"Alric Knebel" <alric@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> ftseng2749@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> If you haven't seen "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" yet, check it out;
>> they do a nice CSI parody (calling it "Crime Scene: Scene of the
>> Crime"), with Kristen Bell looking like a younger version of Emily
>> Procter, and William Baldwin does a nice David Caruso imitation
>> (sungl***** and all).
>>
>> If you liked the Judd Apatow-produced raunchy humor of Knocked Up and
>> Superbad, I'd highly recommend FSM (yet another Apatow product), and
>> this time the male lead (Jason Segel), while no Brad Pitt, I think
>> most women would consider cute (in a Will Ferrell-sort of way), unlike
>> Seth Rogen and Jonah Hill, IMHO two of the ugliest leading men I've
>> ever seen on film. (My apologies to the women who find them
>> attractive)
>>
>> -Frank
>
> While all the parody stuff of the TV show was pretty good, and there
were
> a lot of laughs, the overall experience wasn't memorable for me. It
lacked
> a real focus. It didn't know if it wanted to be a comedy like THE BREAK
> UP or something like a movie with the aforementioned Will Ferrell. This
> was reflected in the the depiction of the rock star boyfriend. It was
> inconsistent. He really was a cool guy, smart and insightful, with a
> half-decent way of looking at things. Then in another scene -- the
scene
> in which he's blandished into performing at the luau -- he incongruously
> behaves like an over-the-top idiot, a buffoonish parody of a egotistical
> ***ually promiscuous rock star. But by this time, it was established as
> another kind of comedy. So, when it was over, I had laughed, but it's
not
> something I'm going to recommend to my friends. And if this is what
stuff
> like KNOCKED UP and SUPERBAD is like, I'm not likely to add those films
to
> my queue.
> --
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> Alric Knebel
>
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While the marketing works hard to pretend otherwise, Forgetting Sarah
Marshall is another chick flick.
Mitch
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