Ruminations, Musings and Other Stuff…

How funny is it that the movie I enjoyed the most this year is pretty much unwritable for me?

I saw PT Anderson’s “There Will Be Blood” two week’s ago and I’ve tried to write a review for it three times, only to delete what I’ve written 30 minutes in. It’s not that the movie is that bad, no quite the opposite, it’s that it, at this juncture anyways, defies words from me. At least adequate ones. It’d be easy to spout off about how it’s Anderson’s greatest achievement to date, about how Daniel Day Lewis will make you believe in the dark center of every human heart, how the cinematography is literally jaw-dropping, and how it feels like every second of the film was handled with a tenderness and care that I haven’t seen in an incredibly long time.

It’d be easy to say all of those things.

But it still wouldn’t encapsulate my entire feelings for the film and how much I firmly believe that every lover, liker, or indifferent viewer of film should go out and see it today.

I could and should write more. Give the film it’s due and put in the time. But time is a precious commodity these days, so this review will have to pass.

So please see it. It’s easily one of the best I’ve seen this year, or ever.

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I was out paying close attention
Or was I lost inside my thoughts
These days it’s hard to tell what’s outside from what’s in my mind
And oh god, it’s beautiful
Insatiable
The way our chemicals collide

-Cloud Cult from their song “Chemicals Collide”

Let’s see, coming up, a review of “There Will Be Blood” by the always amazing Paul Thomas Anderson!  Saw it this last weekend and I’ll have a full write up on it by the end of this week or sooner.  Suffice it to say, the review will be positive….

What else?  Oh yeah… ‘been writing like a fiend lately!

The screenplay I was psyched about possibly completing by year’s end, got sidetracked when the good friend I am collaborating with decided that he would go and get engaged to his awesome girlfriend!

Sheesh, priorities dammit!

In all seriousness you two (and you know who you are…) it’s about freaking time and I’m so happy for you!

Regardless, I’ve been writing quite a bit and so has he (when he has time to breath) and it is coming together nicely!

It’s funny, as I’ve become older, the urge to write has become more of a necessity.  In the past it’s kinda been a necessary evil, something I do to level out. But lately, I find it becoming a literal joy.  The accomplishment, the need - it’s all genuine, which is what it should’ve been all along, but I didn’t see it that way.  I always viewed writing as something I should’ve been doing, not necessarily something I’d always want to do.

Now it’s different.  My writing sessions have been more frequent and the results wax between something I think is pretty good, to something I’m actually proud of.

Which is more than it’s ever been!

So, I have been busy.  Too busy to blog as frequently as I’d like, but it’s a good busy!  A “busy” that pertains to me, which, in and of itself, sounds a little selfish, but, hopefully, it ends up being something that you all will enjoy someday.

We all have the right to dream. Yes?

-Tad

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Not as late as the “No Country…” review, but not on time either, and easily as enjoyable… for completely different reasons.

Yet another great film that snuck in at the end of a great year for cinema!

Click here to see what I thought of it!

Better late than never!

Saw this weeks ago and haven’t been able to shake it.

Click here to see what I thought of the Coen brothers latest.