http://www.pleonast.com/user/r2craig2 recent pleonast.com entries by user r2craig2 en-us http://www.pleonast.com/user/r2craig2?l=5&entryID=497933 1) Fallng Slowly - Once I don’t know you, but I want you. This is the best scene of the year because true magic takes place. Glen plays guitar in the street and Marketa plays piano in a music store during lunch. After the two meet, she takes him to this store where he shows her the music and lyrics to one of his songs. He begins to sing and play it for her and she joins in on piano and harmony. As the song builds, you realize you are watching and listening to one of the greatest things ever put on film. The scene (and film) is perfectly constructed and executed. The song is beautiful (Oscar for Best Song) and resonates for days in your heart and head. 2) Dunkirk Beach - Atonement Dearest Cecilia, The Story Can Resume This is a four-and-a-half long single tracking shot through Dunkirk Beach during the retreat of the British and French soldiers from France during WWII. These tracking shots are great when they're done necessarily. Joe Wright only had a few lines of description of the... 2008-02-27 http://www.pleonast.com/user/r2craig2?l=5&entryID=494739 Picture There Will Be Blood Once Atonement No Country For Old Men Juno Eastern Promises Michael Clayton Waitress The Assasination of Jesse James Before The Devil Knows You're Dead Director Paul Thomas Anderson - There Will Be Blood Joel & Ethan Coen - No Country For Old Men Joe Wright - Atonement Tony Gilroy - Michael Clayton Sydney Lumet - Before The Devil Knows You're Dead Actor Daniel Day-Lewis - There Will Be Blood George Clooney - Michael Clayton Viggo Mortensen - Eastern Promises Josh Brolin - No Country For Old Men Tommy Lee Jones - In The Valley of Elah Supporting Actor Javier Bardem - No Country For Old Men Hal Holbrook - Into The Wild Phillip Seymoure Hoffman - Charlie Wilson's War/Before The Devil... Andy Griffith - Waitress Tommy Lee Jones - No Country For Old Men Actress Julie Christie - Away From Her Marion Cotillard - La Vie En Rose Amy Adams - Enchanted Keri Russell - Waitress Ellen Page - Juno Supporting Actress Cate Blanchett - I'm Not There Amy Ryan - Gone ... 2008-02-19 http://www.pleonast.com/user/r2craig2?l=5&entryID=489664 2008-02-07 http://www.pleonast.com/user/r2craig2?l=5&entryID=489436 People, people, people! If I hear one more person say they can't wait to go see Fool's Gold this weekend because it looks good, I will peel their skin off of their bodies. They don't know what good or bad is. They go to their usual helping of formulaic Hollywood movies where they are mildly entertained for somewhere between an hour and a half and two hours and then they go back to their pickups, pull the tailgate down and site there talking about how cool it is to wear a giant fish hook on the brim of their camouflage hats. And they do this without once asking themselves the question, "Was this worth my time and money?" If they did ask themselves this question, the honest answer would be no and any idiot with a memory would stop going to see such crap. These movies are destroying their souls and they don't even know it. It's eating and burning and tearing away at their bodies more and more until one day, they'll come out of a romantic comedy starring Eva Mendes and Mat... 2008-02-06 http://www.pleonast.com/user/r2craig2?l=5&entryID=483344 I’m at work. I’m surrounded by 3 ¼ of cubicle wall and a bunch of people who, unlike me, love what they do. I feel like Al Gore cutting the ribbon at the Yucca Mountain grand opening. It’s utterly nauseating to stare at this bage carpet-wall all day. If I had eaten chicken salad for lunch then it would be all over my monitor right now. But I didn’t, I had 46 Cheeze’Its. My imagination is steadily shrinking from the lack of use it gets put to. I can’t stay focused on any one thing for very long at all. I changed my pants this morning more times than Mitt Romney changed his mind on abortion…this morning. And for what? So it would match my shirt? I forgot to even wear a shirt!! One might say I have writers’ block, but for the mind. Sort of like how scissor packages say “Not for children under the age of 6 and…Brittany Spears.”, my brain box says “Not for anything creative, imaginative…or Brittany Spears”. Okay, maybe the last bit goes without say... 2008-01-22 http://www.pleonast.com/user/r2craig2?l=5&entryID=410514 It's Over... It's All Over... I think it quite appropriate that both the first and last books have curtains on the covers as if symoblizing the beginning and ending of a play. The Best Play Ever!!. Also, notice the archways on the front and back covers of both the first book and the last book. 2007-07-25