Lynn Belvedere

FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL (2008) – WIDESCREEN 111 MINUTE CENSORED VERSION

FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL (2008) was beautifully filmed on location at the Turtle Bay Resort at 57-091 Kamehameha Highway, Kahuku, O’ahu, Hawaii, USA, and many other locations including Stage 29 at Universal Studios of 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, USA.

This amazingly clever rom-com written by Jason Segel who also stars as the musician Peter Bretter, has a highly fictionalised comedy storyline, making it as objective an experience as possible, and based upon the many many women he has loved during his lifetime. Peter Bretter goes to Hawaii, to get over his lost love, his TV celebrity ex-girlfriend Sarah Marshall (Kristen Bell).




However the ex-girlfriend turns up at the Turtle Bay Resort, with her “new boyfriend” the fictional-celebrity and very hip rock star British musician Aldous Snow (Russell Brand). Huge real-life male-objectification comedy romance, delicious character-driven dialogue, with now classic great one-liners, plus unexpected comedy situations, with perfect comic timing by the entire cast.

Sex, nudity, language, rated MA15+ so yes everything you expect to enjoy in a Judd Apatow produced romantic comedy that is clearly advertised as “MA15+ strong sex scenes, sexual references and coarse language”. Peter is rescued by the front desk hotel clerk, Rachel Jansen (Mila Kunis), and she invites Peter to a luau and to hang out, and then the mating game begins. Has lots of somethings to offend/entertain everyone.

Director Nicholas Stoller, shot much of the movie with 50mm lenses on 35mm cameras. By doing this and as a direct result, the image framing is said to mimic normal human vision, so you are not just watching the movie, you are also experiencing the movie.

Australia only has the 111 minute widescreen cinema version on DVD. Australia does not the 111 minute full screen version on DVD, plus the longer 118 minute DVD version is not sold in Australia – – – Extended DVD version has an extra duration of 413.8 seconds (= 6:54 minutes) and there are a total of twenty-two changes made, with alternative footage used seven times.  Assumes no change of the  original running times for NTSC film transfer onto  NTSC DVD  – and that the original running time will be reduced to  ninety-six perent for PAL film transfer  onto  PAL DVD – (  i.e. 118:0  = 113:28 )

However in 2021  if you have a FOXTEL pay-tv cable account, FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL is now showing only in the much longer 118 minute widescreen extended (i.e. unrated) version. Incredibly different unrated image/sound content to the officially rated MA15+ 111 minute cinema theatrical version, that now includes full frontal male nudity. FOXTEL provides no customer warning notice, that the movie content has been selectively edited to add the extra six plus minutes of running time.

 

Published by Lynn Belvedere

Once we were old enough, my parents took the whole family to the Sydney CBD cinemas every week. Thus began a lifetime interest, in going to the cinema every week, and became a passionate cinephile by watching all those very heavily edited ''Australian Film Censorship Board'' true cinéaste versions of brand new release ''Cinematograph Films''. Greater Union always gave my father (who worked in Cinema Distribution Exhibition) guest double movie passes, to every first-night ''red carpet Opening Night'' at The State Theatre Cinema at 49 Market Street. Up until his death, my dad always received ''two house seats'' for every Opening Night performance events at the Theatre Royal SYDNEY and at Her Majesty's Theatre SYDNEY. As a child, when mum choose not to go, I often went with him, to those live performance events. As a young child, I remember being taken for each new show, at both The New Theatre at 60 Sussex Street, and the Phillip Street Theatre when located at 150 Elizabeth Street, and for classical music concerts at Sydney Town Hall. = = = ★★★★★ = = = Being happy is a choice, and I have always viewed my life, as material ready be made into a series of amazing tentpole movies. My New Years Resolution is kept every year: ''Get to see/review five new live theatre shows each week, and get to see/review six new cinema movies each week'', plus is one of the Australian Cinema Pioneers, and apparently have seen far too much already, but always wanting to experience more and more each year. I am also able to do almost everything that I enjoy doing. Yes, I do have a great daytime job in I.T. as ''Software Design Project Manager'', PLUS each evening until quite late - - - Australian Cinematograph Films historical censorship consultant - product-placement consultant - mystery-shopper consultant - playwright, writer, author, director, producer, photographer, cinematographer, color-grader, subtitles proofreader - arts/ drama/ music/ film critic and judge, journalist, member FIPRESCI & FCCA & AFCA, member AACTA accredited film reviewer-critic-writer, accredited IMDB.COM critic-reviewer-author, projectionist, plus an innovative iconoclast - - - ★★★★★ LYNN BELVEDERE ★★★★★ - - - [usr 5] - - -