Brandon T. Jackson regrets making Big Momma's: Like Father, Like Son and says that he only did this film for the money and to work with Martin Lawrence. Jackson said that wearing a dress ruined his acting career. This is coming from the same man who wore Uncool Undies in the movie Roll Bounce.
Michael Chiklis played John Belushi in Wired, based on Bob Woodward's Belushi bio of the same name. The plot was bizarre, the film was a bomb, and Chiklis himself had a miserable time making the movie. He has since apologized to Dan Aykroyd and Jim Belushi for doing it. Both forgave him.
Poor Bill Murray has made fun of Garfield quite a bit, up to and including in his role in Zombieland when he was admitting his regrets. He only signed up for the project because he thought Joel Cohen was one of The Coen Brothers.
They hated their first film, The Cocoanuts, so much that they tried to buy the film from the distributor to prevent its release. The brothers' effort failed and, despite the film's shortcomings, The Cocoanuts ultimately went on to be massively successful, leading to other (much better) Marx Bros projects. Groucho said of its two directors, "One didn't understand English and the other didn't understand comedy."
Groucho considered their last film, Love Happy, as "terrible", and is the only Marx Brothers film Groucho does not mention in his autobiography, Groucho and Me. He considered A Night in Casablanca the last Marx Brothers film.
Humor Risk. Never seen it? Never even heard of it? That's because Groucho hated the film so much that he went to the trouble of buying all the copies known and having them destroyed.
Julie Andrews has often said she disliked the "wholesome" image that surrounded her following Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music. However, she paid tribute to the films later in her career, at least in front of the cameras. S.O.B. actually had this as a plot point, with the main character trying to get Andrews's character (an Expy of herself and her ol' wholesome filmography) to do a topless scene in a film.
Natalie Wood hated 1966's Penelope so much that right after it released, she bought herself out of her contract with Warner Bros. for $175,000 and fired almost all of her staff of agents, managers and lawyers. She didn't make another film (Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice) for three years.
"Those weren’t the right people for me. I’m not talking about the cast. The cast was great. I’m talking about the political stuff that went on behind closed doors. It was a lot of above-the-line versus below-the-line, extras versus actors, producers versus PAs. It was very elitist. I almost quit the business. I was 23 years old, and I was like, “Fuck this!” I am never putting myself in this situation again. People disrespecting me because they look at my number on a call sheet and they think I’m not important. Fuck you."
Hugo Weaving has also openly admitted that he did the Transformers Film Series for the money and has no particular interest in the movies. Michael Bay was particularly pissed off with Weaving after hearing this.
Megan Fox has a history of badmouthing the director and franchise that made her famous, Michael Bay and the Transformers Film Series. Though she's certainly not the only one who feels that way, as Shia LaBeouf has mentioned that he wasn't too fond of Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen himself, claiming that the film made no sense to him (or anyone else for that matter). Bay definitely has a real talent for pissing people off, as several actors and actresses including Scarlett Johansson, Kate Beckinsale (who claimed that Bay made her feel "ugly" on the set), and Bruce Willis have all said in one way or another that they would never work with Bay again. Even Michael Bay himselfapologized forRevenge of the Fallen.
Peter Cullen was not fond of Optimus Prime's newfound hostility towards humans in Age of Extinction. Likewise, he was not happy with his experience in recording Bumblebee, as he had been brought in for a single day to provide new dialogue for scenes that had already been recorded and animated with another actor.
Rick Moranis hated doing Streets of Fire, mostly because he was not allowed to improvise, and he disliked the finished product.
The original Children of the Corn (1984) adaptation. He so disliked the final product that he has avoided having anything to do with the later adaptations, even when they tried to be more faithful to his story.
King didn't want to talk about the adaptation of The Lawnmower Man for the longest time. It departs so far from his short story (the only similarity is the presence of a guy who mows lawns) that before it was released he sued the producers to prevent them from promoting it as "Stephen King's The Lawnmower Man" (a few onesheets with that wording nevertheless still exist). After watching it some time later he admitted he liked it, though.
He was also considerably displeased with the changes made to The Shining for Stanley Kubrick's film adaptation, eventually leading to him creating a more faithful adaptation in miniseries form. His overall opinion of the film version is somewhat closer to lukewarm, though—it's not bad, it's just not his story.
Michael J. Fox regrets having been in Teen Wolf, which has maintained its cult popularity and got a sequel. He appeared in the original simply because he had a break in his Family Ties schedule and the shoot was quick. Fox refused to do the sequel, which caused problems because he was the title character. Ultimately, Jason Bateman was cast as a Suspiciously Similar Substitute.
When a group of people announced they were going to picket his film Dogma at a theater near where he lives, Smith himself showed up and picketed the film too with a "Dogma is dogshit" sign. He ends up being filmed by a news crew as a protester, and the reporter recognized him. Hilariously, Smith—who was wearing the same overcoat that his character Silent Bob wears in the movie, and using the name of his close friend and fellow protester Bryan Johnson—made a point of telling the interviewer that he hadn't seen it, "but [fellow Catholics] tell me it was really, really bad," despite thinking Clerks was really funny.
He also famously made a mock apology for how awful Mallrats was on the official movie website just to screw with all the fans who hated it. Listen to the commentary track on the Laserdisc and DVD—Smith, Ben Affleck, and Jason Mewes destroy the movie throughout.
David Fincher doesn't talk about Alien³ and refuses to put it on his resume to this day, chiefly because he was brought onto the film late in its already troubled production cycle (which had gone through three other directors and numerous rewrites), and his vision for the final product was hampered by major Executive Meddling. He finally did speak about it here, but without fondness. The guy responsible for the film's DVD tells that the one time Fincher contacted him "he was so pained to even mention the title Alien 3", hence he opted to not push too hard on getting him (Fincher is absent from the documentaries and as opposed to the other three directors being directly involved with the special editions, Alien 3 only took an early cut found in the studio archives and completed the unfinished visual effects).
Joss Whedon's opinion about Alien: Resurrection is that it twisted around all the good ideas in his script. The director, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, was never happy with it either, and makes dismissive comments about it on the DVD for his next film, Amélie.
Courtney Love doesn't mind if you think Sid & Nancy was her first film. Her actual first film was a neowestern called Straight to Hell, which was filmed on a lark with a cast of punk rockers after their music tour was canceled. When the film was brought up by an interviewer, Love immediately replied "Trust me, you don't want to see it."
Joss Whedon disowned the Buffy the Vampire Slayer film for which he provided the script. He launched the series to correct the errors of executive meddling, retconning major plots of the film, but keeping in the part where Buffy said that she burned down the gym.
Faye Dunaway regrets having played Joan Crawford in Mommie Dearest for a multitude of reasons. She intensely disliked the book it was based on, feeling it was a very one-sided account, and signed on for the film only after being promised it would take a more balanced look at Crawford's life. However, scenes which provided explanations for Crawford's erratic behavior wound up being cut, making her look like a deranged cartoon character. She also took issue with Frank Perry's direction and the way the film was marketed, which she feels contributed to its camp reputation. In addition to the film's reception, making it was a tremendously difficult and tiring experience for her, as she found Crawford's presence hard to shake at the end of each shooting day. As a result, Dunaway is incredibly reticent to discuss the film in any context.
Despite the film being a horror classic, many cast and crew members of Dracula (1931) felt this way about the film:
Bela Lugosi enjoyed making the film and playing the character, though he later referred to it as a "blessing and a curse" and disliked the typecasting that occurred after the film. He spent his later years making B-films (at best) and battling drug addiction.
Director Tod Browning did not enjoy making the film, since his original choice for the film, Lon Chaney, had died, and the film was being made on a much lower budget than he wanted. The cast complained about Browning being a hands-off director, and showing no enthusiasm for the project whatsoever.
Dwight Frye (Renfield) was also typecast as crazy loons after the film, and he was not happy about it. His career never recovered, and he died of a heart attack in 1943 at the age of 44.
Helen Chandler (Mina) wanted to play Alice in a film adaptation of Alice in Wonderland and wasn't happy being stuck in a horror picture instead. Her career never got off the ground, and she battled alcoholism only a few years later, and nearly burned to death in a fire 15 years before her death at age 59.
David Manners (John) didn't have it as bad as his co-stars, but he disliked being a Hollywood actor and making Dracula, and in an interview shortly before he died in 1998, claimed to have never seen the finished film.
Joel Schumacher has repeatedly apologized for Batman & Robin; this interview is one such instance. Also, George Clooney highly regrets being in this film, feeling that he helped kill the 90s Batman film franchise. One persistent, unattributed rumor is that he will give the price of admission to the film back to anybody that approaches him and says they saw it in theaters. Clooney also likes to say he played Batman gayto show his contempt for the part. Even the soundtrack of the film hates the film. Soul Coughing recorded "The Bug", which includes the repeated mantra "George Clooney is Satan." It's also worth noting that lead singer Mike Doughty hates the lyrics he wrote so much that he refused to provide them on the band's old website.
Tim Curry (a.k.a. Dr. Frank N Furter) was very reluctant to talk about being in The Rocky Horror Picture Show for years, mostly due to some rather unpleasant memories involving stalkers and people digging through his trash. However, he's become more open to talk about being in Rocky Horror and sees it as a "rite of passage" for teenagers. Most of the main cast of RHPS at first distanced themselves from the production, only to embrace it years later. The lone hold-out is Peter Hinwood, who played Rocky, who immediately and permanently tried to pretend it never happened, albeit for different reasons - he's incredibly self-critical and finds it extremely embarrassing to watch himself on a big screen.
Walter Hill was able to take his name off Supernova, but still considers James Spader's performance one of the best things about the film. However, Spader himself has said that if you skip any film of his, it should be this one. He (Walter Hill that is) also has a mild dislike of Southern Comfort, and in his own words "The sound is too low, the plotting is too slow, and at the premiere I thought it was a no-go". He's come around to it over the years, but maintains that his criticisms still stand.
Sean Connery grew to dislike the role, even though it's what made him a star. Distancing himself from 007 is one of the main reasons he took the role of Zed in Zardoz. Needless to say, that worked beyond his wildest dreams.
Screenwriter Richard Maibaum, who wrote thirteen of the first sixteen films in the franchise, never made a point of hiding his criticism of several of the films and actors. Among his main criticisms are: the casting of Adolfo Celi as the villain of Thunderball; the casting of George Lazenby as James Bond in On Her Majesty's Secret Service; the changes made by other writers to the scripts he wrote for Diamonds Are Forever and The Spy Who Loved Me; criticizing the plots of films that he didn't even write (Live and Let Die and Moonraker); the lack of chemistry between the main couple in For Your Eyes Only; and finally the casting of Roger Moore as James Bond (Maibaum wrote five of the seven films starring Moore). Maibaum said he preferred Connery to Moore, and that although Moore had his attributes, he believed that the actor's most comical approach was extremely damaging, as it prevented the viewers from believing in the character's actions.
While Roger Moore enjoyed playing Bond, his absolute least favorite film from his tenure was A View to a Kill due to the tensions he had with costars Tanya Roberts and Grace Jones, and the gratuitous violence within the movie (namely, main villain Max Zorin gunning down his own miners). Not helping matters was his discovery that he was older than Tanya Roberts' mother (though, to be fair, said mother had her out of teen pregnancy). For that reason in particular, he bowed out of the role after this film.
Pierce Brosnan admits that he only likes GoldenEye and that he does not hold the next three films in high esteem. In fact, Brosnan even jokes that he can't remember the correct order of the following films, as the three look the same in his memories. It certainly didn't help that he was canned before the praised Casino Royale (2006).
Sam Mendes, whom directed the acclaimed Skyfall and the lukewarmly-recieved Spectre, admitted that the troubled production for Spectre came down to a screenplay that wasn’t properly finished before they even started filming, as a result of infighting and interference with the producers, studio, and Daniel Craig.
Chevy Chase hated Caddyshack II, even during production, so much so that after a take, he mentioned to the producer to call him when a laugh track had been added, and stormed off in disgust.
Nearly everyone else involved with the original refused to do the sequel which is why it's filled with Suspiciously Similar Substitutes.
Paul Stanley, in one of the only times they did discuss it, mentioned that he was so embarrassed watching the film, that he sank in his chair and wanted to crawl out of the theater. Stanley has eased back a bit in recent years, as he's talked and joked about it in his frequent appearances on Chris Jericho's podcast.
According to Ace Frehley's biography, he's the only person who didn't hate the film; he likened it to a cheesy Saturday morning cartoon - understandable, considering who made the movie - and said that Gene Simmons (who was the most vocal in hating the film) took the production far too seriously.
Robert Shaw said during filming that "I'm seriously thinking that this might be my last film... I no longer have anything real to say. I'm appalled at some of the lines... I'm not at ease in film. I can't remember the last film I enjoyed making."note And then he died before the film was released
While he appreciated what other people were trying to do and felt they had made a decent film, Harrison Ford complained that he really had nothing to do in the film and he couldn't figure out what his character added to it.
He claims to hate his long-shelved directorial debut The Devil and Daniel Webster/Shortcut to Happiness. He also disowned his role in Rock of Ages, calling it a "horrible movie", and stated that the only reason he did this movie was to work with Tom Cruise.
In an interview with NPR, he admitted that he dislikes The Marrying Man and a great many of his early movies. He says he was aware the scripts were awful, but that growing up in a household where his parents frequently struggled to make ends meet motivated him to earn as much money as possible as quickly as possible.
Bill Cosby hates his notorious "comedy" Leonard Part 6 as much as audiences did - possibly even more, going on numerous talk shows telling people not to see it even before it was released.
Robert Pattinson, the male lead in the Twilight movies, has outright mentioned in interviews that he hates his character Edward and considers Stephenie Meyer insane. It is to the point where you can find YouTube compilation videos that run for almost ten minutes that just consist of Pattinson trashing everything around the franchise. The female lead, Kristen Stewart, doesn't seem overly fond of the movie either, but she's less vocal about it. There are some pretty great photos floating around of her looking utterly bored at the premiere to Breaking Dawn Pt. 2.
Back in the 1970s, after years of making the character his own, a cheesed off and increasingly typecast Christopher Lee made a complete disconnect from Dracula. It didn't help that Christopher Lee reported that Hammer Film kept him playing the role well below his actual payscale by guilt-tripping him - 'you work at this pay we say or we'll have to put these crew members you like out of the job'. If his claims are true, no wonder he hated the role.
During the production of Gremlins 2: The New Batch, Christopher Lee personally apologized to director Joe Dante for being in Howling II, as Dante had also directed the first film in that series.
Orlando Bloom, while never outright complaining about or bashing his Pirates of the Caribbean character Will Turner, has made it bluntly clear that he wants nothing more to do with the character. Keira Knightley seems to share a similar disposition towards Elizabeth Swann. Predictably, neither returned for On Stranger Tides. Though apparently, their attitudes toward their characters stem not from the characters themselves, but the romance story that took over the trilogy. To the point both appeared to changed their minds by the time of the fifth film, where they have brief appearances.
The movie Field of Dreams has the character of Terence Mann (James Earl Jones) who just wants to be left alone by the fans of his writing. Terence Mann is said to be inspired by the life of reclusive author J.D. Salinger. Salinger is the author sought by the main character in Shoeless Joe, the novel the film is based on. Salinger became reclusive after critics panned Nine Stories, his short story anthology published after The Catcher in the Rye.
Mark Romanek refused to release his feature directorial debut Static (a quirky black comedy reminiscent of David Lynch) on DVD for almost a whole decade. He has expressed that, while he does not actually dislike the film, he considers it a "sophomore attempt" that does not stand up well when compared with his more recent work; and is best forgotten. This is exacerbated by the film's seriously Downer Ending.
