11 Actors Who Hated Their Own Films

Mental Floss ^ | Colin Patrick

[workerbee]

Were you paid?

Then shaddupaboutit.

[EEGator]

Better Off Dead is great.

[discostu]

Cusack needs to lighten up. Better Off Dead is a fine movie with some of the best lines ever (”waste of a perfectly good white boy” being my favorite).

[Tax-chick]

Michael Caine said he would take any film role that met his salary demand ... if it had a decent location shooting site. “Sure, the movie was crap ... but you should see the house it paid for!”

[EEGator]

P.S. F*** Ben Affleck.

[TurboZamboni]

“I want my 2 dollars!”

[fieldmarshaldj]

"In his autobiography A Positively Final Appearance: A Journal, Guinness recalls a time he encountered an autograph-seeking fan who boasted to him about having watched Star Wars more than 100 times. In response, Guinness agreed to provide the boy an autograph under the condition that he promise never to watch the film again."

Now THAT is funny.

[workerbee]

Alas, fame is hell.

[IYAS9YAS]

John Cusack reportedly hated his cult 80s comedy so much that he walked out of the screening and later told the film’s director Steve Holland that Better Off Dead was "the worst thing I have ever seen" and he would "never trust you as a director again."

As much as I hate his politics, I've always loved the '80s/early '90s movies with Cusack. Better off Dead is one of my favorites.

Cusack, much like other actors, seems to always play himself in the movies.

A manic, self-conflicted, angst-ridden dork who talks a mile a minute. Guaranteed.

[Jonty30]

Katherine Heigl always complaining about the movies she is in, which is why she isn’t in too many these days.

[EEGator]

“You’d make a fine little helper. What’s your name?”
“Charles De Mar.”
“Shut up geek.”

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

That’s why they shouldn’t give actors a Sir title.

[DouglasKC]

I actually kind of liked Reindeer Games....

[chargers fan]

I wonder how much he got for Jaws The Revenge

[GeronL]

“Mario Bros” was perhaps one of the worst films of all times on a lot of levels.

[MarineBrat]

Star Wars was allright for its genre.

Sound of Music was a classic that my own daughter grew up watching many times... with my blessing. No, I wouldn’t take a date to see it, but for what it was - sort of a wartime Chitty Chitty Bang Bang musical - it was great. The child roles were excellent. (Ever wonder why there’s scads of great child actors and few great child everything else? - Me neither... which is why what actors say means next to nothing to me.)

I never saw any of the other movies in the list.

[greene66]

I saw Cary Grant when he was going around doing a little series of college tours, and somebody asked him about “Arsenic and Old Lace,” and he winced, and said how much he HATED his performance in it. I guess it means he wound up disliking the resulting film itself. He sure seemed to exhibit some disgust/embarrassment about it.

[al_c]

10. John Cusack, Better Off Dead. John Cusack reportedly hated his cult 80s comedy so much that he walked out of the screening and later told the film’s director Steve Holland that Better Off Dead was "the worst thing I have ever seen" and he would "never trust you as a director again."

One of my favorites from the 80s.

[joethedrummer]

Agreed! “Better Off Dead” is Cusacks BEST film. It was funny back then and is STILL funny. My kids and their cousins howled a few weeks ago when I showed it to them. (the only thing I had to really explain was Howard Cosell.

John needs to lighten up and appreciate what made him. He just takes himself SOOOOOOOOOOOOO seriously nowadays. It’s a shame.