As he SHOULD.
I think on the imdb.com entry for “The Kiss” which starred some blond jack-o-lantern on a stick with two balloons in front, and co-starred Billy Zane & Eliza Dushku (the only watchable part of the movie), the director issued an apology & explained that it was edited under the producer’s direction to give more emphasis to the producer’s actress GF (the blond), but it was not the same movie he directed.
I heard a rumor that if you go up to him on the street and tell him you saw it in the theater he’ll give you eight dollars. I don’t know if it’s true, but it certainly is funny.
Charlie Sheen, on his SNL monologue, reimbursed someone for watching Men At Work.
John Waters once asked Pia Zadora how she felt about her Golden Turkey Award nomination for Butterfly. She replied that she’d hate to be nominated for it and lose. Wotta gal!
I saw Dudley Moore on Letterman a couple years before he died. He had just started working on a sitcom with a little girl, which from the previews looked like it was going to suck donkey balls. Dudley is only there to hype the show. So Letterman starts asking him about it, and I guess Dudley couldn’t carry on with the bullshit any longer, so he just said something like “you know, it’s just a sitcom. The kids might like it, but it’s really not very good.”
Letterman starts laughing and repeated it, “it’s not very good??!?!”
Dudley- “no, honestly. It’s bad.”
Or something along those lines. Then they quickly cut to a commercial and when they came back, Dudley was gone. I think he was drunk.
Mel Gibson infamously said Wim Wenders and Bono’s “Million Dollar Hotel” was “as boring as a dog’s ass”. This despite being one of the leads and one of the film’s producers.
Halle Berry famously accepted her Raspberry Award in person for Catwomen, which is a statement in of sorts.
The director for Babylon A.D. apparently called it a bad episode of “24”.
I remember reading last Spring an interview with Lucas & Speilberg about the upcoming Indy 4. Lucas said he knew ahead of time that Indiana Jones fans would hate it.
I seem to recall an interview where Sandra Bullock said Speed 2 should never have been made.
Also not a movie: Randy Quaid was the lead in a pre-Broadway tryout of a musical called Lone Star Love here in Seattle. Midway through the run, he was no longer playing the lead. The official story is that he was unwell, but from that point forward, every night before the performance, a theater bigwig did a preshow speech that was superficially very tactful but that could be read between the lines to say “we’re sorry this show is such a mess but Randy Quaid was an asshole.”
Postscript: A few months later, the extent of his behavior was fully described in a formal banning-for-life from the stage actors’ union. Asshole barely begins to describe it.
Yowza! I read this and can’t believe someone could remotely believe this behavior is acceptable. I know with some people, fame goes straight to their heads…but…this is Randy Quaid. He’s not THAT big a deal!
I suspect that Quaid was being “method” also known as the “can’t really act” technique. He implied that he was acting like Falstaff all the time which is what makes me think that. That kind of bullshit may fly on film where actors frequently aren’t required to have any decernable craft, but it doesn’t fly on stage. Good for Actors Equity for protecting the actors Quaid had to work with.
I think at least half of Sandra Bullock’s movies should never have been made.
That was probably the effect of his Progressive Supranuclear Palsy. Dudley Moore - Wikipedia. The apparent drunkenness, that is, not the sitcom sucking.
Has Wim Wenders ever made a movie that wasn’t boring? I didn’t think people saw his movies to be entertained.
Katherine Heigl has been blunt in criticizing her current work if she feels it isn’t up to her standards. She’s disparaged Grey’s Anatomy and Knocked Up. The general consensus is that her criticism is ungrateful rather than refreshingly honest (helped by how she usually puts the blame for the poor quality on other people).
One very interesting case was the one of Lawrence Olivier and the movie Inchon that was financed by the church of Reverend Moon :
IIRC, Olivier was paid 2 million dollars, that is a lot of flowers being sold at airports by cult members…
I think that in the book “The Golden Turkey Awards” it was mentioned that one big reason for the failure of the movie was that audiences were afraid that the film was being used as part of a drive by the Unification Church to recruit new members. The New York Times said that Inchon “looks like the most expensive B-movie ever made”, and another reviewer said that the movie was inspired by Hitchcock, because “it was made by a psycho and it was really for the birds”
I don’t remember her saying anything The 40-Year-Old Virgin wasn’t up to her standards, though she did call it ‘a little sexist.’ I suppose that can come off as ungrateful, but perhaps we’re just not used to actresses saying anything but ‘Such a joy blah blah blah we were like a family blah blah blah great outfits I got to keep’ in celeb interviews. They are making loads and part of the tiny percentage of actors that can survive on that income– so it’s a bit of a shock when they lament the roles available to them.
Ben Affleck was particularly endearing when he read reviews for Gigli on some late night talk show.
Not only do actors occasionally cash in on a movie’s performance (e.g. as producer), and want to work again, they also sign contracts requiring them to do a certain amount of press for the films. It can’t be easy to pull off if you trash the hting at every junket.
When Paul Newman’s first movie, *The Silver Chalice, *was shown on TV, Newman placed an ad in the paper, apologizing for the movie, and telling people not to watch it.
This interview is pretty funny, about 3 minutes in.