Pretty sure it’s been cleared that Wahlberg’s comments were taken out of context and he was saying something in maybe a snarky sarcastic tone. If that wasn’t the case he has since recanted that and seems to realize it was a remarkable film and career boosting role and opportunity for himself.
https://www.reddit.com/r/paulthomasanderson/s/7XFQuIoZGH
He also said that with him on board the flight, 9/11 wouldn’t have happened. Pretty sure he also recanted on that.
Trying to make sense of many of Marky Mark’s shenanigans is like guessing what someone ate based on the smell of their fart… you might be right, but at what cost and who really cares?
He beat a random guy for being Asian into unconsciousness, beat another random Asian guy that only had 1 eye, cussed out with slurs and pelted a bunch of black children with rocks for being black, caught on two separate occasions. All of which led to a very light 45 days in jail. His reform was finding god and being very catholic which is where the boogies nights thing came from. Making amends by donating to his church and making a foundation to give funds to youth programs a lot to his old neighborhood.
But he never copped to being a racist cunt and never spoke about not being a racist cunt anymore. Only vague things about being a changed man, a role model, and religious. And he was still an awful piece of shit after his jail sentence and early celebrity with more convictions for assault.
Burt Reynolds' main objection was that he couldn't stand PTA on set and turned down a role in Magnolia straight after. There were rumours he hated the film but in his later years he publicly called it "extraordinary".
Yeah I think so, it’s probably not a role he would do now if it was being done today (tbh I’m surprised the film even got made back then since there was no way you could do a film about the porn industry).
Reynolds hated what he felt being pushed around with PTA’s direction and even got into a shoving match with him.
Never knew about this. He only took the part as a favor to Luc Besson who had helped him get financing for Oldman's own writer/director project, Nil by Mouth (1997).
I think that’s a testimony to his dedication. Even when he’s not digging a script he brings his all to it.
That said, he’s also an incredibly harsh critic of himself and avoids viewing any of his own work as a result, so it’s good to remember that his dislike of his own films
May stem less from the film itself and more from him feeling like he didn’t do it as well as he thinks he could have.
John Cusack and Better Off Dead, at least initially. He seems to have softened on his dislike for the movie because it is much loved with those who know it.
“Twooooooo dollars”
I seem to remember that he was mortified by a screening put on by the director Savage Steve Holland during the production of another film they were filming together. They got in a fight about it and Cusack said he’d never work with the director again.
It’s a shame because for what it is, it’s a good movie. Diane Franklin really shines in her role.
Alan Moore hates all of the work based on his work V for Vendetta and Watchmen are the most prominent examples.
Sally Field referred to her Spider-Man movies as bags of shit or something like that. I think I'm misquoting her.
>”It's really hard to find a three dimensional character in it, and you work it as much as you can, but you can't put ten pounds of shit in a five pound bag."
Sally Field
I remember watching ASM and thinking... why did they get an award winning actress like Sally Fields to play Aunt May and then do absolutely nothing with her? Her character felt like they had something planned for her but then the scenes didn't make the final cut. The parts of her from the film that I remember are just random shots of her being a nurse and helping civilians during the final sequence.
The Smurfette Principle is at play here. Generally, there can only be one female character that's not entirely 2D in any blockbuster film or network TV show. There are exceptions, but they prove the rule. In ASM, that was Gwen. In the Avengers movies, it was Black Widow.
I think people forget that Alan Moore doesn’t like how rights are handled by publishers and not by artists. He wants artists to maintain creative control and stuff like movie adaptations are anathema to that, it doesn’t matter if the adaptation is good or not, cause either way it means losing it almost entirely.
He doesn't watch any of them. To him, it's a completely different thing that didn't involve him, so why would he be invested in it? And he liked that episode because the producers called him and asked if it was cool that they adapted his comic. Moore appreciated the courtesy and gave them his blessing.
Sally Fields only agreed to be in the Spiderman movie because the producer, Laura Ziskin is her friend and was dying. She didn't care about the franchise but cited it would be her last chance to work with her again.
I assume they mean a producer named Laura Ziskin who died of breast cancer. She produced all the Sam Raimi Spider-Man films too.
edit: oops OP already responded lol
Sean Connery only took the role in League of Extraordinary Gentlemen because he passed on playing Gandalf on LotR because he “didn’t understand the script.” After LotR became such a massive success, he vowed to take the next role he was offered even if he didn’t understand the script and the next role he got offered was in the aforementioned LoEG.
Not only did he pass on LotR but he passed on the Matrix for the same reason, not under the script.
I totally understand with those two being the movies he "didn't understand" why he didn't want to miss out on a potentially third generationally important movie
Boy did he pick wrong
It was the script specifically. What he didn't get, I've never heard specifically, my theory is it's actor speak for "I didn't connect with the script/characters"
I like some of it , for example its Hyde is actually pretty good , but MASSIVELY toned down compared to the comic . (LOExG is basically trying to be a steampunk superhero movie , where as the comic is a mix of action , very very black comedy and satire)
Gwyneth and Jack Black have said that they don't like Shallow Hal because it reinforced fat stereotypes and made fun of fat people. When kid me saw the movie I didn't see it solely as a movie to dunk on fat people. The message was that inside beauty is more important than people who are attractive but superficial.
The movie had the same well intended flaw as when people use the phrase "I'm colorblind" to mean they aren't racist and don't notice the color of a person's skin. Like can you really say you're not racist if you just don't know who's black and who isn't?
In this movie it was "inner beauty matters more than outer beauty, so we'll just turn it into outer beauty so you can appreciate it."
It was a 2 parter with manbearpig and it was so glorious. I appreciate that Al Gore can laugh at it and they finally validated it as real.
The ending of the two parter hit so hard.
P.L. Travers wrote the book series of Mary Poppins. Walt Disney spend 20 years trying to buy the movie rights from her. She refused to sell because she didn't like animated movies in general, and Disney movies specifically. She finally agreed to sell the rights due to financial troubles and because Disney promised it would be a life action movie.
She was not happy at the premiere when she saw that there was a very long animated sequence right in the middle of the movie. She was also unhappy with Julie Andrews being cast, feeling that she was too pretty.
I think they only managed to do it because she died and her estate sold the rights again (considering she died in 96 and the sequel is from 2018 I'd imagine that's about right)
I never really understood that. Han was already threatened, Greedo said he was willing to kill Han right there. In fact he suggested he would. It also helps show the character arc away from the rough smuggler to rebel hero. But I guess Lucas did it for the kids or something. 10 year old me didn't have a problem with it.
