One of my favorite things about Twilight is how hard Robert Pattinson roasted it after making it. The story? He called it an “absolute nightmare.” He also went in on the books saying he couldn’t believe some of the writing was actually published. An example? “I stopped reading [the book] when it said, 'Even in the rain he looked like he was in an underwear commercial,” comments Pattinson.
Then there are just some questions he’s been asked that he has literally zero answers for. Like why do the centuries old vampires still in high school? Also, if they can move super-fast, why do they drive cars? Pattinson has straight said he doesn’t know why anyone reads the books.
Channing Tatum didn’t pull any punches when it came to talking about G.I. Joe: Rise of the Cobra. He went on Howard Stern, and stated blatantly, “I’ll be honest I [redacted] hate that movie.” Oof. He didn’t even stop there. He added, “I was pushed into doing that movie.”
Tatum explained that he was offered a three-picture deal for G.I. Joe, and he thought it was an amazing opportunity at the time. In his mind, he was going to play Snake Eyes, but sadly, when the movie finally got to the point of being made, he was Duke. Duke! On top of that, “the script wasn’t any good,” says Tatum.
Christopher Plummer was very outspoken about how much he hated The Sound of Music. While he loved his coworkers, he absolutely despised his character. He told The Boston Globe, “I was a bit bored with the character. Although we worked hard enough to make him interesting, it was a bit like flogging a dead horse.”
As if that wasn’t enough, he also felt like the “subject matter” was not “his cup of tea.” It was “so awful and sentimental and gooey.” Plummer turned down offers to appear at the films 40th anniversary reunion, but that didn’t stop him from becoming good friends with his co-star Julie Andrews.
Sandra Bullock certainly isn’t alone in hating Speed 2. Some have questioned whether more people hate the film than have actually seen the film, but Bullock knows what she’s talking about when she trashes it. One of the issues she brings up is that Speed 2 doesn’t have Keanu Reeves in it, and that was a huge reason the movie sucked.
Another thing, it was on a BOAT. Make it make sense. Bullock apparently hated the movie so much that she almost refuses to do sequels to other movies. It wasn’t just Speed 2 that led her down this path – hello, Miss Congeniality 2 – but it was a massive contributing factor since it tanked so, so hard.
The Devil’s Own was never going to succeed. Before the movie released, Pitt was already showing his frustration for one big reason: it had no script. Pitt clarifies, “Well we had a great script, but it got tossed for various reasons. To have to make something up as you go along...what pressure!” That’s never good news.
He went on to say that the movie was ridiculous and “the most irresponsible bit of filmmaking – if you can call it that – that I’ve ever seen.” Pitt even tried to back out of the film, but quitting would cost him $63 million. Instead, he just bit the bullet and made the awful piece of cinema.
One movie the late and great Bob Hoskins hated the most was none other than Super Mario Bros. You'd think Hollywood would take that to heart and never make another, but well – here we are. Once during an interview, he was asked what was the worst job he’d ever done. The answer was Mario.
What was the biggest disappointment? Mario. If he could edit his past, he'd change – you guessed it – Mario. Hoskins explained, “The worst thing I ever did? ‘Super Mario Bros.’ It was a [redacted] nightmare. It had a husband-and-wife team directing, whose arrogance had been mistaken for talent. After so many weeks their own agent told them to get off the set!”
The Happening turned out to be one of the biggest disappointments in film, and it was just one of M. Night’s worst films (we don’t talk about The Last Airbender). One of its biggest critics was also the main actor, Mark Wahlberg. He’s never minced words when it came to that film. While filming, he had constant complaints, none of which were addressed by the director.
Amy Adams almost played Wahlberg’s wife in the film, but the schedules didn’t work out. During an interview, Wahlberg says, “We actually had the luxury of having lunch before to talk about another movie, and it was a bad movie that I did. She dodged the bullet. And then I was still able to... I don't want to tell you what the movie... alright, The Happening.”
Batman & Robin became the single most hilarious Batman movie that will ever be made, but not in a good way. It wasn’t Mr. Freeze’s puns getting to us. Instead, it was the overtly anatomical batsuit, the insane product placement, and the terrible script. Even Clooney hated the film, possibly more than you and I ever could.
