Thoughts on There Will Be Blood - get 'em while they're fresh & raw!

[bookshop]

WHAT WAS THAT FILM, omg omg. I loved it, I loved it so much. if it weren't 3 am right now I'd be re-watching it all right this second. I feel really wired, just, like, WHAT WAS THAT ZOMG.

There is no good TWBB fanfic, I know because I just went looking for it, lol. But oh my god, wouldn't it be amazing if there were?

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[sometimesalways]

I saw it in the theater opening night and was blown away. BLOWN AWAY. I just.. didn't even know what to do with myself afterward. it immediately made my top 10 greatest films of all-time list.

[bookshop]

that is exactly how i feel right now! i couldn't even sleep last night because i was just like, freaking out about how amazing it was, haha.

[copinggoggles]

dfdlfk this, this. I never even managed to start trying to analyse it because I just, I don't even know. When it finished it was like waking up from the most intense dream of my life, and I didn't know what had just happened, I was just... dazed.

so good. SO GOOD.

[bookshop]

i think the only times i've felt anything remotely comparable are both from when I was in high school:

a) when i saw the 1996 revival of The King and I with Lou Diamond Philips and Donna Murphy, and felt like my legs had been knocked out from under me by the time I was done;

and b) the first time I saw Vertigo, which I *also* watched by myself alone late at night; when I got done I was so restless and unsettled and sleepless, and I couldn't even pinpoint why I was so shaken and overwhelmed, but I knew it was the most incredible film I'd ever seen.

oh wait, and c) I had a similar response after watching John Ford's The Searchers the first time. Just, that feeling like you've been sideswiped, or like you've run a year-long marathon and come out the other side exhausted and fundamentally changed.

[sometimesalways]

i couldn't get it out of my mind for days. weeks.