Daniel Day Lewis......overacting anonymous

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There Will Be Blood is a great film and for the most part he is good. I can't help feeling he ruins it in the last 20 mins by completely overacting.

He's a bit of a ding dong tho'.

i can't watch him in anything because of his 'i am an ACTOOOR' serious worthyness.

I also thought his voice was a bit strange and it seemed a very similar performance to 'Gangs of New York'.

Hes a bit annoying with his actorishness, I agree.......

Ah but he was magical as Hamlet on stage, and I thought his speech at the BAFTAS was charming
I just avoid the artery-popping films despite agreeing with you that he still has massive sex appeal
So have never seen Gangs of New York thank God

just seen this tonight - massive film. Quite liked it, though was too busy identifying the pointers to teh story of the rise of US capialism to really enjoy it.

Wasn't put off by the actorishness at all. And I thought the end piece was needed t odemonstrate by just how much he ahd lost his marbles and sense of proportion and sanity.

and it has abviously had a deleterous effect on my typing skills....

Round these parts we've renamed it "There Will be Tea (and cake)"..

Was with a couple of friends - one of them got bored after the first 40 mins. Started fidgetting. I knew she was in for a long evening.....

Pan, that's what I said, a massive film.

I found the score made me really tense, kept having to unscrunch myself. The music was so front and centre. The bit when he and the 'brother' had been in the sea and it had a cleansiing, warming effect for Daniel but Henry had his head hung low, and in that moment, Daniel knew.... yikes, tense or what!

I loved DDL's performance and was completely taken in by the line between tenderness and cruelty that he kept crossing. Didn't see Gangs of New York so this was new to me.

Not sure how I feel about never seeing Paul again after he visited to tell Daniel about the oil. I suppose it wouldn't have crossed my mind if he'd been played by a different actor. Just wanted that money shot of double taking on the pair of them but expect that is because I have been corrupted by Hayley Mills films et al...

I can't stand him, either. A complete ham. (Not kene on his hair-swingy domestic goddess sister, either).

Who is his sister?

I loved him in Gangs of New York. He was like a cartoon character.

But I haven't really seen him in anything else I can think of. Does he over act like that all the time then? I thought he must've just played it all up for that film. He's got a great chin hasn't he - it doesn't look real!

Tamasin Day-Lewis cornsilk

v v good in In the name of the father

Don't know who she is!
I liked him in 'In The Name of the Father' but didn't like 'The Last Of The Mohicans' as a film. Only things I've seen him in.

He was incredible in this! A lot of the time, he just 'does' it with stillness, or a look -- yes, the end is a bit overblown, but that's the script, innit, not just him.

Totally deserves the Oscar imho.

Oh yes I agree the score was great. I felt on edge all the way through.

I have really enjoyed all of his films, especially 'In the name of the Father' and Gangs of NY.

I really rate him as an actor.

I liked that stagey last half-hour over most of the rest - thought it thoroughly convincing that a Daniel Plainview would only be able to explain himself (having Not Done So throughout) in a violent explosive way while weirdly poking someone at full extended arm's length. I thought that was good.

Cinematography is my bet for an Oscar. Not sure about otherwise.

Music weirdy cop-out, I think. Why Brahms? Why on earth Arvo Part (apart from his being facile atmospheric du decade (viz. every nature doc you've ever seen) NB he deserves better)? Why not Virgil Thompson or Aaron Copland?

It did make me (& dh too) want to go back to that strain of American literature that's about where & when cowboys crashed up against corporates - (I loved the scene where DP is still talking cowboy language ("I'll cut your throat") and the Standard Oil bloke is talking Wall Street - you can see such depth of history there). I am not sure you get it entirely from Upton Sinclair.