# Ever seen an actor or director tell the truth about an awful movie **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 27, 2009, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-seen-an-actor-or-director-tell-the-truth-about-an-awful-movie/483266 "2009-01-27T19:19:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![blinkingblinking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@blinkingblinking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blinkingblinking)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-seen-an-actor-or-director-tell-the-truth-about-an-awful-movie/483266/1 "2009-01-27T19:19:40Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-seen-an-actor-or-director-tell-the-truth-about-an-awful-movie/483266/2 "2009-01-27T19:21:12Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Sefton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-seen-an-actor-or-director-tell-the-truth-about-an-awful-movie/483266/3 "2009-01-27T19:24:14Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Grumman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-seen-an-actor-or-director-tell-the-truth-about-an-awful-movie/483266/4 "2009-01-27T19:38:48Z")
The guy who played Edward in the _Twilight_ movie was quite honest about what he thought of the novel, author and fans. ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-seen-an-actor-or-director-tell-the-truth-about-an-awful-movie/483266/5 "2009-01-27T19:46:14Z")
Bill Cosby said Leonard Part 6 was bad and advised people not to go see it. > **[Leonard Part 6](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Part_6)** > > Leonard Part 6 (also known as Leonard Part VI) is a 1987 American spy parody film. It was directed by Paul Weiland and starred Bill Cosby, who also produced the film and wrote its story. The film also starred Gloria Foster as the villain, and Joe Don Baker. The film was shot in the San Francisco Bay Area. It earned several Golden Raspberry Awards; Cosby himself denounced and disowned it in the press in the weeks leading up to its release. > The film was universally panned by critics and has often... ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-seen-an-actor-or-director-tell-the-truth-about-an-awful-movie/483266/6 "2009-01-27T19:51:29Z")
> [@Grumman](#): > > The guy who played Edward in the _Twilight_ movie was quite honest about what he thought of the novel, author and fans. Link? ---
**Author:** ![shy\_guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@shy\_guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shy_guy)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-seen-an-actor-or-director-tell-the-truth-about-an-awful-movie/483266/7 "2009-01-27T19:51:45Z")
Recently, Nicole Kidman said that she found Australia embarrassing and didn’t want to sit through it. ---
**Author:** ![gallows\_fodder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8c91f0/32.png) [@gallows\_fodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gallows_fodder)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-seen-an-actor-or-director-tell-the-truth-about-an-awful-movie/483266/8 "2009-01-27T19:58:17Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![NAF1138](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naf1138/32/3245_2.png) [@NAF1138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NAF1138)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-seen-an-actor-or-director-tell-the-truth-about-an-awful-movie/483266/9 "2009-01-27T19:59:27Z")
> [@shy\_guy](#): > > Recently, Nicole Kidman said that she found Australia embarrassing and didn’t want to sit through it. 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, 1. 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. 2. 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. ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-seen-an-actor-or-director-tell-the-truth-about-an-awful-movie/483266/10 "2009-01-27T20:11:39Z")
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” ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-seen-an-actor-or-director-tell-the-truth-about-an-awful-movie/483266/11 "2009-01-27T20:15:50Z")
> [@Bijou\_Drains](#): > > 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!” ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-seen-an-actor-or-director-tell-the-truth-about-an-awful-movie/483266/12 "2009-01-27T20:16:41Z")
Robert Webb said of the movie _Confetti_: > [@](#): > > \*\*8. \*\*What’s the biggest mistake you¹ve ever made? > **Webb:** Confetti. I had a miserable time making it and I think the finished film is an underwhelming mess. I look forward to its DVD release as ardently as I look forward to appendicitis. [from here](http://tmwl.project76.tv/Archive/2006_09_01_archive.shtml#115922329312390932) ---
**Author:** ![shy\_guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@shy\_guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shy_guy)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-seen-an-actor-or-director-tell-the-truth-about-an-awful-movie/483266/13 "2009-01-27T20:17:39Z")
> [@NAF1138](#): > > Wow really? [Yup.](http://perezhilton.com/2009-01-09-nicole-kidman-embarrassed-by-her-latest-bomb) ---
**Author:** ![Huerta88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/82dd89/32.png) [@Huerta88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Huerta88)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-seen-an-actor-or-director-tell-the-truth-about-an-awful-movie/483266/14 "2009-01-27T20:18:06Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-seen-an-actor-or-director-tell-the-truth-about-an-awful-movie/483266/15 "2009-01-27T20:18:12Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-seen-an-actor-or-director-tell-the-truth-about-an-awful-movie/483266/16 "2009-01-27T20:19:41Z")
> [@Grumman](#): > > The guy who played Edward in the _Twilight_ movie was quite honest about what he thought of the novel, author and fans. 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.) ---
**Author:** ![Illuminatiprimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/illuminatiprimus/32/11520_2.png) [@Illuminatiprimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Illuminatiprimus)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-seen-an-actor-or-director-tell-the-truth-about-an-awful-movie/483266/17 "2009-01-27T20:22:38Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > Robert Webb said of the movie _Confetti_… 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). ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-seen-an-actor-or-director-tell-the-truth-about-an-awful-movie/483266/18 "2009-01-27T20:25:45Z")
> [@Bijou\_Drains](#): > > 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” Didn’t he say that he was rooting for the shark in Jaws: The Revenge? ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-seen-an-actor-or-director-tell-the-truth-about-an-awful-movie/483266/19 "2009-01-27T20:30:08Z")
> [@shy\_guy](#): > > [Yup.](http://perezhilton.com/2009-01-09-nicole-kidman-embarrassed-by-her-latest-bomb) [Nope.](http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=7&entry_id=34530) ---
**Author:** ![sciurophobic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cab0a1/32.png) [@sciurophobic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sciurophobic)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-seen-an-actor-or-director-tell-the-truth-about-an-awful-movie/483266/20 "2009-01-27T21:02:28Z")
I think George Clooney apologizes for **Batman & Robin** every chance he gets. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-seen-an-actor-or-director-tell-the-truth-about-an-awful-movie/483266.md?page=2)