It is undeniable that making a film is difficult.
Not only does the cost of a story, screenplay, cost millions of dollars (at least to those of known actors), but it is also necessary that the actors and the filmmakers be able to do so. technical team devote years to a singular project.
Although film making is a work of love, it still happens that a director – the person who probably spends the most time working on a movie – may not like the final results.
We will tell you what is true. You can form your own view.
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The majority of cases come from studio interference: when filmmakers have to change their work due to creative differences with the financiers.
Discontent is also common when filmmakers embark on a project (mainly sequels), they regret an early artistic decision or, as in the case of Steven Soderbergh, they knew that 15 minutes would cause a problem, but they continued anyway .
Here are 20 directors who do not like their own movies, including David Lynch, Stanley Kubrick and several examples from Alan Smithee (where a director disavows his film and uses the alias Alan Smithee).
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1/20 American History X – Tony Kaye
Few directors have done everything possible to discourage people from watching their film as Tony Kaye. Unhappy with how the studio, New Line, redid American History X, the filmmaker wrote several open letters – published by the trade press – recommending not to watch the final version. The film has even been removed from the Toronto Film Festival. "I had tried to remove my name from it and replace it with various pseudonyms," writes Kaye in The Guardian, three years after publication. "One was 'Humpty Dumpty'. Ralph Coates, who played for Tottenham in the 1970s, is another. The Directors Guild of America does not allow Kaye to change his name. Since then, he has lived bitterly with the praise of leading the cult clbadic.
2/20 Transformers: the revenge of the fallen – Michael Bay
The first Transformers was a pretty decent popcorn movie. CGI's blockbuster may not appeal to critics, but it's undeniable that watching robots fight against each other is unthinking entertainment of the highest quality. However, Michael Bay was able to spoil this simple winning formula in the sequel to Revenge of the Fallen, something he then admitted. "When I think about it, it was crap," he said about the film in 2011. "The writers' strike was going to be tough and fast. film where you have to have a story For three months, I was preparing a movie in which I only had 14 pages of what the film was, it's a way to make a movie about BS. "
3/20 The snowman – Tomas Alfredson
While Swedish director Tomas Alfredson has been hailed by the Oscar-nominated Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, his next film, the mysterious thriller The Snowman, has been torn apart by critics. "The filming in Norway was way too short," he said after the film's release. "We did not have any history with us and when we started cutting, we discovered that we were missing a lot." Alfredson added that, despite the development of The Snowman for years, Martin Scorsese had already been named director, about 10 to 15 years. % of the scenario was not filmed. "It's like when you're doing a big headache and missing a few pieces, so you do not see the big picture," he added.
4/20 Avengers: Age of Ultron – Joss Whedon
Joss Whedon has changed cinema with The Avengers. The overall film brought together a host of disparate superheroes and grossed more than $ 1.5 billion (£ 1.15 billion) at the box office. It was difficult to balance all these characters, and the sequel, Age of Ultron, was an exhausted director. Whedon apparently was not able to watch the whole movie once finished, saying, "I'm tied up and had a bad time." A year later, in 2016, the filmmaker clarified his words. "I have been so beaten by the process. Part of that was in conflict with Marvel, which is inevitable. Whedon added that he remained "proud" of the film, but that some things "frustrated" him immensely in the film.
5/20 Annie Hall, Hannah and her sisters, Manhattan – Woody Allen
Annie Hall is widely regarded as one of the greatest movies of all time. Hannah and her sisters won the Oscar for best screenplay. Manhattan is often portrayed as a masterpiece of comedy. Woody Allen, however, thinks his other films are better. "For some reason [Annie Hall] is very friendly. I made better movies than that. Match Point is a better film, Purple Rose of Cairo is a better film, the French film – Midnight in Paris – is a better film, Vicky Cristina Barcelona is also good. I mean, I made such good films, but for some reason they have a charismatic and inexplicable hold on people. That and Manhattan too. [On] Manhattan, I missed what I wanted to do. Same thing with Hannah and her sisters. I'm not saying it's a terrible or bad film. I'm not here to hit my movies. But for me personally, I missed it. It was too peaceful in the end, too bailed out.
