Ficarra-Requa, the hot new actually good middlebrowians? (The "Crazy, Stupid, Love." thread.)

I'm definitely no big romantic, so I'll probably get big time "morning after" syndrome on it, but right now it feels like the most satisfying mainstream movie I've seen all year.
― third-generation stripper (Eric H.), Monday, July 25, 2011 11:54 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

very eager for CSL. Should have its own thread, you know, just like motherfucking Captain America or whatever the geeks are seeing next weekend.
― you call it trollin' i call it steamrollin' (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, July 26, 2011 12:54 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Morning after and I still feel pretty good about repping for this one.

right now I have a theory that Emma Stone will improve your movie 1000%

Dissenting opinion. :/

On the bright side, Jeff Wells hated it. (Not that I read it, looks like he dissected the entire plot)

didn't know anyone was anticipating this, but then i didn't know it was directed by Ficarra/Requa either. color me curious~

oh, I didn't know they didn't WRITE this. My enthusiasm is muted.

Not gonna say they "overcame" the script, but it did come with some "obstacles." Whatev, I still think this is pretty fantastic pop moviemaking.

+ yes, Emma Stone earns her paycheck

I will watch any movie she is in, because a) talented, and b) v v pretty

I think I will wait to find out who the hell she is rather than ask.

A great, raspy-voiced ginger fox. I wouldn't hit it, but I'll rep.

i will watch any movie she is in why because she look interesting

sounds like you just committed to seeing "the help"

man we have been over the lows i will stoop to when it comes to movies on pay cable

I pretty much have to see "The Help" after I completely negged some horrible-looking movie my wife wanted to see with me.

At least Emma Stone and Viola Davis are in it

i saw this & easy a within a few days of each other and i love that emma stone and her smoky voice. this movie was okay, i guess?

emma stone is an angel~

she gets my heart a-racin

i would have preferred 2x as many emma stone scenes in this movie tbh, but i guess it's kind of about men.

not in the annoying way that everything in the world is about men, just in a being about fathers and sons way.

ha i refrained from starting a thread about this, because, you know

it's ok? i like the twist and was surprised by it, that's a first in a long while

the carell character has few consequences for banging out a bunch of sluts. i dunno if that's 'good' or 'bad' as a judgment on the movie; you'd think julianne would have a bigger problem with it? idk, female motivation was not very well put together.

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i feel like the movie sort of indirectly acknowledges that with the intensity of carell's reaction to finding out about...the twist. it's like, is there such a big gap, really, between your behavior of late and this dude's? it's true it's not clear what's motivating the female characters, but i think the reason that didn't annoy me as much as it usually does was that it seemed like an epiphenomenon of how occluded Carell's character's understanding of his wife was in a free indirect discourse kind of way.

i guess it's sounding like i liked this movie? there were dumb and annoying parts and a few times i was like, what distinguishes this movie, basically, from little miss sunshine, but i don't know.

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also it was kind of awesome to me how marisa tomei's character went full-tilt rageball on carell and didn't let up for the entire movie. that was a consequence!

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all the soulmates stuff was pretty hard to take

yes it was

tomei put me in mind of (stay with me here) the shakespeare thing where there's always someone bitter in a marriage comedy who doesn't participate in the happy ending. sad that it had to be her, but an ounce of forgiveness or some other hook-up would have been bad. just one more shot of her doing an eyeroll at the "soulmate" stuff would have been perfect for the character and the audience i think

i was also skeeved out by the resolution between the babysitter and the son. what would mona charen think?!

yeah i was surprised tomei had so little to do but she did it beautifully.

yes the ending with the son + babysitter was gross. the babysitter's motivations possibly the least-accounted-for of all the women in the movie.

This would have been excellent if had removed about 15 minutes; it got flabby quick. But the characters are so damn likable that I felt like a scrooge.

Ryan Gosling's best performance, by the way. The guy didn't waste a single gesture. He almost credible the absurd turn to monogamy.

Gosling should have about a dozen Oscar nominations by now.

this was okay! horseshoe and goole otm. movie shoulda been about emma stone and ryan gosling btw, not because their characters or their story was particularly interesting but because theyre both really good looking and funny and engaging

James Rocchi of MSN Movies was particularly critical giving it 1/5 and remarking that it is "so completely phony".[12]

Phony in places, yes.

also, if we trim the movie we unfortunately cut Jonah Bobo and Analeigh Tipton's scenes.

i thought tipton was pretty good but her subplot was so stupid i wouldnt have minded losing it entirely

huh, shes gonna be a lead in the new whit stillman movie

hope this isn't the last of emma stone-as-redhead #pray4emma

i saw this & easy a within a few days of each other and i love that emma stone and her smoky voice. this movie was okay, i guess?

― horseshoe, Friday, August 5, 2011 1:27 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

easy a is p sweet, otming all the stone love

huh, shes gonna be a lead in the new whit stillman movie

― max, Sunday, August 7, 2011 8:50 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

*_*

not emma stone, analeigh tipton

On Facebook yesterday a friend complained about Gosling: "Met him in person two years ago at a East Village Cuban restaurant...Honestly, he's not all that good looking in person...honestly."

I should remove him, yes?

easy a is better than this, this movie needs more stanley tucci

haha ok, did not really read thread xp

ive never met him in person but ryan gosling is p uncool imho

when actors try to be 'smart' its just like why bro

they 'hey girl' meme kinda justifies ryan gosling but i don't really 'get' him yet

Stone has stated that she "was really into HTML and web design" when she was younger.[8]

i feel like if youre rich handsome and famous why pull an ethan hawke

Stone has stated that she "was really into HTML and web design" when she was younger.[8]

― max, Sunday, August 7, 2011 8:58 AM (38 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

<marry> </me>

I didn't really "get" him until this movie, in which he's as far as possible from an Ethan Hawke type (if such a thing exists).

