dignam but had to reluctantly decline due to other commitments.

When Queenan and Dignam are interviewing Costigan, Costigan says "Families are always rising and falling in America." Queenan wants to know who said that, and it turns out to be Nathaniel Hawthorne. Dignam quips, "What's the matter smart ass, don't know any ****in' Shakespeare?" Later, as Queenan hands the clipboard to Sullivan, it is Queenan who quotes William Shakespeare with "the readiness is all," from Hamlet's "Fall of a sparrow speech," Act V, scene ii.

Denis Leary was offered the role of Dignam in this film, but turned it down due to scheduling conflicts with his television show, Rescue Me (2004).

Several more are listed here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0407887/trivia?ref_=tt_trv_trv

Are you serious about Ray Liotta? What other commitments could he possibly have? Doing his tequila commercials or being the bad guy in Wild Hogs? I'm glad Leo got the role, though.

[Golfingdad]

Are you serious about Ray Liotta? What other commitments could he possibly have? Doing his tequila commercials or being the bad guy in Wild Hogs? I'm glad Leo got the role, though.

All of that stuff is from IMDB ... which I believe is user-posted info just like Wikipedia, so it's certainly possible for there to be some erroneous info in there.

Also, keep in mind that the movie is several years old and his goofy-ass tequila commercials are recent, so it's probably not that. ;)

But a little research says that the movie came out in '06.  His projects that came out in '06 were: Even Money, Local Color, Comeback Season, Smokin' Aces, and 7 episodes of a TV show called Smith.

Smokin' Aces is the only one of those I've even heard of.

[mmoan2]

All of that stuff is from IMDB ... which I believe is user-posted info just like Wikipedia, so it's certainly possible for there to be some erroneous info in there.

Also, keep in mind that the movie is several years old and his goofy-ass tequila commercials are recent, so it's probably not that. ;)

But a little research says that the movie came out in '06.  His projects that came out in '06 were: Even Money, Local Color, Comeback Season, Smokin' Aces, and 7 episodes of a TV show called Smith.

Smokin' Aces is the only one of those I've even heard of.

I believe you. I was just being tongue in cheek I don't think he's been in a decent movie since Goodfellas, though. How could you turn down a major Scorcese pic with Jack Nicholson, Matt Damon, Alec Baldwin, Martin Sheen, Mark Wahlberg etc. to star in a crappy Tarantino ripoff (Smokin' Aces)? Maybe he didn't want to be known as the actor who made it playing only in mob movies????!!!??!? Poor guy's working in tequila commercials now...

[Golfingdad]

I believe you. I was just being tongue in cheek  I don't think he's been in a decent movie since Goodfellas, though. How could you turn down a major Scorcese pic with Jack Nicholson, Matt Damon, Alec Baldwin, Martin Sheen, Mark Wahlberg etc. to star in a crappy Tarantino ripoff (Smokin' Aces)? Maybe he didn't want to be known as the actor who made it playing only in mob movies????!!!??!? Poor guy's working in tequila commercials now...

OT, I know, but those tequila commercials I find to be really bad. ;)

[Lihu]

I also vote the runner up be used in a subsequent week.

[Golfingdad]

I also vote the runner up be used in a subsequent week.

Nonsense ... A new vote every time, if people want it, they'll nominate it and vote for it. ;)

[Lihu]

It was kind of depressing, but well done.

[nevets88]

Most of Paul Thomas Anderson's movies are not happy fests. The droning in the background in the beginning didn't help either. This is the guy who made Magnolia, Boogie Nights, The Master. Still, an interesting look into one man's descent into madness. DDL did a good job changing his voice. I wondered how many people watched this movie to get "I drink your milkshake."

[Lihu]

Most of Paul Thomas Anderson's movies are not happy fests. The droning in the background in the beginning didn't help either. This is the guy who made Magnolia, Boogie Nights, The Master. Still, an interesting look into one man's descent into madness. DDL did a good job changing his voice. I wondered how many people watched this movie to get "I drink your milkshake."

Not sure if he was drifting into madness or started out there. He appears to be just a bully. The bullying scene in the middle of the movie seemed kind of excessive and messy (disturbing), when the pastor twin came for the money owed to his church. The one in the end made it seem like he was sane, but prone to excessive violence. I suppose the message was that to become so successful in the oil industry you need to be really determined to get what you want. Like the beginning, and the scene where he builds a pipeline against the odds. The other thing is that I have no idea where they found oil in CA. I thought it was right by the coast and not a hundred or so miles away. Well done movie, but really disturbing at the same time.