Thanks to Batman & Robin, Clooney can’t get near superhero sets. He even apologized for it, “I think since Batman that I’ve been disinvited from Comic-Con for 20 years. I see the comment sections on all you guys. I just met Adam West there [referring to behind the NYCC main stage] and I apologized to him. Sorry about the... suit. Freeze, freeze, I apologize for that.”
Lindsay Lohan hasn’t made the best of choices in life, but for her, starring in I Know Who Killed Me is up there as one of her worst. A fan on Twitter, saying how they watched the movie twice in one night and Lohan responded with, “two times too many!” Maybe it wasn’t the directing that was the issue, however.
During an interview with her co-star Garcelle Beauvais, she complained how a big part of the movie's failure was Lohan. She went on to say, “she wouldn't show up and all of that stuff...the troubled production process involved working around its leading lady's mandate to spend 30 nights at the Wonderland rehabilitation facility.”
Transformers had a few too many sequels, but Revenge of the Fallen was easily the worst. Among it's many problems, it had racist little robots and awful direction. Even Shia LaBeouf hated the movie. He went on to say, "There are a lot of people that liked the second one, but I hated it. I just didn't enjoy it.”
He doesn’t stop there, “I thought we missed the mark. I got confused, I couldn't see what the [redacted] was going on, you know with certain robots... I couldn't decipher what was happening. There were storyline paths that I just wouldn't have gone down.” Reportedly, Megan Fox also said she hated the film, but she’s been careful with her words after her dictator comment to Bay.
Today, we can see that Jamie Foxx is a pretty good actor. Now that there are other films under his belt, we can look back and see that it clearly wasn't his fault that Stealth was god-awful. Even Foxx condemned the film, saying he knew well in advance that it was a bad film.
“Sometimes you do a movie, and you have to go promote it, so on Stealth I was like, 'Yeah, this is the greatest.' And people would see me after seeing the movie and say, 'I can't believe you lied to me like that," he told the press while doing promotions for The Kingdom.
Halle Berry goes down in history as being the funniest actress on Earth thanks to Catwoman. Well, not because she was in the movie, but because when it won an infamous Razzy award, she accepted it personally and then delivered a speech about how terrible the film was! Anyone who saw it heartily agreed.
During the acceptance speech, she told the crowd, “First of all, I want to thank Warner Brothers. Thank you for putting me in a piece of [redacted], god-awful movie. It was just what my career needed.” Since then, she’s stated she wanted to redeem her name and clear up the air by remaking the sexy anti-hero movie.
Zac Efron’s career basically started with High School Musical. For many people, that was how they were introduced to the young actor, but Efron? He hated it. It isn’t odd for Disney stars to hate their previous work, but Efron doesn’t mince his words when he talks about himself in the teeny bopper movie.
During an interview, he told the press that when he takes a look at his life he wants to kick his younger self. When talking about himself, he said, "He's done some kind of cool things with some cool people - he did that one thing [Neighbors] that was funny - but, I mean he's still just that [redacted] kid from [High School Musical].
Arnold Schwarzenegger isn't the best actor in the world, but I think we can all agree he plays the muscley hero well enough. He wasn't awful in Terminator, but the following movies? Questionable at best. Even Schwarzenegger brings up one of his worst films to date, however – Red Sonja.
Schwarzenegger stated that Red Sonja was “the worst movie I have ever made.” He also made the joke that when his kids are bad, he forces them to watch the movie ten times just to teach them a lesson. Isn’t that cruel and unusual punishment? Um, CPS? Yeah, this guy right here.
Bill Murray is an odd one, and he's done some stuff he's rather not proud of. One of those was Garfield. Gotta admit – him as the voice felt like it came out left field, personally. After voicing the Lasagna-loving feline, Murray admitted he only agreed to do the movie because he thought Joel Coen wrote the script.
Sure, it was Joel Cohen, but how did he mess that up? It isn't exactly Coen's wheelhouse. Regardless, he said “I was exhausted, soaked with seat, and the lines got worse and worse. And I said, ‘Okay, you better show me the whole rest of the movie so we can see what we're dealing with.’” We do have one question, though: why did he do another one?
One of the things you’re not supposed to do when roasting a movie you’re in is crap on the actual plot of it and the writing…unless you want to effectively end your career. That’s precisely what Heigl did in Knocked Up. She came out and called the movie sexist and went on to explain further.
