Sandbox / Creator Backlash Live Action Film Multiple Creators

• After Earth:
  • Will Smith felt that the film was an even bigger embarrassment than Wild Wild West because he got his son involved in it, even leading him to take a year and a half without working. That being said, he did say that the film taught him to not worry if your films don't always succeed.
  • Director M. Night Shyamalan lumped it along with The Last Airbender (which itself inspired other cases of this, as seen below) as "huge, big-budget CGI movies” that did not work and where he felt lost "and rightfully got crushed, because they rightfully said, ‘You don’t believe in yourself, you don’t believe in your own voice, and in you don’t believe in your values.’".
• Alien³, to the point that after so many years, almost everyone involved is still ashamed when it's mentioned.
  • It was the first feature film directed by David Fincher, whose experience was so horrible that he refuses to talk about it to this day, and has rejected several attempts to speak on-record for documentaries. His only comment since then has been, "No one hated (the film) more than me. To this day, no one hates it more than me."
  • Producer David Giler had harsh words for the film in the DVD documentary "Wreckage and Rage", claiming that it wasn't that scary at all and that he regrets his participation. Notably, he attempted to leave the production at one point, but was forced back by a clause in Sigourney Weaver's contract. He and co-producer Walter Hill later abandoned Fincher midway through production and forced him to rewrite the script on the fly.
  • Lance Henriksen has gone on record as saying, "FUCK Alien³!!!" He didn't shy away from this view on the commentary and documentary "Wreckage and Rage" for the DVD and Blu-Ray, both featuring him declaring the film to be nihilistic, and the latter seeing him agree with fans that by the nature of the convicts being self-admitted murderers and rapists, it's hard to root for them, and finding Ripley sleeping with Clemens to be out-of-character for her.
  • Elliot Goldenthal admitted that the score wasn't his best work, stating that he only had a week-and-a-half to compose it due to the Troubled Production and had to rush through it without thinking of the quality.
  • On the flip side, Michael Biehn does regret how he handled what happened with Hicks and the use of a photo, saying had he known Fincher would become who he is, he'd have been more accommodating in the hopes of working with Fincher on a future film.
• Alvin and the Chipmunks:
  • David Cross, who plays the main antagonist in the films, openly regrets his work on the third film Chipwrecked, recalling it to have been a terribly "unpleasant experience" and one of the worst outings of his career. This is the reason why he declined to reprise his role in The Road Chip.
  • Cameron Richardson, who played the love interest Claire in the first film, refused to do the sequels because she disliked the first movie.
• The Amazing Spider-Man Series:
  • Andrew Garfield revealed that he's not proud of his title role, explaining in an interview with Amy Adams that he had been a fan of Spidey's since he was a toddler, but learned in production that story and character development are not always the studio's top priorities, with the whole experience leaving him heartbroken in the end.
  • Sally Field also had some choice words for the films when she appeared on The Howard Stern Show. She stated that she only did the first film as a favor to her friend, Laura Ziskin (who produced the film as her final project), and regretted the experience. She later said that it was "really hard to find a three-dimensional character" while playing Aunt May, and summarized her experience as trying to put "ten pounds of shit in a five-pound bag".
• Batman & Robin:
  • George Clooney, Chris O'Donnell, and Joel Schumacher have all expressed disappointment in the film.
  • Clooney even said in interviews that if anyone approaches him and says they saw the movie at a cinema, he will refund their ticket price from his own pocket. He's also said that he keeps a giant framed portrait of himself in the Batsuit in his house as a constant reminder not to let hubris and ego get the better of him.
  • Director Joel Schumacher provided the DVD Commentary for the film. There's an awful lot of pauses and he ends the commentary 5 minutes before the credits roll. He sounds really embarrassed by this film.
  • Producer Peter MacGregor-Scott resented the Merchandise-Driven emphasis, saying "I feel if you let a filmmaker just make a good movie, you'd sell toys anyway."
