now, i may adore my films but oil is not the usual subject you would expect to find a sixteen year old girl adoring as she sat in the odeon cinema at 9 o clock at night one thursday...well, how wrong both you and i were.
there will be blood is an epic tale of greed, power, trust and family brought to our screens by relatively inexperienced yet wonderful, academy award nominee paul thomas anderson, adapted from the novel "oil!" by upton sinclair, no, id not heard of it either...
the story begins in 1898 with "saint" daniel day lewis as daniel plainview accidentally discovering crude oil deposits, and on having the rock examened, starts a whirlwind of oil extracting operations and by 1911 is one of the most successful oil tycoons in the state of california.
plainview is approached by a young man, paul sunday (acted brilliantly by paul dano) who sells an oil lead on his familys property in little boston, soon leading to sunday family disputes of secrecy and anger from pauls preacher brother eli (another excellent performance from paul dano with just 3 days to prepare for the role under unforseen circumstances) whereupon plainview pays his $5000 upfront and promises $5000 donation to his church.

the film continues with heart racing moments, and incredible soundtrack from the guitarist of radiohead, and aforementioned stunning acting performances, from exceptional method actor daniel day lewis~
with a rather amazing moustache....

all i can say to you is that this film won best actor at both the baftas and oscars 2008, and truly diserves all the praise with wonderful cinematography to boot.

and how could you resist the line "i drink your milkshake, i drink it up!"

perfect.