I saw this right after No Country For Old Men, and honestly expected to enjoy There Will Be Blood more after hearing good things about it.
At the 2008 Oscars, No Country won Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor and Best Adapted Screenplay while There Will Be Blood won only Best Actor for Daniel Day-Lewis. That seems about right. It's an enjoyable movie, subtle, gritty and haunting, and Day-Lewis really is amazing as Daniel Plainview, but on the whole it didn't really affect me as much as No Country did.
The score by Johnny Greenwood of Radiohead was interesting musically but mostly distracting in the film. Much like György Ligeti's "Requiem", heard during the monolith scenes in 2001: A Space Odyssey, Greenwood's rhythmic, steampunk industrial music is frightfully unsettling in heavy and dramatic scenes but completely unnecessary pretty much everywhere else.
Overall There Will Be Blood would be a three-star movie if not for Daniel Day-Lewis and its incredible ending.
