Film Review: I Hate Sarah Marshall…BRILLIANT!


film student for life / Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

In the “why didn’t I think of that” category, I bring to you the brilliant marketing campaign that is FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL. Not sure about you, but the city is plastered with these black and white posters of the words “Sarah Marshall Sucks”, and a website to visit. I wouldn’t have noticed these at all, but the first time I saw the billboard, I was sitting in my car in the car wash line for 30 minutes, and, like the human curiousities we all have, wanted to get on the internet and see what this was all about.
So it turns out, it is a new movie coming in April…hilarious premise, starring that guy from How I Met Your Mother (conviently named Marshall) and Kirsten Bell of Veronica Mars fame…but that’s not even the point. The writer (that Marshall guy) has set up a teaser blog as the main character of his movie…and thus another advertising scheme is born…and another of those “why didnt I think of that so I could be rich and famous” ideas is crossed off my life list.

If you’re curious, which by now, human curiousity dictates it so, visit the website http://www.ihatesarahmarshall.com and for the real premise, visit http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0800039/

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