10 Actors Who Admitted Hating Their Own Movies

10. Sylvester Stallone – Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot (1992)


Best known for legendary roles in ‘Rocky,’ ‘Rambo,' and ‘Creed,’ Sylvester Stallone once starred in a buddy-cop comedy that he now considers the low point of his career. In ‘Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot,' he plays a tough cop whose meddling mother becomes his unlikely partner. Reflecting on the film, Stallone didn’t hold back in front of the press in 2006: “I made some truly awful movies. Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot was the worst. If you ever want someone to confess to murder, just make them sit through that film. They’ll confess to anything after 15 minutes.”

9. Viola Davis – The Help (2011)


Though she received an Oscar nomination for her role in ‘The Help,’ Viola Davis has since expressed deep regret about being part of the film. While it was widely praised at the time, Davis later said it failed to authentically center Black voices. “I just felt that at the end of the day that it wasn’t the voices of the maids that were heard,” she told the New York Times. “I gave it my all, and I felt like I betrayed myself and my people.”

8. Christopher Plummer – The Sound of Music (1965)


While ‘The Sound of Music’ made Christopher Plummer a household name, he didn’t exactly share the audience’s enthusiasm for the beloved musical. He famously referred to it as “The Sound of Mucus” and expressed boredom with his character, Captain von Trapp. In an interview with The Boston Globe, Plummer said: “Although we worked hard to make him interesting, it was a bit like flogging a dead horse. The subject matter just wasn’t mine—it’s not my cup of tea.”

7. Halle Berry – Catwoman (2004)

After winning an Oscar for ‘Monster’s Ball,’ Halle Berry’s next big role in ‘Catwoman’ was widely panned. In a rare move, she accepted the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress in person and gave a hilariously self-aware speech. “Thank you for putting me in a god-awful movie,” she told Warner Bros. “It was just what my career needed. I was at the top, and then Catwoman just plummeted me to the bottom.”

6. Katherine Heigl – Knocked Up (2007)


Although ‘Knocked Up’ helped boost her fame, Katherine Heigl was critical of its portrayal of women. In a 2008 Vanity Fair interview, she described the film as “a little sexist.” Heigl added, “It paints the women as shrews, as humorless and uptight, and the men as lovable, goofy, fun-loving guys. It was hard for me to love the movie.” Her comments sparked backlash, and she later issued an apology to director Judd Apatow and co-star Seth Rogen

5. Channing Tatum – G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009)


Channing Tatum admitted he never wanted to be in ‘G.I. Joe,’ despite being a fan of the franchise as a kid. In a brutally honest interview on The Howard Stern Show, he revealed he was contractually forced into the role. While explicitly saying how much he hates the movie, the actor explained, “The script wasn’t any good, and I didn’t want to do something that I grew up loving just to see it mishandled.”

4. Alec Guinness – Star Wars (1977–1983)


Despite being a distinguished actor known for films like ‘The Bridge on the River Kwai’ and ‘Lawrence of Arabia,’ Alec Guinness is most widely remembered as Obi-Wan Kenobi. However, he loathed the ‘Star Wars’ films and often criticized the dialogue and storytelling. In his memoir ‘A Positively Final Appearance,’ Guinness recounted how he once gave a young fan an autograph only after making the boy promise never to watch Star Wars again. He described the script as “rubbish” and found the filming process “boring and indecisive.”

3. Brad Pitt – The Devil’s Own (1997)

Brad Pitt called ‘The Devil’s Own,’ a thriller co-starring Harrison Ford, one of the most chaotic and frustrating productions he’s ever worked on. “We had no script. Well, we had a great script but it got tossed,” he told Newsweek. “It was the most irresponsible bit of filmmaking—if you can even call it that—that I’ve ever seen.” Pitt has since distanced himself from the film entirely.

2. George Clooney – Batman & Robin (1997)

George Clooney has made no secret of his regret over playing Batman in the critically reviled ‘Batman & Robin.’ He often uses it as an example when warning actors about chasing money over quality. “I thought at the time, this is going to be a career move, and it wasn’t,” Clooney said. “I actually thought I destroyed the franchise until they brought it back years later.” His other low point motivated by money remains ‘Return of the Killer Tomatoes.’

1. Robert Pattinson – Twilight Series (2008–2012)

Despite the franchise’s massive commercial success, Robert Pattinson has never hidden his disdain for the ‘Twilight' films. He was frequently critical of the writing and the character he played. “It’s weird kind of representing something you don’t particularly like,” he told Vanity Fair. Pattinson found the entire experience surreal and disconnected from his own artistic goals, though it catapulted him to international stardom.