It must have flown right past me when I first saw it fourteen years ago: Peter Sellers is absolutely hilarious in this film. Kubrick's mastery is as well felt as in Dr. Strangelove, the closest comedic bedfellow in his canon. Also: The James Mason voice will live on until the end of time, I swear it.

Watching this for the first time since its heyday (i.e. - when it came out), when it was clearly overrated. Not only does it not hold up, but I watched it while sick and had to leave twice to vomit. It wasn't the film, but I think the genuinely icky feeling was enhanced by the sense that, "No, Ben, it's really not all that funny the fortieth time he says 'You're so money!'".

Like a more deeply haunting E.T.; Wonderfully structured, too. I can't imagine being satisfied with watching it once. Its always nudged at me that my mind was not entirely convinced by it - - but wierdly attracted to it.

Feels almost painfully studied and cramped when viewed next to his other four; Still, the dialogue and detail are clearly Anderson's and clearly still very exciting.

The small screen diminishes the sense of Big Wide Nothing its photography mixes with its mood, but it cannot even begin to chip away at the astounding world of rabble it encircles, gradually drawing nearer to its moment of reversal. Deconstructs the poison of fame - in more than just the pair of title outlaws - without a moment of hesitation. For a film as long in the coming, its still cut with a sublime confidence.

Its tirelessly jarring, even from the first frame (where sound, put quite simply, assaults you). Notable as something prestige-related and certainly less bombastically inclusive than Punch-Drunk Love but deviating from the Altman cloth to the performance/character-driven tradition, There Will Be Blood is also insanely quotable. Anderson has always been dialogue-savvy, but while his other films were equally quotable (by now, I'm actually sort of tired of the attention to Milkshake this film has drawn), this one benefits from what it doesn't say, particularly in the film's opening (and most stunning) sequence.