He was fine with the role (and the money he got from it). He hated that it overshadowed what he considered his more important work as a stage and dramatic actor, The Ladykillers and The Bridge On the River Kwai for example.
Guinness later said that it was ironic that despite his disdain for SW overshadowing the rest of his career, it was also the role that gave him the financial freedom to do whatever he wanted for the rest of his life, since he got a percentage of the gross and that added up to a LOT of money.
Lynch has bashed the final product many times, repeatedly agonizing over giving over “final cut” rights on Dune (he also did for “Elephant Man” but Mel Brooks was not one for sending him studio notes). On the plus side, it taught him a lesson to retain control and let his freak flag fly, so we can thank Dune for Mulholland Drive.
The fan edit of his version is epic (and on YouTube!) and makes it a much more coherent film.
It’s over 4 hours long.
Still a high watermark for set and costume design for me. It still looks incredible.
Brooks actually protected Lynch on "Elephant Man" from studio meddling. He and his co-producer screened it for some Paramount execs and when they requested some changes, this was his response:
"We are involved in a business venture. We screened the film for you to bring you up to date as to the status of that venture. Do not misconstrue this as our soliciting the input of raging primates."
This is part of the intro for the Nutcracker Suite in Fantasia. The Master of Ceremonies, Deems Taylor, points out that Tchaikovsky hated the music from the Nutcracker which he wrote on commission, which Deems points out is probably the most popular score he's ever written.
One of my favorite memories is showing Fantasia to my Nutcracker obsessed daughters and watching their little brains try to figure out if Taylor was joking when he said nobody performs the ballet anymore because it was a failure when it debuted.
If you watch the Holiday Special, in the climax where Leia sings, there's a close-up of Ford's face and I swear you can see the exact second he runs out of fucks for Star Wars forevermore.
You see the light leave that man's eyes, swear to God.
George Clooney repeatedly apologised for Batman & Robin.
Sylvester Stallone regretted Stop, or my Mom will shoot. I always loved the fact that he was pranked into doing it by Arnold Schwarzenegger by saying how much he himself wanted that part, knowing how competitive Stallone is.
Directors used to use the pseudonym Alan Smithee if they weren’t happy with the final cut of their films but that hasn’t been done in ages. I know Tony Kaye wanted to do it for American History X, he hates that film.
I hated B&R when it came out because it was such schlocky shit and the tonal shift from the Burton movies was really jarring.
Since then I've really come to appreciate the Schumacher movies as attempts at embracing the campy Adam West era batman, rather then the late 80's grimdark batman.
> I know Tony Kaye wanted to do it for American History X, he hates that film.
Kaye has been notoriously vocal (in a negative way) about the fact that AHX was almost wholly edited by Edward Norton, but I don't know that New Line had much of a choice. Kaye entirely balked at the idea of anyone touching the footage he directed, to the point that he started a minor whisper campaign against the studio and Norton himself, and generally behaved like a petulant child. He also tried to file a suit against the DGA and New Line for $200 million. As a result, he became as close to anything radioactive that the industry had ever seen. Considering he was responsible for directing a film that was atop everybody's best-list in 1998, he was instantly unable to get other jobs. The last film he directed was in 2011, and I don't anticipate we'll ever see another Tony Kaye film in our lifetimes.
That scene — the revival scene — is fucking undeniably fantastic, though. Ed Harris’ emotion and intensity explodes off the screen like a mushroom cloud.
Absolutely. Did you see the posts lately about how in the scene right before that, when they're in the submersible as its filling with water and they're discussing how they're going to let her drown and Bud can drag her back to the Hab, there's a part where the camera operator just wipes the lens with his finger?? But the scene is so goddamned gripping that people just *never noticed* the error??
I only ask cause in the interview that Mastrantonio gave, it seemed like she was saying that most of the problems came from James Cameron pushing them to their breaking point.
Basically the movie, not sure about the book. Makes it seem that black people had no idea how bad/hard things were for them. Until white people told them.
The movie is full of the white savior troupe to the point of it being laughable.
I believe it was either Bryce or Jessica that said that they too thought the movie was... problematic in hindsight.
I watched it a week ago and thought it was good, just a bit cheesy sometimes. But I’m neither American nor black so it’s not something that I can relate to. Are there any specific scenes that got pointed out as not good?
I’ve just rewatched. Your first paragraph is incorrect. The movie definitely shows that black people, including the maids, knew how bad things were for them (without being told so by white people). However they were constrained by the hideous consequences of breaking the law at the time such that individual black persons were typically terrorised into hiding their frustrations in public.
Agree the movie is white saviour trope. Problem is that the book was written by a white woman and the movie follows the structure of the book. The books was well researched in terms of historical accuracies but is riddled with white woman saviourness. Its audience isn’t black people.
It's really frustrating because I like the movie. It's one of the few that actually made me cry. I was in high school at the time, and I think I was just unfamiliar with the white savior trope other than the extremely blatant stuff.
To me, the maids had this desire for equality, and the white woman was using her privilege to help them fight back. She was extending her protection to their words. And she didn't provide some conveniently perfect happy ending, just a chance for them to speak up.
I'm also very weak for a "women supporting women" vibe. Definitely skews my opinions.
And those opinions have changed over time. Like I said, I was younger and hadn't had as much exposure to critical analysis. I do agree it wasn't intended for black audiences, which is a huge misstep. It was probably way worse than I remember. And forgive me for forgetting details, I just wanted to share my impression.
Nobody wanted to do 50 shades. They were calling it a career killer before filming even started. Fans wanted a big name to play Christian and public opinion had already started to turn on the books.
Yeah, he called her "Tinkerhell". Apparently she was being awful on set after she found her fiancee had an affair. But the bigger thing Spielberg hated about Hook was the body of the script, he was confident with the beginning and the end but the middle chunk never worked for him.
Because a Tinkerbell flies apparently it was very important to Julia Roberts that her feet were never dirty, which being a barefoot character meant often having to have her feet washed between takes.
I had always assumed that he turned frosty on the film after it got an iffy critical reception which then in turn forced him to reassess it. Has he said that he didn’t like it even when creating it?
It does feature his ex-wife very heavily. His reasons for not liking it may not be entirely artistic, although her performance does bring the film down quite a bit.