• Battlefield Earth:
  • Forest Whitaker has publicly apologized for starring in the film. Then again, John Travolta was probably the only one who didn't regret starring in it.
  • Barry Pepper, who played Johnny, said that if he knew he'd win a Razzie for Worst Supporting Actor, he would've accepted it in person.
  • Screenwriter J.D. Shapiro has among other things, written an apology letter that ends with this:
  Now, looking back at the movie with fresh eyes, I can’t help but be strangely proud of it. Because out of all the sucky movies, mine is the suckiest. In the end, did Scientology get me laid? What do you think? No way do you get any action by boldly going up to a woman and proclaiming, "I wrote Battlefield Earth!” If anything, I’m trying to figure out a way to bottle it and use it as birth control. I’ll make a mint!
• Blues Brothers 2000: John Landis and Dan Aykroyd were unhappy with the changes Universal forced them to make on the film, and almost quit the project because of it.
• Caddyshack II:
  • Chevy Chase is ashamed of his participation, which he only took part in as Warner Bros. had pressured him and the other actors of the first movie into making a sequel. None of the others bowed to the pressure though, and Warner Brothers attempted to sue Rodney Dangerfield for refusing to participate after citing a lack of confidence in the script. When asked about it in a interview with David Letterman, his response was an apathetic "Yeah, Yeah I think I'm in that." Even looking at his role in the film, he seems disinterested in being there.
  • Harold Ramis (who wrote and produced the original film) also hated the sequel; once again, he only participated after Warner Brothers continued to put pressure on him.
• Both director Tinto Brass and writer turned politician Gore Vidal would like to forget about the horror that was Caligula and almost was Gore Vidal's Caligula. In fact, pretty much anyone who was involved with that production (except Helen Mirren, John Gielgud and Penthouse publisher and Caligula producer Bob Guccione) would like to forget all about it.
• Children of the Corn:
  • Charlize Theron has a sequel on her CV (Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest). Do you even have to ask what she thinks of it?
  • Naomi Watts has referred to Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering as a "piece of shit".
  • Eva Mendes' first role was in the fifth movie. She admits it's shameful.
• The Clan of the Cave Bear:
  • Daryl Hannah has said she is very glad that the low box office returns for the film meant adaptations of Jean M. Auel's other books about Ayla were out of the question.
  • If the box office hadn't sealed the fate of future movies, the fact that Auel (who was a consultant on the film and hated the finished result) sued the filmmakers and bought back the movie rights to the books did.
• Sam Worthington and Gemma Arterton have both stated in interviews that they didn't like the 2010 remake of Clash of the Titans, the latter so much that she refused to work on Wrath of the Titans.
• Vanilla Ice doesn't care for Cool as Ice. Pretty much everyone involved, up to and including the director, has expressed regret over this film.
• Both Kevin Smith and Bruce Willis hate Cop Out. Ironically, both of them fought on the set and have hated each other ever since. What didn't help matters is that Bruce refused to promote the movie.
• Harry Shearer and Michael McKean are both ashamed of a low-budget sketch film called Cracking Up they did back in The '70s.
• Daredevil:
  • Stan Lee has disowned the film, despite the fact that he only had a cameo in it, though it should be noted that his main gripe was how dark the film was, which is more akin to how Frank Miller and most others wrote the character since rather than his own tenure.
  • Ben Affleck calls it the one movie he actually regrets (largely because he loves the original comics and is disappointed it turned out the way it did).
• Pretty much all of the main cast of Deck the Halls, according to supporting actor Gillian Vigman. Kristin Chenoweth was still coping with her split from Aaron Sorkin, Danny DeVito flew in to film his scenes rather than interact with anyone, Kristin Davis was basically doing a depressing re-enactment of her character Charlotte from Sex and the City, and Matthew Broderick could be found on set shaking his head in disbelief, repeatedly stating "I've hit rock bottom."
• Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire sued to prevent the release of Don's Plum and won a partial success; the film can't be shown commercially in the United States or Canada.
