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I really can't sympathize
Toby 2022-03-21 09:02:54
With Robert De Niro, Bruce Willis, and the freshman Sean Penn, you'd think this movie couldn't be any worse. You were wrong, and so was I. It's a niche movie, made for Hollywood producers whose battered lives are still heaven to us. In the middle of the midlife crisis, driving a Cayenne, living in a mansion, and beauties making you unspoken, how can we sympathize with you in such a life? Recently, it was discovered that the financial crisis not only collapsed the big investment banks, but also the big stars. I really can't find a good book or the big stars don't want to make that kind of popular film. Can such a bad script get together?
Extended Reading
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Scott Solomon: Too bad about Jack, huh?
Ben: That's rare. Usually agents kill others, not themselves.
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Ben: [discussion about Bruce Willis] I suppose it took him a long time to grow it, he probably just wants to wait 'til the last minute.
Cal: That's what I thought last week, but after seeing him today, I got the sense this is going to be his "look", it's an artistic-choice...
Ben: The extra weight is too? It can't be.
Cal: It's a feeling.
Ben: Cal, we got the studio to pay him $20 million to be a leading man. For that kind of money there is an expectation.
Cal: They expect a good performance...
Ben: No, no, no no, Cal. For that kind of money they expect millions of menstruating women to want to have intercourse with him. You understand what I'm saying? You want a poster that says "See Santa Run"?