Crazy Love (2007)

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• Randy T

  
  I've never really understood why some men can't let go of failed relationships. They call, they stalk, they cry, they hire someone to throw acid in your face, etc., etc., etc... After watching <i>Crazy Love</i> I understand it even less.

• First L

  
  Crazy Love is a documentary that recounts the story of Linda Riss and her psychotic stalker, Burt Pugach. In the late 1950s, Burt was a wealthy lawyer with his own private jet, and an egotistical personality (he was deeply insecure about his nerdish appearance, and used sex as a… More
  Crazy Love is a documentary that recounts the story of Linda Riss and her psychotic stalker, Burt Pugach. In the late 1950s, Burt was a wealthy lawyer with his own private jet, and an egotistical personality (he was deeply insecure about his nerdish appearance, and used sex as a means of boosting his self-worth). When he met the young and beautiful Linda, he became obsessed, insisting to his friends that he "had to have her" (note the possessive quality of his desire, rather than having to "meet her" he had to "have her" or own her). But Burt was a married man, and when Linda found out, she wanted nothing more to do with him. She moved on and got engaged to someone else. Burt was enraged. At first, he was going to shoot them both, but got cold feet. Then, he hired some goons to throw acid in her face, so that "no man would ever want her". This, unfortunately, succeeded, and Linda wound up being blinded (at first partially, and then later, fully). Burt was sent to prison, where he used his attorney skills to get several murderers and rapists out of jail on technicalities (by his own admission) before his eventual parole. Once out of jail (actually while he was still in jail as well), he continued to pursue Linda, and Linda, feeling that no one would ever love her with her disability, decided to be with Burt afterall. They remain married to this day. What's so horrific about this story is not that Linda wound up marrying her attacker/stalker, the real horror is simply listening to the man himself. Burt Pugach and his friends consider women as objects to possess, but human life in general is of little value to them. He's one of the worst real-life villains in cinema history, and the fact that people are willing to dismiss this story or in some way diminish his accountability just makes his vileness all the worse. There's a sense the filmmakers tried to edit this film in a way to give Burt some plausible sympathy, and I can't think of a more wrong-headed direction for them to go. Regardless of whether Linda Pugach forgave her attacker and made him her husband or married him just as some sort of personal revenge, I can't get past the fact that Burt is the lowest form of scum; I just wanted someone to shoot him in the back of the head, as people like him don't deserve to live. My personal feelings aside, the documentary itself (and the sad subject matter) is captivating.

• Jake .

  
  I just watched this movie yesterday, but i'll be damned if I remember much about it. Its entertaining enough, just incredibly ... forgettable. I really liked the style of the footage and photography and stuff. The 50's glamour has always interesting me though. So, I guess i… More
  I just watched this movie yesterday, but i'll be damned if I remember much about it. Its entertaining enough, just incredibly ... forgettable. I really liked the style of the footage and photography and stuff. The 50's glamour has always interesting me though. So, I guess i would say its good, it certainly wasn't bad anyway. Its just not that memorible. =\

• Stella D

  
  the most disturbing thing to me is the light hearted tone of the film as it unravels the tale of two so obviously sick and desperately codependent individuals. definitely crazy; dunno about love

• Stefanie C

  
  truth is definitely stranger than fiction

• Tim S

  
  It's great to see that you can have rich white trash.

• Steve K

  
  These people are nuts.

