Crazy, Stupid, Love

Crazy, Stupid, Love   directed by: Glenn Ficarra and John Requa

Back to blogging with a movie that actually made me laugh out loud.  I would like to point out that the weekend before I saw this movie, I saw Ryan Gosling.  In.The.Flesh.  Not to mention he was here to shoot scenes from an upcoming Malick movie called Lawless. 



Ryan Gosling at FFF Fest.  Photo by Tim Griffin.

 This was taken at Fun Fun Fun Fest as Ryan Gosling was on one of the stages filming.  This guy is a bad ass and one of my favorite indie actors.  Later the same night I also scraped against him up close and personal at another show. :)  It was a good night needless to say!

Music photographer, Griffinshot.com  took this and a bunch of other amazing photos, if you are so inclined.



Crazy, Stupid, Love
All-star cast supporting a funny, touching, and sweet romantic comedy. 
Steve Carell and Julianne Moore are a married couple that have lost touch since they started years before as high school sweethearts.  The movie opens with Julianne Moore asking for a divorce and admitting to an affair with a coworker. 

Ryan Gosling is a handsome, successful play boy that frequents the same bar to find ladies to seduce and bring home. An arrogant womanizer full of techniques, he is never turned down except for one instance by the delightful and hilarious Emma Stone, a lawyer who is dating Josh Groban.  Well, Josh Groban as a character, not as himself.

Steve Carell wonders into the same bar that Ryan Gosling uses as his hunting ground, and Gosling decides that this broken man is so pathetic that he will help him get his life (and ultimately) his wife back.  The main story through the film is the development of Gosling and Carell's friendship, odd as it is, and how (in every good roco) everyone is only a degree from everyone else.

You really have to see for yourself. Every character in this was cast perfectly and they each made me laugh and feel for them.  After a streak of depressing dramas that I accidentally fell into, this was the perfect flick to get me out of my rut.  Would I watch it again?  Hell yes I would, I will own it!