• Dragonball Evolution:
  • Ben Ramsey apologized for writing the screenplay for this film, calling it a painful creative point in his life.
  • James Marsters, Piccolo's actor, said the final product wasn't very good.
• Stars Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz, and director Jim Sheridan, disowned the finished product of Dream House, with none of them going out to promote the film after Sheridan clashed with the film's executive producer James G. Robinson throughout the production.
• Both Jack Black and Ben Stiller have both publicly apologized for starring in Envy.
• Fantastic Four (2015):
  • Josh Trank denounced the film before it even came out, saying his vision was ruined due to studio interference. When Fantastic Four co-creator Stan Lee died in 2018, Trank publicly apologized for failing Lee and blamed himself for not giving the legend the chance to see a good Fantastic Four movie.
  • Michael B. Jordan has also said that the film was not as good as he hoped it would be. During an interview for Black Panther (2018), he saw his performance in that film as a way of atoning for his involvement in Fox's movie.
  • Kate Mara stated that she hasn't even seen the final product, and that "nobody saw it" while doing press interviews promoting The Martian.
  • Toby Kebbell (Doctor Doom) stated that he understood how the fans felt, and wondered if the poor reception hurt his career.
  • On top of that, Marvel Comics disowned the movie, putting up Howard the Duck on its website and not this movie. They wanted nothing to do with the movie that they went so far as to cancel the comic (granted, for story reasons).
  • Screenwriter Jeremy Slater apologized to the fans on Twitter for his involvement in the film.
• Neither Monica Keena nor Katharine Isabelle are all that fond of Freddy vs. Jason. Keena would later say that the screenplay was terrible and that she only took the role for the money and because she thought it would boost her career, while Isabelle got into a fight with director Ronny Yu on set over nudity; while Isabelle had a "no nudity" clause in her contract and signed onto the film on the expectation that they would stick to it, Yu repeatedly tried to pressure her into doing a nude shower scene. (They ultimately settled on a body double.)
• Both Ginger Rogers and Carol Channing disliked The First Traveling Saleslady, saying it was "a terrible picture". They also jokingly referred to it as "death of a sales lady".
• G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra:
  • Christopher Eccleston and Sienna Miller don't look back fondly on the film, to the point that Eccleston refused to return for the sequel.
  • Neither does Channing Tatum, though he does admit that it wasn't as horrible as it could have been, and that its success at the box office helped his career. The truly sad part was that he was a fan of the cartoon growing up, and now he chalks it up to I Was Young and Needed the Money:
    Channing Tatum: Look, I'll be honest. I fucking hate that movie. I hate that movie. I was pushed into doing that movie. From Coach Carter, they signed me to a three-picture deal […] They give you the contract and they go, ‘Three-picture deal, here you go.’ And as a young [actor], you're like, ‘Oh my god, that sounds amazing, I'm doing that!’
• Godzilla (1998):
  • Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin look back at the film with a great deal of regret, with them citing that their lack of research, the short time in which the film had to be completed, and Executive Meddling (the studio's refusal to test-screen it) as factors that may have negatively affected the quality of the final product.
  • Jean Reno and Hank Azaria don't like the film very much either.
• Bee Vang and many of the other Asian actors in Gran Torino are ashamed of the movie, as they felt it was racist. Bee even ended up making a spoof of the movie's more racist elements.
• Seth Rogen called The Green Hornet a nightmare. The film's producer Neal H. Moritz and director Michel Gondry didn't like it either.
• Neither Ryan Reynolds nor Taika Waititi have a lot of good things to say about Green Lantern (2011). Years later, they mockingly claimed that they first met while shooting Free Guy, and Reynolds even included a gag in Deadpool 2 where Deadpool kills him as he considers the script before accepting the role of Hal Jordan.
