# Trauma Center starring Bruce Willis **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies, disney-hulu\ **Created:** [October 5, 2020, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trauma-center-starring-bruce-willis/922269 "2020-10-05T15:44:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ethelbert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/958977/32.png) [@ethelbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ethelbert)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trauma-center-starring-bruce-willis/922269/1 "2020-10-05T15:44:37Z")
I just watched this movie on Hulu. Bad movie. Not the worst I have ever seen (and I did watch it to the end, which says something about the pandemic). What is remarkable about the movie is how unwatchable Bruce Willis is in it. I like Bruce and I would not have watched the movie without him. Fairly early in the movie, my wife said that it appears that all the scenes with Bruce were separate from the movie itself. As I started looking for that, it seemed obvious that in every scene where Bruce was interacting with the other principals, it was done with body doubles and you only saw the back of their heads. It looks to me as if someone looked at the completed movie (with someone else in Bruce’s role) and said “You know what this movie needs? Bruce Willis!”, and then actually made it happen! It is a remarkably cynical piece of filmmaking. Has anyone else seen this? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trauma-center-starring-bruce-willis/922269/2 "2020-10-05T16:33:51Z")
I guess having Steve Guttenberg as “Dr. Jones” wasn’t a big enough draw for them Apparently Mr. Willis didn’t do the trick either: From Wiki- " _Trauma Center_ grossed $92,968 from a small theatrical release in worldwide territories". ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trauma-center-starring-bruce-willis/922269/3 "2020-10-05T16:58:28Z")
This gets even better! According to iMDB the movie was shot in 12 days in San Juan, Puerto Rico, an Bruce did all his scenes in two days. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trauma-center-starring-bruce-willis/922269/4 "2020-10-05T17:47:19Z")
“It’s Die Hard, but in a hospital. Oh, and it sucks.” How many people does he shoot? And here I thought, now that Willis is older, he could play a nice, compassionate senior surgeon, a mentor to the younger doctors. Silly me. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trauma-center-starring-bruce-willis/922269/5 "2020-10-05T17:52:19Z")
Trump really isn’t the star, and he isn’t in that many scenes. He could have switched roles with Guttenberg and it wouldn’t have made much of a difference. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trauma-center-starring-bruce-willis/922269/6 "2020-10-05T18:07:29Z")
About once a month, my wife and I watch all the new trailers, and recently this one popped up for a new Bruce Willis movie. Willis seems to be sleepwalking in the few scenes in which he appears, or even signaling his disdain for the whole mess. Apologies in advance for inflicting this on you. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP99YZiEYtk) ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trauma-center-starring-bruce-willis/922269/7 "2020-10-05T18:09:59Z")
From the Guardian: “Willis reprises his role as cheque-cashing frontman in this mind-numbing actioner…” ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trauma-center-starring-bruce-willis/922269/8 "2020-10-05T18:18:11Z")
Why did I watch that? I felt my will to carry on slip a notch. At least until I can erase that trailer from my mind … [knocks back three fingers of Finnerty’s Single Malt] Ahh… better now. ---
**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trauma-center-starring-bruce-willis/922269/9 "2020-10-05T18:24:29Z")
He is not that great in Death Wish either. Plus it is hard to watch Willis pretend to not know how to shoot a pistol. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trauma-center-starring-bruce-willis/922269/10 "2020-10-05T19:37:26Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > **Trump** really isn’t the star, and he isn’t in that many scenes. Now THAT’S a typo no one expected! ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trauma-center-starring-bruce-willis/922269/11 "2020-10-05T19:49:23Z")
Oopsie! ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trauma-center-starring-bruce-willis/922269/12 "2020-10-05T20:45:36Z")
I’ve been a fan of Bruce since _Moonlighting_, but he’s been phoning it in for over a decade. I think he’s reached the point of his career where he’s not enough of a draw to star in big-budget films, but he’s too proud to transition to supporting roles, so does mid- to low-budget crap. It’s sad, because it’s a vicious cycle - the worse his films do, the worse the films he gets offered. ---
**Author:** ![ethelbert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/958977/32.png) [@ethelbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ethelbert)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trauma-center-starring-bruce-willis/922269/13 "2020-10-06T02:14:55Z")
Yeah, it was set in San Juan and no one appears to be Puerto Rican or speaks Spanish with the exception of the rather demented cleaning man that appears to be 30 seconds of rascist stereotype. I assume it was shot in San Juan for financial reasons and set in San Juan because they couldn’t spring for the B-roll to say it was New York (the way movies are shot in Ontario and set in New York)