Anticipate forgetting Forgetting Sarah Marshall

It's all about Lindsey Weir dumping him irl.

been looking forward to this since Jason Segel was always one of my favorite dudes out of that whole crew. trailer doesn't look great (looks like Kristen Bell might have a really generic love interest part that's kind of a waste of her abilities), but i still wanna see it.

waiting patiently for a red band trailer (although that little gag at the end was surprisingly risqué for a green band)

http://orion.math.iastate.edu/burkardt/movieplay/movie_gerund.html

psyched for this and The Pineapple Express

it was originally called Dumped. both titles are bad.

(looks like Kristen Bell might have a really generic love interest part that's kind of a waste of her abilities)

what else is new

segel dude reminds me of judge reinhold

yeah there's a resemblance.

is this really about Linda Cardellini? aw.

Part romantic comedy, part disaster film, Forgetting Sarah Marshall is the world’s first romantic disaster comedy.

Shurely this isn't right.

"featuring Paul Rudd, Jonah Hill, Bill Hader"

like most films these days

Red band adds some funny stuff with V. Mars
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/f081244352

can i get all s1ocki and brag that the press junket for this is right outside my office door this week?

i just passed this dude in the hallway: http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=Russell+Brand&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi

he gave me an enthusiastic WHATS UP!

Yeah, we love this guy in the UK.

lol for real

"featuring Paul Rudd, Jonah Hill, Bill Hader"

like most films these days

-- That one guy that hit it and quit it, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 10:33 (2 months ago) Link

that one morbz that quit

also i have to get all max and brag that this was shot at my work.

remembering sarah marshall would be a much more poignant title

Porn stars not feeling the publicity campaign:

http://fattyd.com/blog/2008/03/25/spreading-women-hate-to-sell-a-movie/

Yeah, we love this guy in the UK.

-- Bodrick III, Sunday, March 30, 2008 11:53 AM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

lol for real

-- gr8080, Sunday, March 30, 2008 11:55 AM (23 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

never mind, overheard conversation between guy and publicist in the bathroom that answers this

http://pro.corbis.com/images/CBR001353.jpg?size=572&uid=%7B78DB00C6-5835-4DAB-A95C-5B12FA39C12C%7D

"i wonder if the carpet matches her pubes"

that one morbz that quit

-- and what, Sunday, March 30, 2008 10:55 PM (31 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

lol im saying it's a good thing

Fatigued already by the ads for this on every taxicab and bus shelter in Chicago.

this was really funny!

i liked it!

rank w/ 40yrold, superbad, knocked up, heavyweights in terms of funny and how good it is

i would say it's hovering just below superbad & knocked up, both which i liked a lot. it's there with 40yr old.

segel is really winning. some very good jokes. billy baldwin basically plays david caruso. the ladies are cute and charming. hawaii looks nice.

there's other good stuff but i don't want to ruin some surprises.

i dug it!

Do we get any songs from Russell Brand's character?

slocki you ever seen heavyweights? underrated, good stuff

ya and they are pretty funny. xp

no balls i never did!

this was obv way better than walk hard.

so i'm happy japatow made another good one. plz to let pineapple express be good!

ya and they are pretty funny. xp

Haha, nice.

this was obv way better than walk hard.

I so wanted to hope for that film. Anyway, Drillbit Taylor oh wait.

yeah i watched the first few minutes of walk hard in a 'at the very least i will laff. at the very least this film will provide me that pleasure' thought and no, it was unbearable like a insanely long snl sketch that just never goes over. couldn't finish it, and this was in a weekend i could finish pirates/spidey/shrek 3 (ftr: spidey3>pirates3>>>>>>>>>>>>>shrek3).

heavyweights is a kidsflick apatow wrote in the 90s during or immediately after larry sanders, it's about a fat camp. ben stiller plays his character from dodgeball in it only funny, paul feig is in it, jeffrey tambor, that cute blonde that hank married on larry sanders and she ended up on vip and i haven't seen her anywhere else is in it, alot of kids that ended up w/ small roles on undeclared are in it. it's enjoyable, has 'heart' of course. effectively heavyweights : salute yr shorts :: superbad : losin' it.

Yes, it was pretty good. Less funny overall than Knocked Up but with considerably better characterization, at least for the leads.

this was great

http://www.nbc.com/Crime_Scene/

i lolled in this more than in in knocked up or superbad

though maybe not as much as the pineapple express trailer beforehand

aw shit max :D

"my guess is, she won't be going back to the prom... without a face"

mcbrayer as kenneth= A+

this was funny

I liked it. LOTS OF PEEN SHOTS. And, even though I used to not like him, my love for Russell Brand is now really at an all-time high.