In her Razzie acceptance speech for Worst Actress, Halle Berry called Catwoman (2004) an "awful, piece of shit movie." And the crowd went wild.
Sly is not fond in retrospect of his various attempts to stretch into comedy, famously calling Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot "the worst movie ever made in our solar system, including alien productions we have never seen."
Stallone has also expressed distaste towards Rocky IV and Rocky V, and to a lesser extent Rocky III. He said that if he could make Rocky IV again he would have hired Bill Conti to score it (this is the only film of the series to have been scored by someone else - Vince DiCola, if you're wondering) and would have punched Brigitte Nielsen in the face.
He also deeply regretted Rhinestone but did enjoy working with Dolly Parton nevertheless.
Stallone has expressed embarrassment about Rambo: First Blood Part II, largely because of its drastic Genre Shift from First Blood having a dark anti-war content towards an ass-kicking action movie where Violence Really Is the Answer. However, it's a more affectionate embarrassment, since the film is too iconic for him to want to truly disown.
He's also disowned the first sequel to Escape Plan, saying it may be the single worst movie in his entire filmography.
Many of Peter Sellers' early 1970s efforts, when his star had fallen far enough he was willing to do anything, qualify as this in one way or another. He tried to prevent the release of 1970's Hoffman and badmouthed 1972's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland before it opened. In fact, he called his 1965 through mid-1970s output a "bad patch" to Time magazine not long before his death. Sellers was infamous for being overly self-critical of his work, though - the truly shameful work didn't kick in until the '70s. (And Hoffman is surprisingly popular with the more devoted fans.)
John Wayne aggressively campaigned to be cast as Genghis Khan in The Conqueror. He would later shudder at the mention of the movie and claimed the moral of the story was "not to make an ass of yourself trying to play parts you're not suited for." This movie did have a very good, and tragic, reason to be regretted; it was shot in Nevada near an atomic test site, and many of the cast and crew (including director Dick Powell, co-stars Susan Hayward and Agnes Moorehead, and Wayne himself) were later stricken with cancer. Studio owner Howard Hughes took the film out of circulation for many years, but contrary to that fact, he actually liked the film...
Fritz Lang came to dislike his best-known film, the sci-fi epic Metropolis, called it "silly" and "ridiculous" in interviews, and tried to draw attention to his favorite film M instead. There were many reasons for this: the heavy executive meddling by distributors who cut a quarter of the film's footage (Lang died believing that a full cut no longer existed, and the full cut was only re-assembled in 2011), reports that it was Adolf Hitler's favorite film (especially bitter since Lang was half-Jewish, and emigrated from Germany in 1934 to get away from the Nazisnote As well as the Jewish ancestry, which the Nazis knew about, Lang's previous film, The Testament of Dr. Mabuse, had shown the title villain spouting Nazi propaganda phrases as part of his insane rants, and had been banned for incitement to public disorder. Controversially, Lang recounts that Josef Goebbels called him in for an interview, claimed to have had no personal part in the banning of Dr. Mabuse, and offered to make him the boss of the government-controlled film studio UFA, overlooking Lang's Jewish ancestry as part of the deal. Lang asked for time to consider, then fled the country that night.), and that the plot was a little silly (and was written by his ex-wife, whom he divorced over political and creative differences — namely, that she was becoming a Nazi). It overshadowed the other three decades of his long film career.
Mike Judge hated Office Space for several years after its release. Due to insane amounts of Executive Meddling and lousy marketing, he had trouble watching it again without those memories popping up. He said that he never watched the whole movie again for many years until his daughter asked to watch it. He has since felt a bit more positive about the film.
J. D. Shapiro, the original screenwriter of Battlefield Earth, was fired from the film because Executive Meddling wanted to change his script too much, and he didn't want to - considering the end result of the changes, a wise choice. Shapiro even wanted to remove his name from the credits, and shows his disgust (and Self-Deprecation) by both receiving the Razzies of the film (the one for Worst Screenplay in a radio program, and the one for Worst Picture of the Decade at the actual ceremony!), and posting an apology letter, which included the line "The only time I saw the movie was at the premiere, which was one too many times".
Barry Pepper didn't like it any more than Shapiro, and said that if he'd known one of the Razzies had his name on it, he would have shown up alongside Shapiro.
He had a love/hate relationship with Citizen Kane, leaning often towards the latter, as he considered his later works The Trial and Chimes at Midnight to be much better. This was in large part because after it was voted the Best Film Ever Made multiple times, Citizen Kane became the only thing anybody wanted to talk to him about. It was also invoked by producers and critics (especially Pauline Kael) as a way to write-off Welles as a One-Book Author, which obviously made it harder for Welles to get funding for making later projects. Welles also lamented the general hypocrisy of producers telling him how much they liked Kane but still conduct Executive Meddling forgetting that Kane was the only film of Welles' that had Protection from Editors. Welles didn't really dislike Kane however, he always did say that it was the only film of his that had total freedom, made without budget restrictions and external pressure, and it came out exactly as he intended.
He also did not like The Stranger all that much, calling it one of his worst films, though as he said, "I did my best with it." It was his attempt to make a more mainstream film after Kane and The Magnificent Ambersons flopped at the box office, and indeed, it was one of his few films to make a profit in its theatrical release. He also disliked the omission of a somewhat dreamlike scene, which he felt would have made the film more interesting. Today, the film is somewhat admired, if not considered one of his best works. It was the first mainstream Hollywood film to tackle with The Holocaust and show footage from the camps.
In one interview Welles did with Michael Parkinson, he lamented that he only disliked his movies because he was such a perfectionist and it drove him up the wall that he couldn't possibly change or improve them, unlike the freedom of rewriting a novel.
In terms of acting roles, Welles famously described his role in The Transformers: The Movie in a dismissive way of "I play a toy who gets angry at a bunch of smaller toys"
Babylon A.D. was hit with this before it even came out. The director, Matthieu Kassovitz, has been quite open about how his initial vision of a dark but thoughtful cyberpunk world was meddled with beyond all recognition and turned into "a bad episode of 24." In the making-of featurette, he can be seen apologizing to the cast and crew while the film was still in production.
Reportedly, the second Asterix movie suffered from this. The owners of the franchise decided that the movie wasn't Asterix-ish enough, so they dropped all the elements they didn't like for the third movie. Unfortunately for them, said third film was a spectacular failure, while the one they didn't like is still the most critically and commercially successful of all three movies (now five).
Right up to his death, Jerry Lewis refused to talk in any great detail about his unreleased film The Day the Clown Cried, a WWII comedy (with heavy tragic elements) about an inept German clown who is sent to a concentration camp and who, feeling unaccepted by the people on his side of the fence, decides to entertain the Jewish prisoners. Few people have ever seen the film, and Lewis apparently kept his own VHS copy locked away for good; time will tell if it will see the light of day now that Lewis has passed on, though considering a year or two before his passing Lewis donated a film print to the Library of Congress and cleared it to be screened as early as 2024 there may be some hope yet.
Paul Verhoeven disowned Showgirls after the film's writer Joe Eszterhas edited the film without his permission. When the film won its numerous Razzie Awards, he accepted them to show his hatred of the film. He did say once that "Some day, people will realize that Showgirls was an elegantly made movie", but then, he might have been referring to his own cut of the film. Kyle MacLachlan doesn't speak very positive of the movie either.
Caligula. Gore Vidal walked away from production because he hated how director Tinto Brass wanted satire in the film. Brass was then cut loose because producer Bob Guccione wanted hardcore sex involving his Penthouse Pets. Neither Vidal or Brass are officially credited in their roles. Most of the actors (with the unsurprising exception of shame-challenged Helen Mirren and Sir John Gielgud, who had a blast making it and saw it three times in the cinema) now look upon it as an Old Shame due to its reputation as a high-budget porno; Anneka Di Lorenzo eventually won a lawsuit claiming the film damaged her career (though the punitive damages were overturned on appeal).
Gore Vidal wasn't proud of Myra Breckinridge, claiming it missed the point of the book—the director, Michael Sarne, also wasn't proud of it due to executive meddling.
Almost no one involved with Cat Chaser stands by the released version, with studio-ordered voiceover narration added that another actor was hired to do after Peter Weller, worn out by a difficult shoot which saw him, director Abel Ferrara and costar Kelly McGillis often strongly at odds with each other, to the point that McGillis walked off set during a love scene with him. McGillis, for her part, was so disgusted with the experience she shaved her head immediately afterwards and took three years off from acting.
Harlan Ellison made it very clear that he was not a fan of The Oscar, which was his only feature screenwriting credit.
Screenwriter Mike White disowned School of Rock after the director decided to play up gay stereotypes without his involvement. Being bisexual and with a gay father, White was not pleased when he saw the final product.
William Gibson has distanced himself from the film adaptation of his short story Johnny Mnemonic, for which he wrote the screenplay, claiming that Executive Meddling turned what he and director Robert Longo had envisioned as a more experimental, independent film into a mainstream, generic sci-fi action movie.
Jeff Morrow, the star of the infamous 50's monster-flick The Giant Claw didn't get see what the eponymous menace looked like until attending the film's premiere in his hometown. He ending up slinking out of the theater in shame before the film was even over, afraid someone might recognize him
The Farrelly Brothers disowned the film Outside Providence (co-written by them and based on a book by Peter Farrelly) after producer Harvey Weinstein insisted on numerous changes from the source material and recut the film in order to make it closer to their There's Something About Mary rather than the coming-of-age tale the original story was. The final film was a flop with critics and audiences and has been more or less forgotten.
Michael Moore does not like the film Slacker Uprising, which was a documentary that he only did to complete a three-film deal with producer Harvey Weinstein. He even personally bought the rights to the film so Weinstein would never release it theatrically and chose to premiere it for free online.
He disowned The Hills Have Eyes Part II as he only made the film for the money and felt the story ended with the first movie (he later co-wrote the sequel to the remake though, which may have been him doing what he could to make it better).
He hates the 2005 werewolf movie Cursed (2005) as much as film critics do, saying that his experience directing it taught him a lesson on not being a director-for-hire type of person.
Many years later, he disowned Scream 4 due to the constant Executive Meddling the film suffered and the amount of rewrites and reshoots done on the film.
Jim Sheridan has come out and disowned Dream House after the film's producer locked him out of the editing room after reshoots where done (which were done after the film tested poorly). It is not known what Sheridan's original cut was like. As stars Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz refused to do any promotion for the film, it's safe to say they aren't too fond of it either.
Michael Biehn disowned The Blood Bond, a film he starred in and co-directed, after its nightmarish production and being fired as soon as filming ended (as the film's writer felt it was his movie and not Biehn's). Biehn's voice was also dubbed and he was horrified when he saw the released version.
Mickey Rourke severely dissed A Prayer For The Dying before its release (he said making it was "a nightmare"), and director Mike Hodges tried to take his name off the credits; needless to say, both have disowned it.
Richard Griffiths hated talking about his role in Withnail and I, not because of the quality of the film but because he and most of the cast and the crew were shafted by producer Denis O'Brien and never received their proper payments.
Blake Edwards hated his 1972 film The Carey Treatment so much that he refused to be involved with the post-production on it. The constant Executive Meddling from MGM became so bad that he tried to leave the film during production, only to be told by the studio that doing so would end his career.
Edwards also didn't like how his script for City Heat was rewritten, to the extent that he's billed on the credits as "Sam O. Brown" (have a look at the initials).
Sam Peckinpah disowned many of his films due either to Executive Meddling or the final product not turning out well. Major Dundee is the most infamous example, due both to its chaotic production and drastic editing by the studio. Kris Kristofferson claims that Peckinpah was so angry at producer James Aubrey's interference on Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid that he actually urinated on film negatives before sending them to the studio. Take That! indeed.
Peckinpah didn't always like being associated with bloody films like The Wild Bunch either. He often claimed the mellow comic Western The Ballad of Cable Hogue as the best film he made.
David Lean grew increasingly tired of critics praising the "beastly little British films" like Brief Encounter and Great Expectations he made early in his career. It's not that Lean disliked the films per se; he mostly hated critics using them to disparage his later epics. His unfriendly run-in with Pauline Kael and Richard Schickel stands out: "How could the man who directed Brief Encounter make a piece of shit like Ryan's Daughter?" Additionally, Lean claimed to have made Madeleine (1950) solely to appease his wife, actress Ann Todd. He always disparaged the movie to interviewers, claiming it his worst feature film. That Lean and Todd divorced shortly after the film's release probably didn't sweeten his opinion.
David Lynch is so sorry for Dune (1984). So, so sorry. So sorry that he got the DGA to credit the longer version to Alan Smithee. He has called it "The only film I have made that I do not like to talk about", and turns down interviews that are specifically about the film saying that it is too painful for him to talk about it, even thirty years later.
He so hated his first two movies, Fear and Desire and Killer's Kiss, for the amateurishness he felt they demonstrated that he bought up most of the prints later in his life and destroyed them. He also hated Spartacus because of the Executive Meddling. All three films are not included on the Stanley Kubrick DVD and Blu-Ray box sets (though Warner Bros. includes Spartacus in some markets).
He also had sour feelings towards A Clockwork Orange, not because of its quality, but because of the Misaimed Fandom it attracted. Teens began to enact the same crimes from the movie and it reached the point where Kubrick personally had it banned from being shown in the United Kingdom.
According to a 2007 autobiography, both John Leguizamo and Bob Hoskins really, really hated working on the film. It got to the point where they would get drunk in order to endure the experience of the film. They both knew it was going to be bad (and all the principal actors slammed the directors as the most unprofessional people they've ever worked for) but they made the most of it.
Even Nintendo despised the movie, to the point where they mandated that, outside the Pokémon franchise (which is primarily handled by The Pokémon Company), none of their video games series were to become films. However, in early 2018, after numerous proposals and plans have come and go, Nintendo announced that they're giving Mario another chance on the big screen, this time in animated form and by Illumination Entertainment. Given the film was made by Disney's Hollywood Pictures, when Nintendo decided to join the theme park business, they aligned with their rival Universal Studios.
Takeshi Kitano disowned Brother (his only American film to date) due to the constant Executive Meddling and troubles with the MPAA (the film was heavily cut to receive an R rating). After this experience, Kitano swore to never direct another film in the US.
Spielberg is also not overly fond of how Hook turned out. The production issues, including directing a headache-inducing Julia Roberts (whom he vowed never to work with again), probably had something to do with it.
The second film Highlander II: The Quickening suffered from this quite a bit. By the end, many of the main cast had only finished the film because of their contractual obligations.
Much later, Adrian Paul was less than happy with the final product that was the fifth film, Highlander: The Source after it was finished.
Paul Newman disliked his role in The Silver Chalice; so much so, he named it the worst film of the 1950s and invited some guests to see the movie and mock it MST3K style.
Damon Lindelof apologized for the largely unnecessary fanservice scene of Alice Eve in her underwear. The fact that they had filmed a shower scene for Benedict Cumberbatch but cut it might also be part of the problem.
John Cho was not shy about his criticism of the decision to cast a white Englishman as Khan, who is supposed to be an Indian Sikh. Cho, who is a vocal advocate for increased diversity in Hollywood, even went so far as to state in interviews that as a child, he loved Khan precisely because he was a rare depiction of a smart, badass man of color on American television. He also had some unkind words for director J. J. Abrams, referring to himself as Abrams' "Asian puppet" at one point (though the context could read more as a joke).
Karl Urban, while not outright dismissive of the film, also offered some subtle criticism on the decision to adhere to Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, opining that the next installment should strive to be more original in its plotting. (He, at least, got his wish, with Star Trek Beyond being a comparatively original entry and having almost nothing in common with Star Trek III: The Search for Spock.)
