while the movie is in general release? No matter how bad the movie, any interviews with them they always describe the movie in a good light. Maybe years after they will be honest and say the movie is crappy.
Just before The Phantom Menace was released, Lucas was quoted as saying that it would be just about impossible for the movie to live up to all the hype.
Go figure.
I eagerly anticipated The Shadow, starring Alec Baldwin. One reporter shared my enthusiasm, but before it came out, Alec told him it was just a silly farce of a movie.
Alas, he was right.
The guy who played Edward in the Twilight movie was quite honest about what he thought of the novel, author and fans.
Bill Cosby said Leonard Part 6 was bad and advised people not to go see it.
Link?
Recently, Nicole Kidman said that she found Australia embarrassing and didn’t want to sit through it.
Not a movie, but producer Ron Moore is often candid about his perceived failures in his Battlestar Galactica podcasts. The one for the season 2 episode, “Black Market,” stands out in particular.
Wow really?
I want a link for that one too. (not that I don’t believe you, but I want to see that).
Usually they don’t say things like that for 2 reasons,
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they have a financial stake in the profitability of the picture. This isn’t always true but it is becoming more often true as time goes on. Many of the major people in the movie get some form of profit participation.
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They don’t want to stop getting work. If you publicly badmouth a project you are working on people are less likely to want to work with you. There are only a handfull of people who can get away with that kind of behavior.
Someone once asked Michael Caine why he did a movie that was bad (can’t recall the name) and he said something like “Well, I have a nice new house I need to pay for”
Jaws IV. His full quote is supposedly “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!”
Robert Webb said of the movie Confetti:
No cite, but I’ve seen Samuel L. Jackson, who generally manages to appear in several movies a year, say a thinly-veiled and slightly-more-aristic-integrity-like version of, hey, I’ll take any role if it keeps me working.
I caught a short interview of Adam Sandler last month (during a football game) and he seemed lukewarm about his latest, Bedtime Stories. He said it was kind of funny and that unlike his other movies, mothers wouldn’t get mad if their children saw it. That was about all he had to say. Maybe he was being self-effacing, but it was hard to tell.
Oh yeah, I read that one. I liked the part where he said he thought that after reading the book that the author must have been quite mad. Indeed.
Not a movie, but Ned Beatty trashed his co-stars in “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” on Broadway, in an article. (Said bad things about Ashley Judd and Jason Patric. Which were true, but still pissed them off.)
I’m not surprised, it was an extremely shit movie. I quite liked that Webb was willing to get his cock out for it though (not that I was that keen to see it, I should add).
Didn’t he say that he was rooting for the shark in Jaws: The Revenge?
I think George Clooney apologizes for Batman & Robin every chance he gets.