I note that this is called Nie wieder Sex mit der Ex (No Sex with the Ex) in Germany.

Sorry, "Never Again Sex with the Ex".

still loling at the seinfeld bass line bit

Apatow should give Lizzie from Undeclared an actual role sometime

I guess I'm not the only one surprised this was actually pretty good. Totally agree with the whole "not as funny as Knocked Up, but better characterization" comment.

dont know that i buy the characterization thing, my only real problem with this was that sarah marshall is still totally a mystery at the end of the movie

like, i still dont have any real sense of who she was. and mila kunis had more of a character, but not much more.

i liked that they at least didn't make anyone a villain

russel brand was awesome, not making anyone a villain OTM

max my work looked way cooler than your school ever did, sorry

mila kunis' ex is a for real big-time surfer/ surf crew leader

i havent seen this and probably wont until maybe HBO gets it? but I just want to say OMFG I LOVE LOVE LOVE MILA KUNIS

i can't believe you see mila's kunis in this!

sorry i just wanted to say mila's kunis

I loved this.

i liked that they at least didn't make anyone a villain

+

ya.

this was really great - impressed that he wrote it. His "I don't wanna see a psychiatrist" moment at the piano made me laugh so hard one of my contact lenses popped out.

i'd love it if you'd mila kunis

Pete' freaky trigger review here:

http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/04/not-brand-sex

gotta say the ad campaign for this was totally terrible and also a misrepresentation of the movie (its not like Segel's character spends a lot of time slagging off his ex with semi-mysognystic zingers; quite the opposite). it was like they had no ad budget for it - "all we can afford is some black text on a white background"

also surprised at ILM speculation that Brand's "character" is based on Devendra Banhart...? Dude seemed more like Richard Ashcroft to me (eg "we gotta do something/somebody do something" song)

Dude seems more like Russell Brand than anything!

lots of plot spoilers:

I hate to be the hater here (and I'm an Apatow apologist, too), but I thought this kinda stunk. The more I think about it, the less I liked it. I never felt even a tiny bit bad for Segal's character (his poor broken heart just couldn't be mended with lots of "wacky" sex with a bunch of hot girls), and I thought the ending - while an admirable gamble with our sympathies - went the wrong way. He didn't sleep with Bell because he couldn't get hard while she was blowing him, and we're supposed to appreciate his epiphany that he can't get a boner because his heart's not in it and the truth is he loves Kunis (which is ridiculous). I couldn't buy any of it and I just thought he was an asshole through the whole thing.

I think most of the criticism in the past about women in Apatow's movies has been mostly misguided, but any of the past gripes that people have had could totally apply here. The entire checklist of lame stock females is pretty much ticked off: Bitchy careerist, naggy wife (Bill Hader's wife), dumb giggly girl in bar who will sleep with asshole guy no matter what he says, fantasy laid-back low-maintenance "one of the guys" chick, etc.

I also don't need to see any more of the "obese Hawaiian native who dispenses surfer-wisdom" characters any more, even if that's not reached central casting levels of ubiquity yet.

I definitely laughed a few times (I liked the bit where Jonah Hill gets really excited watching Russell Brand onstage, and, adjusting his crotch, says "I just went from 6 to midnight"; Paul Rudd had some good lines), I liked some of the quirk (the Dracula musical stuff was pretty inspired; I guess Segal is writing the new Muppet movie?); I liked seeing Tammy Littlenut get some work (redheaded wife of Kenneth the Page, veteran of "Strangers With Candy"). I just found the characters all pretty repellent and didn't care what happened to any of them - which was unlike most of the other Apatow-related stuff for me.

when Tammy Littlenut showed up my wife said "hey, its coppertop!"

bill hader's wife was anything but bitchy and naggy!

ya she was totally goofy!

Okay, fair enough - I blew that one slightly. You're right - she just pops her head in the webcam, drawing eyerolls from Hader whenever she speaks up.

when Tammy Littlenut showed up my wife said "hey, its coppertop!"

I felt dirty when she was naked and riding Kenneth! I'm still waiting for someone to float Orlando a role, incidentally.

"Take my eyes . . . but not the shirt."