6/20 Highball – Noah Baumbach
Noah Baumbach is now a beloved independent filmmaker (thanks to The Squid and the Whale, Frances Ha, and The Meyerowitz Stories). Yet he has not always been an acclaimed director. Baumbach so despised his second film, Highball, that his role as director was changed for Ernie Fusco and that of its author for Jesse Carter. "It was too ambitious," he said about the film, about a newly married couple who ended up inviting too many people to their Brooklyn apartment for a party. "We did not have enough time, we did not finish it, it did not look good, it was just … a mess." We could not do it and I had a fight with the producer. He abandoned it and I did not have money to finish it, to go back and maybe two more days or something. Then later, it was put on DVD without my approval. "
7/20 Babylon AD – Mathieu Kbadovitz
Before Babylon AD – a futuristic sci-fi film about a mercenary escorting a Russian woman to America – who arrived in cinemas in the UK, director Mathieu Kbadovitz tried to stand out from Vin Diesel's project. "The film is supposed to teach us that the education of our children will be the future of our planet," he said. "All the action scenes had one purpose: they were supposed to be guided by a metaphysical point of view or by an experience … for the characters … instead, some parts of the movie look like a bad episode of 24. "Kbadovitz later added that the film was" pure violence and stupidity ".
8/20 Catchfire – Dennis Hopper
In 1992, Dennis Hopper joined the ranks of directors who released their film under the pseudonym Alan Smithee (used famously when filmmakers renounce their own film). Originally called Catchfire, the thriller starring Jodie Foster about a woman who goes into witness protection was renamed Backtrack and 20 minutes were cut for direct VHS release. Hopper rarely talked about the movie; he wanted to distance himself as much as possible from the condemned project.
9/20 The bottom – Steven Soderbergh
"I think it's a beautiful movie to watch and that the score is beautiful," said Steven Soderberg about The Underneath, "but 15 seconds later I know we have problems because of the weather It was just an indication of what's wrong with this case: he's completely sleepy. "The film, about an addict trying to put off the game, was a flop at the box office without surprise. "I can not say that I would not recommend it to anyone," Soderbergh added, "other than looking into the background of someone's career." ".
10/20 Thor: The world of darkness – Alan Taylor
Alan Taylor – of Game of Thrones and the fame of the Sopranos – seemed a perfect choice for Thor, the heroic god of thunder who spoke in Shakespearean prose. When the sequel was released, many were disappointed by the film, which somewhat spoiled Christopher Eccleston, who was playing the villain. Taylor then criticized the project by saying, "The Marvel experience was particularly heartbreaking because I had a kind of absolute freedom during filming and in post-production it turned into a different film. So it's something I hope I never repeat and I do not wish anyone. "
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11/20 Fear and desire – Stanley Kubrick
Few filmmakers have unblemished films. Stanley Kubrick thought his job was Fear and Desire – his cinematic debut as a renowned perfectionist. As his directorial stature grew, it was said that Kubrick was increasingly dissatisfied with the movie Fear and Desire, an anti-war film about four soldiers trapped behind enemy lines. According to reports, in the sixties, Kubrick would have destroyed the original negative imprint and hoped to destroy any remaining imprints. In 1964, Kubrick called the film "a serious effort, unnecessarily realized".
12/20 Batman and Robin – Joel Schumacher
Almost everyone involved in Batman & Robin seems to hate the end product. George Clooney apologized for his version of Caped Crusader in Bat's nipple, while director Joel Schumacher has repeatedly expressed regret. "Listen, I'm sorry," he said in 2017. "I want to apologize to all the disappointed fans because I think I owe them that." "It was as if I had murdered a baby," he continued.
13/20 The day the clown cried – Jerry Lewis
The day the cry of the clown cried was never published. The director, who also starred, locked the film – about a clown arrested in Nazi Germany for defaming drunk drunk, Hitler – in a private vault after its completion. Lewis thought the movie was so "bad, bad, bad" that he often refused to discuss the project, commenting only very occasionally. "I was ashamed of the work and I was grateful to have the power to contain everything and to let no one see it.This could have been wonderful but I failed – I n & # 39; I did not quite understand, "he said in 2013.
