<p>Has anybody else seen this film? Daniel Day Lewis’ performance was amazing IMO. At 2:40 in length, it seemed much shorter. Truly a great movie IMO.</p>
<p>The soundtrack to this film, created by the classically trained genius, Jonny Greenwood, of the band Radiohead is beyond amazing. If you don’t know much about Jonny he plays 7 instruments including the ondes martonot. (viola, organ, piano, guitar, , glockenspiel, banjo and harmonica) He was appointed as artist in residence for the BBC and commissioned several contemporary classical works. Radiohead have produced 7 albums to date and are a critically acclaimed band known for creating a new sound with each successive album. Jonny put out a solo album (2003) called Bodysong. (the soundtrack for the movie of the same title)</p>
<p>D & H just saw a Wordless Music concert this week in NYC featuring Greenwood’s Popcorn Superhet Receiver. Both were raving, and picked up the soundtrack, which really makes me want to see the film. It’s amazing – I agree. But H & D said the soundtrack just can’t compare to hearing a live performance, enhanced by the lights, etc. Radiohead is unique.</p>
<p>I thought this post was going to be about today’s football games.</p>
<p>^^^ LOL…and silly me, I assumed by the thread title that it was about politics!</p>
<p>It took me a while to realize that the actor playing the young preacher is the same one who was the mute brother in Little Miss Sunshine - his performance was great, but Daniel Day-Lewis gives a performance that will win the Oscar for sure (I am figuring with the strike they won’t have that show either). I don’t usually pay attention to soundtracks while watching a film, but based on comments here I’ll have to see if I can download some of it!</p>
<p>Oh, can’t wait to see the movie. My husband is taking Friday off and we’re going. We’ve seen a lot of recent movies, some of which I expect to see on the list of Oscar nominees. Haven’t seen Sweeney Todd yet, but friends told me it is good, though (of course) bloody. </p>
<p>I hope Philip Seymour Hoffman gets some nominations. He was in three good movies this year and gave excellent performances.</p>
<p>As with many movies made from books, I thought it didn’t live up to “Oil”, by Upton Sinclair.</p>
<p>That preacher made me think of Joel Ornstein!</p>
<p>Was that Union railroad the railroad started by Leland Stanford?</p>
<p>The music was barely noticeable, and I was listening for it, as I knew it was supposed to be notable.</p>
<p>I’d give it a 4 star.</p>
<p>I noticed the music and thought it really meshed with and advanced the movie. Thanks for the background, collegemom16. DD Lewis was amazing but I thought all the actors held their own.
I had a question: early in the movie, when the real father of DD Lewis’s “son” dies in the well accident–was that an accident or did DD Lewis kill him so he wouldn’t have to share the profits? As he looked down at the dying man I felt is was intentional . . .my husband and son disagree.</p>
<p>I just found this web-site if you want to hear some of Greenwood’s music or see the movie trailer use the links on the left.</p>
<p>There is also a really interesting interview with him.
[Album</a> Page](<a href=“http://www.nonesuch.com/Hi_Band/albums.cfm?album_num=682]Album”>http://www.nonesuch.com/Hi_Band/albums.cfm?album_num=682)</p>
<p>Collegemom16, sure I know Radiohead and like them. I meant their music got lost in the story which was more powerful. It wasn’t familiar music, but more subtle “mood creation”, and I don’t think I heard any complete songs.</p>
<p>Did anyone notice not a word was spoken in the first 15 mins. of the movie? I can’t think of any other movie like that.</p>
<p>Caligali, I thought the incident you described was an accident.</p>
<p>Saw it last night (in lieu of Giants-Packers . . . I am such a great husband).</p>
<p>Loved Day-Lewis. Loved Greenwood’s (mostly very traditional) score. Thought lots of the movie was beautiful and compelling.</p>
<p>But. It was really long and often quite boring. And I thought it lacked any discernible point, other than to be another Citizen Kane / sprawling epic of American business ambition. There was 0 insight anywhere in it, and 0 attempt at insight. There were a lot of cool shots.</p>
<p>SuNa - off the subject, but Phillip is a Rochester home-boy - his mother is still a judge here, what a talent. You can’t miss with any movie he is in - his role in Charlie Wilson’s War is amazing!</p>
<p>After everything said here - I thought Jonny Greenwood would get an Oscar nomination, but looks like the score was not Oscar-eligible…</p>
<p>[Radiohead</a> guitarist’s score not Oscar-eligible - CNN.com](<a href=“http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Movies/01/24/film.jonnygreenwood.ap/index.html]Radiohead”>http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Movies/01/24/film.jonnygreenwood.ap/index.html)</p>
<p>OT, but, on the subject of scores, we have been listening non-stop to Eddy Vedders’ score for Into the Wild, since the kids bought it for us for Christmas, and I’m astounded that it’s not nominated, though perhaps it’s not eligible either (didn’t read the link.) Regardless, it’s just utterly beautiful stuff.</p>
<p>Jonny Greenwood’s score was disqualified… It kinda makes sense because there’s music from a previous work, right??</p>
<p>WELL, remember how Gustavo Santaolalla [Argentinian composer] won Best Original Score for Brokeback Mountain in 2006 and then AGAIN in 2007 for Babel??</p>
<p>Both scores are great and loved by critics… but there is a problem: the score for Babel should have been disqualified.</p>
<p>Santaolalla released an instrumental album titled Ronroco in 1998… Since its release, many of the tracks have been used in his scores for Deadwood, Amores Perros, Motorcycle Diaries, and [you guessed it] Babel. Despite this fact, Santaolalla went on to win the 2007 Oscar for Best Original Score.</p>
<p>Greenwood could have appealed it, but they sent out the notification to his home 6 days after ballots closed…it says on variety.com…anyway, the studio is already angry because of this, the fact that they weren’t allowed to appeal it, when the academy had all of December to notify them…</p>
<p>Is this what happens when you anger the music industry?</p>
<p>OOOPS - I thought the title of this thread referred to the discussion about tax rebates on CC.</p>
<p>As I mentioned in the Juno thread, I saw There Will Be Blood over Christmas break with DS. He liked it a lot, but I found it long, dreary, violent and oppressive.</p>