Sarah Marshall

1 sketch, 11 claims, and 5 fun items attributed to them. What was said about them.

Personality, episode by episode

Blank Check — Patreon: Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) (guest)

Loves legal dramas, horror, Predator and action movies; calls Paths of Glory her personal Kubrick and a formative film seen once at the Portland Art Museum. Dislikes performative female characters in movies uninterested in women; prefers sincere shortcomings.

Stances

  • Paths of Glory is about injustice and a truthful legal drama
  • Prefers movies that admit they are about men
  • Won't call her show criticism; love has to be part of the conversation about movies

Humor: Wry and image-driven (lifeboat with Kirk Douglas, the Predator homework), self-deprecating.

In their words

  • “Like the entire thing is like tattooed onto my brain now.” (0:19:21)
  • “And I was like, oh, of course I love this because it's all about injustice.” (0:24:37)
  • “I would never call it a movie criticism show” (1:56:54)

Their shows' recurring bits

Running bits, not opinions; a critic read aloud is cited, not present.

Their claims

Showing 1–11 of 11 claims.

  1. contrast (contrast): Paths of Glory → Barry Lyndon. Sarah picked Paths of Glory over Barry Lyndon, which she loves but finds taxing to watch.
    “I do love Barry Lyndon, but like, just the idea of watching it, you just like kind of, You know, it's like taxing in a different way.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 0:18:43 · Sarah Marshall (0.90 sure it was them)
  2. theme (theme): Paths of Glory → Die Hard. The FBI men in Die Hard accept losing 25 percent of the hostages, the same numbers-game thinking as the generals.
    “the FBI are like, yeah, we're going to lose 25% of the hostages, but like, that's pretty good for us.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 0:30:13 · Sarah Marshall (0.60 sure it was them)
  3. contrast (contrast): Paths of Glory → Die Hard. Die Hard asks how much good one good guy can do and answers all of it; Paths of Glory answers none of it.
    “the whole premise of Die Hard is like, how much good can like one good guy manage to get done?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 0:31:40 · Sarah Marshall (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. contrast (contrast): Gregory Peck → Kirk Douglas. On a lifeboat Peck is the safe-daddy type; Douglas would level with you and drink seagull blood.
    “if you're on a lifeboat with Kirk Douglas, like, you're going to be drinking seagull blood and singing sea shanties and like he's going to level with you.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 0:36:50 · Sarah Marshall (0.85 sure it was them)
  5. industry (industry): Titanic → Paths of Glory. The Titanic legend of Cameron refusing studio cuts is told as a parallel to Douglas and Kubrick fighting over the ending.
    “This reminds me of a story I love from the production of Titanic”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 0:42:36 · Sarah Marshall (0.50 sure it was them)
  6. programming (programming): Predator → Prey. She is watching Predator as homework before the prequel Prey.
    “I'm doing my homework before watching Prey, the predator prequel”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 1:16:31 · Sarah Marshall (0.90 sure it was them)
  7. theme (theme): Paths of Glory → Predator. Predator is the closest she gets to a war movie: a finite group dealing with a scary thing.
    “it's like a finite number of people at a remote location dealing with a scary thing.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 1:17:05 · Sarah Marshall (0.90 sure it was them)
  8. theme (theme): Deep Blue Sea → Paths of Glory. Renny Harlin movies include a character saying I don't want to die, as Carey does in the Paths of Glory death scene.
    “Deep Blue Sea and Cliffhanger, where someone who's about to die horribly says, I don't want to die.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 1:20:56 · Sarah Marshall (0.50 sure it was them)
  9. theme (theme): Paths of Glory → Saving Private Ryan. Saving Private Ryan is a parallel to Paths of Glory: both turn on an absurd mission and the question of what heroism means.
    “Saving Private Ryan, I think, is an incredible parallel to paths of glory because it's also about a very absurd mission”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 1:22:08 · Sarah Marshall (0.60 sure it was them)
  10. theme (theme): Paths of Glory → Stand by Me. Admitting you live in a world of men, as Paths of Glory and Stand by Me do, beats token female characters.
    “I love it when movies, like, don't pretend to be interested in women when they clearly aren't, you know?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 1:31:20 · Sarah Marshall (0.85 sure it was them)
  11. craft (craft): Around the World in 80 Days → Saul Bass. A speaker who watched only the five-minute opening sequence compares it to an early Saul Bass title sequence.
    “It's like an early Saul Bass sequence.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 1:51:00 · Sarah Marshall (0.40 sure it was them)

Their fun items

Showing 1–5 of 5 fun items.

  1. fun, about Sarah Marshall: Her one viewing at the Portland Art Museum stuck for a decade.
    “It's like entered into my soul like an expanding bullet.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 0:19:24 · Sarah Marshall (0.90 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Die Hard: Die Hard's FBI agents: one says it reminds him of Nam, the other says he was too young.
    “this reminds me of Nam. And the other guy's like, I wasn't in Nam, man.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 0:30:59 · Sarah Marshall (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Gregory Peck: On a lifeboat with Peck you sing songs; with Kirk Douglas you drink seagull blood.
    “if you're on a lifeboat with Kirk Douglas, like, you're going to be drinking seagull blood and singing sea shanties and like he's going to level with you.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 0:36:50 · Sarah Marshall (0.85 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about James Cameron: Told as a parallel: during Titanic, Cameron reportedly refused studio cuts.
    “the only way to change my movie is to fire me and the only way to fire me is to kill me.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 0:42:51 · Sarah Marshall (0.50 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about Paths of Glory: The most legally accurate moment in any movie: the lawyer cannot say anything relevant and is waved off.
    “That's like the most legally accurate moment in any movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 1:25:07 · Sarah Marshall (0.60 sure it was them)