“It paints the women as shrews, as humorless and uptight, and it paints the men as lovable, goofy, fun-loving guys. It exaggerated the characters, and I had a hard time with it, on some days. I'm playing such a [redacted]; why is she being such a killjoy?” Then she went onto not accepting her Emmy for her acting in Grey’s Anatomy, and her career went kaput.
Alec Guinness may have gotten rich off of Star Wars, but he never wanted to do anything like it ever again. See, when he got involved, he didn’t think the film would be as famous as it turned out to be. He thought it was just another payday, but that payday turned into a massive multi-film franchise that is even going on today. He called it “fairy-tale rubbish.”
Guinness refused to open any fan mail related to Star Wars, and even asked George Lucas to limit future appearances of Obi-Wan because he hated the dialogue. Once, a fan ran up to him asking him for an autograph, and Guinness said he’d only sign it if the fan promised to never watch the movie again. Well, now the role goes to Ewan McGregor.
One of Kate Winslet’s most iconic roles is that of Rose in Titanic. This James Cameron classic launched her career into the massive Oscar-winning success it is today, but Winslet has a different mindset. It isn’t that she hates the film itself, so to speak. She thought Cameron did a great job. Instead, she hates her own acting.
Any time she watches it, she sees every mistake. She went on record as saying, “Every single scene, I'm like 'Really, really? You did it like that?' Oh my God...Even my American accent, I can't listen to it. It's awful. Hopefully, it's so much better now. It sounds terribly self-indulgent, but actors do tend to be very self-critical. I have a hard time watching any of my performances, but watching Titanic I was just like, 'Oh God, I want to do that again.’”
Kick-A 2 was as fun and violent as the first movie, so why did Jim Carrey get involved? We're getting ahead of ourselves. So, Jim Carrey made headlines after he condemns his violence while making the movie. The comments were made in the wake of the Sandy Hook tragedy, which made them all the more newsworthy.
That being said, was Carrey not present while he was doing his own filming? Did he not understand how him beating up people with a baseball bat was doing to be violent? He tweeted a comment saying, “I did Kick-A 2 a month b4 Sandy Hook and now in all good conscience I cannot support that level of violence. My apologies to others involve[d] with the film. I am not ashamed of it but recent events have caused a change in my heart.”
Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot was an awful movie, sure, but why did Stallone fall for it in the first place? You can thank Schwarzenegger for that. Schwarzenegger read how bad the script was and acted as though he really wanted the film. When Stallone was presented it (thinking Schwarzenegger really wanted it), he scooped up the chance to take the role from him.
It was only after signing on that Stallone realized how bad he messed up. Today, he goes on record saying it was “one of the worst films in the entire solar system, including alien productions we've never seen.” That might seem harsh, but it’s 100% accurate. Stallone learned to read scripts after that, I hope.
Charlize Theron has done some wacky stuff in the past, which means she's come out with her fair share of bad and shallow movies. During this time, she usually doesn't speak out against them, but she couldn't keep quiet when it came to Reindeer Games. This movie was so awful that she had to say something.
During a 2007 interview with Esquire, she told the interviewer, “That was a bad, bad, bad movie., but even though the movie might suck, I got to work with John Frankenheimer. I wasn't lying to myself — that's why I did it.” Frankenheimer would pass away two years after the film released.
Green Lantern may go down in history as one of the worst superhero movies to date, which says a lot. That being said, it gave Ryan Reynolds plenty of comedic material for years to come. He hasn’t stopped roasting the movie since he made it. He even watched the whole thing while live tweeting, and there were a lot of gold nuggets in there.
He tore the movie to shreds, calling out the bad script through gifs and so much more. Why keep poking at the film? He answered! “I think it's more about just laughing at myself, not laughing at other people, necessarily, that are involved in a project. But laughing at myself and my own contribution to that failure or however you want to characterize it.”
Jaws went down in history as being the single biggest reason people are scared to go to the beach. It created PTSD for an entire generation that saw it. The sequels? That was another type of PTSD. Michael Caine hated starring in Jaws: The Revenge and said, "By all accounts, it is terrible." He didn't stop there.
“First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.” As far as seeing the film? “I have never seen it, but by all accounts, it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific.”
Nine Months wasn't a great movie, and considering Hugh Grant’s past record of mistakes, it isn't exactly the worst. However, it goes without saying his performance was awful in the worst way. He came clean during an interview and said he regretted making the movie in the first place.