Marina Sirtis really disliked Star Trek: Nemesis, saying that she fell asleep during its premiere. She also mentioned wanting to slug the director, Stuart Baird. This made it into the DVD featurette. (They were really hard up for sound bites.) Other members of the cast have since gone on record as sharing her opinion to various degrees; and when showrunner Terry Matalas was able to re-convene the TNG cast for the final season of the Spin-Off TV series Star Trek: Picard, one of his explicit goals was to replace the botched Grand Finale of Nemesis with something better.
Francis Ford Coppola has evinced mixed feelings towards The Godfather. On the one hand, he's proud of how well it turned out despite a somewhat Troubled Production and Executive Meddling, and appreciates that it gave him enough freedom to pursue more personal projects. At the same time, Coppola still considers Godfather (and especially its sequels) as something he did for money rather than artistic reasons, not regarding it with the same affection as, say, The Rain People or The Conversation.
Director David L. Cunningham reportedly hated The Seeker, citing Executive Meddling for the reason it became the trainwreck that it's remembered as.
He disowned Crimewave due to the film being recut by the studio.
He also strongly disliked Spider-Man 3 due to the ridiculous amount of Executive Meddling he had to put up with, the most notable of which was the inclusion of Venom, a villain Raimi has stated multiple times he does not like. The main reason the franchise was cancelled and rebooted with The Amazing Spider-Man was because Raimi had asked for more creative freedom and a lengthier production time to make sure Spider-Man 4 didn't suffer the same fate as 3. When the studio refused, he walked. He was also upset that because of the meddling, the shoot ran out of time enough that the script had to be re-worked to put Mary Jane as the Damsel in Distressnote it was originally supposed to be Gwen, where MJ was going to convince Peter and Harry to work together in the climax; her lines during this sequence remained in the trailer just to finish the movie, and he notes on the DVD Commentary that calling Kirsten Dunst to tell her about it, after promising he wouldn't make her a damsel again, was one of the hardest things he's ever done in his career.
After producing The Quick and the Dead, Raimi blamed himself and his visual style for its failure.
He has also made clear that he regrets making the infamous tree rape scene from The Evil Dead (1981) and has apologized to both the audience and the actress involved multiple times.
I did a big action movie called The Incredible Hulk. You know what went wrong? It needed a better script... I thought maybe we should try to make one Marvel movie that was at least as good as the worst Chris Nolan movie, but what the hell was I thinking?!
Jon Favreau refused to return to direct Iron Man 3 because of the Executive MeddlingIron Man 2 had been subjected to in order to set up The Avengers (though that didn't stop him from appearing as Happy Hogan again). His 2014 film Chef, about a chef who leaves a micromanaged restaurant to become a food truck owner so he can cook what he wants with total freedom, is a stealth Take That! to his former bosses at Marvel Studios, something that did not go unnoticed by critics.
Joss Whedon's feelings on working on Avengers: Age of Ultron were mixed to say the least. He has always been a big comic book fan (having actually written for Astonishing X-Men) and due to his cult status he was allowed more input into the Marvel verse than the other directors. He wanted to make the movie smaller and more personal... and found himself filming a movie on an epic scale across the globe (it just sort of happened) and that meant he had to spend a long time away from his family in Burbank. He explicitly did claim that he felt that the movie should have had a longer running time. However, in later interviews Whedon stated that he is proud of the movie in spite of the trouble behind the scenes, and that his initial attitude while promoting it (which he blames on exhaustion) caused people to think he didn't like it.
Related, but Jeremy Renner did not like filming The Avengers, as he felt he was misled about the size of Hawkeye's role and his characterization. He even joked that he would've been fine with Hawkeye being killed off if it meant getting to leave the film. However, he's since said that he's happy with the direction the character was taken in the sequels (with Hawkeye getting much meatier parts in Age of Ultron and Endgame), and looks forward to continuing the role.
Idris Elba referred to working on the film as "torture" since the constant re-shoots were exhausting and time-consuming.
Natalie Portman was not happy with the decision to fire director Patty Jenkins from The Dark World, and only starred in the movie because Marvel wouldn't allow her to back out of her contract. She got her wish and didn't return for the third film, though she's said she would be open to perhaps coming back to the franchise one day. Eventually, Portman later mended fences with Marvel Studios, resulting in her eventually returning for Thor: Love and Thunder.
Downplayed in Black Panther (2018). Although the cast and crew were proud of the final film as a whole, they did have some misgivings.
Both Chadwick Boseman and Michael B. Jordan grew sick of constantly performing the Wakandan salute for fans. Jordan's case was particularly egregious since his character never performs the action in the film in the first place and acting in opposition to the very culture it stands for is a large part of his status as the Big Bad.
In an interview after the movie's release, director Ryan Coogler regretted that he had to kill off Klaue. Although Coogler personally enjoyed the character, he couldn't find any way to keep him alive without derailing the film's plot.
Both Ryan Reynolds and director Martin Campbell dislike Green Lantern (2011), with Reynolds even stating he was unlikely to return for DC's proposed Justice League movie. Campbell heavily criticized the studio for hacking the film to pieces during the editing process, which he claims resulted in the omission or alteration of numerous elements which would have made for a stronger film. Reynolds hates Green Lantern so much that a line making fun of the movie made it into not just the Deadpool (2016) movie proper, but even the trailer.Deadpool 2, meanwhile, ends with Deadpool going back in time to kill Reynolds before he can star in Green Lantern, as well as killing the much-maligned "Weapon XI" (or "Dudepeel") version of Deadpool from X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
Kurt Wimmer disowned Ultraviolet (2006) after Screen Gems recut the film.
Richard Beymer, who played Tony in the 1961 film version of West Side Story (1961), later confessed in an interview that he wasn't happy with how his performance came out, saying that he wanted to play Tony as rougher and tougher, more like an actual street kid who used to run around with a gang starting fights for fun, but director Robert Wise made him play Tony as the nicest guy around, which Beymer felt didn't mesh with the character's back story. He also said he had trouble saying some of his lines with a straight face, namely the more romantic lines. He even reportedly walked out on the London premiere of the film - even though it ended up being his most famous role.
Not really a full on backlash per se, but the late legendary bodybuilder Steve Reeves, who helped kick off the sword and sandal craze in the late 1950s and early 1960s with Hercules and Hercules Unchained (both of which later appeared on Mystery Science Theater 3000), always expressed some dismay over the fact that most people didn't seem to know of the other films he made during his adventures as a B-movie leading man, such as the swashbuckling remake of The Thief of Bagdad and the spaghetti western A Long Ride From Hell (his final film).
There seems to be a lot of distortion over Dolph Lundgren's feelings towards his role as He-Man in the 1987 film adaptation of Masters of the Universe. For a long time it was said that Lundgren, who was still new to acting at the time, did not get along with the film's first time director Gary Goddard, who for the record only mentions Lundgren twice on his audio commentary (he never directed another film again - instead he spent the rest of his life working on amusement park roller coaster rides), and that he felt embarrassed about starring in a film based on a kid's toy. Years later though Lundgren said he enjoyed doing the film and would gladly do a cameo in a He-Man reboot.
Scott has gone on record saying he much prefers the Director's Cut of Kingdom of Heaven to the theatrical version. Due to the Executive Meddling that hit the theatrical version and the differences in reception to both cuts, its easy to see why. To further this point, during the TIFF press conference for The Martian, he said that re-editing the film was the only regret he's made in his career.
Regarding the Xenomorphs from Alien, Scott has repeatedly stated that he feels "the beast is cooked" and that the series needs to move away from them. When his attempt to do so in Prometheus backfired, he had a brief moment of Creator Recovery with Alien: Covenant. However, the latter's lacklustre reception has caused him to reiterate his prior viewpoint and announce his intent to have the third prequel film focus on David, with the Xenomorphs potentially being replaced by something fresher.
Spike Lee and Josh Brolin were not happy with the released version of the Oldboy remake, which cut over an hour from Lee's preferred version and had its score replaced before opening.
In a 2015 interview, timed with the Golden Anniversary of the film, Plummer had this to say.
“They always got it wrong and it looked like I hated the movie which is not true at all. I wasn’t particularly happy in the role because I didn’t think it was, well, the most exciting role I’d played. I mean, it doesn’t quite measure up to Hamlet and Lear, and so I was slightly snobbish about it at the time and I was observed a little bit. If you’re on a set with about 24 nuns every day, you too will become jaded. No, I’m respectably, terrifically and particularly proud now that I’ve grown up. But I just didn’t like the way people talked only of The Sound Of Music when they spoke to me. As you know, I have made 120 other movies.”
Mary Martin made her Broadway debut in the 1938 musical Leave it to Me!, where her part included the hit Cole Porter song "My Heart Belongs To Daddy." She then signed a contract with Paramount, which subjected her to Typecasting as a cutesy ingenue in movies such as The Great Victor Herbert and Kiss the Boys Goodbye that she resented so much that she returned to the stage in 1943, never to star in a Hollywood movie again. Edith Head, the costume designer of both aforementioned movies, recalled in her memoirs that Martin started cutting up her hair with scissors for petty revenge.
George M. Cohan was unhappy with the only talkie film he appeared in, The Phantom President.
Roald Dahl disowned Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. He wrote the original script for the movie,note And is the only one credited in the final film but it was heavily rewritten by The Omen (1976) writer David Seltzer. Roald disliked the many changes made to his original script and was also peeved that his choice to play Wonka - Spike Milligan - was passed over in favour of Gene Wilder. note Interestingly enough, when Dahl met Gene in the flesh, Dahl said "I really like Gene, he's a really nice man, who's only fault is he's a bit too nice for his own good. I didn't want Wonka to be too nice for his own good, I wanted him to be too creepy for his own good! It was years before he allowed another of his novels to be adapted for the big screen, and he arranged things so that the novel's sequel Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator could never be filmed (one reason why the 2005 film of Factory and most other adaptations end on a note of full closure).
There's a joke in the Breaking Bad episode "Granite State" about how the only DVDs Walt has to watch in hiding are two copies of Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium. Writer and director Zach Helm - who has never made another full-length film to this day - responded that Walt has "exactly two more copies than are allowed in my house." (Which suggests that the movie's opening credit dubbing this "Supposedly A Film By Zach Helm" is more telling than it seems.)
Hugh Jackman himself expressed regret overX-Men Origins: Wolverine, admitting it fell short of his expectations and that it felt like a half-baked X-Men 4 instead of a character-driven idea that was originally envisioned. Subsequently he and the rest of the crew sought to do a better job with The Wolverine, X-Men: Days of Future Past, and Logan, all of which were better received by critics and fans (especially Logan).
The director of Origins, Gavin Hood, also has some regrets, given Executive Meddling distorted the intentions he and Jackman had for the movie beyond recognition. Hood said that "I own the mistakes I made" and is thankful that his later Hollywood projects had "producers who really wanted to make the same movie."
Origins' equally ill-received predecessor X-Men: The Last Stand also elicited some regret from co-writer Simon Kinberg, particularly regarding how Executive Meddling made The Dark Phoenix Saga the B-plot (Kinberg even noted how in 2006 the studio wasn't willing in spending so much money in such a dark plot, but "it would be less daunting today."). Given he remained onboard from X-Men: First Class onward, he called it a learning experience akin to what the characters go through. He eventually wrote and directed Dark Phoenix, which does center around the saga.
Anna Paquin doesn't dislike the X-Men movies, but she did express disappointment that she never got to play Rogue as the Flying Brick she's most commonly known as, and quickly grew bored playing the awkward damsel in distress, stating "I want to be badass Rogue, not shy teen Rogue." She finally got her chance years later for "the Rogue Cut" of X-Men: Days of Future Past.
Both of Storm's actresses, Halle Berry and Alexandra Shipp, criticized the films for giving Ororo no emotional depth and nothing to do besides flying around shooting lightning bolts. Berry almost didn't return for X-Men: The Last Stand until Catwoman became a humiliating flop and she needed the work.
Even the famously easy-going James Garner had this - he (and several other cast members) derisively called 1970's A Man Called Sledge "A Man Called Sludge," and he didn't like 1988's Sunset in part due to his working relationship with Bruce Willis.
Mara Wilsonmentioned in interviews about how although filming all of the movies she made post- Matilda were (for the most part) great experiences for her, she isn't a particular fan of those movies and regretted doing them, at the very least because her mother died during the making of Matilda and she was still traumatized by the experience. She also claimed to regret her poor behavior on set when dealing with those events, wished she could have taken a break to grieve and recuperate, and felt, in retrospect, that A Simple Wish and some of the other roles she played in/auditioned for cut too close to the bone in some of the subject matter. She has also claimed she is such a perfectionist that it's hard for her to watch her own acting performances without being too self-critical.
She has at least acknowledged that her experience filming Thomas and the Magic Railroad as fun to make, and that she loved the script, but often self-deprecatingly comments on the movie in interviews that "they can't all be To Kill a Mockingbird". Her parents' encouragement for her to make family-friendly movies and her desire to keep busy and get experience in the film industry were also factors, and she had felt that acting had been, in spite of her increasingly negative experiences with it at the time, the one real constant in her life she could focus on, as she struggled with her undiagnosed OCD and the death of her mother.
Screenwriter Matthew Berry has spoken critically of Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles, particularly about working with Paul Hogan. Berry expressed a low opinion of Hogan's sense of humor and accused Hogan of trying to cheat him and his partner Eric Abrams out of royalties. Hogan took the pair to court, but lost.
Channing Tatum is not proud of G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, stating that he only did the film to fulfill a contractual obligation. He added that the regrets are worse given he grew up a fan of the franchise.
Andrew Garfield isn't fond of The Amazing Spider-Man 2, and has stated that he feels the film's poor quality stems from a ridiculous amount of Executive Meddling. Despite this, he says he loved the original script, and felt the movie could have been quite good had they followed the earlier drafts more closely. His comments did not go unnoticed, and the infamous Sony leaks later revealed that the studio was considering firing him and replacing him with an Other Darrin before the deal with Marvel Studios. The reason the late James Horner, who did the score for the first film, didn't do the score for the sequel is also because of Sony not allowing Webb creative freedom, as as well as hating the script, with the main point being the death of Gwen Stacy. The Sony e-mail hack also revealed that Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige and Marvel Entertainment president Alan Fine also didn't carefor the script, the latter even outright predicting the problems many people ultimately had with the film.
Later, Garfield later went further, criticizing the lack of freedom even in the first movie of The Amazing Spider-Man Series, and comparing it to canning Coke. Additionally, Sally Fieldflat-out said she doesn't like either movie and only took the role of Aunt May in the first movie as a favor to her friend, producer Laura Ziskin, who died after the first film was shot, and said she felt the only positive thing about working on the films was working with Garfield. Like wise, Jamie Foxx expressed disappointment that Electro was blue for the entire movie. Fortunately for Garfield and Foxx, Spider-Man: No Way Home gave them a chance to finish things up—Garfield not only got to work with his predecessor and his successor and tie up some loose ends, but Foxx got to be in a more comics-accurate outfit and work with villainouslegends.
Just hours before the release of Fantastic Four (2015) in North America, the film's director Josh Trankwent to Twitter and bashed it, claiming that it wasn't the film that he'd wanted to make, blaming Executive Meddling for the film's quality. The lead actors (Kate Mara and Toby Kebbel especially) have also expressed disappointment with the final product, and the studio heads themselves weren't happy with how Fant4stic's abysmal critical and financial performance led to a 28% decline in revenues for that fiscal quarter.
Sean Penn was not happy with how small his role was in The Tree of Life despite getting second-billing. He felt that a lot of the emotional weight of the screenplay was lost in the final product and that the film would've benefitted from having a clearer narrative.