• While she didn't detail about what made the experience such a bad one, Kim Basinger told Interview magazine in 2018 she had a terrible time making 2013's Grudge Match. Some leaked set photos from the time appeared to show her arguing with Sylvester Stallone as they filmed a scene in a New Orleans park. It's possible that the two were simply in character, but the way it was reported made it seem as though they were clashing for real.
• Howard the Duck: George Lucas publically disowned it, as did John Barry and just about everyone that worked on it, save for Lea Thompson.
• Both Julia Roberts and Nick Nolte have revealed their hatred for working on I Love Trouble, calling it the worst of their careers. Roberts also said that Nolte was the worst actor she had ever worked with.
• Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom:
  • Steven Spielberg hated making the film, saying that his marriage to Kate Capshaw was the only good thing he got out of it.
  • Capshaw, an outspoken feminist, is ashamed of her role as Willie as well.
• Jaws: The Revenge:
  • Michael Caine claims that he has never seen the film, and by all accounts it was terrible; but he adds that he has seen the house the film paid for, and thought it was terrific. He also regrets being in the Bahamas shooting it instead of picking up his Oscar for Hannah and Her Sisters.
  • MCA/Universal president Sid Sheinberg's wife Lorraine Gary, who played Ellen Brody, has expressed regrets for reprising her role.
  • It also became a classic example of instant Old Shame for Sheinberg and his studio, who allowed Steven Spielberg and Robert Zemeckis to take a jab at it in Back to the Future Part II.
• Labyrinth: David Bowie wasn't too big a fan, even getting uncomfortable when his children watched it. Co-star Jennifer Connelly, who has similar sentiments, gets embarrassed when her children are watching the film.
• The Last Airbender:
  • Aasif Mandvi regrets taking part in the film, and actually mocks the film from time to time on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
  • Dev Patel didn't care for the film either, nor did one of the show's creators, Bryan Konietzko.
• Last Tango in Paris: Both Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider admitted that they felt raped by the film, and refused to speak with director Bernardo Bertolucci ever again.
• Ray Liotta may not want to speak about his first film role in The Lonely Lady. The main star, Pia Zadora, has lots of mean words about it too, saying she "knew it was bad all along" and given her husband financed the whole deal, she wanted him "to buy the whole thing and hide it somewhere."
• The Master of Disguise:
  • Brent Spiner sarcastically called it a "classic" on Twitter.
  • Dino Stamtopolous, who helped produce the film, also regrets making it and blames Adam Sandler for the final product.
• Natalie Wood hated Meteor, along with most of the cast involved with the film.
• Yeardley Smith is still extremely embarrassed by Maximum Overdrive. So is Stephen King, who called the film a "moron movie." Thus far, it has remained his only attempt at directing.
• Monty Python's The Meaning of Life:
  • John Cleese wasn't pleased with, stating that "I always regarded that entire film as a bit of a cockup."
  • The other Pythons are not too happy about it either. Terry Jones has said that the movie was one rewrite from being good, but by that point, everyone, Cleese in particular, just wanted to move on.
• Movie 43:
  • According to Peter Farrelly, most of the cast tried to get out of the production once they realized what they were getting themselves into..
  • Hugh Jackman, in an "interview with his past self":
  1999 Jackman: Is there an embarrassing movie I should avoid?
  2014 Jackman: When they come to you with a movie where you have testicles around your neck, with an ensemble cast from the funniest movies around, don't believe them. You might keep the testicles — they are funny to show in parties — but pass on the movie!
• Mr. Woodcock:
  • Seann William Scott and Billy Bob Thornton were both disdainful about their time making the film.
  • Director Craig Gillespie also hated the end result, due to last-minute reshoots done with another director (said director went uncredited, leaving Gillespie to take the blame).
• Alex Kurtzman has said multiple times that he regrets having directed The Mummy (2017), calling it one of the biggest failures in his career. Co-writer Christopher McQuarrie is also ashamed of it, even blatantly telling a fan of his looking for advice on how to write a horror script not to write The Mummy.
