Actors Who Didn't Like Their Own Movies

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    Alec Guinness — Star Wars: It sounds like the man who played Obi-Wan Kenobi wished he stayed far, far away from the movie franchise that he once described as “fairytale rubbish”. In a letter to a friend during the filming of the original, he wrote, “Can’t say I’m enjoying the film … new rubbish dialogue reaches me every other day on wadges of pink paper — and none of it makes my character clear or even bearable”. He again trashed the films in his memoir, saying, “I shrivel inside each time it is mentioned”.
    1/8 Alec Guinness — Star Wars: It sounds like the man who played Obi-Wan Kenobi wished he stayed far, far away from the movie franchise that he once described as “fairytale rubbish”. In a letter to a friend during the filming of the original, he wrote, “Can’t say I’m enjoying the film … new rubbish dialogue reaches me every other day on wadges of pink paper — and none of it makes my character clear or even bearable”. He again trashed the films in his memoir, saying, “I shrivel inside each time it is mentioned”.
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    Halle Berry — Catwoman: The 2004 action flick was panned by critics who described it as “A purr-fectly ridiculous and boring cat-astrophe” and, “A thriller you wouldn’t inflict on a laboratory rat”. And Halle Berry agreed. Accepting her Razzie Award for worst actor, Berry said, “I want to thank Warner Bros. for casting me in this piece of s**t, god-awful movie”.
    2/8 Halle Berry — Catwoman: The 2004 action flick was panned by critics who described it as “A purr-fectly ridiculous and boring cat-astrophe” and, “A thriller you wouldn’t inflict on a laboratory rat”. And Halle Berry agreed. Accepting her Razzie Award for worst actor, Berry said, “I want to thank Warner Bros. for casting me in this piece of s**t, god-awful movie”.
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    Vincent Gallo — Brown Bunny: He wrote the movie, he produced the movie, he directed and starred in the movie and he later apologised for it all. “It’s a disaster and a waste of time,” said Gallo about his 2003 art house movie. “It was never my intention to make a pretentious film, a self-indulgent film, a useless film, an unengaging film.”
    3/8 Vincent Gallo — Brown Bunny: He wrote the movie, he produced the movie, he directed and starred in the movie and he later apologised for it all. “It’s a disaster and a waste of time,” said Gallo about his 2003 art house movie. “It was never my intention to make a pretentious film, a self-indulgent film, a useless film, an unengaging film.”
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    Katherine Heigl — Knocked Up: The 2007 Judd Apatow comedy had most people in stitches, but Katherine Heigl was not one of those people. “It was a little sexist,” she said to Vanity Fair. “It paints the women as shrews, as humourless and uptight, and it paints the men as loveable, goofy, fun-loving guys. “It exaggerated the characters, and I had a hard time with it, on some days. I’m playing such a bitch; why is she being such a killjoy? Why is this how you’re portraying women? Ninety-eight per cent of the time it was an amazing experience, but it was hard for me to love the movie.”
    4/8 Katherine Heigl — Knocked Up: The 2007 Judd Apatow comedy had most people in stitches, but Katherine Heigl was not one of those people. “It was a little sexist,” she said to Vanity Fair. “It paints the women as shrews, as humourless and uptight, and it paints the men as loveable, goofy, fun-loving guys. “It exaggerated the characters, and I had a hard time with it, on some days. I’m playing such a bitch; why is she being such a killjoy? Why is this how you’re portraying women? Ninety-eight per cent of the time it was an amazing experience, but it was hard for me to love the movie.”
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    George Clooney: Batman & Robin: The Wall Street Journal wrote, “there isn’t much to say about his (George Clooney) performance because there isn’t much performance to discuss”. Harsh but totally fair according to the star himself, “I always apologise for Batman & Robin,” said Clooney on The Graham Norton Show about his 1997 attempt at playing the caped crusader. “Let me just say that I’d actually thought I’d actually destroyed the franchise until somebody else brought it back years later and changed it. “I thought at the time that this was going to be a very good career move. Um, it wasn’t.”
    5/8 George Clooney: Batman & Robin: The Wall Street Journal wrote, “there isn’t much to say about his (George Clooney) performance because there isn’t much performance to discuss”. Harsh but totally fair according to the star himself, “I always apologise for Batman & Robin,” said Clooney on The Graham Norton Show about his 1997 attempt at playing the caped crusader. “Let me just say that I’d actually thought I’d actually destroyed the franchise until somebody else brought it back years later and changed it. “I thought at the time that this was going to be a very good career move. Um, it wasn’t.”
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    Jamie Lee Curtis — Virus: Don’t remember the 1999 movie? We don’t blame you. It’s about a tugboat crew boarding an abandoned Russian vessel at sea only to discover that there’s an alien on board. “That’s a piece of s**t movie,” admitted the film’s star, Jamie Lee Curtis. “It’s an unbelievably bad movie; just bad from the bottom. It was maybe the only time I’ve known something was just bad and there was nothing I could do about it.”
    6/8 Jamie Lee Curtis — Virus: Don’t remember the 1999 movie? We don’t blame you. It’s about a tugboat crew boarding an abandoned Russian vessel at sea only to discover that there’s an alien on board. “That’s a piece of s**t movie,” admitted the film’s star, Jamie Lee Curtis. “It’s an unbelievably bad movie; just bad from the bottom. It was maybe the only time I’ve known something was just bad and there was nothing I could do about it.”
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    Michelle Pfeiffer — Grease 2: We all did things when we were young that we would rather forget about. For Michelle Pfeiffer, that was Grease 2. “I hated that film with a vengeance and could not believe how bad it was,” she said. “At the time, I was young and didn’t know better.”
    7/8 Michelle Pfeiffer — Grease 2: We all did things when we were young that we would rather forget about. For Michelle Pfeiffer, that was Grease 2. “I hated that film with a vengeance and could not believe how bad it was,” she said. “At the time, I was young and didn’t know better.”
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    Megan Fox — Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: It’s not that Fox didn’t like the movie, it’s just that she didn’t understand it ... at all. “I’m in the movie and I read the script and I watched the movie and I still didn’t know what was happening,” she said to CBS. “I think if you haven’t read the script and you go and see it and understand it, you may be a genius. This is a movie for geniuses.”
    8/8 Megan Fox — Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: It’s not that Fox didn’t like the movie, it’s just that she didn’t understand it ... at all. “I’m in the movie and I read the script and I watched the movie and I still didn’t know what was happening,” she said to CBS. “I think if you haven’t read the script and you go and see it and understand it, you may be a genius. This is a movie for geniuses.”

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Just because they’re in the movie, that doesn’t mean they like the movie.

Inspired by Channing Tatum’s brutally honest confession that he “fu**ing hated” G.I. Joe: Rise of the Cobra, here are some other stars who have trashed their own films.