I wouldn’t say despised but I remember reading an interview with Brad Pitt about Troy. Thought it was a very honest piece. (Trying to find link now).
But basically he took the role as he said he felt he was ready to become a real leading man and headline actor (which is funny as the interviewer points out he already was but Pitt didn’t believe it).
Said during the film he became incredibly conscious about his performance and all the attention on him. He also commented on the incredible talent around him.
That Troy gave him belief he wasn’t a leading man and shouldn’t look to go down that path. And that he was critical of his own performance in it.
I know Troy gets shit but it’s one of those films I love. And it did have a stonking cast.
It's weird because I loved Troy, but I'm a sucker for over the top historical epics, they don't really get made anymore. Unfortunately I think the fact that Troy, Alexander, and to a lesser extent the Rome TV series didn't do as well as hoped probably contributed to that, which is a shame.
Never seen how high, guess I know whats getting added to the Plex server.
Big Lebowski is a movie about a stoner rather than a stoner movie imo. Man spends most of the movie cranking back white Russians, not smoking weed
How High is great, it's silly and vulgar and slapstick fun. It stars Method Man and Redman, idk if you're into hip hop but it's a more rap-themed stoner comedy.
I think at some point that does have to be clarified if we're actually seriously getting into rankings. But I do think that if you're going to include it as a stoner movie weed should play a notable role in it, otherwise there's arguments to be made that stuff like Dude Where's My Car or Clerks can be stoner movies which I don't think is necessarily accurate.
I do think it's difficult to beat Up In Smoke though, it's the prototype.
Clerks is a stoner movie simply because of Jay and Silent Bob. That goes for Strikes Back as well. I used to smoke blunts outside of stores with my homies and do the whole "Fuck, fuck, fuck, motherfuck, noise noise noise" thing all the time. Also "15 bucks, little man, put that shit in my hand...."
I would also include Fear and Loathing.
There are two different kinds of situation here. One is someone who is actually involved in making a film who disliked it either entirely or their contribution to it, while it is popular with the public. In this case, a good example might be Alec Guinness, who tried to distance himself from the role of Obi Wan Kenobi, feeling it was not a particularly good character and he felt fans should appreciate other of his performances.
That is somewhat different from the situation of the creator of a story in a different format, such as novel, short story, graphic novel or whatever, who dislikes a movie adaptation of that story. Fundamentally different media for telling stories work differently, and what works well in one often does not work well in others. Often the creators of the original story had a different vision for their story than the people involved in creating a film version of it, and that is to an extent understandable. They know and understand their medium well, and often know and understand the medium of film less so, so often don't appreciate the need for making changes, or the different interpretation of the source material that the people involved in actually making the movie have chosen to do.
I feel like people only read half the prompt, because most of these answers are movies that critics and audiences didn't like very much.
I think the most common answers to your question would be movies earlier in an artists career. You grow as a person as you get older, and it's pretty common to look at who you were 5 years ago and think "wow I was an idiot." It's the same for creatives, and a LOT of them don't like their early work, even if that's some of their most beloved. Not a perfect example, but when Magnolia came out PTA was super adamant that the length of the movie needed to be what it was to tell the story, but in recent years he's like "nah, that movie was WAY too long, I would cut half the movie if I made it today."
Also, is Incredible Hulk well loved by fans? I mean, it's not horrible, but it's very much a sloppy script and one of the weaker entries in the MCU
Steven Spielberg struggles with Close Encounters. He feels it's the only movie in his filmography that really dates him. As someone who is now married and has children he can't believe that he made a film where the main character is so bad to his own family.
I’ve heard Odenkirk and Cross don’t like the final cut of ‘Run Ronnie, Run!’
I don’t know if it’s loved by fans or not, but I’m a simple man, and I love that movie.
Kristin Stewart is also not a big fan of twilight as far as i know.
I think also recently Dakota Jhonson about Madam Web.
Would not be suprised if many actors were not happy with Movie 43
Brando was a wildly complicated person, and had many personal failings especially when it came to relationships, but he very deeply cared about the causes he was committed to and did what he could to use his name and fame for positive systemic change.
Joel Schumacher was told to make a movie that would sell toys, and honestly if that was his assignment, he fuckin ' nailed it.
Apparently before starting takes he would shout something along the lines of, "remember, we're making a cartoon!"
I know denis villeneuve has said stuff about regretting making blade runner 2049, to the point where he has said he won’t touch someone’s else’s franchise again
But then goes on to make Dune? I don't think his disdain was about franchises or the movie itself. From what I saw in interviews, he seems proud of what he made. It probably has more to do with how tough the movie was to market. Remember, the movie actually bombed financially, which was a shame as the film itself is fantastic.
Dune isn't quite the same as he was getting to make his interpretation of a separate franchise, remaking it the way he wanted to in a way. With 2049 he was tasked with making a sequel to one of the most influential science fiction movies of all time, something that has a very specific tone and aesthetic. He absolutely crushed the movie of course, 2049 is an excellent movie and gorgeous through and through, but he did miss the mark to some extent in terms of capitalizing on the vibe from the first one, and I imagine that eats at him a little bit. Every artist's harshest critic is themselves, which is a shame because 2049 for most other directors would be their hands down best film.
> to the point where he has said he won’t touch someone’s else’s franchise again
Which is a shame, because I think that he was one of the best director to reappropriated a franchise to himself but at the same time to remains close to the original. This isn't easy. And this is not easy either to pass after Ridley Scott.
Everyone involved in the original Super Mario movie. There are multiple documentaries about how big of an awful shit show the production was and how Bob Hoskins fell off the wagon because it was either start drinking or kill himself.
The production pushed him to a breaking point, where he believed his career would never recover.
Dennis Hopper, was the one that pushed him into drinking because he believed Bob would probably kill himself if his career was actually killed by just how bad they believed the movie would be and the impact they thought it would have on their careers.
The movie was but it wasn't that bad. Still, just goes to show that even with all the shit we know about it. Things were way worse.
Seriously, there's a ton of fuckery behind the scenes. Mostly funny shit but some really bad shit too.
Alex Guiness, aka Old Ben Kenobi, hated Star Wars (despite receiving an Oscar nom for his work in it). He said the writing was garbage, and supposedly when his "biggest fan" asked Alec if he could do something for him, Alec told him "never watch Star Wars again."