Nancy Allen isn't fond of RoboCop 3, as among other things, she didn't want to do it, thought they should've waited for Peter Weller to come back, and agreeing with fans that going PG-13 was not a good idea. While he doesn't regret the process of making it, as he enjoyed making the movie, director Fred Dekker does regret the end result, both as a Creator Killer, and wishing he had more money and hadn't toned down the film to be PG-13. Edward Neumeier, the co-writer of the original movie is also on record as despising the jetpack and weapon arm, feeling they were too-kiddy.
Anthony Hopkins has some ambivalence towards Hannibal Lecter. Though he feels The Silence of the Lambs is a "good film," and said likewise about the two follow-ups at one time or another, he later said it was a "mistake" reprising the role for Hannibal and Red Dragon. This is partly attributable (for Hannibal especially) to his feeling that the character isn't nearly as scary when out in the open; his imprisonment makes him a "tarantula inside a bottle," but set him free and the fear is gone.
Likewise, actor Brian Cox, who played the character in Manhunter, has expressed that he doesn't quite care for how the character of Lecter has a fan following, seeing Lecter as little more than a psychopath not worthy of respect.
Peter Jackson is very dissatisfied with the theatrical cuts of The Hobbit. While not entirely hating them, he admits in the commentaries that they don't tell the complete story and that they're evident of the Executive Meddling the trilogy suffered. He in fact stated he prefers the extended cut of The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies in particular.
Miles Teller said he only took the role of Peter Hayes in Divergent for "business reasons" and that it made him feel "dead inside". He had to do a rather large Verbal Backspace when the sequels were greenlit.
Shailene Woodley has hinted that she didn't like the direction The Divergent Series: Insurgent went in, due to the film differing so much from Neil Burger's original vision.
E.L. Doctorow distanced himself from the notoriously troubled 1991 film adaptation of his novel Billy Bathgate due to the liberties it took with the story.
Audience and critical appreciation of Caddyshack deepened over the decades since its release, but Harold Ramis' appreciation of his troubled directorial debut never did. "All I see are compromises and things we could have done better", he said in the late 2000s.
Nick Nolte has stated unequivocally that another difficult production, the mid-'90s I Love Trouble, is his worst film.
Katherine Heigl, leading lady of Knocked Up, ultimately hates the movie due to what she felt was a one-dimensional portrayal of the genders: women as joyless nagging shrews and men as immature brats who avoid or resent their responsibilities in life.
This article by Alex McLevy of The AV Club recounts the story of A. J. Via, who, as a teenager in 1998, wrote a Black Comedy script called Aisle 12 in which a group of hardware store employees discover a dead body and a duffel bag full of cash, then uploaded it to InkTip. Fifteen years later, it was discovered by a producer named Chad Ridgely, who bought the rights to it from him. Via says that 40% of the script wound up in the finished film, titled Massacre on Aisle 12, and that his first indication that something was wrong was when a crew member gushed to him about a sex scene that he never wrote. After increasingly sporadic communication between Via and Ridgely, the film finally premiered Direct to Video in 2015. He said that his wife fell asleep twenty minutes in, and that he ultimately chose not to wake her as it was for the better that she missed most of the film, filled as it was with gay panic humor and other highly questionable jokes.
For reasons unknown, Mary Pickford hated Rosita and ordered all copies destroyed. The film would have remained one of the numerous missingSilent Movies if not for a single copy surviving.
While he didn't speak ill of the film itself, Jack Haley did not view working on The Wizard of Oz as a fond memory, describing it as "awful" and "not fun at all" throughout the rest of his career.
Whoopi Goldberg hated her direct-to-video dinosaur science-fiction noir comedy, Theodore Rex, calling it the only movie she regretted making. She sued the producer to get out of her contract but lost, being forced to perform opposite the malfunctioning dinosaur puppet while loathing the producers to the core of their beings.
While Charles Dance didn't seem to hate Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) or regret working on it, he utlimately proved somewhat unenthusiastic about it, rather bluntly stated that he nearly fell asleep at the film's premiere. That being said, he brought the same level of dedication to the film as he does all his projects and has also stated he is open to reprising his role in the future.
Diablo Cody intended for Juno to be middle ground on the abortion debate. She has since admitted that had she known that the pro-life movement would use the film for anti-abortion causes (especially in light of Georgia House Bill 481), she never would have written it.
Stephen Baldwin has since gone on to disown the movie Threesome, where he plays an All-American jock who does indeed engage in a threesome with a gay man who's in love with him and a woman who Baldwin's character is in love with but herself is in love with the gay man. Given the fact that he became a conservative born-again Christian years after making it, Baldwin seriously wants people to ignore the film's existence in order to save face.
Erika Sawajiri was the "it girl" in Japan in 2007 and riding on the peak of her career. However, she was so unhappy with the film Closed Note that she ended up being rather dismissive and rude to the reporters on the movie's premiere screening and nearly ended her career because of that.
Animator and co-creator of Phineas and Ferb and Milo Murphy's Law Dan Povenmire is embarrassed by Going Overboard, one of his first gigs, in which he animated the opening titles and appeared as a member of the band Yellow Teeth.
Stanley Tucci regrets having directed The Impostors, which was his immediate follow-up to Big Night. He felt that he was ill-suited to direct it and felt that a different filmmaker would have done much better with the material.
Stanley Tucci: Every now and then, someone will come up to me and say they love the second movie I made, which was called The Imposters. They say, 'It's my favorite movie of all time.' And then I accuse them having escaped from an asylum.
Hiroshi Fujioka did not like the way his most iconic role was treated in Heisei Rider vs. Showa Rider: Kamen Rider Taisen feat. Super Sentai, due to the film turning Takeshi Hongo into a crotchety old man who hated the younger Riders' way of thinking, and represented the Entire Showa Rider faction acting as Hypocritical villains who enabled the actions of their franchise-long enemies in the film solely out of arrogant pride. He helped with the rewrites to Kamen Rider 1 (a Film Toei greenlit in the first place as an APOLOGY to him) to make sure that his trademark role would be treated right the next time around. Unfortunately, Toei has continued to burn bridges to the various Rider casts with the same producer being behind all the events continuing to mistreat their characters and legacy.
Meryl Streep has vowed never to work on another movie with heavy special effects after Death Becomes Her. She has nothing but respect for the cast and crew and enjoyed watching the finished movie, but she thought the filming process was tedious. She hated having to yell at a lampstand and pretend it was Goldie Hawn, and having to reshoot scenes so that her head would line up with the effects used to make her body look twisted. In her words, "it was like being at the dentist."
Dark Star: Writer and co-star Dan O'Bannon was disappointed with the final film, saying that "instead of the most impressive student film ever made, we had the least impressive professional film ever made". He also hated the alien beach ball creature they came up with. His desire to make a film with a believable alien resulted in Alien.
Superman: The Movie director Richard Donnercondemned the three-hour "Extended Cut", which restores his least favorite deleted scenes just to either sell more ad space (in the case of TV broadcasts), or to try and convince people who bought at least one of the other cuts on Blu-ray to buy another copy of the movie.
Leonardo DiCaprio objected to the post-credits scene where Orlean walks around naked because he lionized Meryl Streep so much he couldn't bear to see her that way. Streep, for her part, was completely willing to do it, though a stunt double was used to get a shot of her rear.
Jennifer Lawrence hated having to film her opening scene in which she raps along to a Wu-Tang Clan song, calling it the most humiliating experience she's ever had, especially since she had to do it over and over again. She was relieved to see that the scene in the final product was only a few seconds long.
Anything at all directed by "Alan Smithee". Entering this name into a movie database credits him as the director of dozens of movies, several television show episodes (both live-action and animated), and music videos. Almost all of his work was panned by critics. The reason is, there's no such person, it's a pseudonym used since 1968 by directors who do not want to be associated with their own work. (Clearly, some directors are pragmatic enough to know a Career Killer when they see it.)
While she has gone on to disown Cruel Intentions 2, she likes to joke about making it on occasion.
She doesn't even joke, however, about Psycho Beach Party, a horror-comedy movie she was in where her most remarkable scene was losing her bikini bottoms. (The word "remarkable" used loosely, much like "horror" and "comedy" for this one.) Granted, that was only her second role, but since she's become famous, hormone-addled teen fans keep dwelling on it.
His biggest Old Shame isn't starring in Gigli — it's directing a short film called I Killed My Lesbian Wife, Hung Her on a Meat Hook, and Now I Have a Three-Picture Deal at Disney. That said, he isn't fond of Gigli either. On the Season 38 finale of Saturday Night Live, Affleck appeared in an "HBO First Look" sketch about Iran making a film based on Argo. Affleck states that the only reason he starred in it was so he can be in a movie that was worse than Gigli. According to Matt Damon, his left eye twitches every time you say the word "Gigli".
He isn't fond of Daredevil, which caused him to swear off acting in superhero films. Though he did agree to play Batman a decade later in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, it was on the condition that Warner Bros. would bankroll any movies he wanted to direct until Dawn of Justice released.
She's on record as disliking several of her films, such as Good Luck Chuck (not without good reason).
In an interview with the British magazine Arena promoting Fantastic Four (2005), she badmouthed two of her pre-Dark Angel movies, Paranoid (2000) and The Sleeping Dictionary - and her performances in them.
She isn't a big fan of Into the Blue, mostly because her character was rewritten during filming. She was originally scripted to be a marine biologist but ended up rewritten into a recreational diver as an excuse to get her into a bikini. The filmmakers also apparently shot scenes behind her back with a body double in a bikini, forcing her to spend a chunk of the movie wearing not very much.
He also regretted making the Inspector Clouseau film in 1968, which featured him in the title role, rather than Peter Sellers. He claimed once that the film was made while he was in a youthful arrogant phase, and the film experience humbled him afterwards.
While David Arquette has little to no qualms with talking about Ready to Rumble (since he enjoyed working with all the various wrestlers in the movie), he is not proud of his run as WCW World Heavyweight Champion to promote the movie. Arquette, a lifelong fan of professional wrestling, despised the idea (he knew it would draw massive fan antipathy, as he was not a wrestler and hadn't earned it), but it was in his contract. He would go on to donate all his paychecks from his WCW run to the families of deceased and injured wrestlers, which earned him a good deal of goodwill among the pro wrestling community (he would later tour the indie circuit in the late 2000s).
Not only did her Romance on the Set of The Big Blue (with her co-star, not with director Luc Besson despite his track record) help end her marriage to James Newton Howard, she also hated the finished product (typical comment about the movie: "I see that scene and I want to vomit").
Richard Ayoade feels this way about The Watch (2012), and seemed especially sarcastic towards it during the promotional circuit.
Dan Aykroyd didn't like Loose Cannons, according to a 2013 interview asking him about a murder case where footage from the film found in a landfill was confused with a snuff film. Aykroyd suggested that it should've stayed in the landfill.
He also used to feel this way about Tremors, but he's mellowed in recent years, to the point he tried a pilot episode for a sequel series on Prime Video. They passed.
He has disowned Rock of Ages, calling it a "horrible movie", and stated he only did that film because he wanted to work with Tom Cruise.
He also despised working on The Adventures of Pluto Nash, even going so far as to remove his name from the credits.
He has disowned Shortcut to Happiness, which he directed, produced and starred in, after it sat on The Shelf of Movie Languishment for six years and was only released after extensive re-cuts that he objected to. He had his name removed as director and producer and those positions credited as Harry Kirkpatrick.
Christian Bale has not been subtle about his dislike for Newsies, which he starred in back in 1992, although he acknowledges the cult audience the film has.
Jamie Bamber clearly feels this way about the film Ghost Rig, given his thoroughly embarrassed reaction when an autograph seeker mentioned having watched it—burying his face in the crook of his elbow and bluntly declaring "It's a really horrible film and I'm really horrible in it". He's openly stated that meeting his wife—who he's been Happily Married to since 2003—is the only good thing that came out of it.
I'm still feeling pretty wired. What do you say I... take you home and eat your pussy?
Mikhail Baryshnikov hated filming Company Business so much, that he refused to go out and publicized the movie.
Kim Basinger claimed in in a 2018 sitdown with Interview magazine that of all the movies that she had done, she had the most terrible time making Grudge Match.
First of all, I want to thank Warner Bros. Thank you for putting me in this Godawful piece of shit movie!
Michael Biehn wasn't completely satisfied about Navy Seals (1990), and described the making of it as one of the worst experiences of his life. During an August 2011 interview, he revealed he has a "bottom five" of movies he was in: Navy Seals (1990), Deadfall, Dead Men Can't Dance, Chain of Command and Megiddo: The Omega Code 2.
Neill Blomkamp subverts this; while he was disappointed with how Elysium turned out, he feels that the script needed some fine-tuning - and the performances and effects were otherwise very good.
David Bowie regretted 1978's Just a Gigolo, his second major film, simply for its poor quality. In a 1980 interview with New Musical Express, he said "Oh well, we've all got to do one [bad movie] and hopefully I've done mine now."
Jeff Bridges admits he was underwhelmed by R.I.P.D., stating that while he enjoyed making the film, he eventually disliked the finished product.
Matthew Broderick hated working on the critically-lambasted Deck the Halls, apparently having been overheard muttering to himself "I've hit rock bottom" on set during production.
She has had many harsh words for her part in Fire in the Amazon over the years.
She called Speed 2: Cruise Control "the biggest piece of crap" ever made. (In fact, while promoting said movie a fan told her she was looking forward to it and she replied "Well, as long as you don't expect too much...")
Oddly enough, she doesn't seem to regret All About Steve (despite accepting her Razzie for the film, she felt that the committee didn't see the film and gave everyone in attendance a DVD copy to let them judge if she was deserving or not).
Carol Burnett disliked her performance as Hooker with a Heart of Gold Mollie Malloy in The Front Page so much that years later, when she was a passenger on a flight that had the film as its in-flight movie, she stood up at the end and apologized to the passengers for what they had just witnessed.
Amanda Bynes isn't fond of most of her movies due to how she felt pigeonholed by her parents into doing the same types of roles. She was especially embarrassed by She's the Man not only due to that by how nervous she felt while watching her pass off as a man. One exception is Hairspray, which she described as the most fun she had on set.
He had such an unpleasant time making Kiss Me Goodbye, that he didn't star in another major movie for the next five years.
Based on how quickly he distanced himself from the film, and disparaged it upon its release, it's safe to say that he feels this way about Alien Nation.
He also didn't like Harry and Walter Go to New York, as he fired his management shortly after making this movie.
He has stated in an interview that the three worst films he has ever made are The Magus, The Swarm and Ashanti.
He also didn't like Jaws: The Revenge as well (as covered in the "Multiple Creators" section).
In addition, he utterly despises his work in On Deadly Ground, largely because he had a miserable time filming in Alaska.
James Cameron's first credited directing gig was Piranha Part Two: The Spawning (which he only got after the original director was fired), although it's not clear how much of the finished product Cameron really created. It's alleged that at one point he even tried to break into the studio to either salvage or destroy the film. Eventually Cameron developed a sense of humor about it, having been quoted as saying it's "the finest flying-piranha movie ever made." He also credits the film for helping him hone the puppetry that would be needed for the Facehuggers in Aliens.
Campbell has subverted this trope as well. On at least one occasion, an interviewer asked him if he regretted a specific role he once played, to which Bruce replied "Not at all." When the interviewer asked why, Bruce said "The check cleared".
Mariah Carey made Glitter as a pet project, long before any studio showed interest. In fact, she made a soundtrack for the movie and shopped it to several studios before one finally picked it up. The film was nominated for six Razzies, with Mariah winning Worst Actress. The movie and the soundtrack tanked, which got her dropped off her label and hurt a few of her subsequent albums. The bad backlash on the movie even got Mariah hospitalized for stress and exhaustion. To this day, she won't really talk about the film.
