Stay vocal and angry filmmaking public! It is you and "all the people you know" who are shining a light on true art.

P T Anderson is a remarkable filmmaking genius and I believe his best film is still to come.

Both terrifying and magnificent... from start to finish.

Ben, Melbourne, Australia

Please--There will be blood was one of the all time most worthless movies I have ever seen and everyone I know agrees. Poor start--long--drawn out--plotless--poor ending. This nihlistic movie is good for causing depression and assisting those who are ready to commit suicide, in the name of realism!!

Bill, Lisle, USA

Number two with a bullet and deservedly so. Brilliant movie. I only wish I could watch it again for the first time to recapture my emotions I had during that initial screening.

Fantastic

Alexander, Sydney,

Want a movie, that has passion, is about change, the eternal change that drives man, greed, the use of money, the use of power, crushing of the small man. Progress, it benefits and consequences. Great music, great camera work.

There will be Blood. NO.

Once upon a time in the West. YES.

Steve, london, uk

Apart from being pretentious (people call these "critics films" nowadays) it is also condescending and apart from the fantastic acting and the great photography there's nothing great about it! Reminds me of Micael Moore's insistance to show that we are all thick and he can show us the truth :P

Alex K, Manchester, UK

The Pianist & The Lives of Others are far more profound recent contributions than TWBB. Fine performance by Day Lewis but an overall emptiness & the ending so unsatisfying.
Should have included Jean de Florette / Manon des Sources & Master & Commander - wonderful.

Steven, Oxford,

Citizen Kane, M, Anatomy of a Murder, The Seven Samurai, My Darling Clementine, Au Revoir Les Enfants, Bad Day at Black Rock, Network, Sullivan's Travels.

What do these films have in common?

a. None of them are on this top 100 list.
b. All of them are better than There Will Be Blood.

Alan, Edinburgh,

Anchorman? BadBoys? Dumb and Dumber? -
Perhaps the top lists should be in a category order and the gerenal public can pick their own top 100!
As always, a great debate!

Iain, Manchester,

looks like this guy stuck this film at No2 to be different otherwise his top ten would look like most other peoples.

matt, paignton,

magnolia is a far superior film to There will be blood.

stephen , london, uk

very good acting but very long and boring movie, especially towards the end.

didem, La Jolla, CA

Amazing performances don't always translate in great movies. Such is the Case with 'there will be blood'. 'No Country For Old Men' is a much more superior movie though it might not be ready for this list.

Ekow, University Park, USA

I'm sorry, was this film selected for a bet? 2nd best film ever? Has no one seen that classic 'Wet paint drying'? It knocks spots off this feeble effort.

Andrew Harrison, Holmfirth, UK

I seem to be in a minority but I was bored by There Will Be Blood. Daniel day Lewis sounded like John Huston's powerful and evil tycoon in Chinatown and to me this gave the game away from the start. It was obvious he was greedy and would do anything for wealth and end a lonely old man.

Ann Downey, Dublin, Ireland

#2? That was a strong risk. There Will Be Blood is great, I'd be lying if I said that I didn't immediately fall in love with it when I saw it. It's in my top ten personal favorite movies list. But it's not the second greatest film ever made and should be much, much lower.

Sam Bailey, Florida,

What happen with the art?.. showing worst part of human being for 90 minutes, doesn t make them heros of talent, it looks they don t know much about human beings and making a picture with good paint, does not produce art.

A. Wise, Lisle, Illinois

Amarilis Wise, Lisle, Illinois

Please tell me that this is a joke. This is PTA trying to mimic a fusion of Leond and Welles, and failing miserably. Ridiculous ending - being weird doesn't mean being good. There have been countless Westerns better than this, even in '07. It's not even April 1st. I feel violated....

Adam Hirsch, London,

Magnificent but meaningless. Not a great film, not even a good film. Not Top 100. In the year of the wig in No Country for Old Men and the moustache in There Will be Blood notable only for winning the award for the most over-acting facial hair.

Neil Howlett, Frome, Somerset

Unfortunately, it is quite clear that none of you have any critical awareness of what constitutes a good film. There will be blood unequivocally deserves its place in the top 3 of this poll. I actually find it quite worrying that you have such misinformed taste.

Aman, Petersburg, Gelfling

There Will Be Blood is the most overrated movie this year; how it won an Oscar I will never know. It had no point, and it's ending was completely irrelevant. Yes yes I get it money doesn't buy happiness, but do I really have to sit through what seemed like 6 hours to find that out?

Patrick, London, UK

And everyone else please STOP harping on about Citizen Kane, a prime example of a film destroyed by its own hype.
And it wasn't that good anyway.

Patrick, London, UK

I love me some Daniel Day Lewis but not at No.2.

This list has lost all credibility for me now.

Ashley , Cambridge,

There will be blood is a brave choice indeed. But for it to rank as no 2 is a mistake. Wait for ten more years to see how it holds and its impact or influence on movie making. Also some of those Kubric movies included hear are not good. Pscho, Citizen Kane? I

Lesh, Gaborone, Botswana

What on earth were you thinking?! There Will Be Blood as the 2nd best film?! Have a word with yourself - a ridiculous positioin for an average film with one of the worst and most annoying scores in years!

Rob, London, UK

Not to nitpick, but the movie is set in California, not Texas....