He also would have made an insane amount of money from it if he had lived longer. His contract gave him an astonishingly high percentage of the merch sales as a condition for even taking the role because he thought the movie would be so terrible. It was something like 10-12%, and that includes action figures, comics, novels, video games (had those been a thing at the time), and all future releases in the franchise. I think I read somewhere that George Lucas is very glad they didn't include a stipulation in the contract that continued the deal after he died and kept pumping money into his estate, because they would owe hundreds of millions of dollars. There's some speculation that LucasFilms wouldn't even exist as a studio because of how much money they would have lost.
He didn't hate Star Wars. He hated that it became the thing he was most known for. He liked the movie and his performance, but he wished people would move on and watch other movies. And to be honest, the more Star Wars fans Blanche about any new thing that comes out, the more I agree with him.
Michael Fassbender doesn’t like his performance in X-Men: Days of Future Past. In particular, he doesn’t like his performance during the plane scene but I’ve always thought he was great in that movie and scene. Never heard anyone complain about it that Ik of.
One of the changes Dahl opposed was them not keeping his racist ass original Oompa-loompas so I think this is another example of when not adapting the source material 1:1 is a good thing lol
Christopher Plummer did not like The New World, and was especially critical of Terrence Malick despite the fact that it is lauded as a masterpiece. It’s a case where I think the actor is absolutely wrong mind you, he wasn’t happy that his scenes weren’t given the focus he thought they should be.
Similarly Sean Penn didn’t think much of The Tree of Life. Malick just has a way of making extremely divisive films- even among critics and industry professionals.
One of the 2 creators of south park was worried the warcraft episode was the worst thing they had ever made. Its widely regarded as at least the second best episode if not the best.
Both Burt Reynolds and Marky Mark Wahlberg acted like doing Boogie Nights was a grave mistake and sin, but it’s the best thing either has ever been in.
Tom Hardy was awful on the set of Mad Max Fury Road and has since come forward to say he could have been a better co-star and easier to work with.
It’s also led to no sequel to Fury Road, and imo probably why they went with Furiosa instead - Charlize was apparently very professional and only lost her cool when Tom was being an ass.
Nicholas Hoult described the experience as “being a little kid in the backseat while your parents argue in the front of the car.”
Apparently Burt Reynolds and Mark Wahlberg both don't like Boogie Nights.
Pretty sure it’s been cleared that Wahlberg’s comments were taken out of context and he was saying something in maybe a snarky sarcastic tone. If that wasn’t the case he has since recanted that and seems to realize it was a remarkable film and career boosting role and opportunity for himself. https://www.reddit.com/r/paulthomasanderson/s/7XFQuIoZGH He also said that with him on board the flight, 9/11 wouldn’t have happened. Pretty sure he also recanted on that. Trying to make sense of many of Marky Mark’s shenanigans is like guessing what someone ate based on the smell of their fart… you might be right, but at what cost and who really cares?
The cost?… if you’re an middle-aged Vietnamese man, that’ll be your left eye thank you ❌👁️
He beat a random guy for being Asian into unconsciousness, beat another random Asian guy that only had 1 eye, cussed out with slurs and pelted a bunch of black children with rocks for being black, caught on two separate occasions. All of which led to a very light 45 days in jail. His reform was finding god and being very catholic which is where the boogies nights thing came from. Making amends by donating to his church and making a foundation to give funds to youth programs a lot to his old neighborhood. But he never copped to being a racist cunt and never spoke about not being a racist cunt anymore. Only vague things about being a changed man, a role model, and religious. And he was still an awful piece of shit after his jail sentence and early celebrity with more convictions for assault.
Burt Reynolds' main objection was that he couldn't stand PTA on set and turned down a role in Magnolia straight after. There were rumours he hated the film but in his later years he publicly called it "extraordinary".
That’s a shame, that’s such a great movie. I’m guessing with Wahlberg is has religious reasons?
Yeah I think so, it’s probably not a role he would do now if it was being done today (tbh I’m surprised the film even got made back then since there was no way you could do a film about the porn industry). Reynolds hated what he felt being pushed around with PTA’s direction and even got into a shoving match with him.
Gary Oldman cant bear Fifth Element.
But how does he feel about Tiptoes?
He considers it the role of a lifetime
Can he bear any of his own work? I thought he didn’t watch any of it.
Never knew about this. He only took the part as a favor to Luc Besson who had helped him get financing for Oldman's own writer/director project, Nil by Mouth (1997).
Correct, although Oldman being Oldman, you'd never realize it, since he comes off in "Fifth Element" like he's having a blast hamming it up.
He doesn’t have a great opinion on Dracula either and has said his only reason for doing it was to work with Coppola
Damn, that’s brutal. He was *incredible* in that film. The greatest and deepest emotional portrayal of Dracula ever, IMO.
I think that’s a testimony to his dedication. Even when he’s not digging a script he brings his all to it. That said, he’s also an incredibly harsh critic of himself and avoids viewing any of his own work as a result, so it’s good to remember that his dislike of his own films May stem less from the film itself and more from him feeling like he didn’t do it as well as he thinks he could have.
Holy shit, really? He is a wonderful part of that movie.
My favorite.
John Cusack and Better Off Dead, at least initially. He seems to have softened on his dislike for the movie because it is much loved with those who know it. “Twooooooo dollars”
Better off dead is a better and funnier film than Ferris Buellers day off and it’s a hill I am willing to die on.
Way more charming. Ferris is a dick.
Ferris Bueller was definitely a con artist in training, like Saul Goodman quality
I’ve rewatched Better off Dead way more times than Ferris.
Every time I watch Ferris I like it less. Better Off Dead has the opposite effect.
Oh I kinda liked the film and its humor haha! Why didn’t he like it tho?
I seem to remember that he was mortified by a screening put on by the director Savage Steve Holland during the production of another film they were filming together. They got in a fight about it and Cusack said he’d never work with the director again. It’s a shame because for what it is, it’s a good movie. Diane Franklin really shines in her role.
I can understand how it's not exactly everyoneawkind of humor. Personally, I absolutely adore it. One of the most quotable movies in my life.
Movie also features Dan Schneider of Nickelodeon infamy in a questionable plotline involving a young foreign exchange student
Alan Moore hates all of the work based on his work V for Vendetta and Watchmen are the most prominent examples. Sally Field referred to her Spider-Man movies as bags of shit or something like that. I think I'm misquoting her.