For Jim Carrey, it was ironically also his Star-Making Role, Ace Ventura. Carrey was displeased with the sequel When Nature Calls causing him to swear off ever doing a sequel for any of his characters (although he later did the sequel to Dumb and Dumber.) This had a lasting impact on his career as well, since this role is seen as the reason why he's yet to get nominated for an Oscar.
Dana Carvey has admitted that he doesn't care for most of the movies he's done (surprisingly, The Master of Disguise [mentioned in the "Multiple Creators" section] isn't one of them, maybe because he wrote it..)
Phoebe Cates refuses to talk about her role in the Blue Lagoon rip-off Paradise after she managed to bargain down the amount of nudity that the script called for, and was horrified to see that producers expanded the sex scenes that were additionally shot with body doubles.
Cher says that Burlesque was the worst film she had ever done, even criticizing her performance in that movie.
He starred in a racy Sex Comedy in China called All in the Family long before he became famous.
In his autobiography, he also expresses this attitude about his early American films The Big Brawl and The Protector, the latter of which had him swear gratuitously and featured full-frontal nudity (Chan later re-shot new fight sequences and cut out the nudity and some of the violence for the film's Hong Kong release). He's also not particularly fond of the Bruceploitation films he made under JerkassTriad-affiliated director Lo Wei, who tried to squash Jackie's desire to do action comedies.
He has an imperfect relationship with Rush Hour and its sequels, stating that he didn't really understand their humor and was personally displeased with Hollywood's approach to martial arts filmmaking when compared to that of his native Hong Kong, and that he only did them because of the huge salary he was offered. That said, he still enjoyed making the movies, and has been on-again/off-again pushing for a Rush Hour 4 for the better part of a decade.
Due to Harsher in Hindsight, he has stated in his autobiography that he expresses regret for The Great Dictator, a thinly-veiled satire of Nazi Germany. The United States was still technically neutral at the time (1940) and many of the Nazis' worst atrocities had not yet become well-known, so they're just portrayed as mean bullies to the Jews (rather than as truly evil genociders). Chaplin wrote that, had he known of the true extent of their war crimes, making a comedy of "the murderous insanity of the Nazis" would've been unthinkable.
He's very publicly not too fond of his most recent work, Community, either, but that had to do with his very public battle with series creator, Dan Harmon and the direction of his character.
There's also his feelings on Caddyshack II (covered in the Multiple Creators section).
According to Roger Ebert's memoir Life Itself, Chase mentioned how he didn't think too fondly of ¡Three Amigos! when the two had a conversation backstage on The Tonight Show (Ebert gave the film a negative review and it was Chase's job to defend it on air).
Kelly Clarkson strongly regrets her role in From Justin to Kelly, stating that she had been contractually obligated to star in it as a result of her victory on the first season of American Idol, and disliked the script when she read it.
Misha Collins of Supernatural fame has stated many times that he regrets his participation in Karla, the 2006 film based on real-life serial killers Karla Homolka and Paul Bernardo. He has explained that he was unaware how infamous and emotionally relevant the cases were in Canada at the time (to the extent that in an extreme case of California Doubling, the movie - although a Canadian production - had to be shot in the USA with an American cast and crew (Laura Prepon played Karla) because no one in the Canadian film industry wanted anything to do with it). He also states that the director of the film took things way too far and would compliment him after shooting particularly horrible rape scenes, saying "That washot." He ended up having a phone conversation with one of the victims who escaped, and now tells people not to watch the movie, especially when it comes up at fan conventions.
He has publicly expressed being ashamed of how in Goldfinger everything hinged on Bond being able to get into the pants of the villain's top henchwoman. In fact, he's expressed hatred of Bond in general, not only for the character's misogyny, but at how quickly Bond seemed to become a parody of himself. In fact, when he signed on for Diamonds Are Forever, he gave his entire salary for it to charity, just to spite the producers and show he didn't need them.
He has expressed shame for Zardoz, which he said he only starred in as an attempt to break away from the James Bond image.
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, which he hated so much that he retired from making movies altogether.note This links in to him turning down GANDALF, and his agent convincing him that League could be a similarly lucrative role with multiple sequels. And then ... XLG turned out to be XLG.
LL Cool J said that Rollerball sucked but revealed it was his duty to promote it.
Leonard Part 6 was so bad, Bill Cosby himself told everyone to avoid seeing it, before it even hit theaters. It should also be noted that "William H. Cosby Jr., Ed.D." has story credit, and that the movie is "A Sah Enterprises, Inc. Production"... and guess whose company that is.
Daniel Craig is not fond of his second Bond film, Quantum of Solace, due to the movie's Troubled Production that involved the film being made in the middle of a writers strike. Craig himself tried to help write the movie's script, something he later said he absolutely hated doing because his speciality is acting, not writing.
Inverted in that it was her last few movies that she was most ashamed of. After What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, she starred in a series of B-horror movies that she later disowned. Her final film Trog she only did as a favour to a director friend and famously said "If I wasn't a Christian scientist and saw Trog playing in a theatre across the street, I'd contemplate suicide."
She was also deeply ashamed by the 1932 film Rain, which was beset with a large number of problems. The cast openly told her that she was nothing compared to Jeanne Engels (who performed a Broadway version of the work before passing away), and that they hadn't seen any of her films. She was angered by the director due to the fact that he supposedly gave her no direction at all, and to top it off, she was going through a divorce with Douglas Fairbanks Jr. at the time and had a miscarriage on set when she slipped and fell on the deck of a ship. She later stated, "I hope they burn every print of this turkey that's in existence....I don't understand to this day how I could have given such an unpardonable bad performance. All my fault, too — (the) direction was so feeble I took the bull by the horns and did my own Sadie Thompson. I was wrong every scene of the way."
In a variation, Cameron Crowe ended up apologizing over one specific part of the movie Aloha. Namely, his decision to cast Emma Stone as a character who was supposed to be of mixed Hawaiian and Chinese descent, which garnered a number of accusations of whitewashing. Stone has said she credits the film for opening her eyes to how huge a problem whitewashing is in Hollywood.
He admitted in an interview that Ghosts of Mars was the worst film he ever appeared in, claiming it was unwatchable in many ways, and said that the film's director John Carpenter really let him and his fellow co-stars down with the special effects, saying that it had looked like something out of a film from 1979.
He also isn't fond of the family movies he did like Are We There Yet? or The Longshots and says he only did them because it was hard for him to find acting jobs.
He has stated at conventions that he does not think very highly of The Garbage Pail Kids Movie, one of his first films.
He also didn't like The Mangler he said it was a terrible movie and the vocals he did for the titular killer machine caused a lot of stress on his vocal chords, but he did like that he got the chance to work with Tobe Hooper.
She's on record describing 1999's Virus as "an awful piece of shit."
She feels this way about Halloween: Resurrection, saying she only did the film out of contractual obligations, calling the experience bad and the film itself "forgettable." In addition, she says she only did Halloween II (1981) out of loyalty to John Carpenter and Debra Hill, and doesn't find the film itself to be that good.
She referred to Prom Night (1980) as the worst of the early horror films she did.
There's some debate on whether she cares at all for her earlier involvement in the Halloween films and the horror genre in general. For a long time, she rarely mentioned her involvement in any of them (even on her own website), and except for a brief time around the original Halloween's 20th anniversary when she did Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later (reportedly to help relaunch her career), she worked very hard to distance herself from her "scream queen" image. She's also outraged at the idea of children watching her horror films, even saying she should "call child protective services" on parents that let their kids see them. It doesn't help that she claims the genre isn't her cup of tea. She did eventually come out of her shell, auctioning off a signed Michael Myers mask, appearing as a guest at a horror convention (though she said it's the only one she'll do), recorded audio commentaries for the original Halloween and H20, spoke with John Carpenter at a screening of the original film, and co-starred on Scream Queens (2015), playing heavily on her legacy in the genre.
Jamie regrets all of the many nude scenes she's done over the course of her career.
John Cusack has said he's only made "10 good movies".
Even within the category of movies not on that list, Con Air is in a league of its own. He refuses to be interviewed about it.
Cusack apparently saw Better Off Dead while working on another Savage Steve Holland movie, One Crazy Summer, and wasn't pleased. He was reportedly furious with Holland, although other cast and crew members showed him the movie was getting favorable reviews. He appears to have mellowed on the subject somewhat in recent years.
He also does not look back fondly on his role in Hot Tub Time Machine, due to his preferring roles in more serious films. It is the most likely reason why he did not return for the sequel (apart from appearing in one deleted scene).
Timothy Dalton has a doozy in the form of the 1978 film Sextette, in which he's paired up with an 84-year-old Mae West in a film which misguidedly treats her like she's still a sex symbol. He even made fun of it on a talk show.
Years after Viola Davis starred in The Help, she has spoken openly more than once about how she regretted taking the role. Even though the film was a huge success, Davis didn't like how the film played into White Man's Burden instead of focusing on the Maids and their story on dealing with the Jim Crow South. She claimed the movie was too safe and catered to the white audience not to offend them, instead of telling the real story about how oppressive such a time really was.
Cara Delevingne is ashamed of her appearance in Tulip Fever because of bad experiences with executive producer Harvey Weinstein, who blackmailed her and threatened to ruin her career by outing her as a lesbian.
She once took a role in Grizzly II, a low budget horror film that never saw release. She becomes visibly embarrassed whenever it is brought up.
Dern also averts this trope with her role as Susan in "The Puppy Episode" of Ellen, despite the short-term damage it did to her career. Dern is good friends with Ellen Degeneres, acknowledges the positive effect the episode had on the LGBT rights movement and to this day states she is proud to have done it.
Considering Leonardo Dicaprio thanked Michael Caton-Jones for his "first film", even though This Boys Life was actually his third film, it seems like he's not fond of either Critters 3 or Poison Ivy. In fairness to the latter, he was just an extra in it.
Angie Dickinson appeared naked in Big Bad Mama, but in later life claimed that she had never, and would never, do nude scenes. Accordingly, Son of Golden Turkey Awards gives her a nomination for Most Embarrassing Nude Scene, despite Dickinson looking good in the scenes.
Robert Downey Jr. revealed his dislike for his work on U.S. Marshals, claiming that it was "the worst action film of all time", and said that he would rather wake up in jail for a TB test than have to wake up another morning knowing that he'd be going to the set of that movie.
Richard Dreyfuss admitted that he was disappointed in W. while appearing on The View, saying that it was "6/8 of a good film" and called the film's director Oliver Stone a fascist. Stone eventually retorted that working with Dreyfuss was the single worst experience he ever had with an actor in his life.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus doesn't think highly of her film debut Troll, when Jay Leno showed her a clip of one of her scenes of her running around in an ivy bikini, she was visibly embarrassed.
Faye Dunaway genuinely thought she would win an Oscar for Mommie Dearest. Needless to say, she was not pleased with the Parody Retcon and has been known to stop interviews if asked about the film.
Irene Dunne disowned her earliest screen role as the female lead of Leathernecking, the lost movie version of the Rodgers and Hart musical Present Arms.
Aaron Eckhart once encountered a fan buying a copy of The Core at a video store, and attempted to talk the guy into spending his money on something else.
Zac Efron has stated to Men's Fitness magazine that he regrets taking part in the High School Musical movies and wishes that he could go back and tell his teenage self not to do them, even though they are ironically his Star-Making Role.
R. Lee Ermey hated working on The Riftnote aka Endless Descent, calling it "the number one" on his "piece of shit movie" list. It's a Spanish-made entry in the 1989-90 rash of underwater peril movies. If you insist on seeing this, be warned - it was directed by the man who gave us (without asking if we wanted them) Pod PeopleandSupersonic Man.
Colin Firth isn't too fond of the films Playmaker and Trauma. He only made the former to be closer to his son (who was living in Los Angeles at the time) and with the latter, he was so embarrassed to be involved with the film that he attended a screening in secret just to see how bad it was (he was later relieved to find himself being the only one in the theater watching the film).
Jason Flemynghas said the only film he'd erase from his filmography is Seed of Chucky - "I was dressed as Santa, getting killed by a doll, on a set in Romania, thinking: ‘Where did it go wrong?’"
Jane Fonda revealed on Watch What Happens Live that the worst film she ever did was In The Cool Of The Day, claiming it was so bad, in fact, she wasn't certain if it had been released and wished it had never been filmed.
John Ford hated The Plough And The Stars (1936), a passion project ruined by Executive Meddling. Ford even walked off the set, forcing assistant directors to finish shooting the movie, loudly proclaiming that RKO "ruined the damned thing."
20th Century Fox and Seltzer and Friedberg are ashamed of Date Movie, even to the point where Fox got 2 film critics to do a commentary for the movie where they make fun of it and Seltzer and Friedberg kept apologizing for it during their commentary. Weirdly enough, Seltzer and Friedberg's movies got even worse reviews yet they didn't apologize for it over the commentary nor did Fox get film critics to make fun of it in a commentary.
In his first autobiography Lucky Man, he looked back on Teen Wolf with a great deal of embarrassment. Hence explaining why he refused to do the sequel (which, curiously, neither star Jason Bateman nor scriptwriter Tim Kring talks about much nowadays).
Fox also isn't proud of most of the films he made after his Parkinson's diagnosis, because during that time his thinking was, "I'd better do as many movies as I can before I can no longer act", and started accepting roles for movies that, in the end, weren't very good.
Jamie Foxx has said that his time working on Stealth wasn't even that good, but admits he was glad he didn't have to lie and say it was good while making this movie.
He once called Your Highness a piece of shit in an interview. On his Comedy Central roast, he likened it to the roast, saying it's "homophobic, vulgar, has untalented actors, is only a big deal to 15 year olds, and won't be remembered in three months."
In 1980, following the success rival gag magazine National Lampoon had had with Animal House, William M. Gaines, founder and then-publisher of MAD, allowed the magazine's name to be used in MAD Magazine Presents: Up the Academy. Gaines, upon the film's release, was so disgusted with the finished product (which included the non-ironic use of racist jokes, as well as coarse language and sexual content Gaines would never allow to be published in his magazine) that he paid $50,000 to have all references to the Magazine removed, including a statue of Alfred E. Neuman that was prominently featured in the academy square. Gaines even parodied the film in his magazine as Mad Magazine Resents Throw Up the Academy◊. The spoof lasts just two pages before ending with a series of memos between Gaines and the editors, the writer and the artist (whose names are all intentionally scribbled out) agreeing just to stop the article, even though they had only covered the first twenty minutes of the film.
Zach Galifianakis says that he has few regrets in his life, but wishes that he hadn't signed on to do sequels to The Hangover.
Jennifer Garner revealed that she felt that Elektra was awful, according to her Alias co-star Michael Vartan. He said that she told him that she only did that movie because it was in her contract thanks to Daredevil.
I think it's soft and corny, and the soundtrack makes you want to puke, and everybody's dressed in Banana Republic clothing. The original script and the original intent was very different than what it wound up being when it became a studio commercial film. It was originally supposed to be a small-budget independent film where there would be much more complexity to all the characters, and Abby (Garofalo's character) and the guy don't wind up together at the end.
He was so ashamed of his role in The Million Dollar Hotel that he fought to prevent it from being released to theaters in the U.S.
He also wasn't too keen on his role in The River, which he felt he was miscast for.
Whoopi Goldberg disowned 1987's The Telephone (she even tried to keep it from being released). As one American critic noted, this was the same year as Burglar and Fatal Beauty. She was also ashamed of starring in Theodore Rex, which Goldberg tried to walk out of after reading the script, but was forced to stay on after its studio threatened her with a lawsuit.
Matthew Goode:
He came to dislike his role in Leap Year, saying the only reason he did that movie was so that he could visit his family more often.