ROFFLEHAHAHLOLOL

"Cool hat."
"My girlfriend got it for me."
"I'm fucking with you."
"Cool."

I find it unbelievable that this could be at all good, given who's involved

i thought it was decent, and paul rudd stole scenes. seeing baby mama the next day made it look like the funniest shit ever by comparison.

These movies have a weird, pro-temperance theme that I enjoy.

you people are so hard to please...i really liked this + baby mama + harold and kumar escape from guantanamo. jason segel's total sweetness is what sells this movie.

kunu was hilarrriiious!

still loling at the seinfeld bass line bit

-- max, Sunday, April 20, 2008 7:32 PM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Link

Your's can be Pe-peyo-pee

i like jason segel, but part of his whole steez is being the sweet guy that's actually kinda psycho and creepy!

baby mama was weird, i was entertained and i like everybody in it, but i don't think i actually laughed once.

(however, i saw it on mother's day and people CLAPPED when it was over!)

i take that back, i laughed at the black dude from 40 Year Old Virgin a lot.

this should probably go in another thread, but my biggest, though not only, complaint about baby mama was that no one got on Romany Malco, which I find IMPLAUSIBLE.

no one got... ON him?

I find it unbelievable that this could be at all good, given who's involved

What puts you off about Segel's work, Pinefox?

well, they didn't!

The main plot (and characters although Segal had his moments when he wasn't interacting w/ Mars and Kunis) was embarrassingly cliche and boringly predictable, but all the supporting characters and bit worked really well so it still worked for me.

DVD is out and i heard at work that (due to a large Mormon community down the road where many resort employees live) that a PG Rated version is getting released next week lolllll

this was a fantastic film! the best performance? russel brand i think.

i walked out halfway through this because i was bored and it was free anyway.

http://www.cleanflicksmovie.com/_borders/CFstore.jpg

lol gr80! i saw an ad for an unrated version!

the opening scene is pretty great tho

this movie without the dirty jokes a like a camel without a hump!

oops, substitute "toe" for "hump"

oh wait. substitute.."sandwich" for "toe"

oh brother

wtf

This was awful. It felt like one of those eighties comedies in which there's too many beats per joke. And Segal is charmless.

Still think Paul Rudd was hilarious.

I rewatched this and Superbad recently, Superbad has so many more lolls

this movie was not free

and segal is the opposite of charmless... charming!

i am a sucker for segal.

new thread title

he's the most charmless crier since Demi Moore in Ghost.

hey, Whoopi was funny

this was a great movie! i really enjoyed how it didnt demonize anyone, even bell's character who as max said was sort of shorted AS a character ... its still pretty clear based on the conversation the two of them have about how she 'really did try' that obviously she has a side of the story that probably seems pretty reasonable

he's the most charmless crier since Demi Moore in Ghost.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, October 2, 2008 1:28 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

what a weird reference to drop...

its really kind of charming and sweet, but not too boring bcuz of the style its done with. im not sure how it can inspire hate really.

gotta say the ad campaign for this was totally terrible and also a misrepresentation of the movie (its not like Segel's character spends a lot of time slagging off his ex with semi-mysognystic zingers; quite the opposite). it was like they had no ad budget for it - "all we can afford is some black text on a white background"

― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, April 30, 2008 12:07 PM (5 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i was watching a clip on youtube of segel on letterman where he says the reason for the ad is because posters with his face on them tested negatively

Totally agreed, deej... I liked how there was a lack of simple demonization for the "villain" characters in both this and Knocked Up. Refreshing for the romantic comedy genre, where characters are typically divided into "cool" or "psychotically evil" camps...

got the DVD of this. so funny

the reason for the ad is because posters with his face on them tested negatively

hahahahahahaha! he is not a pretty man, but OUCH

loved this movie!

"maybe its because you broke my heart into little pieces and so now my cock doesn't want to be around you anymore"

"I like her red hair. I wonder if the carpet matches her pubes."

i thought i liked this movie but you're convincing me otherwise

i thought this was kind of terrible. Even paul rudd was not funny. basically took a great premise and ruined it! some nice moments, obviously, and the russel brand character was great.

And i disagree that no one is a villain, isn't the titular character's humiliation pretty much the climax? (or anti-climax, as the case may be...)

