Jan
15
“As much as I love the ending of There Will Be Blood, I really, REALLY hope that [“I’ll drink your milkshake”] doesn’t become the next “say hello to my little friend.” Catch phrases are just intolerable, and I don’t want to see the power of that ending diminished by having it pass into pop culture as a campy one-liner to quote with your friends.”
-Ed Howard commenting at The House Next Door
You know: I didn’t much like There Will Be Blood (um, putting it mildly), but comments like this really grate on me. I mean: god forbid that people actually latch onto a movie and get some kind of enjoyment out of it. Don’t they know it’s supposed to be ART?