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14/20 Fantastic Four – Josh Trank
Before the shoot started, everything was going well for Fantastic Four. Some of the most promising actors in Hollywood were eponymous characters – Michael B Jordan, Miles Teller, Kate Mara and Jamie Bell – while Josh Trank, from the dazzling success of Chronicle, was hired for directing. During post-production, however, everything has collapsed. Fox, the studio, has forced Trank to shoot a lot of shots (you can tell which scenes were shot, because Mara's wig is awful and Teller has different stubble lengths). The month before the release of the film, the director spoke on Twitter. "A year ago, I had a fantastic version of that," he wrote. "And he would have received excellent reviews, you'll probably never see it, but it's a reality." The film was bombed at the box office and Fox's tweet would have cost Fox between $ 5 million and $ 10 million. of dollars.
15/20 Wanted woman – Kiefer Sutherland
In the nineties, Kiefer Sutherland wanted to go from role to director. Although his film debut as a director, Truth or Consequences, in 1997, was not a critical success, he persevered, directing the 2000 film, Want Want. Sutherland was so disappointed with the results that he released the film under the pseudonym Alan Smithee, becoming the last person to ever use that name. He has not made a film since.
16/20 A film by Alan Smithee: Burning Hollywood Burn – Alan Smithee / Arthur Hiller
A movie about the alias Alan Smithee that, ironically, ended up being a film by Alan Smithee. Arthur Hiller had no intention of disavowing Burn Hollywood Burn, which was intended to set the tone for the Hollywood system. The film was centered on a director, Alan Smithee (played by Eric Idle), who gave a film sequence, only so that the studio could cross everything. Life reflected art while the studio behind Burn Hollywood Burn removed the film to Hiller, who ended up using Smithee's pseudonym for the release.
17/20 Dune – David Lynch
After the success of The Elephant Man, Oscar winner of Best Picture, David Lynch could have done almost anything. Although he did not read the book, Lynch agreed to adapt Dune, choosing the project rather than the third Star Wars, Return of the Jedi. Lynch soon began to transform Frank Herbert's epic novel into a screenplay, presenting five drafts. Yet, despite the preparation time, the final results were less than satisfactory for the director. "I started selling myself on Dune," he said. "Looking back, it's nobody's fault but mine. I probably should not have done this picture, but I have seen tons and tons of possibilities for things that I loved, and that was the structure for doing them. "
18/20 Alien 3 – David Fincher
David Fincher was only 28 years old when Alien producers decided to incorporate the upstart to their second sequel. With only five weeks of preparation, an unfinished scenario and no real influence behind his name, Fincher struggled with the film. "Oh, it was horrible," he says later. "It's the worst thing that has happened to me." In 2009, Fincher explained, "I had to work on it for two years, get fired three times and fight for everything, no one hated me more than me, so far no one hates him more than me. . "
19/20 Hellraiser: Bloodline – Kevin Yagher
The fourth film in the horror series Hellraiser had a troubled production. The original studio, Kevin Yagher, was ordered by the studio to film scenes again, which he refused to do. Joe Chappelle intervened, which led Yagher to request that the alias Alan Smithee be used. The final film – which was both a pre-sequence and a sequel to the other three films – has not been presented to critics and has been rejected by many fans.
20/20 Accidental Love – David O Russell
David O Russell began working on Nailed in 2008. The director, Jessica Biel and Jake Gyllenhaal, portraying the film as a romantic comedy with political overtones, has been awarded $ 26 million. And despite everything, the entire filming process was messy. The shoot was stopped 14 times after the actors and the team complained of not being paid. Finally, after the key scenes were not filmed during the production, everything was abandoned. After Russell started catching the attention of the Oscars on The Fighter and American Hustle, the studio wanted to get Nailed out to theaters. The work of the film continued without the participation of Russell. The film was renamed Accidental Love and released in theaters. The director's name has been changed to Stephen Greene. Critics hated the results.