• Nate Z

  
  [CENTER][img]http://img102.imageshack.us/img102/17/georgiarulexax0.jpg[/img][/CENTER] [COLOR=DarkRed][FONT=Arial]Alpha Dog - One part navel-gazing, one part slow-moving train wreck, director Nick Cassavetes ([I]The Notebook[/I]) long-in-the-works true-life saga about a bunch of… More
  [CENTER][img]http://img102.imageshack.us/img102/17/georgiarulexax0.jpg[/img][/CENTER] [COLOR=DarkRed][FONT=Arial]Alpha Dog - One part navel-gazing, one part slow-moving train wreck, director Nick Cassavetes ([I]The Notebook[/I]) long-in-the-works true-life saga about a bunch of suburban wannabe gangsters is something of a chore because you want to punch every character in the face at multiple times. The tale revolves around a kidnapping that spirals into the brilliant notion that the best way to avoid jail time is to kill the kidnapee, never mind the fact that dozens of eyewitnesses can place kidnappe to kidnappers/eventual murderers. These kids are dumb and caught up in their machismo. [I]Alpha Dog[/I] resembles, in many ways, Bully, but that film felt more authentic in its lascivious lifestyle. Justin Timberlake proves that he can be a decent actor, which is more than what can be said about Sharon Stone, who in one highly regrettably but unmissable moment, dons a fat suit, overacts like hell, and breaks down altogether. It's stupefying to watch and simultaneously the high/low point of the flick. Nate's Grade: C Bridge to Terabithia - Much less a [I]Narnia[/I] knock-off and more of a coming-of-age tale. It's a simple story with loads of familiar elements (the strict tough love father, the bully who just needs a friend, the free-spirit kid that goes against conventions) but it plays every moment with a satisfying level of integrity. When a late revelation occurs that shakes up everything, the impact stings and we realize all the steady groundwork that has stealthily been going on. Not everything works, particularly Zooey Deschanel as a music teacher that strums her guitar and does little else, but this is a family movie that has much more on its mind than most. Nate's Grade: B Crazy Love - A fine documentary subject and intriguing characters, but this film doesn't feel like it has any reason for being as long as it is or even existing outside the realm of a TV special. Constructed mostly from interviews, there's not much in the way of visual representation, and after a while the subject (boy meets girl, boy must have girl, boy hires man to toss acid in girl's face, girl eventually goes back to boy?) starts to peter out of material. There's definite shock and puzzlement to this bizarre tale of so-called love, and a whole lot of psychological disorders and dependencies, but there isn't too much of a full-blown movie here. The material could have been adequately covered as a special on the History Channel of some other cable outlet. Nate's Grade: B- Georgia Rule - Without a doubt, the funniest movie you'll see all year about incest! Someone slap that blurb on the DVD cover. This extremely awkward (comedy? drama? disaster?) spends far too much of its many minutes focusing on Lindsay Lohan's character arguing that she was molested by her step-dad (Cary Elwes) and him denying the allegations. The women in this cross-generations flick are all damaged and stubborn and kind of stupid; Felicity Huffman, playing Lohan's drunken mom, is oblivious to the point of defying reality. Lohan gives another dismal performance playing a party girl that's been run out of town because of her loose ways (must have been a stretch for her to play). This Gary Marshall-helmed disaster doesn't know what it wants to be, so the drama and comedy feel strained and stranded and neither fits well with the other. The icky incest storyline is given so much attention that the film practically goes off the rails to serves its purpose. This movie began as a mess with a studio exec issuing a public flogging of Lohan for her poor onset behavior, and now it arrives as a mess. Strong, quirky women; hard-earned life lessons; recovering emotional wounds; redemption by Act Three; small town color; sad, widowed men destined to be paired with wronged women. You've seen this stuff all before, except, hopefully, for the incest. Nate's Grade: C- Evan Almighty - This big-budget sequel goes heavier on slapstick and poop jokes but also crams in environmental messages. I was wondering how the filmmakers were going to angle the whole Noah flood thing without it being world destroying, because nothing says funny like everyone drowning to their deaths. Steve Carell tries hard to make the material work and I give him points for trying. This sentimental comedy has some moments of lively levity, mostly from Carell being bewildered at what is happening, but the film eventually succumbs to some weak, half-hearted messages about treasuring family and producing acts of kindness (I won't bother spoiling the regrettably inane acronym of ARK). The supporting cast is wasted, none more than Lauren Graham as Carell's underwritten wife. The Lord works in mysterious ways and so too do movie executives. Upping the budget doesn't mean the laughs have been super-sized as well. [I]Evan Almighty[/I] is passable entertainment thanks to Carell. It's hard to be preachy when you have so many jokes about poop. Nate's Grade: C+[/FONT][/COLOR]

• Lesley N

  
  U.S dcumentary about two people locked in a battle of co-dependency masquerading as love. You know it will all end in tears. It's the same old story you read in novels & the paper every day, with the added media-friendly shock value of what he actually did to her and what… More
  U.S dcumentary about two people locked in a battle of co-dependency masquerading as love. You know it will all end in tears. It's the same old story you read in novels & the paper every day, with the added media-friendly shock value of what he actually did to her and what she actually did afterwards. Having experienced the pathological liar boyfriend myself (though mine was the sleazy serial-cheaty type, not the acid-throwing type) it was a good reminder of the lengths that people will go to maintain their self-deception - when it fulfils their needs. Love, pah. <img src="http://www.moviesharkdeblore.com/assets/images/Crazy_Love_1.jpg">

• Joey N

  
  O_O wow. these mofos ARE crazy

• William G

  
  Need proof that truth can be stranger than fiction?

• Erin C

  
  What a couple of nut jobs.

• Wu C

  
  One of the oddest and intriguing stories of obsessive love I've ever seen.

• Grifty G

  
  just because you don't like them, doesn't mean you aren't entertained...

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