Hugh Grant has admitted that he regretted doing the film Nine Months, because it was distributed by 20th Century Fox, which is owned by News Corporation, the same company which owned News of the World, whose demise via the phone hacking scandal was helped along by Grant. He said that he would never work with the studio ever again.
Gunn also regrets a series of tweets he made in 2008 which initially led to Disney severing all ties with him and firing him from directing Guardians of the Galaxy 3 prior to being reinstated as director later.
Larry Hankin is not a fan of Billy Madison. He mainly disliked it because he didn't like the type of humor used in the movie, he didn't find Adam Sandler very appealing as a person (saying he found him too crude and immature), and his friend was fired from the movie.
Hanks dislikes Bachelor Party, Dragnet, and almost every other comedy film made during his "starving artist" phase of the '80s (Splash and Big being obvious exceptions). There's a reason Tom Hanks Syndrome is named for him.
When asked in an interview what film he wished he could remove from his resume, his response was The Man with One Red Shoe. He even went as far as calling it “a dog”.
When Tom Hanks was asked in a 1989 interview with “Playboy” to give his thoughts on The Man With One Red Shoe, he had this to say:
”Not a very good movie. It doesn’t have any real, clear focus to it. It isn’t about anything particularly that you can honestly understand. It made no money at all.“
Daryl Hannah has never seen Wall Street. She said in an interview that it was a "rough experience" and she and Oliver Stone had an "unhealthy working relationship". At the time of filming she accused Stone of being a misogynist. She said "film is a collaborate medium. Sometimes you hook up with people you don't collaborate well with."
When asked in a 2010 interview with ''The Guardian'' what the lowest point in her career was, Daryl said it was starring in a bunch of Direct to Video movies in the 2000s, which she only did for the cash:
With the exception of Blade Runnernote which Hannah considered to be her “career high point”, she does not look fondly at any of the films she appeared in prior to her star-making role in Splashnote Those films being The Fury, Hard Country, Summer Lovers, The Final Terror, and Reckless. In fact, whenever it was brought up in interviews, Daryl would become embarrassed and apologize for starring in them:
Marcia Gay Harden doesn't speak highly about her role in Spy Hard. She doesn't even include it on her official website. She would say that while she enjoyed working with Leslie Nielsen, the production was behind schedule and overbudget. Harden thought that the movie would be a great opportunity to have some fun, but she didn't find the movie very funny. She also said that when people mention the film to her, she'll attest to not really seeing it in whole. All that she knew was that her character, Miss Cheevus, was supposed to be sexy, but she didn't know if she even was to begin with.
Actor and Youtuber Brandon Hardesty, known for his Youtube reenactments and the documentary series No Small Parts, admits he is not proud of Bucky Larson Born To Be A Star and claims to have walked out of it halfway through to see Contagion (2011) instead.
Hardy has never been charitable about Star Trek: Nemesis (as explained in the "Multiple Examples" section), as the film's poor box office performance and critical drubbing stalled out his career for a long time and made him feel suicidal.
He has stated in interviews that, unless the right script comes along, This Means War (2012) has put him off doing romantic comedies for a long time. It didn't help that he didn't enjoy filming it.
He admits that Taking Lives was "terrible", but said that he enjoyed working with Angelina Jolie and described her as the best actress he kissed on film.
He also severely dissed Great Expectations, calling it a "lousy experience". He added that he felt he had been talked into making this film, something he realized about a month into shooting which was then too late for him to pull out. Incidentally the film's director, Alfonso Cuarón, expressed nearly identical regrets about the film, later calling it "a complete failed film" and also saying he should not have allowed himself to be talked into making it.
Brigitte Helm, who is best remembered for playing Maria and the robot in Fritz Lang's silent film epic Metropolis, refused to talk about the movie in her later years, going as far as to deny that she was in it. This may have to do with the fact that the robot costume was extremely uncomfortable for her to wear, causing her several injuries.
Walter Hill distanced himself from the experience of making Supernova, eventually creating the name "Thomas Lee" to avoid his involvement.
Alfred Hitchcock called his 1948 film Rope "an experiment that didn't work out" before disowning it. (Based on the play of the same name, was trying to capture the feel of a theatrical play with a movie, and shot the 80-minute movie in real-time. The movie was made with only ten takes, and some of them lasted over ten minutes.
Dustin Hoffman was critical about the finished product on Sphere. Given that pre-production was so extensive that it allowed him and director Barry Levinson to make the much more liked Wag the Dog (which even got Hoffman an Oscar nom!), it's not hard to blame him.
Interviewer: What is the worst job you've done? Bob Hoskins: Super Mario Brothers. Interviewer: What has been your biggest disappointment? Bob Hoskins: Super Mario Brothers. Interviewer: If you could edit your past, what would you change? Bob Hoskins: I wouldn't do Super Mario Brothers.
Howard Hughes felt very guilty over his decision to film The Conqueror miles away from the Nevada test site where nuclear devices are tested. It is believed that the location had dangerous material in the air that led to many of the crews' deaths, including John Wayne. The film was poorly acted and was considered one of the worst films ever made. It is also believed that Hughes had watched this film endlessly on television during the last few years of his life (possibly due to his obsessive compulsiveness).
He's also not fond of Damage, saying he doesn't think the film's director Louis Malle writes upper class Englishmen very well.
Katharine Isabelle has stated on multiple occasions that she didn't like Freddy vs. Jason. She also didn't get along with Director Ronny Yu, stating that he tried to force her to do nude scenes against her will.
On top of its Troubled Production, Donald G. Jackson openly hated his first movie, The Demon Lover, from its inception since its occult themes strongly went against his Christian viewpoints. Don claimed that he only made the movie out of peer pressure by co-director Jerry Younkins who saw how popular demonic horror films were during the '70s and wouldn't finance his first picture otherwise. Up until his death in 2003, Don would frequently claim Demon Loverwas a parody of horror films of the time, even though a quick viewing of the movie would say otherwise.
Victoria Jackson (best remembered for playing Dumb Blonde characters on Saturday Night Live) appeared naked in Casual Sex (with Lea Thompson). Jackson is a conservative Christian. She is not very proud of being in that movie.
Taliesin Jaffe, a much-beloved anime scriptwriter and director (known for the Hellsing dubs), and a small internet sensation through his character on Critical Role, started as a child actor. Most notably, he was in Mr. Mom as Kenny - the kid withThe Woobie. When the Woobie is brought up as a joke on Critical Role, he shakes his head and says, "We do not use the "W" word."
"I watch it every night... when I want to go to sleep."
Angelina Jolie doesn't have anything good to say about Cyborg 2, revealing that after she saw that movie, it made her get sick after heading back to her home.
Animator David Kcenich admitted on Facebook that he doesn't think too highly of Cool World and blamed the film's not being very good on its Troubled Production.
"I actually worked on it. Sure it was bad and had a ton of problems with the story but there are so many behind the scene problems that lead to it being so bad. Despite all the negative comments about Ralph Bakshi he gave a lot of artists their first break into an industry that was in a state of flux in The '90s. There were story issues and so many changes and budget problems that it's a surprising it even got released. There was so much really good animation cut out from the original version after the rating change. The working conditions were horrible. I actually worked in a closet for most of the film. Half the crew was gone when the whole Super Hero guy was added to the ending. Sure Ralph had issues and studio conflicts but he gave an unemployed artist a job when he was about to give up his dream of being an animator. Sure it was difficult explaining the plot to my family and I did tell them not to see it but before you tear into a film just remember there might be some behind the scene shit that lead to it being the way it is. It is hard to sit through I agree but there is some really good animation in it. It's really bad but it isn't the worst."
Margot Kidder didn't realize that Tribulation (the third movie in the Left Behind knockoff Apocalypse series) was Christian propaganda until she was nearly through filming. Apparently (and understandably) she didn't understand the plot until the end, when the Anti-Christ goes on a Motive Rant. Margot Kidder was an avowed atheist. People coming up to her and praising her work in said movie was a Berserk Button for her.
I can't look at this movie and be proud of what I've done...It's just impossible for me to connect to it emotionally at all.
If you want to embarrass her, mention BMX Bandits.
Stephen King made Maximum Overdrive because after all the film adaptations of his work, he had come to believe only he should direct adaptations of his work. His trailer for the film promised it would be the best adaptation yet and would terrify audiences. Unfortunately, the film was poorly received. He initially tried to double back and claim it was meant to be a parody, but later admitted that the film really wasn't that good, and it only served to prove he can mess up just as bad as other directors.
While promoting Iron Man 3 on BBC Radio 2, Ben Kingsley didn't like it when a listener mentioned meeting him while filming The 5th Monkey, because he thought the film was dreadful (as do most people who've seen it).
Tommy Kirk regrets most of the films he appeared in toward the end of his career, notably Mars Needs Women, calling it "undoubtedly one of the stupidest motion pictures ever made. How I got talked into it, I don't know." He also said of Its A Bikini World, "It was... basically the end of my career, one of the worst pieces of shit that I've ever been in in my life. I can't believe that I could be so stupid. Poor Deborah Walley, poor me." He says he only did the films because he had spent all his money on drugs.
Kris Kristofferson was scornful about his role in No Place To Hide. When fans asked him about this film, he would told them that he doesn't remember even shooting it.
While German pop star Daniel Küblböck has mixed feelings about his early musical work, he's been far more scathing of his first (and so far, only) starring role, Daniel: Der Zauberer, which he described as "the worst movie ever made" in an interview five years after its release.
Stanley Kubrick was embarrassed about his first feature film, Fear And Desire; he called it "a bumbling amateur film exercise" and tried to obtain all known prints in order to prevent it from ever being seen again.
"I know exactly what films I've done that fucking suck donkey. And I know the ones that are good, that people like. And I know it not because of the box office, because the box office is not going to tell you the truth. I know it because I have friends that don't hold back. They don't depend on me for money or employment. They're just friends. Friends tell the truth."
John Landis, as everyone knows, inserts the phrase "see you next Wednesday" in each of his films, often as the title of an imaginary movie. He explains that it's the title of a script he wrote in his youth which shall never see the light of day.
Jessica Lange revealed in an interview that she didn't like Hush (1998), acknowledging it as a "piece of shit".
She also severely dissed Losing Isaiah, claiming that she talked herself into doing this film as she hadn't worked in awhile, and knew that the entire result of it didn't feel right.
Lange also didn't had a good experience making Everybodys All American, nor did she get along with director Taylor Hackford.
Laurel and Hardy didn't speak too highly of their later films for 20th Century Fox and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Laurel in particular was displeased with the lack of creative input he had on the movies. Hardy did seem to at least enjoy 1943's Jitterbugs, as he reportedly included it among his top five favorite movies.
Laurel also didn't enjoy his experience on Atoll K, the duo's final movie. The chaotic production was only made worse when Laurel became quite ill in the middle of shooting. He later described the film as "an abortion."
Jude Law has admitted in interviews that he didn't enjoy the remake of Alfie.
He also wasn't a fan of Music From Another Room, stating that it was the only film that he did for the money.
Before the release of Winter's Bone, a teenage Jennifer Lawrence starred in a crappy, generic horror film called House at the End of the Street. It sat on The Shelf of Movie Languishment until three years later when The Hunger Games became a massive box office success and the studio decided to release it to capitalize on Lawrence's newfound fame. While she didn't promote the film and is clearly ashamed of it (and with good reason), the studio's plan worked as House was a box office success solely because of Lawrence.
David Lean all but disowned his movie Madeleine (1950), which he made as a sop to then-wife Ann Todd. The fractious dissolution of their marriage probably played a role, though Lean was unsatisfied with the movie even at the time.
In his book Why We Suck, he provides a side-by-side photo of himself and Willem Dafoe, explaining that people seem to think they look alike. He goes on to comment:
I apologize if every time I hear "You were great in Spider-Man" note The first one, starring Tobey Maguire. The book was written before his appearance in the reboot film, he has to hear "Why the fuck did you do Operation: Dumbo Drop?"
Janet Leigh said she starred in Night of the Lepus because it was shot near her home, and meant less time away from her family, adding "I've forgotten as much as I could about that picture."
John Lennon hated Help! when he looked back on it. In fact, the band as a whole wasn't too fond of the end product, feeling they were extras in their own movie.
Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant said that most of their films were not meant to be Oscar-worthy (they wouldn't make any money that way) and have little artistic value, but thought that Herbie: Fully Loaded doesn't speak for them as they grew tired with an executive who made strange demands (such as a request that Herbie be able to smile) and distanced themselves from it during production. They also admitted that Taxi didn't go very well either, although they were perplexed because the movie performed well in test screenings.
He resented having ever worked on The Day the Clown Cried, and the film has since become infamous for never having been seen by more than half a dozen people.
Lewis has also said that Hollywood Or Bust is the only one of his movies that he refused to watch, due to the sad memories of his feud with costar and comedy partner Dean Martin during production.
For How Did You Get In? We Didn't See You Leave, he stated that as long as he had control over distribution, the film and another that he made in Europe would never get a US release (no word has emerged since his passing).
Astrid Lindgren was dissatisfied with the 1949 film adaptation of Pippi Longstocking due to Viveca Serlachius, then 26 years old, playing the eponymous 9-year-old character and how her stories were changed. As such, Lindgren would scripting most of the later film adaptations of her works.
In response to a fan who mentioned watching I Know Who Killed Me two times, one of Lindsay Lohan's posts on Twitter was "two times too many".
Jon Lovitz revealed that he and the rest of cast didn't enjoy making Trapped In Paradise. They jokingly referred to it as "Trapped in Bullshit".
Linda Lovelace, the famous '70s porn star, went on to become an anti-pornography activist who regarded her entire porn career as this. She stated that she was coerced into doing porn by her abusive husband Chuck Traynor, including being forced to perform sex acts on a dog, and that she had a gun pointed at her head on the set of Deep Throat (her most famous film) and was, for all intents and purposes, being raped during the production of that film.
For the longest time, Rob Lowe did not acknowledge the film Tommy Boy, to the point of leaving it off of his resume. When the film became a Cult Classic though is only when he became more willing to admit to his role in the film.
Natasha Lyonne once said (in a 2001 Teen People interview) that her appearance on Pee-wee's Playhouseas a little girl was this for her.
Madonna would just as soon people forget her first movie, A Certain Sacrifice, which she made before she became famous. She also tried to prevent it from being released.
She has said she regrets taking part in Pan, especially after the ensuing racial controversy over her playing a character that is supposed to be Native American.
The Marx Brothers' first movie ever, Humor Risk, is a cobbled-together silent mishmash of their vaudeville routines. Groucho apparently hated it so much that he burned it after viewing. At any rate, it doesn't exist any more.
Groucho Marx didn't think much of the team's last three movies for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - At The Circus,Go West, and The Big Store. At the very least, Groucho did seem to enjoy "Lydia, the Tattooed Lady," a song from At the Circus that he continued to use as part of his repertoire for years.
Groucho only agreed to do Love Happy, a vehicle for his other brothers, because the producers refused to finance it unless all three Marx Brothers were featured. He gave the film no mention in his autobiography Groucho and Me.
Kelly McGillis despises her work in Cat Chaser and said that she did not have a good experience making the film.
Rose McGowan didn't particularly care for Monkeybone saying that, if Henry Selick hadn't been fired half way through making the movie, it would've been much better.
The Mummy (2017) is this for one of its screenwriters, Christopher McQuarrie. He even flat told someone◊ to never emulate it or write anything like it when they asked for writing advice, very bluntly saying “Don’t write The Mummy”.
Eva Mendes calls Exit Wounds a terrible movie, after learning that her lines were dubbed by another actress when the producers told her that her voice didn't sound intelligent enough.
Tim Miller regrets directing Terminator: Dark Fate, saying he was "wrong" about his "rock-hard nerd belief" that he had made a good movie which would do well and acknowledging it as the probable Franchise Killer for the Terminator series.
