Comments on: Forgetting Sarah Marshall Review

By: Sean

Sean — Fri, 23 May 2008 07:37:59 +0000

I think it’s still the best comedy to come out so far this year, but we’ll have to see how it stands up to repeat viewings.

By: Rusty James

Rusty James — Fri, 23 May 2008 05:19:36 +0000

I just saw this and was surprised how much I liked it. I think you guys sold it short on your podcast review.

By: Fancast.Gal

Fancast.Gal — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:07:52 +0000

I haven’t seen this movie yet (had to watch Harold & Kumar first!), but apparently all the real “Sarah Marshalls” are pissed with the ad campaign and are lashing back!

http://bigpicture.fancast.com/2008/04/fancast_feature_sarah_marshall.html

By: Henrik

Henrik — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:41:29 +0000

Knocked Up is the best one, and it is sexist. I mean a careerwoman looking like Katherine Heigl would surely have friends other than her sister, or maybe even an apartment? But I don’t really care about it, because the characters are so likable that it’s a very comfortable watch whatever the politics.

By: Joel

Joel — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 04:45:02 +0000

Just saw this and loved it, especially Jason Segal’s performance. The Flavor of Love reference didn’t bother me, maybe because it felt natural. I didn’t notice a whole lot of pop culture references in this movie.

By: Rusty James

Rusty James — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 03:36:36 +0000

Kurt, no guy fantasy involves getting a girl pregnant after a one night stand. Or being a 40 year old virgin.

Super Bad (the best one), I will give you.

By: kurt

kurt — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:52:19 +0000

“Pretend like you are David Caruso in Jade” is for me, a batshit funny movie line. Other than that, I’m pretty luke-warm on the whole Apatow thing. Most of them are pretty throwaway guy-fantasy stuff. Why are all these hot, smart and together women continually slumming it with Seth Rogan et. al?

Too many too fast, I generally only catch 1 in 3. That being said, I’m pretty excited about the David Gordon Green directed Pineapple Express..

Zero interest in Sarah Marshall, even when it has Ms. Veronica Mars in a major role.

By: Sean

Sean — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 17:57:32 +0000

You do have a point Bob… this kind of stuff tends to bother me too, but I think certain pop culture references work if they are universal enough. The whole CSI parody worked because CSI is so well-known that it’s not necessarily going to date the movie, but the Flavor of Love thing was just a throwaway one-liner that didn’t need to be there anyway.

By: Bob the Slob

Bob the Slob — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 17:29:31 +0000

I’m not dissagreeing with you, and maybe your right…maybe I just hated Spidey 3 so much that it bothered me.

By: Henrik

Henrik — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 17:27:10 +0000

There is an insane amount of pop-culture references in 40year Old Virgin and Knocked Up, and while it did bother me in the former, in the latter it seemed less of a problem. I think it’s a case of just buying into the story and makes you more forgiveable to easy shit like that. I can’t even say I minded the Spider-Man 3 stuff, because Jason Segel was such a twisted, smarmy cock in that flick, that his constant mentioning of the film felt more like an insulting joke than anything else. Also James Franco was in Knocked Up (he was awesome by the way, as he was in Spider-Man 3).

I am sort of looking forward to this film. I wonder if it’ll get a theatrical release here.

By: Bob the Slob

Bob the Slob — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 17:13:28 +0000

I like all the Apatow movies, directed and produced, but with the exception of Superbad none of them really have much style in the technical department. As in they are filmed like they were a tv show, nothing daring or unique. Not that style is always needed, it’s just not there at all…no big deal.

My real problem is the use of painful modern references…like do we need a Flavor of Love joke in this movie, did we constantly need to hear the characters talk about Spiderman 3 in knocked up…and if you can be cool and make up store names like SmarTech in 40yearoldvirgin, why cant you do the same for eBay?

I’m not uber passionate about this, I just prefer when films attempt to be timeless…in defense of the other side I can agree that some are not trying to do so.