1/20 American History X – Tony Kaye
Few directors have done everything possible to discourage people from watching their film as Tony Kaye. Unhappy with how the studio, New Line, redid American History X, the filmmaker wrote several open letters – published by the trade press – recommending not to watch the final version. The film has even been removed from the Toronto Film Festival. "I had tried to remove my name from it and replace it with various pseudonyms," writes Kaye in The Guardian, three years after publication. "One was 'Humpty Dumpty'. Ralph Coates, who played for Tottenham in the 1970s, is another. The Directors Guild of America does not allow Kaye to change his name. Since then, he has lived bitterly with the praise of leading the cult clbadic.
2/20 Transformers: the revenge of the fallen – Michael Bay
The first Transformers was a pretty decent popcorn movie. CGI's blockbuster may not appeal to critics, but it's undeniable that watching robots fight against each other is unthinking entertainment of the highest quality. However, Michael Bay was able to spoil this simple winning formula in the sequel to Revenge of the Fallen, something he then admitted. "When I think about it, it was crap," he said about the film in 2011. "The writers' strike was going to be tough and fast. film where you have to have a story For three months, I was preparing a movie in which I only had 14 pages of what the film was, it's a way to make a movie about BS. "
3/20 The snowman – Tomas Alfredson
While Swedish director Tomas Alfredson has been hailed by the Oscar-nominated Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, his next film, the mysterious thriller The Snowman, has been torn apart by critics. "The filming in Norway was way too short," he said after the film's release. "We did not have any history with us and when we started cutting, we discovered that we were missing a lot." Alfredson added that, despite the development of The Snowman for years, Martin Scorsese had already been named director, about 10 to 15 years. % of the scenario was not filmed. "It's like when you're doing a big headache and missing a few pieces, so you do not see the big picture," he added.
4/20 Avengers: Age of Ultron – Joss Whedon
Joss Whedon has changed cinema with The Avengers. The overall film brought together a host of disparate superheroes and grossed more than $ 1.5 billion (£ 1.15 billion) at the box office. It was difficult to balance all these characters, and the sequel, Age of Ultron, was an exhausted director. Whedon apparently was not able to watch the whole movie once finished, saying, "I'm tied up and had a bad time." A year later, in 2016, the filmmaker clarified his words. "I have been so beaten by the process. Part of that was in conflict with Marvel, which is inevitable. Whedon added that he remained "proud" of the film, but that some things "frustrated" him immensely in the film.
5/20 Annie Hall, Hannah and her sisters, Manhattan – Woody Allen
Annie Hall is widely regarded as one of the greatest movies of all time. Hannah and her sisters won the Oscar for best screenplay. Manhattan is often portrayed as a masterpiece of comedy. Woody Allen, however, thinks his other films are better. "For some reason [Annie Hall] is very friendly. I made better movies than that. Match Point is a better film, Purple Rose of Cairo is a better film, the French film – Midnight in Paris – is a better film, Vicky Cristina Barcelona is also good. I mean, I made such good films, but for some reason they have a charismatic and inexplicable hold on people. That and Manhattan too. [On] Manhattan, I missed what I wanted to do. Same thing with Hannah and her sisters. I'm not saying it's a terrible or bad film. I'm not here to hit my movies. But for me personally, I missed it. It was too peaceful in the end, too bailed out.