• Muppets from Space:
  • Joey Mazzarino, one of the writers, dubbed working on the film "a miserable experience" in an interview with Tough Pigs. Specifically, his draft of the script was very parody-heavy, with references to Men in Black, Contact, and Alien. Then original director Randal Kleiser was fired and replaced by Tim Hill - who Joey said was "a very nice guy" and "did a decent job", but he wanted to remove all of the references and change the ending. You see, in Joey's original draft, it was going to be revealed that Gonzo wasn't actually an alien, the aliens that were trying to contact him had been getting the signal of The Muppet Show and they made themselves look like Gonzo because they believed that he was the ultimate being. Mazzarino admitted that the new ending with Gonzo actually being an alien "bugs the crap out of me."
  • Frank Oz said in a 2000 interview that the film was "not the movie we wanted it to be."
• Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, and Richard D. Zanuck have all confessed that they didn't care for Neighbors (1981), mostly due to its post-production problems.
• What do Harlan Ellison and Tony Bennett have in common? Well, yes, but more to the point they both despised The Oscar (the former's only movie credit, the latter's only movie as an actor).
• Rob Morrow and Johnny Depp apparently swore a pact to eradicate every copy of Private Resort from the face of the planet. Given that it was given a DVD release, it's clear that they have not yet succeeded in their quest.
• Robin Askwith, Rula Lenska and Carol Drinkwater were all ashamed to be in the 1976 Gender Flip parody of guess what,Queen Kong. They were not sorry when the producers got Screwed by the Lawyers and it never got a UK theatrical release.
• Both Chris Columbus and Daryl Hannah have less than warm feelings about 1984's Reckless (which he wrote and she starred in).
• Nancy Allen and Fred Dekker aren't fond of the RoboCop 3. Allen didn't want to do the movie in the first place and only did it for the fans, and even agreed with them that the move to PG-13 and going ahead without waiting for Peter Weller to come back were mistakes. While he doesn't regret the process of making it, Dekker does regret the final product, both as a Creator Killer, and because he wished he had more money and also agrees that the move to PG-13 was a mistake.
• Scooby-Doo:
  • Although Freddie Prinze Jr. and Sarah Michelle Gellar's kids greatly enjoyed seeing their parents play Fred and Daphne, Prinze and Gellar don't think of the experience very fondly themselves. Among other things, Gellar hated wearing Daphne's trademark go-go boots. Prinze hated wearing Fred's trademark ascot and had to shave his head after filming because the blonde dye ruined his hair.
  • Linda Cardellini (Velma) states that she felt that the final cut of the film could've been adjusted a bit more.
  • A temporary case with Matthew Lillard. Originally Lillard stated he regretted working on the live action films as it seemed to ruin his movie career, but once he became the full time voice of Shaggy in the cartoons following Casey Kasem's retirement in 2009, he's since changed his mind, and now thanks the movies for leading into a consistent role for him to play.
• Shadow Conspiracy: Linda Hamilton said in an interview that she thought her work in the film was "mediocre as hell", but admits that the movie was "really bad, really bad". Charlie Sheen also hates the movie as well.
• Gwyneth Paltrow and Jack Black have gone on to regret their involvement in Shallow Hal. Black said that he signed onto it because he wanted to make a film with the Farrelly Brothers but it wasn't what he expected it to be, which made him feel like he sold out.
• Most of the people who worked on Skidoo hated it. Otto Preminger and his family even refused to release it after its theatrical run.
• Son of the Mask:
  • Jamie Kennedy has admitted that he was personally affected by the negative critical response to the film, lamenting an apparent lack of control in any of the aspects regarding the film or his own involvement in it.
  • Steven Wright also hated the film; it would be six years before he would act again.
  • Kal Penn called it a terrible movie while promoting The Namesake. It didn't help that they forced him to do an Indian accent.
• Star Trek: Nemesis:
  • Tom Hardy has repeatedly said that the film (and more specifically, the fact that it was a critical and commercial flop) was the worst thing that ever happened to him, and nearly killed his career before it got off the ground. To this day, he still refuses to talk about Nemesis in any significant detail.
