# I watched "There Will Be Blood" \[Spoilers\]

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [August 15, 2011, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-watched-there-will-be-blood-spoilers/592796 "2011-08-15T17:16:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![HoboStew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f17d59/32.png) [@HoboStew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoboStew)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2011, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-watched-there-will-be-blood-spoilers/592796/81 "2011-08-17T18:36:09Z")

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> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#):
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> I’m kind of seeing the opposite in this thread. The suggestion I’m seeing is that people who say they like it are being pretentious and that it doesn’t really have any substance to it. Kind of a reverse snobbery.

> [@Shakester](#):
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> It’s a subtle film that doesn’t telegraph an obvious moral conclusion. It lacks recognisable “goodies” and “baddies”. So, naturally, a lot of people see it as boring and pointless.

I think this is the kind of attitude that some people are taking issue with. The idea that if you don’t like this movie, you must be a moron who only likes Michael Bay movies.

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**Author:** ![Alka\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Alka\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alka_Seltzer)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2011, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-watched-there-will-be-blood-spoilers/592796/82 "2011-08-17T18:55:34Z")

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It depends how you read Shakester’s post. Is he saying it’s a reason people don’t like it, or the reason. The former is perfectly reasonable. I know quite a few people who have very narrow tastes in films and books, but that doesn’t make them morons.

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**Author:** ![fjs1fs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9e8a1a/32.png) [@fjs1fs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fjs1fs)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2011, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-watched-there-will-be-blood-spoilers/592796/83 "2011-08-17T21:20:13Z")

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> [@Boyo\_Jim](#):
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> I agree that is sucked, and probably still does.

I agree 100%.

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**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2011, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-watched-there-will-be-blood-spoilers/592796/84 "2011-08-17T21:35:00Z")

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Maybe people “get it” and still think it’s a bad movie.

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**Author:** ![treis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@treis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/treis)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-watched-there-will-be-blood-spoilers/592796/85 "2011-08-19T16:47:00Z")

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I watched it a couple times, and I suppose you can count me in amongst those who don’t get it. To me, it was people doing random things for unclear reasons.

Beautifully shot though.

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**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2011, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-watched-there-will-be-blood-spoilers/592796/86 "2011-08-20T11:32:45Z")

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TWBB brilliantly achieves the melding of the worst movie ever made with the worst movie I’ve ever seen. Forget the director’s cut. Release the audience cut. It’d be the first 15 minutes.

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