A professor relocates from the United States of America to Nigeria to take up a visiting professor job at the University of Ibadan and in search of love. The only moment that could get you chuckle was when Turturro character gets a shovel in his balls and falls into the grave. With Toyin Abraham, Segun Arinze, Stanley Chibunna, Mike Ezuruonye. 7 out of 11 found this helpful If you don't care about the behind-the-scenes, you may want to sit this one out. What Just Happened? Boring unoriginal script, totally devoid of any interesting ideas, mundane and pedestrian performances from the A-list actors. Instead it turned out a monumental flop that reinforces the image of an overweight suburb of Jerusalem that lives in a golden bubble. Granted, Robert talking with Robin and "trying to be understanding" is amusing, and this can make you smile every now and then. is a wry and entertaining look at how Hollywood films are made, yet was not designed to 'blow the lid' off of the film industry. A parody? A producer(DeNiro) with two ex-wives and families tries to get a British artsy director(Wincott) to change the ending of their most recent film, and Bruce Willis to shave off a beard(he's also gained weight, but no one seems to worry about him losing *that*) before he stars in a movie. I suppose the idea was that he would be dead-pan: instead he's just dead, only he won't roll over. This film was really poor.
The DVD comes with a trailer. A producer trying to change Bruce Willis' mind is pretty funny, but how funny is it to a non-producer or a non-Bruce-Willis?
What Just Happened (2008) Trivia (7) Add new The subplot involving Bruce Willis refusing to shave his beard for a movie is based on a real-life incident Writer and Producer Art Linson had with Alec Baldwin on the set of The Edge (1997). I just flat out predicted the ending. Which I suppose is ironic given the subject matter! And, the film accomplishes this task quite well. 5/10 Made the whole thing a struggle to watch, and so I was glad when it got to the end. I haven't read the memoirs that this is based upon. Ben (Robert De Niro) is a Hollywood producer struggling to stay on top. I went with two friends and they both really hated the film.
I can applaud the effort here, it really wants to say something, I'm just not certain that the director had the balls or the producer the guts to give it both barrels! 53 of 81 people found this review helpful.
Art Linson's memoirs are a reminder of what a sad place Hollywood really is. Report This.
88 out of 136 found this helpful Mass Amherst, Dev Teller (Josh Dov) decides he's ... ", an inside look into the movie business and big studio politics. She attempts to take a road trip from Lagos to Ibadan in southwest Nigeria, and that's when all hell is let loose, from getting robbed, arrested and lost.
As a filmmaker myself, I really enjoyed this film, but I am afraid that much of the appeal will be missing in a general audience. Edit. It's enough to make you throw your shoe through the screen. Total waste of time and money.
is a Mild and Mellow work without the over-used device of Satire.
Although I tried to get a photo of De Niro, sadly, I was never close enough to get a good shot.
Constructed as a Hollywood satire in the vein of Altman's The Player, the whole thing is just a huge misfire.
The joke with What Just Happened is that its a mainstream film with big stars and they want to pass it off as an independent film.
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11 out of 18 found this helpful Follows a world-famous televangelist family with a long tradition of deviance, greed, and charitable work. It falls in the category of utter belly-button scratching and, by this, I don't even mean intimist. It's not the Player, don't get me wrong, but it gives its winks and nods to the egomania, the preciousness of directors and stars, and how personal lives get caught up in the mix without getting too smug with us common moviegoers. To see Robert De Niro play "a character" that it's not in any way a semi parody of the films that made him famous is a welcome surprise in itself.
accurately, yet amusingly, documents two weeks in the life of a highly successful Hollywood producer. I don't know if this movie is trying to show the audience how in need of good movies Hollywood is or the director was just trying to make something different that didn't came out right. Tedious, predictable, poorly written, poorly directed. The acting is good, with the possible exception of Tucci(not sure what happened there).
For the life of me I cannot understand how any of the folks posting positive comments could possibly have seen anything that could possibly have been anything other than wretched. I was so bored that i stopped watching it in a half hour.
For that kind of incisive, satirical approach you might want to check out Robert Altman's, THE PLAYER. A convicted arsonist looks to manipulate a parole officer into a plan to secure his parole by placing his beautiful wife in the lawman's path.
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