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There Will be Blood on hands of bookies if gamblers make out big If you listen to the public and just about everyone else in the media, it appears that No Country For Old Men will be this year's big "best picture" winner. But wait! Wasn't that what they said about Brokeback Mountain two years ago? Ultimately it was Crash, paying $5 for every $1 bet, that walked off with the Oscar for "best picture". Let's face it: Most of the bets will be on No Country for Old Men. So the fact that bookmakers at betED.com are offering 2.5/1 odds on There Will be Blood won't make for too much of a blood bath should the gamblers need to get paid. The line is written as +250, which means you would bet $1 to win $2.50 or $10 to win $25 or $100 to win $250. Rachel Cooke of The Guardian writes in regard to There Will be Blood: The one thing you cannot do to There Will Be Blood, no matter how hard you try, is dismiss it. Even its final scene, when the action tips drunkenly into schlocky melodrama, is so of a piece with its own internal universe that you somehow let it go; it's a work of art, and like all great works of art, a flaw seems only to add to its brilliance and to its integrity. Its director and screenwriter, Paul Thomas Anderson, has produced something both indelible and incredible, by which I mean not that I found it preposterous, but that I could hardly believe its various achievements: that, in a medium now so over-exploited, a man could create something that felt so new. Appropriately enough for a piece of work that stamps so violently on America's very own creation myth, you feel as if this is the first film that you've ever seen - that nothing else existed before it - and you half wonder whether you won't also make it your last. Of course there are those who are inclined to disagree. Michael Sragow of the Sun refers to There Will be Blood as a "pretentious clunker". Ross Anthony of the Hollywood Report Card: It's as if you can feel the oil flowing under the ground, bubbling, seeking a weak patch of earth from which to spew. But, the climactic emotional equivalent never occurs.
"A work of stunning intelligence and dramatic sweep, a portrait of a young nation struggling to find itself, torn between religious and business values," writes Colin Covert of the Star Tribune. ---- Jordan Bach, Gambling911.com Originally published February 24, 2008 2:46 pm EST
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