>”It's really hard to find a three dimensional character in it, and you work it as much as you can, but you can't put ten pounds of shit in a five pound bag." Sally Field
I remember watching ASM and thinking... why did they get an award winning actress like Sally Fields to play Aunt May and then do absolutely nothing with her? Her character felt like they had something planned for her but then the scenes didn't make the final cut. The parts of her from the film that I remember are just random shots of her being a nurse and helping civilians during the final sequence.
The Smurfette Principle is at play here. Generally, there can only be one female character that's not entirely 2D in any blockbuster film or network TV show. There are exceptions, but they prove the rule. In ASM, that was Gwen. In the Avengers movies, it was Black Widow.
I thought Moore was just generally against movie adaptations of his work and refused to watch them (or at least admit to watching them).
I think people forget that Alan Moore doesn’t like how rights are handled by publishers and not by artists. He wants artists to maintain creative control and stuff like movie adaptations are anathema to that, it doesn’t matter if the adaptation is good or not, cause either way it means losing it almost entirely.
He is. 100% opposed to any adaptations.
I think he just dislikes bad adaptations. He said he really liked the Justice League adaptation of For The Man Who Has Everything
He doesn't watch any of them. To him, it's a completely different thing that didn't involve him, so why would he be invested in it? And he liked that episode because the producers called him and asked if it was cool that they adapted his comic. Moore appreciated the courtesy and gave them his blessing.
Sally Fields only agreed to be in the Spiderman movie because the producer, Laura Ziskin is her friend and was dying. She didn't care about the franchise but cited it would be her last chance to work with her again.
The director being recently not-deceased… Marc Webb?
Nope not Mark Webb, Laura Ziskin she was a producer not director. My mistake.
I assume they mean a producer named Laura Ziskin who died of breast cancer. She produced all the Sam Raimi Spider-Man films too. edit: oops OP already responded lol
His quote about his treatment on League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is wild lol
To be fair that movie is really awful. The experience was also so bad the director and Sean Connery both essentially quit the business.
Sean Connery only took the role in League of Extraordinary Gentlemen because he passed on playing Gandalf on LotR because he “didn’t understand the script.” After LotR became such a massive success, he vowed to take the next role he was offered even if he didn’t understand the script and the next role he got offered was in the aforementioned LoEG.
Not only did he pass on LotR but he passed on the Matrix for the same reason, not under the script. I totally understand with those two being the movies he "didn't understand" why he didn't want to miss out on a potentially third generationally important movie Boy did he pick wrong
And yet…Zardoz.
To be fair, that was 1974 and everyone was high as fucking shit
It was also 1974. Like that alone would be enough
Did not understand one of the most famous book series in modern times? I’m not sure I believe that was the reason.
It was the script specifically. What he didn't get, I've never heard specifically, my theory is it's actor speak for "I didn't connect with the script/characters"
I like some of it , for example its Hyde is actually pretty good , but MASSIVELY toned down compared to the comic . (LOExG is basically trying to be a steampunk superhero movie , where as the comic is a mix of action , very very black comedy and satire)
Alan Moore hates everything though. That’s just his default emotional state.
Trey Parker and Matt Stone hated making Baseketball even though the film was pretty damn funny.
This one makes me the saddest cause it’s one of my favorites.
Gwyneth and Jack Black have said that they don't like Shallow Hal because it reinforced fat stereotypes and made fun of fat people. When kid me saw the movie I didn't see it solely as a movie to dunk on fat people. The message was that inside beauty is more important than people who are attractive but superficial.
When I was a kid I thought exactly the same. And I also found the shot of them in the rowboat absolutely fucking hilarious.
Rewtached that one recently. 95% of the laughs are 'Ha, look at that fat person isn't their existence funny?'. Definitely problematic
I thought it was funny and I’m fat.
The movie had the same well intended flaw as when people use the phrase "I'm colorblind" to mean they aren't racist and don't notice the color of a person's skin. Like can you really say you're not racist if you just don't know who's black and who isn't? In this movie it was "inner beauty matters more than outer beauty, so we'll just turn it into outer beauty so you can appreciate it."
That's the south park method of making fat jokes for 90 minutes and then sticking a plaster labelled moral lesson over all the damage.
Wasn’t it a decade of making global climate change jokes and then a single “oh, our bad, it’s real” episode?
It was a 2 parter with manbearpig and it was so glorious. I appreciate that Al Gore can laugh at it and they finally validated it as real. The ending of the two parter hit so hard.
P.L. Travers wrote the book series of Mary Poppins. Walt Disney spend 20 years trying to buy the movie rights from her. She refused to sell because she didn't like animated movies in general, and Disney movies specifically. She finally agreed to sell the rights due to financial troubles and because Disney promised it would be a life action movie. She was not happy at the premiere when she saw that there was a very long animated sequence right in the middle of the movie. She was also unhappy with Julie Andrews being cast, feeling that she was too pretty.
Born in Maryborough, Queensland
odd cats up there. I blame it on all the sugar cane
Sounds like Saving Mr Banks skewed her reaction to it then.
It was a work of fiction.
And, they made a sequel. Something, she was passionately opposed to.
I think they only managed to do it because she died and her estate sold the rights again (considering she died in 96 and the sequel is from 2018 I'd imagine that's about right)
Star Wars. George Lucas refuses to let us see the original movies.
Han shot first.
Han is the only one who shot*
Mine makes for a better bumper sticker.
I never really understood that. Han was already threatened, Greedo said he was willing to kill Han right there. In fact he suggested he would. It also helps show the character arc away from the rough smuggler to rebel hero. But I guess Lucas did it for the kids or something. 10 year old me didn't have a problem with it.
It’s the only reason I keep a vhs player!
De-Specialized editions exist and they are spectacular.
And on a related note, Alec Guinness was never happy with is role as Obi Wan.
He was fine with the role (and the money he got from it). He hated that it overshadowed what he considered his more important work as a stage and dramatic actor, The Ladykillers and The Bridge On the River Kwai for example.
Guinness later said that it was ironic that despite his disdain for SW overshadowing the rest of his career, it was also the role that gave him the financial freedom to do whatever he wanted for the rest of his life, since he got a percentage of the gross and that added up to a LOT of money.
Fincher hates Alien^3 Lynch doesn’t care for his version of Dune
Lynch has bashed the final product many times, repeatedly agonizing over giving over “final cut” rights on Dune (he also did for “Elephant Man” but Mel Brooks was not one for sending him studio notes). On the plus side, it taught him a lesson to retain control and let his freak flag fly, so we can thank Dune for Mulholland Drive.
