Current Events > Gonna rewatch Leaving Sarah Marshall for the first time in years

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I remember really liking this movie as a teenager. I've been meaning to re-watch it for a coupe years now, I had a friend who was really into How I Met Your Mother and I wanted to watch it with him but we don't talk any more. What finally did it tonight was a stream I was watching where the streamer was talking about Jason Segal due to that Dispatches from Everywhere show or whatever, and she was talking about the Muppet movie and stuff and I realised I had to go back to watch this movie.

To this day, I remember scenes like Jason Segal pulling a banana out of a pina colada, his response to running into his ex in Hawaii being a sarcastic "I'm here to kill you", and Paul Rudd saying one of my favorite pieces of life advice ever - when life gives you lemons, just say "fuck the lemons" and bail.

It could go either way, but I think I'm going to really enjoy it.

GranolaPanic posted...

Watch Get Him To The Greek afterwards. Its far better than FSM.

This. And a lot of the Infant Sorrow tunes are legit bangers.

GranolaPanic posted...

Watch Get Him To The Greek afterwards. Its far better than FSM.

You sound like an insane person right now.

Damn that movie came out in 2008. I hope there are no pop culture references.

Watch I Love You, Man too. Also, the film mentioned in the title is called Forgetting Sarah Marshall just since it wasnt already pointed out

I just put it on

1337eye4n00bguy posted...

Also, the film mentioned in the title is called Forgetting Sarah Marshall just since it wasnt already pointed out

I thought TC was making some kind of joke w/ the topic title at first haha

MedeaLysistrata posted...

Damn that movie came out in 2008. I hope there are no pop culture references.

There were a handful, mostly allusions to CSI because the main characters work on a CSI-type show. They didn't bog the movie down or anything though.

1337eye4n00bguy posted...

Watch I Love You, Man too. Also, the film mentioned in the title is called Forgetting Sarah Marshall just since it wasnt already pointed out

Yeah I fucked up the title unfortunately, lol. I took a gamble on the title and lost.

Anyway - it was really good. Lots of cringe comedy, and it was kinda clear that Peter was kinda shitty, but the character development is really good. Seeing him lighten up over the course of his stay was really therapeutic and awesome. Also, Jason Segal has a pretty great-looking dick.

I really liked how near the end of the movie, after Peter has had four or five of these flashbacks to his relationship that start off contemplative and sad and turn into him realising the shitty parts of it, Sarah Marshall has one where she realises one area where Peter shone where Aldous really doesn't. Like, Peter was pretty self-centred and hard to be with sometimes, but he appreciated things she did that other people probably wouldn't have. It was a good way of flipping the script.

I also like how Sarah and Aldous are kind of one dimensional and flat at the start of the story, fitting into Peter's narrative of the whole situation - even when we're just seeing them without Peter being there, they mostly exist to set up jokes at the expense of the situation. But as Peter has time to decompress and spend more time around them, seeing them less as those figures of discomfort and as robust and autonomous human beings, their characters flesh out and they get more screentime to work out their own shit. It's less that they develop as characters, and more that they aren't really characters at the start of the movie and they are characters by the end.

I dunno. I really liked Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Paul Rudd was just kinda there, I thought he was in more of the movie, but it's a really fun and grounded movie that felt kinda therapeutic to watch.

Mila Kunis whas HOT. Too bad she didn't do the sex scenes, she fakes it out in the "photo wall"

MedeaLysistrata posted...

I just put it on

What did you think? @MedeaLysistrata

The director has a new movie coming out soon called Bros that looks pretty funny

MrMallard posted...

What did you think? @MedeaLysistrata

It's pretty good, I've seen it before. I laughed a few times. It's kind of cheesy though. This is probably a very minority opinion but I think I like Funny People more.

1337eye4n00bguy posted...

Watch I Love You, Man too. Also, the film mentioned in the title is called Forgetting Sarah Marshall just since it wasnt already pointed out

Yeah this I watched i love you man and its the only one I liked out of those stoner comedies. Probably because there aren't any lol.

Sarah Marshall is good too but it's weird to see Kristen Bell as the bad guy

I have a special attachment to that movie as my wife won a competition for us to stay at the resort where they filmed most of the movie at.

Punished_Blinx posted...

I have a special attachment to that movie as my wife won a competition for us to stay at the resort where they filmed most of the movie at.

Did you get to stay in the Kapua Suite?

I love this movie. It always cracks me up. And I would 100% go see a Dracula musical with puppets.