6/20 Highball – Noah Baumbach
Noah Baumbach is now a beloved independent filmmaker (thanks to The Squid and the Whale, Frances Ha, and The Meyerowitz Stories). Yet he has not always been an acclaimed director. Baumbach so despised his second film, Highball, that his role as director was changed for Ernie Fusco and that of its author for Jesse Carter. "It was too ambitious," he said about the film, about a newly married couple who ended up inviting too many people to their Brooklyn apartment for a party. "We did not have enough time, we did not finish it, it did not look good, it was just … a mess." We could not do it and I had a fight with the producer. He abandoned it and I did not have money to finish it, to go back and maybe two more days or something. Then later, it was put on DVD without my approval. "
7/20 Babylon AD – Mathieu Kbadovitz
Before Babylon AD – a futuristic sci-fi film about a mercenary escorting a Russian woman to America – who arrived in cinemas in the UK, director Mathieu Kbadovitz tried to stand out from Vin Diesel's project. "The film is supposed to teach us that the education of our children will be the future of our planet," he said. "All the action scenes had one purpose: they were supposed to be guided by a metaphysical point of view or by an experience … for the characters … instead, some parts of the movie look like a bad episode of 24. "Kbadovitz later added that the film was" pure violence and stupidity ".
8/20 Catchfire – Dennis Hopper
In 1992, Dennis Hopper joined the ranks of directors who released their film under the pseudonym Alan Smithee (used famously when filmmakers renounce their own film). Originally called Catchfire, the thriller starring Jodie Foster about a woman who goes into witness protection was renamed Backtrack and 20 minutes were cut for direct VHS release. Hopper rarely talked about the movie; he wanted to distance himself as much as possible from the condemned project.
9/20 The bottom – Steven Soderbergh
"I think it's a beautiful movie to watch and that the score is beautiful," said Steven Soderberg about The Underneath, "but 15 seconds later I know we have problems because of the weather It was just an indication of what's wrong with this case: he's completely sleepy. "The film, about an addict trying to put off the game, was a flop at the box office without surprise. "I can not say that I would not recommend it to anyone," Soderbergh added, "other than looking into the background of someone's career." ".
10/20 Thor: The world of darkness – Alan Taylor
Alan Taylor – of Game of Thrones and the fame of the Sopranos – seemed a perfect choice for Thor, the heroic god of thunder who spoke in Shakespearean prose. When the sequel was released, many were disappointed by the film, which somewhat spoiled Christopher Eccleston, who was playing the villain. Taylor then criticized the project by saying, "The Marvel experience was particularly heartbreaking because I had a kind of absolute freedom during filming and in post-production it turned into a different film. So it's something I hope I never repeat and I do not wish anyone. "
wonder
11/20 Fear and desire – Stanley Kubrick
Few filmmakers have unblemished films. Stanley Kubrick thought his job was Fear and Desire – his cinematic debut as a renowned perfectionist. As his directorial stature grew, it was said that Kubrick was increasingly dissatisfied with the movie Fear and Desire, an anti-war film about four soldiers trapped behind enemy lines. According to reports, in the sixties, Kubrick would have destroyed the original negative imprint and hoped to destroy any remaining imprints. In 1964, Kubrick called the film "a serious effort, unnecessarily realized".
12/20 Batman and Robin – Joel Schumacher
Almost everyone involved in Batman & Robin seems to hate the end product. George Clooney apologized for his version of Caped Crusader in Bat's nipple, while director Joel Schumacher has repeatedly expressed regret. "Listen, I'm sorry," he said in 2017. "I want to apologize to all the disappointed fans because I think I owe them that." "It was as if I had murdered a baby," he continued.
13/20 The day the clown cried – Jerry Lewis
The day the cry of the clown cried was never published. The director, who also starred, locked the film – about a clown arrested in Nazi Germany for defaming drunk drunk, Hitler – in a private vault after its completion. Lewis thought the movie was so "bad, bad, bad" that he often refused to discuss the project, commenting only very occasionally. "I was ashamed of the work and I was grateful to have the power to contain everything and to let no one see it.This could have been wonderful but I failed – I n & # 39; I did not quite understand, "he said in 2013.
AFP
14/20 Fantastic Four – Josh Trank
Before the shoot started, everything was going well for Fantastic Four. Some of the most promising actors in Hollywood were eponymous characters – Michael B Jordan, Miles Teller, Kate Mara and Jamie Bell – while Josh Trank, from the dazzling success of Chronicle, was hired for directing. During post-production, however, everything has collapsed. Fox, the studio, has forced Trank to shoot a lot of shots (you can tell which scenes were shot, because Mara's wig is awful and Teller has different stubble lengths). The month before the release of the film, the director spoke on Twitter. "A year ago, I had a fantastic version of that," he wrote. "And he would have received excellent reviews, you'll probably never see it, but it's a reality." The film was bombed at the box office and Fox's tweet would have cost Fox between $ 5 million and $ 10 million. of dollars.
