Hated it! Whether they were miscast or handed a bad script, stars share the movies they couldn’t stand.
Channing Tatum – G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
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The film earned more than $300 million, but its star is not a fan. “Look, I’ll be honest, I f**king hate that movie,” the 45-year-old told Howard Stern. Because of a three-picture deal with the studio, he had no choice but to bring the kids’ toy to life. “The script wasn’t any good,” he said of the 2009 flick. “And I didn’t want to do something that I… was a fan of since I was a kid and watched every morning growing up. And I didn’t want to do something that was, one, bad, and two, I just didn’t know if I wanted to be G.I. Joe.”
George Clooney – Batman & Robin
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The 64-year-old was so down on his time playing the Caped Crusader that he tried to dissuade Ben Affleck from playing Batman. “It’s so bad that, it actually hurts to watch,” he told Howard Stern, adding that if he’s flipping the channels and the 1997 movie is on, he recoils. He blames the “machine” of such franchises. “It’s a terrible screenplay… Joel Schumacher, who just passed away, directed it, and he’d say, ‘Yeah, it didn’t work.’ We all whiffed on that one.”
Shia LaBeouf – Transformers: Dark of the Moon
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Though he made a reported $15 million for the three-quel of the big-budget flick, the 39-year-old looked down on the blockbusters that put him on the map. “They felt irrelevant, they felt dated as f**k,” he complained, contrasting them with the work of cinema legends. “You come up on these stories about Easy Rider and Raging Bull and De Niro and Scorsese and Hopper, and you find value in what they do,” he explained of those ’70s masterpieces. “Meanwhile, you’re chasing energon crystals.”
Halle Berry – Catwoman
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The 59-year-old hated the 2004 movie so much, she turned up in person to accept her Razzie Award for Worst Actress. Toting her Oscar onstage, she feigned overwhelm, then gave a memorable acceptance speech. “I want to thank Warner Bros. Thank you for putting me in a piece of s**t, god-awful movie,” she said to the crowd’s cheers. “I was at the top, then Catwoman plummeted me to the bottom.”
Sandra Bullock – Speed 2
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“Were you high?” the 61-year-old joked to a journalist who told her he enjoyed the 1997 sequel to the blockbuster Speed, according to Entertainment Weekly. As opposed to the original nailbiter’s racing bus, Speed 2 took place on a cruise ship. “Makes no sense,” the Oscar winner said of the premise. “Slow boat slowly going towards an island.” Her Speed costar Keanu Reeves wisely turned down the sequel, diplomatically saying, “I didn’t respond to the script… Now it’s on an ocean liner?”
Rosamund Pike – Doom
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“The film was an absolute bomb,” the 47-year-old recently said of the 2005 adaptation of the single-shooter video game. “I mean, I probably could have ended my career. It was just probably one of the worst films ever made. I mean, it was a catastrophe.” The Gone Girl alum, who costarred with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, had been excited to be an action star, she told the How to Fail With Elizabeth Day podcast March 11, but hadn’t really thought it through, saying, “I just wasn’t that person.”