I thought this was just okay. The script had some nice moments that rang true to life - a few vignettes of modern relationship dynamics that I hadn't seen caught on film before - so I give it some credit for originality and honesty. On the other hand, I think it had real structural and plot weaknesses and too many unfunny jokes.

the weather outside is weather

i thought this was kind of terrible. Even paul rudd was not funny. basically took a great premise and ruined it! some nice moments, obviously, and the russel brand character was great.

i disagree entirely! paul rudd was hilarious,it took a boring premise and made it funny, and the russell brand character was the worst part of the whole movie

i guess, for me, like a lot of the apatow group of films, this sorta floats by painlessly on the charisma of the actors and general good vibes but afterwards I think about it and realize it's straight up bullshit and not a little sexist, or at best a little juvenile in its attitudes toward relationships.

I think the reason I don't mind these Apatow movies generally being way too long for comedies is that they cram in so many funny subplots and recurring gags (the dracula musical, the fake TV shows, Russell Brand's video) that have nothing to do with the main premise the movie's being promoted as that you get a lot of stuff that isn't even hinted at in the trailer.

tbh i cant really fault the movies for being way juvenile in their attitudes toward relationships because i am pretty juvenile im my attitudes toward relationships

but i think the reason superbad was the most successful of all these is cause it was actually about high schoolers so it was totally excusable for them to be so retarded about girls

did anyone else think of ILX during the "I don't wanna stick my P in someone's V, I just wanna B my L on someone's T's" part?

Yes

This was great!

god this is somehow a bigger wish fulfillment fantasy than the idea that that redheaded girl would ever even contemplate slobbing on jonah hill's knob in superbad. which i wouldn't really mind except it's so meanspirited towards poor veronica mars in the end!

i think i might just want jason segel to give it up and play an actual stalker murderer boyfriend

u shd see undeclared

it's so meanspirited towards poor veronica mars in the end!

I didn't think it was meanspirited toward her character at all. I thought her character was the only one with an unhappy ending, sure.

yeah I thought this film was really great at operating without a villain

he calls her the DEVIL!

u shd see undeclared

DANGER!!! Yeah he was so good in this.

Agreed about Veronica Mars - I was impressed that they gave her a decent shake. Most of these (slightly misogynist, male wish fulfillment romantic comedy) movies just have ridiculous cartoon villains with no redeeming value at all, but they go to lengths to show when her and Segel's relationship was good and showed some hints and times when his character dropped the ball.

I had totally forgotten about this movie until this thread got bumped.

The image of Veronica Mars and her "BOOOSHIT BOOOOSHIT BOOOOOSHIT" is forever ingrained in my brain.

I didn't think it was meanspirited toward her character at all. I thought her character was the only one with an unhappy ending, sure.

― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Wednesday, April 29, 2009 9:58 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah I thought this film was really great at operating without a villain

― shit was shocking as fuck back then (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, April 29, 2009 9:59 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

totally otm. sometimes i wonder if apatow crits have ever seen the other kinds of comedies that get made out there.

maybe i'm not giving it enough credit but when the ending for segel's character is hooking up w/hot girl who likes his weird puppet shit...and is maybe going back to school :))) i feel like it does indicate a certain mean-spiritedness to have veronica mars' ending to be "whoa i couldnt get it up for u...because i should be with that 70s show :0, also your tv show is dumb and gay" - she does get that one good scene but it felt kind of tacked on to me in the context of the rest of the movie

Guys she is a successful TV actress that has gossip shows dedicated to following her dating life, I'm sure she'll be fine.

but yeah i will concede it was better than miss march, sure

she does get that one good scene

not sure what scene you're referring to here

ya, she's in a bikini in more than one scene!

also do you not consider the animal psychic detective TV show a happy ending for her for some reason...?

unlikeable female character = misogyny: get the fuck out.

but she IS likeable! wtf

think this is an and what statement but her booshit booshit booshit is an example of someone chewing out someone for legitimate reasons but coming across as worse than the target of the chewing out.

someone chewing out someone for legitimate reasons but coming across as worse than the target of the chewing out.

lolz ethan in a nutshell

i just think her booshit booshit booshit is super cute

i really don't think you can see the sarah marshall character as sympathetic, unless you're a douche. She's a horrible, self-centred star-fucker and our hero's realisation of this resolves the film. Anyone saying "oh why didn't he stay with Veronica Mars?" at the end of the film is an idiot.

I personally thought she was a lovely self-centered star-fucker.

i really don't think you can see the sarah marshall character as sympathetic, unless you're a douche. She's a horrible, self-centred star-fucker and our hero's realisation of this resolves the film. Anyone saying "oh why didn't he stay with Veronica Mars?" at the end of the film is an idiot.