Then, he went on to basically blame the movie on him cheating on his girlfriend, Elizabeth Hurley – wow. Just wow. “The film was about to come out a week or two after that, and I had a bad feeling about it. I went to see a screening. Everyone in it was brilliant, but I was so atrocious that I was not in a good frame of mind.”
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen went down in history as the movie that caused Sean Connery to retire. Can you imagine making a movie that bad? Best known for James Bond, he himself couldn't believe that he starred in it to begin with. Connery really hated the film, and he didn't hold any punches.
When he realized the movie couldn't be salvaged with editing, he began a tirade saying, “I'm fed up with idiots. The ever-widening gap between people who know how to make movies and the people who green-light the movies.” Connery even went after the director saying he should be “locked up for insanity.”
Burt Reynolds doesn’t just say stuff – he takes action. He hated Boogie Nights so much that he apparently fired his agent after being forced to be involved. That doesn’t mean he didn’t go on a rant about how awful it was though. It started with “I’d done my picture with Paul Thomas Anderson, that was enough for me,” and then the flood gates opened.
“I think mostly because he was young and full of himself. Every shot we did, it was like the first time [that shot had ever been done]. I remember the first shot we did in Boogie Nights, where I drive the car to Grauman's Theater. After he said, ‘Isn't that amazing?’ And I named five pictures that had the same kind of shot. It wasn't original. But if you have to steal, steal from the best.” Apparently, this movie was awful all around because Mark Wahlberg was also very unhappy with it.
Idris Elba has certainly become an accomplished actor over the last few years. In between being in the original Thor and Thor: The Dark World, he was also in Pacific Rim, Prometheus, and Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. That’s an impressive resume of movies, but the last one is what really gave him pause.
Elba compared his role as Mandela to his role as Heimdall in Thor, thinking, “in between takes I was there, fake hair stuck on to my head with glue, this [redacted] helmet, while they reset. And I’m thinking: ’24 hours ago, I was Mandela’…I was him. I was Mandela, practically. Then there I was, in this stupid harness with this wig and this sword and these contact lenses. It ripped my heart out.”
Joss Whedon didn’t start hating the Avengers series, but his disdain for the multi-film franchise increased as time went on. He’s famous for saying that Age of Ultron left him “broken,” but there’s more to that. Apparently, he felt too much pressure throughout the whole thing.
He also fought with the studio a lot because they wanted the movie to tie in more with the Infinity Stones story. Overall, there was just too much for him to do in one film, and he said he could see “mistake after mistake after mistake” when rewatching it. Because of that? He’d rather not rewatch.
A lot of people may like American History X, but the director isn’t one of those. Tony Kaye was on board until the final cut of the movie. At that point, he could see that Edward Norton had changed so much about the movie that it wasn’t even a shell of what he’d originally wanted. That started a battle over artistic control.
This battle ended up with Kaye spending $100,000 of his own money to take out 35 full-page ads denouncing the film, Edward Norton, and the producer. He tried to get his name removed from the film but was unsuccessful. He then requested the film be credited to “Humpty Dumpty” – which obviously didn’t happen – and he brought about $200 million lawsuit.
Don’t talk bad about Harry Potter to a millennial, but even Daniel Radcliffe can’t help but point out a few problems with The Half-Blood Prince. Namely, Radcliffe has a problem with his acting. He says he’s just not very good in it, “I hate it. My acting is very one-note and I can see I got complacent and what I was trying to do just didn’t come across.”
Opposite that, Radcliffe says that his best film was Order of the Phoenix. “I can see a progression,” he states as the reason why. Fans don’t seem too bothered, possibly because Alan Rickman’s performance makes up for the fact that Radcliffe was as flat as a board throughout the whole film.
2024 release Madame Web has quickly become one of the greatest on-screen failures of comic book history, and star Dakota Johnson isn’t surprised. Many have criticized Johnson’s performance in the movie, saying that she looked like she didn’t want to be there. That's most likely because she didn’t.
She explained how she got stuck in the role, saying, “sometimes in this industry, you sign on to something, and it’s one thing and then as you’re making it, it becomes a completely different thing, and you’re like, Wait, what?” Johnson has been very open about how the film was ruined by committees making decisions rather than the filmmakers and artists.