  • The Star Trek: The Next Generation cast, especially Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, and LeVar Burton (who'd been turned down as its director), also spoken negatively about the film. Though Sirtis also said that Nemesis wasn't as bad as Star Trek: Insurrection, claiming she fell asleep during its premiere.
• Star Wars:
  • Jake Lloyd isn't fond of his role as Anakin Skywalker in The Phantom Menace, in no small part due to it being the reason he was bullied throughout middle school and high school. He even burned all of his Star Wars memorabilia and did not watch a single Star Wars film again for some time, stating it was too creepy to watch them again. However, a later interview between him and a Star Wars fan site has shown him to have mellowed out since and has confirmed that he does not hate the franchise after all that. Terence Stamp didn't like working on the film either.
  • Everyone involved with The Star Wars Holiday Special feels this way about it, and as a result it only aired once, on TV, and hasn't seen the light of day since (not counting the tapes, mind you). Harrison Ford will deny the TV special's existence if you let him (which he infamously tried to do on The Conan O'Brien Show), and George Lucas has gone on record claiming if he had the time and resources he would hunt down and destroy every last copy. Anthony Daniels and Carrie Fisher have also mocked it, with the latter claiming to use her copy to drive away party guests when the night's done. If you're smart, you won't even mention it to George Lucas, even though he wasn't directly involved in it.
    • There are two interesting aversions. Lev Mailer, who played the imperial officer hassling the store owner, is quite proud of his part and admits to have enjoyed the experience. Bea Arthur, who played Bea Arthur, went on record saying she had a wonderful time even though all she remembered was "singing to a bunch of people with funny heads". Though granted, most fans say those scenes are the most enjoyable parts of the special.
  • Both John Boyega and Oscar Isaac have made it adamantly clear on social media and in interviews that they dislike how Finn and Poe were handled in The Rise of Skywalker. Boyega also got into a Twitter spat with Reylo shippers when he implied he felt the ship came out of nowhere (by juxtaposing the scene of their kiss to screenshots of their previous interactions- Rey cutting open Kylo's face, Kylo kidnapping and torturing Rey, etc.). Isaac later admitted that he had little real interest in reprising the role of Poe unless he desperately needed the money, while Boyega was exceptionally frank about how disappointed he was to see Finn's role reduced after The Force Awakens.
• Superman IV: The Quest for Peace:
  • Christopher Reeve was deeply ashamed of his last outing as the Man of Steel. He declared the film to be "terrible" on the eve of its release, citing a haphazard scriptwriting process and the poor quality of the film's special effects.
  • Co-star Jon Cryer also hated the film, going so far as to deem the film unfinished as a result of its ultra-low budget.
• Super Mario Bros. (1993):
  • Whenever anyone asked Bob Hoskins what his biggest regret about his film career was, he replied "Super Mario Bros." without hesitation. Hoskins stated he only took the role of Mario for the sake of one of his sons who was a huge Mario fan; unfortunately, the film ended up being an extremely unpleasant experience for Hoskins. He was quoted as saying the production "was a fuckin' nightmare" and the Control Freak directors were "fuckin' idiots".
  • John Leguizamo wasn't fond of the movie either. He also wasn't fond of The Pest. In fact, if you read his book, Pimps, Ho's, Playa Hatas, and the Rest of my Hollywood Friends, there's a lot of movies he's not proud of!
    • Leguizamo however also said that while he knows the movie is terrible, the fact that years later people still remember it means that it at least meant something to a lot of people, regardless of quality. He also has fond memories of making it and working with Hopper and Hoskins despite the production issues.
  • That Dennis Hopper (who admitted the paycheck was his only motivation) also had bad things to say about the film, its directors (whose careers went down the pipes) and the Troubled Production, is not surprising.
