Academy Awards 2008,There Will Be Blood - the movie

THERE WILL BE BLOOD, definitely, should not be a movie considered for an Academy Award (Oscar) nomination. http://www.therewillbeblood.com/ a long, drawn out movie. The movie attempts to tell an epic tale of a oil pioneer. Some of the ingredients are there to make a tale of the theme, but, the pieces aren't knit together closely enough to make this movie work. Things need to happen /develop quicker, the movie does not flow smoothly, absolutely no suspense / intensity at all. There is way to much empty dialogue or space between each scene, the audience is waiting for something to happen. The movie desperately tries to build up some intensity, but never delivers. This story of a wanna be oil magnate set in the late 1800's and early 1900's does have the basic ingredients to deliver a masterpiece, if only it didn't try to be so refined. Daniel Day Lewis portrayed the part of a oil pioneer fine. There Will Be Blood was too slow in developing the story, the movie should of capitalized on the scenery of vast fields, hills, and mountains, and delivered more in the way of ruthlessness on part of the man involved in trying to capture the oil, and the people trying to negotiate for it. The movie should of taken a more aggressive approach to tell this tale.