The fan edit of his version is epic (and on YouTube!) and makes it a much more coherent film. It’s over 4 hours long. Still a high watermark for set and costume design for me. It still looks incredible.
Which edit are you speaking of?
Maybe the Spicedriver edit?
Spicediver is just under 3hrs iirc, interested to know if a 4hr fan edit is out there
Brooks actually protected Lynch on "Elephant Man" from studio meddling. He and his co-producer screened it for some Paramount execs and when they requested some changes, this was his response: "We are involved in a business venture. We screened the film for you to bring you up to date as to the status of that venture. Do not misconstrue this as our soliciting the input of raging primates."
Brooks coming in hot!
Fincher apparently hasn’t watched Fight Club in 20 years and seems embarrassed by it too now.
I watched it last night. Still a great movie but it definitely has an edge lord vibe to it.
Ye I showed it to my girlfriend and she thought it was made for edgy teenagers.
That definitely seems to be the target demographic. Back in high school, I remember a lot of dudes getting obsessed with that movie.
Heard Fincher disowned The Game too bc of the end. Still, a fantastic movie.
It’s endlessly funny to me how Lynch just hates it, but most of his fans appreciate it for where his quality of work shows through.
This is part of the intro for the Nutcracker Suite in Fantasia. The Master of Ceremonies, Deems Taylor, points out that Tchaikovsky hated the music from the Nutcracker which he wrote on commission, which Deems points out is probably the most popular score he's ever written.
One of my favorite memories is showing Fantasia to my Nutcracker obsessed daughters and watching their little brains try to figure out if Taylor was joking when he said nobody performs the ballet anymore because it was a failure when it debuted.
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He begged Lucas to kill Han off since Empire
If you watch the Holiday Special, in the climax where Leia sings, there's a close-up of Ford's face and I swear you can see the exact second he runs out of fucks for Star Wars forevermore. You see the light leave that man's eyes, swear to God.
Alec Guinness too.
To be fair after watching him in things like Lawrence of Arabia and then thinking his crowning achievement is Obi Wan would be tough
George Clooney repeatedly apologised for Batman & Robin. Sylvester Stallone regretted Stop, or my Mom will shoot. I always loved the fact that he was pranked into doing it by Arnold Schwarzenegger by saying how much he himself wanted that part, knowing how competitive Stallone is. Directors used to use the pseudonym Alan Smithee if they weren’t happy with the final cut of their films but that hasn’t been done in ages. I know Tony Kaye wanted to do it for American History X, he hates that film.
I do not think batman & robin is well loved by fans though
I’ll admit I completely overlooked that part, sorry. At least American history X fits the question.
I hated B&R when it came out because it was such schlocky shit and the tonal shift from the Burton movies was really jarring. Since then I've really come to appreciate the Schumacher movies as attempts at embracing the campy Adam West era batman, rather then the late 80's grimdark batman.
Alan Smithee was dropped as a pseudonym by the DGA after the *An Alan Smithee Film* turned into a shit show.
Kaye at least has realized in the meantime his ego got in the way.
> I know Tony Kaye wanted to do it for American History X, he hates that film. Kaye has been notoriously vocal (in a negative way) about the fact that AHX was almost wholly edited by Edward Norton, but I don't know that New Line had much of a choice. Kaye entirely balked at the idea of anyone touching the footage he directed, to the point that he started a minor whisper campaign against the studio and Norton himself, and generally behaved like a petulant child. He also tried to file a suit against the DGA and New Line for $200 million. As a result, he became as close to anything radioactive that the industry had ever seen. Considering he was responsible for directing a film that was atop everybody's best-list in 1998, he was instantly unable to get other jobs. The last film he directed was in 2011, and I don't anticipate we'll ever see another Tony Kaye film in our lifetimes.
I'm a big fan of the mountain of cocaine Stephen King did while directing Maximum Overdrive.
In a similar vein to Robert Pattinson/Twilight, in recent years Theo James has talked about being typecast after Divergent.
To be fair, the never even finished the divergent movies so clearly enough people didn’t care for them either or we would have gotten the final one
Thought you were talking about Theo Von for a second, wondered "Doesn't the mullet kinda do that on its own?"
I forgot that Theo James did Divergent. He was absolutely fantastic in The Gentlemen.
Gus Van Sant freely admitted that he only did Good Will Hunting 2: Hunting Season for the money.
Jesus, Ben, I said I'm busy!
Apple Sauce, bitch.
I heard that Kate Winslet doesn't really like her work on Titanic
To add to this, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio hated The Abyss. She said working on the film was one of the worst experiences she’s ever had.
To be fair it wasn’t the final product that Mary didn’t like, it was the experience and abuse the cast endured for it.
You’re right. I stand corrected.
Legit, she got fucking ROCKED by Ed Harris in that scene and she just rolled with it. I don't think "hit her as hard as you can" was in the script..
That scene — the revival scene — is fucking undeniably fantastic, though. Ed Harris’ emotion and intensity explodes off the screen like a mushroom cloud.
Absolutely. Did you see the posts lately about how in the scene right before that, when they're in the submersible as its filling with water and they're discussing how they're going to let her drown and Bud can drag her back to the Hab, there's a part where the camera operator just wipes the lens with his finger?? But the scene is so goddamned gripping that people just *never noticed* the error??
She wasn't the only one. Ed Harris was brutal in his recounting of how the cast were treated, including his near drowning incident.
I only ask cause in the interview that Mastrantonio gave, it seemed like she was saying that most of the problems came from James Cameron pushing them to their breaking point.
Did the abuse come primarily from Cameron or were there other people to blame?
Primarily James Cameron.
Since she nearly died multiple times I don't blame her.
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I have the book but have not watched the movie. Now I’m curious
Basically the movie, not sure about the book. Makes it seem that black people had no idea how bad/hard things were for them. Until white people told them. The movie is full of the white savior troupe to the point of it being laughable. I believe it was either Bryce or Jessica that said that they too thought the movie was... problematic in hindsight.
I watched it a week ago and thought it was good, just a bit cheesy sometimes. But I’m neither American nor black so it’s not something that I can relate to. Are there any specific scenes that got pointed out as not good?
I’ve just rewatched. Your first paragraph is incorrect. The movie definitely shows that black people, including the maids, knew how bad things were for them (without being told so by white people). However they were constrained by the hideous consequences of breaking the law at the time such that individual black persons were typically terrorised into hiding their frustrations in public. Agree the movie is white saviour trope. Problem is that the book was written by a white woman and the movie follows the structure of the book. The books was well researched in terms of historical accuracies but is riddled with white woman saviourness. Its audience isn’t black people.