15/20 Wanted woman – Kiefer Sutherland
In the nineties, Kiefer Sutherland wanted to go from role to director. Although his film debut as a director, Truth or Consequences, in 1997, was not a critical success, he persevered, directing the 2000 film, Want Want. Sutherland was so disappointed with the results that he released the film under the pseudonym Alan Smithee, becoming the last person to ever use that name. He has not made a film since.
16/20 A film by Alan Smithee: Burning Hollywood Burn – Alan Smithee / Arthur Hiller
A movie about the alias Alan Smithee that, ironically, ended up being a film by Alan Smithee. Arthur Hiller had no intention of disavowing Burn Hollywood Burn, which was intended to set the tone for the Hollywood system. The film was centered on a director, Alan Smithee (played by Eric Idle), who gave a film sequence, only so that the studio could cross everything. Life reflected art while the studio behind Burn Hollywood Burn removed the film to Hiller, who ended up using Smithee's pseudonym for the release.
17/20 Dune – David Lynch
After the success of The Elephant Man, Oscar winner of Best Picture, David Lynch could have done almost anything. Although he did not read the book, Lynch agreed to adapt Dune, choosing the project rather than the third Star Wars, Return of the Jedi. Lynch soon began to transform Frank Herbert's epic novel into a screenplay, presenting five drafts. Yet, despite the preparation time, the final results were less than satisfactory for the director. "I started selling myself on Dune," he said. "Looking back, it's nobody's fault but mine. I probably should not have done this picture, but I have seen tons and tons of possibilities for things that I loved, and that was the structure for doing them. "
18/20 Alien 3 – David Fincher
David Fincher was only 28 years old when Alien producers decided to incorporate the upstart to their second sequel. With only five weeks of preparation, an unfinished scenario and no real influence behind his name, Fincher struggled with the film. "Oh, c'était horrible", dit-il plus tard. "C'est la pire chose qui me soit arrivée." En 2009, Fincher expliquait: "Je devais travailler dessus pendant deux ans, me faire virer trois fois et me battre pour chaque chose. Personne ne l'a plus détesté que moi. à ce jour, personne ne le déteste plus que moi. "
19/20 Hellraiser: Bloodline – Kevin Yagher
Le quatrième film de la série d'horreur Hellraiser avait une production troublée. Le studio d'origine, Kevin Yagher, a reçu l'ordre du studio de filmer à nouveau des scènes, ce qu'il a refusé de faire. Joe Chappelle est intervenu, ce qui a conduit Yagher à demander que le pseudonyme Alan Smithee soit utilisé. Le film final – qui a été à la fois une pré-séquence et une suite des trois autres films – n'a pas été présenté à la critique et a été rejeté par de nombreux fans.
20/20 Amour accidentel – David O Russell
David O Russell a commencé à travailler sur Nailed en 2008. Le réalisateur, Jessica Biel et Jake Gyllenhaal, interprétant le film comme une comédie romantique à connotation politique, s'est vu attribuer 26 millions de dollars. Et malgré tout, tout le processus de tournage était en désordre. Le tournage a été arrêté 14 fois après que les acteurs et l'équipe se soient plaints de ne pas avoir été payés. Finalement, après que les scènes clés n'aient pas été filmées pendant la production, le tout a été abandonné. Après que Russell ait commencé à attirer l'attention des Oscars sur The Fighter et American Hustle, le studio souhaitait sortir Nailed dans les cinémas. Le travail du film s'est poursuivi sans la participation de Russell. Le film a ensuite été rebaptisé Accidental Love et est sorti en salles. Le nom du réalisateur a été changé en Stephen Greene. Les critiques détestaient les résultats.
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