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Shaun from Normal Illinois
PTA's masterpiece There Will Be Blood is my favorite film of all time. While Ameilie is certainly strong, it is not nearly the third revelation that Paul Thomas Anderson and Daniel Day Lewis are together. There Will Be Blood, full steam ahead.
This is so disappointing. I have no doubt that TWBB will end up winning this match, but Amelie stands as one of the greatest romantic comedies of all time. On that of that, outside of the cinematography by Robert Elswit and Paul Dano’s performance, TWBB stands as one the movie’s with the best reception that I absolutely don’t understand. It’s overlong, needlessly slow, and a murder on all my senses the 3 times I’ve seen it and attempted to understand its valor.
What did poor Amelie ever do to you? I have a feeling that she won't last in this match up against PTA's best work, but I really, really hope that she does. Maybe we can still keep Amelie's score? Please?
I agree with so many of the comments above. The pure joy of watching a film like Amelie should be enough to earn my vote. But...PT Anderson and Daniel Day Lewis, both with arguably their best output, in careers full of amazing work, in a movie that, despite its running time, I swear I held my breath from open to closing credits...so yeah, I voted for TWBB.
Ned in Michigan
TWBB is great, sure, is it a better film, sure, up yours quality, I’m going with a movie I discovered by accident while in Paris and forced everyone I know to see when back in the US. Little do my sons know they would definitely had been named Amelie had chromosomes broken slightly differently.
Amelie, because sans elle, les émotions d'aujourd'hui ne seraient que la peau morte des émotions d'autrefois.
Plus, today is International Women's Day.
When I watch There Will Be Blood, I'm continually blown away by what an amazing film it is.
When I watch Amelie, I'm amazed at the things that movie makes me feel.
Heart over head. I'll take Amelie.
I hate this decision. I love both of these movies, for such totally different reasons. "APPLES OR ORANGES! YOU MUST CHOOSE NOW!" Say Josh and Sam... and I chose... but damn. Ugh. Ptttthhhh...
One film represents a world I wish we lived in. Charming, compassionate, quirky, French as fuck. The other has a psychotic oil baron beating a shifty charlatan preacher to death with a bowling pin. Which........let's face it.........is definitely a perfect allegory for the world we actually do live in.
Plainview keeps winning. Because it's all he knows.
There Will Be Blood, no question. Amelie was charming but far from great. TWBB is probably a Top 3 for the decade.
I respect There Will Be Blood so much and I am riveted by it (rivals Up and Wall-E for most devastating intro without dialogue of the last 30 years), I fully respect it and expect it to go the distance in the tourney, but it will never bring me joy to watch it, unlike Amelie which never fails to bring me joy. I know that it is futile and probably wrong, but I voted for Amelie anyway, just to say that I did.
I like Blood as much as the next milkshake drinking guy. But Amelie has creativity, spirit, and a uniqueness that very few films ever even try to evoke. Amelie gets my vote, but I suspect that this my be the last we hear of this movie in cruel Filmspotting bracket land.
Jon "The Penultimate Pestilence" W
(That's my Filmspotting nickname from Sam)
In West Lafayette, Indiana
Love wins - always. Amelie.
It is highly questionable if Plainview ever really loved his "son."
This is truly a case of comparing apples and oranges. I love both films for vastly different reasons. The only way I can decide is by asking, "Who would win in a fight?" Ultimately, I think Daniel Plainview would drink Amelie's milkshake.
from Sherwood, AR