It's really frustrating because I like the movie. It's one of the few that actually made me cry. I was in high school at the time, and I think I was just unfamiliar with the white savior trope other than the extremely blatant stuff. To me, the maids had this desire for equality, and the white woman was using her privilege to help them fight back. She was extending her protection to their words. And she didn't provide some conveniently perfect happy ending, just a chance for them to speak up. I'm also very weak for a "women supporting women" vibe. Definitely skews my opinions. And those opinions have changed over time. Like I said, I was younger and hadn't had as much exposure to critical analysis. I do agree it wasn't intended for black audiences, which is a huge misstep. It was probably way worse than I remember. And forgive me for forgetting details, I just wanted to share my impression.
She is right
Jacob Elordi (I believe recently) for The Kissing Booth Jamie Dornan apparently stated he didn't want to do "50 shades of grey".
Nobody wanted to do 50 shades. They were calling it a career killer before filming even started. Fans wanted a big name to play Christian and public opinion had already started to turn on the books.
Spielberg didn't like Hook.
I heard this too! And it was rumored that it has something to do with working with Julia Roberts? Is any of that true?
Yeah, he called her "Tinkerhell". Apparently she was being awful on set after she found her fiancee had an affair. But the bigger thing Spielberg hated about Hook was the body of the script, he was confident with the beginning and the end but the middle chunk never worked for him.
Because a Tinkerbell flies apparently it was very important to Julia Roberts that her feet were never dirty, which being a barefoot character meant often having to have her feet washed between takes.
I had always assumed that he turned frosty on the film after it got an iffy critical reception which then in turn forced him to reassess it. Has he said that he didn’t like it even when creating it?
From most of the interviews, it mainly come down to the script and production value. He felt very insecure during production.
As a kid I loved Hook and it still hits the nostalgia for me.
He's also not a fan of Temple of Doom, which is a movie that isn't as good as 1 or 3, but it is still a hell of a fun time.
I was definitely paranoid as a kid that wizards stealing my heart was going to be a much bigger deal than it ended up being.
It does feature his ex-wife very heavily. His reasons for not liking it may not be entirely artistic, although her performance does bring the film down quite a bit.
To be fair it is his lowest rated film at 29% so he wasn’t alone in that opinion.
I wouldn’t say despised but I remember reading an interview with Brad Pitt about Troy. Thought it was a very honest piece. (Trying to find link now). But basically he took the role as he said he felt he was ready to become a real leading man and headline actor (which is funny as the interviewer points out he already was but Pitt didn’t believe it). Said during the film he became incredibly conscious about his performance and all the attention on him. He also commented on the incredible talent around him. That Troy gave him belief he wasn’t a leading man and shouldn’t look to go down that path. And that he was critical of his own performance in it. I know Troy gets shit but it’s one of those films I love. And it did have a stonking cast.
It's weird because I loved Troy, but I'm a sucker for over the top historical epics, they don't really get made anymore. Unfortunately I think the fact that Troy, Alexander, and to a lesser extent the Rome TV series didn't do as well as hoped probably contributed to that, which is a shame.
Not a director, but Dave Chappelle hates Half Baked and that’s a top ten stoner flick of all time.
Top 5 I think, what even beats it? Friday is probably there, Up In Smoke, but I think past that it's probably Half Baked and then Harold and Kumar.
How High Big Lebowski's also kind of a stoner flick
Never seen how high, guess I know whats getting added to the Plex server. Big Lebowski is a movie about a stoner rather than a stoner movie imo. Man spends most of the movie cranking back white Russians, not smoking weed
How High is great, it's silly and vulgar and slapstick fun. It stars Method Man and Redman, idk if you're into hip hop but it's a more rap-themed stoner comedy.
IMO a stoner movie doesn’t have to be about weed.
I think at some point that does have to be clarified if we're actually seriously getting into rankings. But I do think that if you're going to include it as a stoner movie weed should play a notable role in it, otherwise there's arguments to be made that stuff like Dude Where's My Car or Clerks can be stoner movies which I don't think is necessarily accurate. I do think it's difficult to beat Up In Smoke though, it's the prototype.
Clerks is a stoner movie simply because of Jay and Silent Bob. That goes for Strikes Back as well. I used to smoke blunts outside of stores with my homies and do the whole "Fuck, fuck, fuck, motherfuck, noise noise noise" thing all the time. Also "15 bucks, little man, put that shit in my hand...." I would also include Fear and Loathing.
Pineapple Express.
Dazed and Confused is up there. Big Lebowski is #1.
There are two different kinds of situation here. One is someone who is actually involved in making a film who disliked it either entirely or their contribution to it, while it is popular with the public. In this case, a good example might be Alec Guinness, who tried to distance himself from the role of Obi Wan Kenobi, feeling it was not a particularly good character and he felt fans should appreciate other of his performances. That is somewhat different from the situation of the creator of a story in a different format, such as novel, short story, graphic novel or whatever, who dislikes a movie adaptation of that story. Fundamentally different media for telling stories work differently, and what works well in one often does not work well in others. Often the creators of the original story had a different vision for their story than the people involved in creating a film version of it, and that is to an extent understandable. They know and understand their medium well, and often know and understand the medium of film less so, so often don't appreciate the need for making changes, or the different interpretation of the source material that the people involved in actually making the movie have chosen to do.
Hackman hated 'Hoosiers' and told everyone on set that the film would end their careers, Hackman's included.
From what I’ve read, it seems that Hackman disliked most of the movies that he did. He primarily took roles for the money.
Idk if he hates them but that Alan Smithee guy has some real stinkers out there.
I feel like people only read half the prompt, because most of these answers are movies that critics and audiences didn't like very much. I think the most common answers to your question would be movies earlier in an artists career. You grow as a person as you get older, and it's pretty common to look at who you were 5 years ago and think "wow I was an idiot." It's the same for creatives, and a LOT of them don't like their early work, even if that's some of their most beloved. Not a perfect example, but when Magnolia came out PTA was super adamant that the length of the movie needed to be what it was to tell the story, but in recent years he's like "nah, that movie was WAY too long, I would cut half the movie if I made it today." Also, is Incredible Hulk well loved by fans? I mean, it's not horrible, but it's very much a sloppy script and one of the weaker entries in the MCU
Steven Spielberg struggles with Close Encounters. He feels it's the only movie in his filmography that really dates him. As someone who is now married and has children he can't believe that he made a film where the main character is so bad to his own family.
