Draiiiiinaaaage!
We went to see There Will Be Blood today. _alanna was very tolerant of me bouncing about a historical tale of America's turn-of-the-century oil rush. I think next week we'll probably go and see Juno ;-)

It's an art-house film writ large, with a rambling plot and structure that doesn't fit into the standard three-act model. I'm still not entirely sure what the particular point of it was (I don't even know which of the three possible references to 'blood' the title refers to), but some of the imagery was unforgettable.
It's a film that makes you think - while giving you plenty of time to do so. No dialogue in the first 20 minutes, for example - no 'wrapped up in a happy meal' easily digestible plot for you to click in with. Instead, fascinating things happen to realistic characters.
Daniel Day-Lewis is simply superb, inhabiting his role perfectly. They should just give him the Oscar now. That's not to say the rest of the cast weren't great - because they were. All of them note-perfect and utterly believable. It had a Deadwood sort of feel to it, where you just accepted the world and wanted to find out what would happen next.

_alanna and I couldn't agree on whether it's worth seeing it on the big screen, or waiting for a DVD. She thought she'd be fine on a small screen, since it's a character drama and not special-effects led. I thought it was great in a cinema, since there are some rather slow parts where I felt my attention could have drifted if I were at home. In the darkness with a huge screen in front of me, I was kept captivated by the scenery, the sound and so on. (Incidentally, the soundtrack is weird but very cool).

Hard to watch, in places, but enthralling.