Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood Courtesy of Paramount Vantage

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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street and There Will Be Blood, in case you've been living under a rock, are two thirds of the trifecta of OMG OSCAR movies of 2007 (the third being, of course, No Country for Old Men). Sondheim fans were skeptical, at best, as were musical-wary mainstream audiences. Johnny Depp singing? What fresh hell is that? But Tim Burton, the master of all things sweet and gloomy, his witchypoo significant other Helena Bonham Carter and Depp made it work, bringing a stupendous spectacle of Grand Guignol to the big — and now small — screen.

There Will Be Blood, however, didn't have many doubters at the outset. It was preceded by deafening buzz, from both critics (including Premiere's own Glenn Kenny) and cinephiles eager for the writer/director's return. Daniel Day-Lewis, thespian and cobbler, took home the Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of oil prospector and all-around sociopath Daniel Plainview.

So it goes without saying they are both excellent movies on the big screen. But if you're a standard-issue film fan, and maybe you don't have the sweetest set-up, and hell, maybe you still have a CRT tube in your living room — are either of them worth your hard-earned dough? Depends. There Will Be Blood's dusty landscapes and oil-slicked men surely lose their effect when transferred to a less high-tech setup, while the soundtrack by Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood made me want to climb the walls (in a bad way) even on my lowly two-speaker system. The second disc is where the extras live, and what a terribly unrobust set of extras they are. A mini making-of doc, some trailers, crap like that. No commentary from Paul Thomas Anderson or Daniel Day-Lewis or Paul Dano or Jonny Greenwood, nothing. However, you do get a pretty box.

Johnny Depp in Sweeney Todd Courtesy of DreamWorks

If you haven't seen Blood, definitely rent it. If you're an obsessive DVD collector and film freak, it's highly likely you already have a high-def setup, in which case you should just wait for the Blu-ray version to hit the market.

Like Blood, Sweeney loses some big-screen magic on DVD, unless you have the techie goodness that will make the most of the film's subtly changing undertones — from the sepia palette of Bonham Carter's wardrobe to the blueish hue of Depp's skin to the shocking red splashes of blood on Depp's straight razors. The collector's edition's extras are just as paltry, although admittedly, it is a sexier DVD box than the single-disc version.

It doesn't, however, lose so much that it's not wholly enjoyable if you are a fan of Tim Burton or Sondheim. (Musical theater purists, the actors were vetted by the man himself, so chill out, okay?) And it's rewatchable on the small screen, which Blood just isn't — so much of its emotional nuance is based on its cinematography, whereas Sweeney is just plain gory fun. And also Blood is damn long to pop into the DVD player on a rainy Sunday afternoon.