Boards thoughts on Crazy, Stupid, Love?

Absolute great movie.

Just saw it recently. Was genuinely surprised by its depth and thought it was great.

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Great film

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To avoid spoilers, I made this part vague:

The scene where the dad finds the photos had me on the floor.

Watched it this past weekend. Simply amazing. The scenes between Stone and Gosling were great.

I liked it. Watched it Sunday night.

Crazy, Stupid, Love: At first glance, one might conclude that this is a movie about divorce and the tremendous pain to individuals, family, and the community at large that it causes. A deeper inspection, however, reveals that the movie is about romantic love: how we lose it, how we find it, how we fight for it.

Romantic comedies are almost always told through the female perspective, but this movie flips the genre on its head, and we see romance from male eyes. It's quite refreshing, for in it, we see that the ways males approach romantic love are just as crazy, just as stupid, just as irrational as females. The journey to that romantic love brings males to the edges of insanity. What we find in the end, is that through our "wildly unhappy" times, we will find what we are looking for in our soulmate, who, one can only conclude, is a reflection of our own soul.

Men are melancholy beings, and in our melancholy, we become lonely, and in our loneliness, we find unsuitable pleasures that distract us from our loneliness, but do little from making us less lonely. The cure for our loneliness? The theme of the movie? Basically, that romantic love is life's ultimate telos and until we capture it, we will remain restless and yearning. Whether you agree with that philosophy is a matter of debate, but this movie, through a technique that borrows from Greek tragedy (the fall of a flawed character), 19th century Russian literature (emphasis on the character rather than the action and looking seriously at the human condition without being afraid to poke fun at it), and 1980's American sitcoms (a connective, universal conclusion), does a fine job of arguing its point.

My biggest criticisms of the movie are the casting of the males. I don't like Steve Carell as an actor. I cannot get his defining career scene: caught up in a bout of glossolalia in a television studio. He's a worthy slap-stick comedian, but it's hard to see him as anything but that, no matter how hard he tries to break that image. Ryan Gosling isn't very impressive either. I don't think he's handsome enough to pull off the playboy image. The women, on the other hand, even in their roles as support, are perfect. Julianne Moore is a fantastic actress who can play almost any character. Emma Stone, who isn't nearly as attractive as some say, gives another outstanding, if sarcastic, performance. I hope she will expand her repertoire because she has much more to offer. 8/10

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Emma Stone, who isn't nearly as as attractive as some say

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No shite. She is vastly overrated.

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I was upset I didn't take a nap when I was watching this shite.

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Uhh... you think this had anything to do with it?

Loved the way it tied together in the end... I didn't see that coming at all. Emma Stone is the girl next door... which is why she's overrated to a degree. She's smokin' hot to me... everyone has different taste.

She's not supposed to be some super model in the movie. It's supposed to be part of her appeal. Gosling has been bringing home vapid insanely hot girls for years. If they had put her on the same attractiveness level of those girls it would have cheapened the feel. Trying to hint at him leaning more to personality of a woman rather than being a perfect 10. Sorry you missed the point

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The scene where the dad finds the photos had me on the floor.

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The entire scene after that had me rolling. It just kept getting better and better