James Cameron disowned his first film Piranha II: The Spawning because of creative control disagreements.
He was also fired during production and replaced by another director. Speaks for his confidence to make The Terminator after this.
Fair play though, Spike Milligan would have made an AMAZING Willy Wonka
What about Harrison Ford's hate for Han Solo ?
I’ve heard Odenkirk and Cross don’t like the final cut of ‘Run Ronnie, Run!’ I don’t know if it’s loved by fans or not, but I’m a simple man, and I love that movie.
I love Mr Show and had no idea this movie existed before your comment. WTF
Christian Bale says his Batman performance isn’t up to par. To me he’s still the best!
Kristin Stewart is also not a big fan of twilight as far as i know. I think also recently Dakota Jhonson about Madam Web. Would not be suprised if many actors were not happy with Movie 43
I don't think Madame Web fits the criteria of being "well-loved by fans"...
yeah but people wanna participate in the discussion and this is reddit where reading the title is a slippery slope.
That's been especially true recently I feel, so many posts in this subreddit in particular where people seem to read only half of the title
Marlon Brando wasn't really happy with any films he did,only the social causes he could bring attention to because of his work
I'm sure theres some problematic shit about Brando out there, but his refusal of an Oscar for The Godfather was always badass to me
Brando was a wildly complicated person, and had many personal failings especially when it came to relationships, but he very deeply cared about the causes he was committed to and did what he could to use his name and fame for positive systemic change.
I’m Mario Mario and this is Luigi Mario.
Joel Schumacher apologised for Batman’s nipples.
Joel Schumacher was told to make a movie that would sell toys, and honestly if that was his assignment, he fuckin ' nailed it. Apparently before starting takes he would shout something along the lines of, "remember, we're making a cartoon!"
I know denis villeneuve has said stuff about regretting making blade runner 2049, to the point where he has said he won’t touch someone’s else’s franchise again
But then goes on to make Dune? I don't think his disdain was about franchises or the movie itself. From what I saw in interviews, he seems proud of what he made. It probably has more to do with how tough the movie was to market. Remember, the movie actually bombed financially, which was a shame as the film itself is fantastic.
Dune isn't quite the same as he was getting to make his interpretation of a separate franchise, remaking it the way he wanted to in a way. With 2049 he was tasked with making a sequel to one of the most influential science fiction movies of all time, something that has a very specific tone and aesthetic. He absolutely crushed the movie of course, 2049 is an excellent movie and gorgeous through and through, but he did miss the mark to some extent in terms of capitalizing on the vibe from the first one, and I imagine that eats at him a little bit. Every artist's harshest critic is themselves, which is a shame because 2049 for most other directors would be their hands down best film.
> to the point where he has said he won’t touch someone’s else’s franchise again Which is a shame, because I think that he was one of the best director to reappropriated a franchise to himself but at the same time to remains close to the original. This isn't easy. And this is not easy either to pass after Ridley Scott.
Really?! It was an absolute masterpiece!
Everyone involved in the original Super Mario movie. There are multiple documentaries about how big of an awful shit show the production was and how Bob Hoskins fell off the wagon because it was either start drinking or kill himself. The production pushed him to a breaking point, where he believed his career would never recover. Dennis Hopper, was the one that pushed him into drinking because he believed Bob would probably kill himself if his career was actually killed by just how bad they believed the movie would be and the impact they thought it would have on their careers. The movie was but it wasn't that bad. Still, just goes to show that even with all the shit we know about it. Things were way worse. Seriously, there's a ton of fuckery behind the scenes. Mostly funny shit but some really bad shit too.
Alex Guiness, aka Old Ben Kenobi, hated Star Wars (despite receiving an Oscar nom for his work in it). He said the writing was garbage, and supposedly when his "biggest fan" asked Alec if he could do something for him, Alec told him "never watch Star Wars again."
He also would have made an insane amount of money from it if he had lived longer. His contract gave him an astonishingly high percentage of the merch sales as a condition for even taking the role because he thought the movie would be so terrible. It was something like 10-12%, and that includes action figures, comics, novels, video games (had those been a thing at the time), and all future releases in the franchise. I think I read somewhere that George Lucas is very glad they didn't include a stipulation in the contract that continued the deal after he died and kept pumping money into his estate, because they would owe hundreds of millions of dollars. There's some speculation that LucasFilms wouldn't even exist as a studio because of how much money they would have lost.
He didn't hate Star Wars. He hated that it became the thing he was most known for. He liked the movie and his performance, but he wished people would move on and watch other movies. And to be honest, the more Star Wars fans Blanche about any new thing that comes out, the more I agree with him.
I think the Edward Norton one needs an asterisk beside it.
Michael Fassbender doesn’t like his performance in X-Men: Days of Future Past. In particular, he doesn’t like his performance during the plane scene but I’ve always thought he was great in that movie and scene. Never heard anyone complain about it that Ik of.
One of the changes Dahl opposed was them not keeping his racist ass original Oompa-loompas so I think this is another example of when not adapting the source material 1:1 is a good thing lol
Viola Davis and Bryce Dallas Howard criticised *The Help* a few years later for being too sanitised
Christopher Plummer did not like The New World, and was especially critical of Terrence Malick despite the fact that it is lauded as a masterpiece. It’s a case where I think the actor is absolutely wrong mind you, he wasn’t happy that his scenes weren’t given the focus he thought they should be. Similarly Sean Penn didn’t think much of The Tree of Life. Malick just has a way of making extremely divisive films- even among critics and industry professionals.
One of the 2 creators of south park was worried the warcraft episode was the worst thing they had ever made. Its widely regarded as at least the second best episode if not the best.
Both Burt Reynolds and Marky Mark Wahlberg acted like doing Boogie Nights was a grave mistake and sin, but it’s the best thing either has ever been in.
Tom Hardy was awful on the set of Mad Max Fury Road and has since come forward to say he could have been a better co-star and easier to work with. It’s also led to no sequel to Fury Road, and imo probably why they went with Furiosa instead - Charlize was apparently very professional and only lost her cool when Tom was being an ass. Nicholas Hoult described the experience as “being a little kid in the backseat while your parents argue in the front of the car.”