  Dennis Hopper: "I made a picture called Super Mario Bros., and my six-year-old son at the time — he's now 18 — he said, 'Dad, I think you're probably a pretty good actor, but why did you play that terrible guy King Koopa in Super Mario Bros.?' and I said, 'Well Henry, I did that so you could have shoes,' and he said, 'Dad, I don't need shoes that badly.'"
• This is reportedly the case for Matthew McConaughey and Renée Zellweger in Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation. They were both struggling actors at the time and needed the cash, but McConaughey was reportedly so embarrassed at having appeared in the film he attempted to block its release. Both actors are so embarrassed by the film that years later, Scream Factory had to delay the film's Blu-Ray release and alter the cover artwork when both actors denied permission to include their likenesses on the cover.
• To Rome with Love:
  • Elliot Page admitted on his Facebook that the movie was "the biggest mistake of my career" due to knowing about the sexual assault allegations against Woody Allen and taking the role anyway.
  • In a Op-Ed with Aaron Sorkin for the New York Times in January 2018, Greta Gerwig also regretted being in the movie saying that had she known about the allegations back then compared to now, she would've never done the movie. Gerwig concluded she'll never work with Woody Allen ever again.
• Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen:
  • After the overwhelmingly negative reception of the film, director Michael Bay himself publicly apologized for it, admitting it was not his best work and even calling it "crap". He has expressed disappointment that he didn't have more time to put together a better movie in the aftermath of the Writers' Guild Strike of 2007-2008.
  • Writers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci also expressed regret in making the film as well as in creating the Autobot duo Skids and Mudflap.
  • Shia LaBeouf also has gone on to state that he was "unimpressed" with the movie.
  • Megan Fox also didn't like the movie.
  • Hugo Weaving admits that he doesn't care for the whole franchise and pretty much phones in his performance whenever he does any of the movies.
• Pretty much most of the actors who did Troll 2 said that they were embarrassed by the movie when they first saw it, yet have gotten over it as the years have gone by due to the cult following it's amassed. The only people who seem to be proud of the movie are director Claudio Fragasso, his wife (who co-wrote the movie), and Margo Prey, who played the mom. Also Robert Ormsby, who played the Grandpa, said he likes bad movies so he was proud to see it turned out so bad.
• Understandably, nobody who was involved with Twilight Zone: The Movie wants to remember they had any part of it, especially the "Time Out" segment, due to the onset accident that killed Vic Morrow and two (illegally hired) child actors. John Landis, who directed the segment, claimed in a 1996 interview that the accident haunted him, and that he thought about it every single day. Steven Spielberg, who was still riding high off the simultaneous success of E.T. tried as best he could to get out of directing his segment, but when he couldn't, did the bare minimum work and then distanced himself from the project altogether. He also cut ties with John Landis following the completion of the movie, and has not spoken to him since. Producers Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall did the best they could to distance themselves and shield Spielberg from the ensuing fall-out. One crew member, Andy House, demanded that his name be taken off the project and replaced with the industry pseudonym Alan Smithee.
• Wild Wild West:
  • In a 2009 interview, Will Smith apologized to Robert Conrad for making it.
  • Barry Sonnenfeld, Kevin Kline, Salma Hayek, and the majority of people at Warner Bros. regret doing the film as well. Hayek, in particular, felt she was being underused and Kline felt he was too good of an actor to make the movie.
• X-Men Origins: Wolverine:
  • Ryan Reynolds has stated that he's not a fan of the film, despite probably being the best thing about it. While doing early promotion for Deadpool (2016), he made sure to distance it from the Wolverine prequel and reiterate that the new film is a complete Continuity Reboot. In the sequel's coda, Deadpool goes back in time and kills the other Wade Wilson.
  • Hugh Jackman isn't proud of the film either, as he felt it did little justice to his character despite the high praise he received for his performance in an otherwise underwhelming movie; he helped make up for it with The Wolverine.
  • While promoting Doctor Strange (2016), Scott Adkins said he regretted ever playing Weapon XI/Deadpool, and that he was just doing what Fox told him to.