― Suggesteban Cambiasso (jim), Wednesday, April 29, 2009 10:30 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

who said sympathetic = he should have stayed with her? what are you talking about??

i dunno, i just don't find her sympathetic, cheats on Peter for a year, leaves him for a famous musician, realises that Aldous will sleep with anything he bumps in to and falls out with him, then decides to try and go back with the dude that she cuckolded. She's a total bitch.

This movie is hilarious. Some really good belly-laugh moments.

Sarah Marshall: Remember how we thought the killer masturbated before commiting his crimes?
Detective Hunter Rush: Yes?
Sarah Marshall: Take a look...
Detective Hunter Rush: ...Looks like where he's going he'll need to know how to masturbate.

Surfing Instructor: There's only one cure for pain like that.
Peter Bretter: What?
Surfing Instructor: Weed. Ya got any?
Peter Bretter: No.
Surfing Instructor: Well then let's just go surfing!

Peter Bretter: How are things going with the lady?
Darald: Not awesome. She's complicated, like the Da Vinci Code, except harder to crack.

Matthew: I have a question for you real quick. What did you think of my demo? Did you get it?
Aldous Snow: I was gonna listen to that, but then, um, I just carried on living my life.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/universal/gethimtothegreek/

preview for Get Him to the Greek looked kinda sorta promising

Jonah Hill as awkward fat man is usually good for many laughs

"as"

Warning: Get Him To The Greek sucks.

there is no way i could possibly go watch diddy try to be tracy morgan and not kill myself

best thing Puffy's ever done tbh

this was pretty funny, a passable little comedy

it was funnie imo

best thing was jonah hill's drugs run

being discussed on the russell brand thread

best thing was jonah hill's drugs run

yeah this was great

I just saw Get Him to the Greek and actually enjoyed all of it except the Chasing Amy bit at the end, which was ... really, really uncomfortable.

German trailer makes it look pretty good (NSFW)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXcZANsE2eg

get him 2 the greek was v funny & well done imo
liked it more than sarah marshall

^^^^ yeah

I watched about 1/2 of it the other night but got too tired and couldn't finish it. Will do so this week. Anyway, I sort of really liked what I did see? Diddy was hilarious in it and I didn't want to stab Brand with something sharp like I normally do. I was surprised by how much I enjoyed but since i didn't see the end maybe it all goes to shit after I went to bed.

also lol @ Männertrip.

Forgetting Sarah Marshall was remarkably sweet for a movie with that much nude Jason Segal in it.

i thought it was basically great straight thru tho the whole sequence in vegas is particularly amazing

I went to bed right after RB told him to go score him some dope.

As pissed that it's not on instantview and now actually have to wait 2 days for the DVD to arrive. Boo.

I was really bummed that Jonah wasn't playing the same character from Forgetting Sarah Marshall so I never saw this

x-post- so basically I think I missed the Vegas sequence

really? Hill's character in FSM was like the low point of the movie (or at least pretty much the least essential character)

Can I just say again how good Diddy was? I just remembered the whole mindfucking convo and started laughing at my desk.

I don't even remember Jonah H being in FSM but I saw it a while ago at this point.

it was funnie imo

best thing was jonah hill's drugs run

being discussed on the russell brand thread

― ultra nate dogg (history mayne), Monday, June 21, 2010 1:05 PM (9 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

best thing was jonah hill's drugs run

yeah this was great

― in my day we had to walk 10 miles in the snow for VU bootleg (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, June 21, 2010 1:06 PM (9 months ago) Bookmark

LOL so did I go to bead right before the best part? Typical.

haha I'm not saying "WAU WHAT AN AMAZING PORTRAYAL OF A SAD FAN IN FSS" or anything, I am being super nerdy about continuity/consistency

like, Jonah is a pretty distinctive-looking dude so playing two separate ppl in the same universe that both run into Russell Brand's character kind of makes me go "they should have just had his original character give up on his demo, clean up his act and go into A&R"

oh ok -- yeah in a jaymc/nabsico ocd thread way JH being a diff't character definitely annoys me

I flip out so hard over Jonah Hill playing two different people in the same universe. I also don't know why Get Him To The Greek had to have so many anal rape gags or JH as one of the participants in the Apatowverse's inevitable first MMF

"oy it sounds like your from London!"