Watch the latest trailer for There Will Be Blood

Apple has the newest trailer for Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood.  It opens the day after Christmas, and the early reviews starting to trickle in are nothing short of sycophantic.   Variety’s Marjorie Baumgarten (hee hee, bum garden) says:

Certain to be rewarded with year-end accolades, Anderson’s film is a true American saga — one that rivals Giant and Citizen Kane in our popular lore as origin stories about how we came to be the people we are. 

Harry Knowles says:

This is not just the best performance of the year to date, but one of the great performance period. [sic]

My girlfriend had a performance period once; I thought I’d never get clean. The above quote, of course, is buried beneath in-depth analysis of the new sneakers Harry just bought and a meditation on why he prefers Funions to Bugle snacks.  

I’ll tell you this though, it looks like PTA’s learned to edit since Magnolia, and after getting hosed at the Oscars after playing Bill the Butcher (say what you want about the movie, but that character was one of the ultimate badasses of all time), Daniel Day-Lewis is man on a mission.  That he’s also a man with a hyphenated name is just something I’m going to have to learn to live with.  [Reviews via RT]

Commenter Stone Soup adds, "Lance, my ex-wife used to have performance periods as well.  She’d warn me before any contact by saying – "There will be blood"."  I’m angry at myself for missing that angle. 

It’s being reported that young Wolverine in X-Men Origins: Wolverine will be played by none other than some kid with A-hole parents, 11-year-old Kodi Smit-McPhee.

I’m not going to rip on the poor kid, because ad-hoc attacks on children are beneath me this morning.  But I need only his name to prove that his parents are insufferable jag-offs (part of the Insufferable Jag-Off clan).  

First off, they named their kid Kodi.  Not even Cody, Kodi.  As in, it’s not enough that my child have a name that was non-existent prior to the late 20th century, we must also differentiate it through novelty spelling, so that everyone who reads it will know that our son is unique; and run the risk of having to be corrected when they assume it rhymes with Lodi.  Bottom line, he’s special, he’s new.  He needs special treatment.  

Secondly, the hyphen.  Hey, maybe mom wanted to keep her last name.  No biggie, fine by me.  But then she also had to saddle her poor kid with some retarded hybridized name, and for what? GOD FORBID SOMEONE MEET MY CHILD AND NOT KNOW THAT HE’S PART OF THE SMIT CLAN!  THE SMIT CLAN HAS BEEN AROUND FOR MILLENIA AND IS VERY PROUD!  WE SHALL BE KNOWN FAR AND WIDE BY OUR STUPID NAMES AND INABILITY TO SPELL!  

Petit Update: Commenter Chachi writes, "What’s gonna happen twenty years from now when Kodi Smit-McPhee marries Jane Doe-O’Brien?  Will Jane become Jane Doe-O’Brien-Smit-McPhee?!?!" Good point.