Yale Daily News

Updated: Sunday, November 22, 2009 11:46 a.m.

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Making bad films

Staff Reporter
Published Friday, November 7, 2008

Making a film is dirty business.

Kevin Smith’s “Zack and Miri Make a Porno” and Barry Levinson’s “What Just Happened” get down and dirty with the film industry by offering an insider’s peak into filmmaking, but the resulting pictures are only similar in their failure to garner laughs.

In Smith’s gross-out film, Zack (Seth Rogen) and Miri (Elizabeth Banks) have been friends since high school but are now platonic roommates with a cash-flow problem. After a chance encounter with a gay porn star at a high school reunion, Zack comes up with the ingenious idea to make a porno...

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