Dan is a writer living in Shanghai, China.
March 7 08
There Will Be Blood? Evidently not in Shanghai
So, I still haven't seen There Will Be Blood, the 2007 film that I have wanted to see more than any other. It's not for a lack of trying. Early DVD-5s I bought all had the same problem — bad edits and chunks of the movie missing (see embedded clip above). But at least those bad edits came early, about 11 minutes in, so I didn't waste too much of my time. Unlike tonight. I bought a DVD-9 that had me quite optimistic — quality was good, and no bad edit at the 11-minute mark.
This time it came at the 92-minute mark. One second Daniel is on the train with his son, the next he is trying to sell his land. It didn't add up. So I turned it off, yet again. Ugh.
Karma, perhaps, for nearly six years of bootleg movies and television shows. Maybe a less spiritually ruined Shanghai (and pirated DVD) newbie has a good copy they'd like to let me borrow?
Comments (1)
Having the same issue... even resorted to a large bittorrent version that ended up with the same cuts. argh.
Posted on 03.09.08 at 23:39:28