What Just Happened?

Deniro's character is very unsympathetic in this movie. I'm wondering why he wanted to play this character? Just to put us through the unpleasantness of getting to know someone who can't stop taking phone calls when his ex-wife is trying to talk with him about how much she hurts? And then later, on the phone, trying to convince same ex-wife that is it HE who is hurting, only to hang up and jump right back into business like the sun just came up. The director of the movie he is producing is a cartoon characterization of Keith Richard and I dreaded every scene he was in from the moment he opened his gecko-cum austrailian accent. There is an agent played by John Turturo that eventually got me up on my feet and walking out of this numbing movie. I did make one final summation during the last few minutes of enduring this and that is that this is a perfect example of why a movie is shelved, remains there and is not available for the public. Someone thought this should be seen. I would've stored it up on the shelf and never have spoken about it again.                  11/6/08