Movie: There Will Be Blood (spoilers)

Hmm... Where do I start with this one? Oh, I know. I've got a question.

What idiot wrote this thing? My. Gosh. I haven't seen a more pointless or more boring movie in a very long time. No one warned me this thing was going to be told in real time. By all means, please show me every excruciatingly dull second of Mr. Plainview's day. Wait, did he brush his teeth? You can't leave out details like that! *head desk*

Also, there is no reason for an 8-year-old struck deaf in an accident to also become mute. He won't have any volume control, but he will be able to talk -- and in fact probably will more than usual due to frustration at not being able to have two-way communication. Learning sign language so he can understand others makes sense; not being able to talk, doesn't. :P

And WTF was up with the goat's milk? Hey, why don't we spend another 15 minutes or so watching the kid drink that? It's not like the movie's too long or anything.

I don't mind long movies, as long as there's, you know, movie going on. I do, however, mind spending 3 minute takes watching a kid drink his flippin' milk. You know, when it took a full 15 minutes (I checked) before there was a speaking line, I really should have shut the DVD off then and gone and done my dishes or something. There are brief scenes of action, and then long LONG expanses of nothing. It's like they only had half an hour of story, so they wrapped it in bubblewrap and and put it in a huge box with a bunch of foam peanuts.

This was all an excuse to beat a delusion faith healer to death. I'm OK with that, and heaven knows that it's enough to get ya two Oscars, but we could have done that in the first hour.

And yet despite that, for a movie titled "There Will Be Blood", there was shockingly little blood. There was, like, no blood. Because blood implies action, and that's just not in the budget for this one.

Ugh. So, in summary: there's two and a half hours of my life I'm never getting back.