Gosling hasn't written any novels yet and hasn't played characters who write novels based on an aborted Vienna romance.

theres still time!

is he supposed to be jewish in this movie? he kept saying "schwanz"

i am agnostic toward ryan gosling, my girlfriend finds him very attractive

he sure had a lot of stomach muscles in this movie, ill tell you that much, 15-16 different muscles there, it was pretty nuts

this is when i realized these dudes were all a bunch of ethan hawkes

Yet thanks to a new crop of brainy, complicated, and highly autonomous actors—James Franco (Howl, 127 Hours), Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network), and Joseph Gordon-Levitt ([500] Days of Summer, Hesher) in America; Tom Hardy (Bronson, Inception) and Michael Fassbender (Hunger, Fish Tank) in Europe—a new prototype is seeping into the mainstream.“Some of us are tired of all the sissies in this town,” says Gosling. “The ones who go along, flow with the flow, line up where they’re told to line up at. The studios want you to make the same movie over and over again—if that’s the movie they liked, that’s the movie you should keep making.”

http://nymag.com/arts/cultureawards/2010/69907

there's nothing really tying those guys together except that they're all the sort of Intense Young White Men hollywood has fallen in love w/repeatedly for decades

i watched this hour long actors roundtable thing on hollywood reporter during award season back in like january - it was gosling, franco, eisenberg, duvall and ruffalo. i thought it was funny how they all were like caricatures of what you would expect them to be like. duvall was a grumpy old man, eisenberg was insecure and nervous, gosling and franco were too-cool-for-school dickheads, and ruffalo - the only middle-aged guy in the room - was this relaxed and likeable 'cool dad' type.

Love:
Gosling
Hardy
Fassbender

Mixed on:
Eisenberg
Franco

Hate:
Gordon-Levitt

i like gosling in everything i've ever seen him in + think he's super-hot but it's in a way that makes me sort of uneasy.

ruffalo - the only middle-aged guy in the room - was this relaxed and likeable 'cool dad' type.

:D

i kept expecting marisa tomei to get with kevin bacon at the end. or kevin bacon to get with emma stone's friend

the woman who played her friend was on that fox sitcom traffic lights that i had an odd indefensible affection for, it cheered me to see her in this movie, she was good on the sitcom

emma stone's friend was a+

i really liked the scene where ryan gosling first hit on emma stone, i enjoy really well-done movie flirting, like in the departed when matt damon asks the shrink out on the elevator

yeah the way gosling took care to compliment the friend even as he was hitting on emma stone was v smooth.

i kept expecting marisa tomei to get with kevin bacon at the end. or kevin bacon to get with emma stone's friend

yeah seriously -- if the movie wanted to try all-out Shakespearean lunacy it should have gone this route.

btw I genuinely didn't anticipate a certain twist in the film's last quarter (the whole audience gasped). Now of course I feel stupid for not guessing.

Me neither. All those aside mentions of having called Nana, et al.

A shame the movie hasn't been a bigger hit. Judging by the smiles of the people exiting the theatre, I'd think this was the sort of thing which becomes a "word of mouth" success.

it's ok? i like the twist and was surprised by it, that's a first in a long while

haha yeah i was legit surprised had totally misread where they were going w/ the emma stone/breaker high subplot but:

easy a is better than this, this movie needs more stanley tucci

yeah this had an extra dumm subplot w/ the teenage babysitter and the shitty speech at the end was worse i mean i liked it ok for the most part but it wasnt great

breaker high! omg Lamp i thought i was the only one!

http://www.vidiot.com/UPN/BH/images/BreakerHigh97141.jpg

god he looks so Canadian in that photo.

that shirt sure is

lol breaker high is why i cant really take the gauze srsly as an 'Actor' tbh

also re: this movie was it weird to anyone else that he this independently wealthy playboy who tawked occasionally w/ this weird tuff guy outer borough accent???

can we get a ruling on the word schwanz too

he was definitely the class of the actors on breaker high tbf.

this was decent. "twist" indeed handled very well, but boy do they lay the sap on THICK in those last few minutes. kinda soured it for me.

lots of funny/nice little moments, though.

should be the standard quality level for this sort of venture, really.

Amusing, Sappy, Shit.

also, the Goz should not be shaven and buff, and he is not "beautiful"

h8d this

btw Bacon is gonna be a scary old man.

he has always been deeply weird-looking

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all the soulmates stuff was pretty hard to take

― horseshoe, Friday, August 5, 2011 1:55 AM (4 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

LOL yeah it was.

This was pretty entertaining for the first half but at some point it just went full on cheesy rom com and the part where the big reveal happens and all the dudes end up fighting was just kind of embarrassing. I didn't hate it or anything but I thought it was going somewhere sort of interesting until about 2/3 of the way through but then it got really cheesy and predictable and started to lose me, I think.

I think I sort of understand why people think Gosling is *dreamy* now though. After watching both this and Drive today I have to admit that he sort of has something about him.

can we get a ruling on the word schwanz too

― max, Sunday, August 7, 2011 3:12 PM (4 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I feel like he's the only person I've ever actually heard use schwantz but somehow it worked and I LOLed a little inside each time he used it.

A hell of a lot of movies know how to start well. Maybe 50% of the movies I see have a fresh, interesting take in the first 20 minutes. Sustaining a high level right through to the end is as rare as hen's teeth.