Jason, Illinois, US

Mr. Tubman hit it right on the nose ... in a couple of years, nobody will remember this rambling fiasco of a film.

Drew Marcini, Philadelphia, PA

Day-Lewis does give a superb performance, but this is not enough to cover up the average script and the bizzarre score. A good film, but worthy of the number 2 spot? Not even in the top 100, surely!

John, Oxford,

The movie "There Will Be Blood" will be utterly forgotten in a few years. Besides the magnificent performance by the protagonist, the rest of the movie is stilted and unbelievable showing little to no character development. The ending is second-rate.

Harry Tubman, Charlottesville, USA

TWBB didn't know what it wanted to be. Was it Daniel Day-Lewis as Charles Foster Kane? Or was it DDL's character versus Paul Dano's character? Or was it commerce versus religion? It touched on all these things, but was too unfocused to say anything profound about any of these subjects.

Valarie, Portland, OR

A Terrence Malick film made by someone else. The most over-rated critical debut since Visconti's Death in Venice. Unfortunately it will take another twenty years before it is correctly reassessed as interesting but empty.

Dominic Alban, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa

Couldnt agree more, Daniel Plainview may possibly be one of the best characters in the history of american film, like andy said its not for everyone, but if you get it, you get it

Dan Smith, New York, US

Daniel Day Lewis literally becomes this Plainview on screen. The movie sticks with you days after you leave the cinema, leaving you with a sense that you actually glimpsed history. I'm grateful a film of this purity is made, despite the moanings of boring average drones, such as Marc from Houston.

David, Houston, USA

I agree. One of the best movies I have ever seen. Not for everyone but great.

andy, santa cruz, us

This wasn't even the second best movie in 2008. It is a good film, but in no way could it be mentioned in the top 10 of all time. Bad choice.

Marc, Houston, USA

There Will Be Blood is practically a remake of Citizen Kane. The parallels in the themes and even the style of the film are glaringly obvious.

Ryan, Boston, US

Second best film ever? Is this some kind of joke? Somebody slap me so I can wake up from this delusion.

John, Oklahoma City, USA

The score done by radiohead's Greenwood was clearly a creation of the mood in Plainview's head. The character build was beautiful and strong but complicated enough to keep you guessing. @nd best ever? maybe no, but leaps and bounds above anything else 2007 or 2008

Dustin Morrow, Richland,

I am so VERY tired of these deluded individuals that call an above average thriller named "No Country For Old Men" SUPERIOR to the towering cinematic experience that was "There Will Be Blood". I've seen both, I loved both. However "There Will Be Blood" is the only one I bought.

Steve Parsons, Edmonton,

There will be blood was a good film but certainly not the second best film ever - even in 2008 No Country for Old Men was far superior. I really can't believe that this film could be rated above such classics as Schindlers List, Third Man & Deer Hunter to name a few.

Paul Fisher, OXFORD, UK

wow hold it. this might seem like a very important film to conservate american history, but we here in Europe and THE REST OF THE PLANET watch films too.... you see, there are a lot of films to be seen before you call a 2008 film The Second Greatest Achievement On The Big Screen- Of All Time!

emoual , copenhagen, denmark

I think There Will Be Blood is a great film hiding in a merely very good film. And I don't think its the director's best. The script is amazing. The acting equally amazing. The themes and stories amazing BUT the music and photography bore me often. Brokeback Mountain was far, far better.

scott Redford, Brisbane, Australia

Actually, there are many people (like myself) who would hold that There Will Be Blood is in fact the greatest movie of all time, by a mile. The movie deals profoundly, with issues of religion, capitalism, the American Dream, the human search for God, the dark potential of human beings.

Darian, Sydney, Australia

This film is a work of genius: the interplay of multi-layered narrative and character, combined with the most evocative cinematography and musical underscore in years and it's easy to see why it merits such reverance.

it's david lean meets john ford.

a return to the glory days of hollywood

Scott, London, UK

The ranking of this film makes me question the whole list - not because I think many/most of the movies belong, but #2 on a film released only a short time ago! It needs to stand the test of time. All I can say if this is the number 2, you are to easily impressed. It should be ranked lower.

Brien Dyer, Hayward, USA

Bloody bizarre choice for second best--you have to be
joking!

andrew, austin, tx

Completely untrue, this was one of the best films I have seen for years and whilst maybe not the second best film of all time it certainly belongs in this list. How it missed out on best film at the Oscars is beyond me.

Matthew, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire

Very good, although for different reasons than the review. It is inevitable that people jump to the simple conclusion that the film is about money, oil and America (bad) and the way these turn Plainview into a monster. His character is not as simple as that, being both likeable and repulsive.

Neil, Edinburgh, UK

Is this a late April fool? You cannot be serious about There Will Be Blood coming second. Even of the films released this year I would rank it third behind Atonement and Juno. Given another year or two There Will Be Blood won't even be in the top 100, and rightly so.

JJ Reid, Stonehaven,

it's good to see the gushing mtv crowd selecting the best films of allllllllllllll tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiime.

Get some maturity in here - now!

robert, Columbus, USA

have you even seen this film? second best film of all time?! , it wasn't even the second best film released that weekend, it was a good lead performance, nothing else.

augustine lofts, Canterbury,