Kylie Minogue has admitted that appearing in Bio-Dome was her worst career move, and said that it is the only thing she has done in her professional life that her father ridicules her for.
Rhona Mitra has said she had a terrible time in Beowulf (1999), adding that everyone advised her not to do the movie.
In her memoir Inside Out, Demi Moore revealed that she regretted starring in The Butcher's Wife, saying she only did it to increase her fee following the success of Ghost (1990).
Roger Moore wasn't too pleased with his final James Bond film A View to a Kill. He said, "I was horrified on the last Bond I did. Whole slews of sequences where Christopher Walken was machine-gunning hundreds of people. I said 'That wasn't Bond, those weren't Bond films.' It stopped being what they were all about. You didn't dwell on the blood and the brains spewing all over the place." His use of the plural "those weren't Bond films" suggests he also disowns other Bond films of his, though he didn't specify which. He also hated scenes where Bond is chauvinistic or sleeps with a woman a fraction of his age. (One of his motivators for quitting the role was having a Bond Girl who was young enough to be his daughter - literally so, as he discovered much to his disgust that he was actually older than the girl's mother.)
He also didn't like The Quest, saying that it was his least favorite of all the films he made.
He got an apparent wake-up call after doing the 1996 bomb Big Bully, which led to him going on a lengthy hiatus to raise his children due to his wife's death years before.
On the last couple of movies I made-big-budget Hollywood movies — I really missed being able to create my own material. In the early movies I did, I was brought in to basically rewrite my stuff, whether it was Ghostbusters or Spaceballs''. By the time I got to the point where I was “starring” in movies, and I had executives telling me what lines to say, that wasn't for me. I’m really not an actor. I’m a guy who comes out of comedy, and my impetus was always to rewrite the line to make it funnier, not to try to make somebody’s precious words work.
He also hated doing Streets of Fire mainly because he wasn't allowed to improvise.
Chloë Grace Moretz has expressed regret over her participation in I Love You Daddy, conceding that in hindsight, a movie about an aging director seducing a teenager is not the sort of story Hollywood should be telling right now. She has openly expressed her hope that the film will remain shelved indefinitely.
In an interview in the book The Anatomy of Fear: Conversations with Cult Horror and Science Fiction Film Creators, Glen Morgan had little nice to say about his experience writing and directing Black Christmas (2006), insisting that there was so much Executive Meddling from the Weinstein brothers that they may as well have been the film's real creators.
Kate Mulgrew expressed regret for providing her voice for The Principle not long after the trailer was released and it became clear she'd been duped into narrating a geocentrist Documentary of Lies. As she is not a geocentrist, she made a public statement explaining that she was misled about the topic, describing herself as "a voice for hire, and a misinformed one, at that", and that she would have rejected the project outright had she been aware that Robert Sungenis, an infamous anti-science and Holocaust-denying traditionalist Catholic conspiracy theorist, was involved.
Zombieland: Double Tap takes it one step further, with a mid-credits scene showing Murray promoting Garfield 3: Flabby Tabby on the day of the zombie virus breakout.
Lili Estefan: Why in the world ... Garfield 3?
Bill Murray: Drugs cost money.
While promoting Coming to America, Eddie Murphy 'fessed up to hating Best Defense 1984 and The Golden Child; since he later refused to do any promotion for The Adventures of Pluto Nash, it's safe to say he has no warm feelings for this one either (a view shared by Alec Baldwin, who took his name off the credits). He also hates Beverly Hills Cop III as he felt it ruined the character of Axel Foley and he admitted that money was his main motivation for doing that film in the first place. In fact, he's spoken negatively about all his pre-Nutty Professor films from the 90s. Besides Beverly Hills Cop III, he has disowned Vampire in Brooklyn, also an Old Shame of director Wes Craven. Murphy also admitted by regretting he did Holy Man when he appeared on a talk show.
His acting debut was in a historical epic called The Silver Chalice, which was a total commercial and critical failure. Years later the film was scheduled to run several nights on a Los Angeles TV station, and Newman spent $1200 on black-bordered newspaper ads reading "Paul Newman apologizes every night this week–Channel 9."
He also admitted that When Time Ran Out... was another misstep in his career. When asked by Larry King on what was the worst film he ever did, Newman referred to it as "that volcano movie". On the bright side, the contractually obligated When Time Ran Out... provided him with the seed money to start Newman's Own, his successful charity and food business, which he is far less ashamed of.
Thomas Ian Nicholas has said this about A Kid In Aladdins Palace, and said the part with him on a flying carpet was particularly embarrassing.
Edward Norton never wanted to be in The Italian Job (2003), and only did so because it was part of a contract with Paramount that had landed him the role of his much more acclaimed Fight Club. Even then, he might have turned it down if he hadn't been threatened with a lawsuit.
David O. Russell disowned Accidental Love which is initially his 2008 failed project, Nailed. He even used the Alan Smithee approach to distance himself from it. Everyone who read the synopsis and watched the film understood his decision.
Rosie O'Donnell disliked the final result of Exit to Eden, calling it "terrible" and refused to go promote the film.
Actor Miles O'Keeffe considers the Ator trilogy, one of which was The Blade Master, as an embarrassment. There's a rumor that, when he learned that Mystery Science Theater 3000 mocked the movie under its "Cave Dwellers" title, he offered the crew to a drink on him if they ever met. When a viewer of the TNT monster movie block Monstervision requested the trilogy, the host told them that the last time they aired the trilogy, O'Keeffe wrote them, politely letting them know that he considered the movies an embarrassment and to please not air them again. They complied.
On this Facebook post, he admitted that To Rome with Love was "the biggest mistake of my career" due to knowing about the sexual assault allegations against Woody Allen and taking the role anyway.
He also describes his unpleasant experience working on X-Men: The Last Stand, particularly the homophobic and misogynistic remarks made by director Brett Ratner, who outed him as gay to the cast and crew (he wouldn't come out publicly until 2014).
Page expressed regret for a line in Juno where his character says the name "Madison" is "kinda gay".
Jessica Paré, a respected actress most known for playing Megan Draper in Mad Men, also appears in the first Hot Tub Time Machine... where she spends her entire screentime naked and having sex with one of the characters, with one redband trailer featuring her doing nothing but showing off her large breasts. She doesn't talk about this movie very much.
Alan Parker admitted he didn't want to direct Pink Floyd: The Wall. The Troubled Production where Roger Waters tried to Wag the Director didn't help matters, leading Parker to describe the movie as "the most expensive student film ever made".note Waters acknowledges this in the DVD commentary, when Gerald Scarfe asks him about his relationship with Parker during the film and he responds, "What relationship"?{
Veteran voice actor Rob Paulsen rather disliked his film debut (and one of his few onscreen acting roles), Eyes Of Fire, particularly his performance (and his attempt at an Irish accent).
Sean Penn did not enjoy working on Shanghai Surprise opposite then-wife Madonna, saying that he made a vow to himself never to discuss that movie for the rest of his life.
Anthony Perkins was regretful of Psycho III, which he directed and starred in. He also proclaimed that he made some terrible movies (pre and post Psycho), although kept mum about which ones he considered bad.
Brad Pitt is not a big fan of appearing in The Devil's Own, calling it "the most irresponsible bit of filmmaking - if you can even call it that - that I've ever seen."
He also wishes he could wipe off the teen horror film Cutting Class off his resume.
It shouldn't be surprising that Donald Pleasence once declared The Pumaman the worst movie he ever took part in.
Iggy Pop didn't care for Snow Day, saying that having to do a scene where he stuck his hand in a toilet bowl made him quit acting for a while.
Michelle Pfeiffer is this towards Grease 2 which, despite being her breakout role, nearly cost her a part in Scarface (1983). She does like to joke about it however, saying she showed it to her kids and they turned it off after twenty minutes. I Could Never Be Your Woman is borderline as, while she views it as a disappointment, she says she still enjoyed making it.
Daniel Radcliffe has stated that he is not a fan of the first two Harry Potter movies, finding them hard to watch due to the embarrassment he feels of his younger self's acting. But he actually feels that the sixth film is the one featuring his worst performance. (He later admitted that he had few memories of filming parts of the last films thanks to alcohol abuse, and could tell just by looking at himself on screen.)
He disowned Crimewave due to the film's troubled production and it being recut by Columbia.
He's also admitted Spider-Man 3 was not very good. Part of the reason the franchise was rebooted was because he demanded more lead time and creative control in order to make sure Spider-Man 4 didn't have the same problems.
Ronald Reagan had nothing good to say about the 1947 film That Hagen Girl, the premise of which involved Reagan's character being assumed to be the illegitimate father of the newly-arrived title character played by Shirley Temple, with the two—after it's proven Reagan's character isn't the father—eventually marrying. When Reagan entered politics, nearly all prints were suppressed, not returning until after Reagan's time as President ended. During filming Reagan was hospitalized with viral pneumonia after repeated takes of a scene in which Reagan dove into a river during a storm to save Temple's character from a suicide attempt. Also not helping was his marriage being under strain at the time: first wife Jane Wyman had lost their youngest child, daughter Christine, shortly after birth in June 1947, which contributed to their divorce the next year.
The RedLetterMedia crew members are pretty ashamed of all of their feature films, with good reason, but they're particularly ashamed of Gorilla, Interrupted, the amateur film that first got the core group of Mike Stoklasa, Rich Evans and Jay Bauman working together. Made when they were all around 20, over the course of a week, with no budget, under extremely unpleasant circumstances, the film is pretty bad and was largely forgotten about for 10 years. Once RLM started getting some traction, however, they dusted off the film as artifact of RLM history and made a George Lucas Altered Version with some updated special effects. To make their opinion on the film as clear as possible, they packaged it with a making-of documentary, How Not to Make a Movie: The Making of Gorilla, Interrupted and explain why it's so bad.
Before Superman IV (covered in the "Multiple Creators" section), Christopher Reeve had felt so ashamed by Superman III that he swore he'd never play Superman again. It took lots of persuasion to bring Reeve back for Superman IV, which sadly didn't turn out much better.
He has said that he doesn't like The Watcher, saying the reason why he did that film was that a friend of his forged a signature on a contract, and he wasn't allowed to bash the movie while promoting it until after its release.
He's apologised for his legendarily bad performance in Bram Stoker's Dracula - where he was cast just to draw in Squeeing fan girls. He explains his terrible attempt at an English accent as resulting from exhaustion over the films he had previously been working on - "I just didn't have anything left to give."
He had nothing but disdain about making Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters and found the production such a negative experience that he took a sabbatical from acting for a short time afterwards. People noted that he looked miserable while promoting the film.
He had a bad time making The Avengers, as he felt he was misled about how much screen time and characterization Hawkeye would be getting. He even joked about offering to be killed off during filming so that he could get out of the movie.
Ryan Reynolds says he didn't have a good time making Green Lantern (2011), and Deadpool even contains a couple of Take Thats to it. Deadpool 2 even contains a post-credits scene where Deadpool goes back in time to kill Reynolds before he accepts the script for Green Lantern.
UHF is a touchy subject for Michael Richards, who played Stanley the Janitor. However, he was a good enough sport to do the commentary on the DVD (though he only did commentary for about half an hour's worth of the film).
Molly Ringwald has stated that she would very much like to forget the 1988 teen pregnancy film For Keeps ever existed, feeling that it glamorized teen pregnancy. She had signed on thinking that it would be the exact opposite (at least according to the original script).
Jean Rollin, best known as a writer/director of surreal horror films, also directed a string of pornographic films under pseudonyms in the mid-seventies through the eighties. He enjoyed the process of making the films because of the people he worked with note enough so that he largely cast adult film stars in his horror film La Nuit des Traquées (The Night of the Hunted), but didn't like the films themselves, with Phantasmes (aka Once Upon A Virgin) being his only film in the genre that he liked enough to put his own name on.
George A. Romero is not proud of his second film, There's Always Vanilla. He said at the time he wanted to do something other than horror, he considers it the worst movie he ever made and that his writer didn't know what he was doing.
Emmy Rossum says that, while she does not regret making it, she did not care for Dragonball Evolution. She even said that, while she was filming it, she got drunk and had to watch various TV shows to find something more entertaining than the movie she was making.
He's not fond of his experience working on Iron Man 2. He even publicly bashed the film while promoting Immortals.
Paul Rudd isn't proud of his first film, Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers. Although he feels the film could have been good if it followed Daniel Farrands' original script, he found the final product to be very poor and allegedly offers a refund to anyone who says they paid to see it.
Shortly after Babe Ruth signed with the New York Yankees, he was asked to star in a film chronicling his story called Headin' Home. He didn't have fond memories of Headin' Home due his teammates and coaches making fun of him for showing up to batting practice covered in makeup. His paycheck also bounced after it flopped at the box office.
Katee Sackhoff does not think highly of Halloween: Resurrection, her first feature film performance. When she sat down eighteen years later to watch the film for the first time, she was embarrassed by her performance, which she felt was a bad Cher Horowitz impression. In particular, she recounted a scene where her character Jen flashes her bra for the camera, which wasn't in the script and which she was not comfortable doing, leading the filmmakers to go behind her back and use a body double for the scene — an experience that led her to include a strict "no nudity" clause in all of her contracts going forward. The only nice thing she said about her performance was that she screamed really well, even noting that she had dubbed over her co-star Bianca Kajlich's screams in some parts.
Adam Sandler's official website's filmography page doesn't includeGoing Overboard, and when it airs on pay cable Sandler's name isn't even mentioned in the guide listings for the film.
Rob Schneider said that he only did movies like The Reef because his friend works on them. He also didn't care for Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo, which became a Star-Derailing Role for Schneider in part to him engaging in verbal fights with Roger Ebert and fellow critic Patrick Goldstein in defending the film. (He later reconciled with Ebert.)
His first movie, Hercules Goes Bananas, AKAHercules in New York, in which he appeared under the name of "Arnold Strong" and his voice was dubbed over. According to an old interview with Arnie, both were the result of Executive Meddling. The film was so bad its rights were sold on eBay.
Arnold has also mentioned that when his children would misbehave, he used to punish them by making them watch the Red Sonja film (in which he was a main character).
As the Governator, he threatened to force the legislature of California to watch Jingle All the Way 13 times if they couldn't come up with a budget.
Like most celebrities who did Japanese commercials before the internet, he worked hard to ensure that they never reached the West, since pitching products was considered beneath the dignity of A-list stars. Nowadays, the stigma has all but vanished, which is fortunate, because the internet prevents anything from staying a secret.
In a weird case of being ashamed of a film he wasn't even directly involved with, he has also made mention that he regrets allowing Terminator Salvation to use his likeness as a prototype terminator, being thankful he turned down an offer for a direct cameo and claiming "it sucked."
The main reason Paul Scofield (of A Man for All Seasons fame) did so few films was his experience with The Train (1964). The film saw director Arthur Penn being fired halfway through shooting (replaced by John Frankenheimer), a Troubled Production that ran drastically over schedule and budget, and Scofield did not warm to costar Burt Lancaster. Afterwards Scofield stuck mostly to stage work.
Seann William Scott said a guest appearance on the TV series Sweet Valley High back in the 90s was this for him, to the point that it's not even on his resume.
Jason Segel revealed in interviews that the Dracula puppet musical his character is writing in Forgetting Sarah Marshall is, in fact, based on a realDracula musical which he began writing in his youth, and the song he sings in the karaoke bar is a real song from that musical. He claims to have played a demo tape for Judd Apatow, whose only response was "You can never let anyone hear this tape." Listen for yourselves.
Michael Shannon stated (during press interviews for Man of Steel) that he wished he'd never been in Kangaroo Jack, and found the kangaroo rapping and beatboxing very scary.
