" front , I apologise . I desire to apologise to every fan that was let down because I intend I owe them that . "
Making a film is no mean feat. There’s budgeting, studio preferences, and lots of big personalities to consider before you can evenstartto think about stuff like line delivery, edits, and cinematography. Not all of this is as much in the director’s control as lots of us think, either — so it’s no wonder not all of them love every second of their creations. Here are 21 who either cringed at, or full-on disowned, their movies:
1.I think it’s fair to say thatDavid Fincherisn’t a fan ofAlien 3.
2.Audiences lovedAvengers: Age of Ultron. But its directorJoss Whedon? Yeah, not so much.
3.Joel Schumacher was so bothered by howBatman& Robin came out, he straight-up apologised to the public for making it.
4.Steven Spielberg saidIndiana Jones and the Temple of Doomwould “not go down in my pantheon as one of my prouder moments,” even callingLast Crusadean “an apology” for the movie.
5.David Lynch regrets filmingDune,saying, “I started selling out onDune.”
6.Josh Trank said he originally had a very different vision ofFantastic Fourto what eventually hit the screens; though hedid also say,“I don’t regret it because it happened and it led me to where I am.”
7.Noah Baumbach (he ofBarbiefame) said his second film,Highball,was “too ambitious.” When the film was released on DVD against his wishes, he asked for his name to be scrubbed completely from the project.
8.Alan Taylor seems not to like howThor: The Dark Worldcame out.
9.Michael Bay didn’t mince his words when speaking of hisTransformers: Revenge of the Fallenmovie. “That was crap,“he said.
10.Stanley Kubrick thought he could have done better withFear and Desire; in fact, it was reported thathe tried to destroy both the original negativeprints of the film and its subsequent prints.
11.Kevin Reynolds saidWaterworldswas “condemned before it was even finished.”
12.Jerry Lewis was so ashamed of his movieThe Day the Clown Cried, he refused to release it at all.
13.Dennis Hopper used the pseudonymAlan Smithee, an industry in-joke which directors use to disown films they’re ashamed of, in the credits forCatchfire.
14.Kevin Yagher also went the Alan Smithee route, disowningHellraiser: Bloodline.
15.And actor/one-time director Kiefer Sutherlandalso used Alan Smithee’s creditforWoman Wanted.
16.Mathieu Kassovitz calledBabylon AD"pure violence and stupidity.”
17.David O. Russell had his name scrubbed fromAccidental Love.
18.“I can’t say I’d recommend it to anyone other than to look at in the context of someone’s career,”Stephen Soderbergh saidofThe Underneath.
19.Alfred Hitchcock calledRope"nonsensical” and a “stunt.”
20.Ironically enough,a film about Alan Smitheebecamean Alan Smithee film.
21.Tomas Alfredson seemsto be little dissatisfiedwithThe Snowman.