[nevets88]

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Most of Paul Thomas Anderson's movies are not happy fests. The droning in the background in the beginning didn't help either. This is the guy who made Magnolia, Boogie Nights, The Master. Still, an interesting look into one man's descent into madness. DDL did a good job changing his voice. I wondered how many people watched this movie to get "I drink your milkshake."

Not sure if he was drifting into madness or started out there. He appears to be just a bully. The bullying scene in the middle of the movie seemed kind of excessive and messy (disturbing), when the pastor twin came for the money owed to his church.

The one in the end made it seem like he was sane, but prone to excessive violence.

I suppose the message was that to become so successful in the oil industry you need to be really determined to get what you want. Like the beginning, and the scene where he builds a pipeline against the odds.

The other thing is that I have no idea where they found oil in CA. I thought it was right by the coast and not a hundred or so miles away.

Well done movie, but really disturbing at the same time.

Just a bully? Excessively violent? I respectfully disagree. The guy was homicidal. A psychopath. He wasn't just determined, but ruthless.

[Lihu]

[QUOTE name="Lihu" url="/t/77922/bi-weekly-tst-movie-thread-november-22-24-there-will-be-blood/80_40#post_1080738"]   [QUOTE name="nevets88" url="/t/77922/bi-weekly-tst-movie-thread-november-22-24-there-will-be-blood/72#post_1080716"] Most of Paul Thomas Anderson's movies are not happy fests. The droning in the background in the beginning didn't help either. This is the guy who made Magnolia, Boogie Nights, The Master. Still, an interesting look into one man's descent into madness. DDL did a good job changing his voice. I wondered how many people watched this movie to get "I drink your milkshake."[/QUOTE] Not sure if he was drifting into madness or started out there. He appears to be just a bully. The bullying scene in the middle of the movie seemed kind of excessive and messy (disturbing), when the pastor twin came for the money owed to his church. The one in the end made it seem like he was sane, but prone to excessive violence. I suppose the message was that to become so successful in the oil industry you need to be really determined to get what you want. Like the beginning, and the scene where he builds a pipeline against the odds. The other thing is that I have no idea where they found oil in CA. I thought it was right by the coast and not a hundred or so miles away. Well done movie, but really disturbing at the same time.[/QUOTE] Just a bully? Excessively violent? I respectfully disagree. The guy was homicidal. A psychopath. He wasn't just determined, but ruthless.

Maybe we don't disagree with the direction, but rather with magnitude. ;-) He was definitely ruthless. I think the modern PC name for it is "goal oriented". :-P

[nevets88]

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Originally Posted by nevets88

Most of Paul Thomas Anderson's movies are not happy fests. The droning in the background in the beginning didn't help either. This is the guy who made Magnolia, Boogie Nights, The Master. Still, an interesting look into one man's descent into madness. DDL did a good job changing his voice. I wondered how many people watched this movie to get "I drink your milkshake."

Not sure if he was drifting into madness or started out there. He appears to be just a bully. The bullying scene in the middle of the movie seemed kind of excessive and messy (disturbing), when the pastor twin came for the money owed to his church.

The one in the end made it seem like he was sane, but prone to excessive violence.

I suppose the message was that to become so successful in the oil industry you need to be really determined to get what you want. Like the beginning, and the scene where he builds a pipeline against the odds.

The other thing is that I have no idea where they found oil in CA. I thought it was right by the coast and not a hundred or so miles away.

Well done movie, but really disturbing at the same time.

Just a bully? Excessively violent? I respectfully disagree. The guy was homicidal. A psychopath. He wasn't just determined, but ruthless.

Maybe we don't disagree with the direction, but rather with magnitude.

He was definitely ruthless. I think the modern PC name for it is "goal oriented".

Agreed. Ruthless, euphemistically goal-oriented, it's just semantics, same results.

[Ernest Jones]

Just a bully? Excessively violent? I respectfully disagree. The guy was homicidal. A psychopath. He wasn't just determined, but ruthless.

Reminds me of my mom.

[Warren Zevon]

I liked this one. The first two thirds were awesome. DDL is arguably the greatest actor of his generation.