I normally don't like to watch clips before I see a movie, but since I don't know when the fuck this movie is coming out where I live I will take a peek.

You never know. I always thought Daniel Day should have won for Gangs of New York but The Nose ended up taking it home this year. I thought this was going to be the year Depp was honored career-wise more than the individual performance but the lack of a SAG has my eyebrows raised. Looks like Danny boy might have it

Seems like his biggest competition might actually be Clooney, based on the precursors.

For me there's no comparing the performances. DDL totally inhabits the role, he haunts the movie. His presence is simply monstrous. The Brody performance in 2002 was more Oscar-friendly than Clooney's is this year, making DDL harder to knock off, IMO.

I think Plainview IS sincere when he confesses. And he hates it. It's what sends him over the edge in regards to Eli. He was willing to get up there and look the fool to get what he wanted, but he wasn't willing to get up there and feel what he did.

Ciaran Hinds is in this movie? Awesome. One of the best character actors working today, and the saving grace of MARGOT AT THE WEDDING.

Here's what Day-Lewis told me about the conversion scene when I interviewed him:

"My belief was that some part of him understood very clearly that he had abandoned maybe the only person he had true affection for, and some part of him may have even, if only perversely, enjoyed the catharsis of admitting to that. Obviously in Eli’s presence, that’s what makes it a dirty thing, a dirty secret. Yet somehow, there’s some feeling in the congregation that’s confusing, I think. There’s a real love there. A real sense of good will coming toward him. Which is something he wouldn’t know how to begin to absorb. But he feels it. But you’re right, on a primal level, he’s angry that he’s forced into this admission (laughs) in the presence of the town.

And that posted clip is just a taste ... the scene is amazing, particularly the way it ends.

He should win the Oscar.

That scene definitely shows his need to just get up there and go through Eli's bullshit...but at the same time it really does strike a nerve. Plainview, in my mind, becomes more monstrous as the film progresses....but there's still some of his soul in this scene.

But also...SLIGHT SPOILER I GUESS....

Eli begins to slap him and Daniel pretty much starts to smile and take it and make a mockery of that "demon exorcising". And then there's that moment after when he says something to Eli we don't hear. He HATES Eli.

It's brilliant acting.

Geoff, I loved that moment after the ceremony, too. When I saw it, I wondered if it was ad-libbed and if DDL had just menacingly walked over to Dano and started growling something at him. Whether or not he was in character, Dano's reaction was appropriate.

Dano just shrinks. It's not in the script, but I don't think it was ad-libbed, either. The way PTA captures Day-Lewis walking over to Dano, shaking his hand and saying something to him ... it's so beautifully staged, happening in the background just as the congregants are about to come streaming down the aisle to welcome Plainview as a new member. If push came to shove, I'd have to say it's my favorite moment in the movie.

Don't get your hopes up Burma, he doesn't have much to do. It's DDL's show, all the way.

Yeah, great scene. I'd be dying if I hadn't caught that screening. Now I'm dying to see it again. When the fuck is it finally being released?