Harry Shearer would rather people not know that he was a 'writer' for the movie Club Paradise (of which he claims the title was the only thing he wrote that got used in the final product). The pseudonym "Ed Roboto" is used instead of his name in the credits.
Several years afterwards, Charlie Sheen said that watching his cameo near the end of Ferris Bueller's Day Off made him want to punch himself in the mouth. He also called 1987's Three For The Road "a piece of shit that I wished didn't exist and that I was terrible in".
She has some regret towards The Blue Lagoon, disliking being seen as a sex symbol at the age of fourteen. The pressure of that was one of the reasons she didn't lose her virginity until she was twenty-two.
Averted with the film Pretty Baby. Despite the controversy around itnote She plays a child prostitute whose virginity gets sold and she appears nude briefly - at the age of twelve., she has called it "a beautiful movie" and is proud to have done it.
Yeardley Smith regrets doing a film called Ginger Ale Afternoon, describing her character as a "trailer park girl" and is regretful over appearing nude.
He has admitted in interviews that updating E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial for its 20th anniversary back in 2002 was pretty regretful, which includes scenes of the title character in CGI and the policemen's shotguns being replaced with walkie-talkies. This can easily explain why later airings of the film and the 30th anniversary DVD and Blu-Ray release no longer show the scenes with the CGI E.T. and leave the shotguns intact. The reason why he decided to edit the shotguns was because he believed they were too frightening for children, especially since he'd already became a father himself. He regretted making those changes when he noticed they were lampooned in the South Park episode "Free Hat".
He is also ashamed of 1941 (1979) to such a degree that in the original trailers for Raiders of the Lost Ark, it was the only Spielberg movie up to that point that wasn't mentioned.
In an interview on Watch What Happens Live, Meryl Streep replied that Still Of The Night was the one bad movie she made in her career. When the host asked her on what the movie is about, Streep said "never mind." in the climax, she's a Damsel in Distress.
Despite earning an Oscar nomination, Streep also admits that she didn't feel connected to her performance in The French Lieutenant's Woman.
He starred in at least one softcore porn movie before he became beloved as Rocky called Party at Kitty and Stud's. (You can hardly blame him for it, seeing as he was homeless and broke at the time.) It was re-released after the movie, re-edited and retitled The Italian Stallion. He's so ashamed of it that he was willing to pay $100,000 to even block its release. (He claimed he wouldn't buy it for even two dollars.)
Reports are that Stallone's management contacted numerous adult video stores and offered ridiculous amounts of money for their copies of the film.
Kiefer Sutherland has stated that he wants to forget that his starring and directing effort Woman Wanted ever existed (The DGA helped him on this one by letting it be one of the last films to be credited to Alan Smithee)
Mena Suvari stated in a 2001 Teen People interview that The Rage: Carrie 2 was this for her, where she played the suicidal best friend.
He doesn't like to acknowledge his directorial debut, a low budget comedy titled My Best Friends Birthday. In the publicity for Kill Bill, that movie was referred to as Tarantino's fourth film, making the disavowal of My Best Friend's Birthday official.
While proud of Kill Bill, he's admitted that he considers forcing Uma Thurman to do a car stunt she wasn't comfortable doing and getting her hurt in the process to be the biggest mistake he's ever made in his life.
Despite it being her Star-Making Role, she felt Valley of the Dolls was awful. She only did the film because she knew the buzz around the book it was based on would further her career.
She wasn't too fond of the beach party comedy Don't Make Waves - thanks to the accidental death of a stuntman during filming, and the marketing focusing entirely on her in a bikini. She derisively referred to "sexy little me".
He pokes fun at Step Up, despite it being his Star-Making Role. He responded to a fan asking "how many times is too many to watch Step Up?" with - "as many as it takes to realise how bad my acting is in it".
He despises G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. He was a fan of the original cartoon and was forced by contract to play Duke himself, which he didn't want to do. He also felt the script was lousy.
He's not fond of Jupiter Ascending either. In a Reddit Q&A a fan asked him what it was about. His response? "Good question, I have the same one myself."
Elizabeth Taylor hated her movie Butterfield 8 for several reasons,note starting with the fact that the film was a Contractual Obligation Project to fulfill her contract with MGM, that she played a High-Class Call Girl in it, and that the studio specifically chose said role for her as they (correctly) calculated that Taylor's public image as a "home-wrecker" would make it easy for audiences to associate her with the role, something Taylor was aware of, so much that the first time she saw it she took off her shoes and threw them at the movie screen. Ironically enough, she won an Oscar for it.
Charlize Theron has less than fond memories of starring in Reindeer Games, as she calls it a "bad bad movie" (and considering some of the movies on her CV, that's saying something), but admits that she enjoyed working with its director John Frankenheimer, citing it as the sole reason why she did that film.
He regarded acting in The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996) as such a terrible experience (due in part to its Troubled Production and primadonna antics from Marlon Brando) that he stated on-record that he never went to the premiere and has never watched the finished product.
He stated that he felt this way after working on Basic Instinct 2.
Eddie Kaye Thomas stated in a 2001 Teen People interview that he considers his role in Freddy Got Fingered to be this, even going as far as to call it the worst movie ever.
Guinevere Turner is ashamed of BloodRayne. She wasn't there on location to re-write the film. Uwe Boll decided to have only one draft of the script (and it shows). Guinevere saw the film in the cinema and she hated it.
Lana Turner disliked most of her films, especially her early ones, feeling she was only cast in parts that required her to look pretty, and she never felt she was being taken seriously as an actress. The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) is an exception, with her saying it was the one time she was given the chance to do some "real acting".
If you ask Jean-Claude Van Damme about his first movie role, he'd likely tell you about Ivan, the villain he played in No Retreat, No Surrender. He's probably less eager to talk about "Gay Karate Man," the short role he played in 1984's Monaco Forever. A video distributor claims Van Damme's "people" made him an offer never to release the film on videocassette. And even though the film has nothing to do with Van Damme's character, the video release features only a picture of Van Damme flexing his bicep, and the slipcover reads "And Starring Jean-Claude Van Damme as 'The Homosexual.'" If Van Damme really could re-enter the past, perhaps the negative of Monaco Forever would be his first target.
Vince Vaughn didn't go out to promote Four Christmases, after it was rumored in gossip columns and blogs that he and co-star Reese Witherspoon did not get along throughout filming, plus he had to keep a low profile while the movie was in theaters.
Denzel Washington wishes he had never done Heart Condition, claiming that he was talked into making this movie by his agent and once it was slammed by critics and bombed horribly, Washington fired him shortly thereafter.
Tuesday Weld hates Pretty Poison, a 1968 film that had a very limited release due to some Executive Meddling. The irony, though, is that Pretty Poison is regarded as an underrated gem and cult classic, and many (modern critics and fans alike) find it to be one of her best performances that deserved an Oscar nom.
The same year that Ti West had his Breakthrough Hit with the acclaimed indie horror film The House of the Devil, he also directed Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever... or rather, "directed". He experienced so much Executive Meddling on the set of the film, particularly reshoots and editing done behind his back, that he regards it as the work of Lionsgate and the producers, not his own. He even requested to have his name taken off the credits, but since he wasn't a member of the Directors Guild of America, his request was denied.
Leigh Whannell hated making Dead Silence. He blamesExecutive Meddling for watering down his and James Wan's intended vision, most notably by completely cutting the villain Mary Shaw's Tragic Backstory. Whannell not only disowned the final film, but vowed to never let a studio interfere with his writing again, and has only written spec scripts (i.e. completed ones) since. He later reused some of the scrapped elements of his original Dead Silence script for The Invisible Man (2020), such as the plot points of domestic abuse and pregnancy that were part of Mary's original motivation.
IGNFF: Is the presentation ever going to make it to DVD? Whedon: Not while there is strength in these bones. IGNFF: Well, I mean, it's one of the most heavily bootlegged things on the Internet. Whedon: Yeah. It sucks on ass. IGNFF: Yeah, it does, but it's sort of that archival, historical perspective... Whedon: Yeah, I've got your historical perspective.
He has mixed feelings on Avengers: Age of Ultron, particularly due to the Executive Meddling from the studio. However, he says that the claims that he outright dislikes the movie are exaggerated.
Bert Wheeler of the 1930s comedy team Wheeler & Woolsey didn't seem to care much for any of his films. He apparently even fell asleep during a screening of High Flyers.
Michelle Williams has disowned Species (her second film), due to the torment that she got from people at her school over playing a character that becomes a giant cocoon. She also hates her first film, Timemaster (even calling it Timewaster on set, which other cast members also took to calling it).
His first movie was an extremely un-PC 1977 sketch comedy film called Can I Do It Till I Need Glasses. Notably, his scenes were cut out before the film's first release; but just before Popeye (which he also disliked) came out, they were restored, it was re-released, and he was promoted as the star despite only having two scenes. He reportedly sued for wrongfully using his name and image, and subsequent video releases had him cut out again. It is now available on DVD uncut.
During his appearance on the Harmontown podcast, he and the hosts have a good laugh at the expense of Patch Adams, with Williams stating that it is used to depress hyperactive children, as well as riffing on the idea of a cut Kubrickian nightmare sequence involving a POV shot of a child's face with a red clown's nose in the bottom of the frame; this was based on Robin's story of an unnamed director legitimately considering whether Robin's nose should appear in a POV shot. "It'd be like having your own balls in a porn shot - why? He was just so fuckin' out there."
She disliked how Susan was rewritten during the filming of the Miracle on 34th Street remake. She was conceived as a more interesting and intelligent child, but the director kept dropping these traits to emphasize her cuteness. A lot of critics had a Sweetness Aversion to the character, which Mara herself agrees with.
She regrets her experiences on A Simple Wish, mostly because she was still dealing with her mother's death, and reflects badly on her behaviour.
Subverted with Thomas and the Magic Railroad. It was mistakenly reported that she was ashamed of it, but she later clarified that she had a stressful experience developing breasts during the shoot, and having to match continuity. In her autobiography, she says she loved working with Britt Allcroft, and that the film was fun to make.
Kurt Wimmer disowned Ultraviolet (2006) after Screen Gems recut the film behind his back. While he continued working as a screenwriter, he wouldn't direct another film for fourteen years.
Jim Wynorski, no stranger to directing exploitation films, says that the 1996 Vampirella is the only movie he regrets making due to it being an Ashcan Copy that was only made because Roger Corman's company was close to losing the rights to the character, casting decisions he disagreed with (he would have preferred Julie Strain as Vampirella instead of Talisa Soto) and the Troubled Production that included wage strikes, on-set theft, crew members being too tired to work because they went out gambling the night before, and constant heat due to filming in the middle of summer in Las Vegas.
"I produced Scary Movie 5, [and] that was so watered-down that [it] contributed to ruining the genre, as did all the Friedberg and Seltzer movies [such as Date Movie, Epic Movie, and Meet the Spartans]. [Parody] has come on hard times. They're not being done well. Scary Movie 3 and 4 did well, they made tons of money, they were huge hits. But by Scary Movie 5, it just got watered-down, we had to do what the studio required. It's why I didn't want to direct it anymore."
James Garner wrote in his memoirs that A Man Called Sledge was "one of the few times I've played a heavy and one of the last. I wish I could remember why I let Dino de Laurentiis talk me into this turkey. The poster says "Not suitable for children." It should say "not suitable for consumption."
This is why Sarah Polley walked away from Hollywood and acting in general in order to become a writer and director in her native Canada, though it was less the quality of her films and more her bad experiences making them.
In an op-ed she wrote for The New York Times in 2017 after producer Harvey Weinstein was exposed as a sexual predator, she described her experience promoting the 1998 Miramax romantic drama Guinevere that involved her being sexed up for a photoshoot even though her character in the film was anything but a Ms. Fanservice, and how Weinstein pulled her aside to make his now-infamous Casting Couch offer to her. She said that this experience was the moment when she realized that acting in Hollywood wasn't worth it as a profession.
As a director, she found that she was able to clamp down on the amount of sexism that flowed on the sets of her films, which made her even more disillusioned with acting when she tried to go back to it only to once more encounter all the sexist abuse that she did before. The Last Straw was when a producer on an unnamed film (implied to be Splice) brushed off her concerns about shooting a rape scene because twelve-year-old Dakota Fanning had shot a rape scene in Hounddog and wasn't affected by it.
Giovanni Lombardo Radice made no secret of the fact that he hated working on Cannibal Ferox and wanted absolutely nothing to do with it afterwards. For that matter he was not fond of most of his movies and admitted he was not a horror movie fan.
Robert Shaye has stated that he thought The Dream Child was a "lousy" movie.
Rooney Mara, Thomas Dekker, and the original screenwriter Eric Heisserer (who stated most of his script was changed during filming) all do not speak well of A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010). Mara in particular hated the experience and the movie so much that she seriously considered quitting acting. Robert Englund, despite being a vocal supporter of the movie during production (and perhaps one of the very few people from the original Elm Street movie/series to stay supportive), also had several big issues with the film.
BASEketball is this for both Trey Parker and Matt Stone who regretted being in the movie. Years later they even had Self-Deprecation joke on South Park about getting a refund for seeing the movie. Ernest Borgnine also called it the worst film he ever did, which is saying something considering some of the movies he has done.
Christina Lindberg, star of Thriller: A Cruel Picture, does not look back fondly on said film or any of the various sexploitation flicks and nude photoshoots she did around that time, saying that she was uncomfortable with the amount of sex and nudity involved and only took such roles to pay for her education.
Bette Davis, the leading actress of In This Our Life, later referred to it as "one of the worst films made in the history of the world."
On the DVD Commentary for Doctor in Clover, Shirley Anne Field doesn't hide her disappointment that Élisabeth Ercy was cast as Jeannine rather than a British actress such as herself and that Nicky Henson's haircut doesn't suit the boutique assistant he plays.
Norbit: Thandiwe Newton said that she was interested in the project because the original script was much darker, with more emphasis on Rasputia abusing Norbit, and that the humor was twisted. However, because of the script changes, Newton described the finished film as a "Rankin-Bass commercial". She also admitted that because of the nature of the characters played by Murphy, she interacted more with his stand-ins than with Murphy himself.
In a behind-the-scenes feature included on the DVD of The Blood on Satan's Claw, Linda Hayden stated that Exposé was the only film she regretted appearing in, saying it was not the film she had made originally.
In the leadup to Madame Web (2024)'s release, Dakota Johnson said in interviews that acting against a blue screen left her with an uneasy feeling about the movie's quality, but that she ultimately trusted S. J. Clarkson as a director. After the movie came out, she became a lot more candid, stating that she wasn't surprised that the film got "ripped to shreds" and that she "will probably never do anything like it again", feeling the film was full of "decisions made by committee".
Writer Norman Hudis looked down on Twice Round the Daffodils compared to his earlier work, Carry On Nurse, as it had flopped due to tuberculosis still being a vicious killer in the UK at the time of release.
Carry On Girls: Robert Ross reveals on the DVD Commentary that Jimmy Logan later admitted he thought Cecil Gaybody was the most embarrassing role he had ever played and was really ashamed of it.
Carry On Dick: Kenneth Williams wrote in his diary that everyone (with the exception of Jack Douglas) was so weary during the making of the film. After watching it himself, he wrote:
The script is utterly banal. It is incredible that human minds can put such muck on to paper.
Revenge of the Fallen.
Batman film franchise. One persistent, unattributed rumor is that he will give the price of admission to the film back to anybody that approaches him and says they saw it in theaters. Clooney also likes to say he played Batman gay to show his contempt for the part. Even the soundtrack of the film hates the film. Soul Coughing recorded "The Bug", which includes the repeated mantra "George Clooney is Satan." It's also worth noting that lead singer Mike Doughty hates the lyrics he wrote so much that he refused to provide them
