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* [[Jessica Alba]] has said that she dislikes most of the work on her resume.

* Sir Alec Guinness grew to hate the ''[[Star Wars]]'' series over time and regretted having played Obi-Wan Kenobi, because of how audiences came to only remember him for said role despite his plethora of performances in other productions beforehand. He once famously told a fan that he could have an autograph if he never watched the film again. Ironically, ''[[Star Wars]]'' made him rich, as he was the only actor able to get a cut of the gross (2%).

*** Listen to the commentary track on the Laserdisc and DVD—Smith, Ben Affleck, and Jason Mewes destroy the movie all throughout.

* The movie ''[[Galaxy Quest]]'' shows the cast of the ''[[Star Trek]]'' knock-off despising the show for both derailing all their careers and being their only means of support. Ironically, the Shatner counterpart is the only one who doesn't mind it.

* David Fincher doesn't talk about ''[[Alien (franchise)|Alien]]³'' and refuses to put it on his resume to this day, chiefly because he was brought onto the film late in its already troubled production cycle (which had gone through three other directors and numerous rewrites), and his vision for the final product was hampered by major [[Executive Meddling]].

** Supposedly, he was interviewed for ''The Beast Within: The Making of Alien'' documentary, but it was all cut because he did not have a single positive thing to say.

* [[Joss Whedon]] disowned the ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' film for similar reasons. He launched the series to correct the errors of [[Executive Meddling]]; its pilot [[retcon]]ned away some events of the movie. The pilot established that it was the script version that happened when the only specifics given are that she burned down the gym at her old school.

* [[Joel Schumacher]] has apologized for ''[[Batman and Robin (film)|Batman and Robin]]'' in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6epsGrcuTs this interview].

** Also, [[George Clooney]] highly regrets being in this film, feeling that he helped kill [[Batman (film)|the franchise]]. One persistent, unattributed rumor is that he will give the price of admission to the film back to anybody that approaches him and says they saw it in theaters. Clooney also likes to say he played Batman ''gay'' [[Unfortunate Implications|to show his contempt for the part]]. Considering the [[Camp|context of the film...]]

* Roland Emmerich regrets making the 1998 remake of ''[[Godzilla (film)|Godzilla]]'', but protects it all the same.

* [[Sean Connery]] on ''[[James Bond]]'', the character that made him a star:

** Distancing himself from 007 is one of the main reasons he took the role of Zed in ''[[Zardoz]]''. Needless to say, that worked beyond his wildest dreams.

** Definitely averted now, as despite being retired, Sean Connery reprised the role of Bond for EA's video game adaptation of ''[[From Russia with Love]]'' (which he even considers his favorite Bond film), re-recording new dialogue and the like despite being more than 40 years older.

* Disney has refused to release the movie ''[[Song of the South]]'' on video or DVD in the United States. This is mostly due to concerns that the film, which is based around African-American folklore, will be viewed as racist to modern eyes (although they seem fine with ''[[Peter Pan]]'' being readily available). Under current CEO Robert Iger, Disney seems to keep flip-flopping between deciding to release it and deciding to let it rest.

* Groucho Marx later regretted the [[Marx Brothers]]' first film ''The Cocoanuts'', saying of its two directors, "One didn't understand English and the other didn't understand comedy."

* Alec Baldwin claims to hate his long-shelved directorial debut ''The Devil and Daniel Webster''/''Shortcut to Happiness''.

* [[Robert Pattinson]], the male lead in the ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]'' movie, has outright mentioned in interviews that he hates his character Edward and considers [[Stephenie Meyer]] insane. The female lead, [[Kristen Stewart]], doesn't seem overly fond of the movie either, but she's less vocal about it.

* Back in the 1970s, after years of making the character his own, a cheesed off and increasingly typecast [[Christopher Lee]] made a complete disconnect from [[Dracula]].

** It didn't help that [[Christopher Lee]] reported that Hammer Film kept him playing the role well below his actual payscale by essentially guilt-tripping him - 'you work at this pay we say or we'll have to put these crewmembers you like out of the job'. If his claims are true, no wonder he hated the role.

* [[Megan Fox]] has a history of badmouthing the director and franchise that made her famous, [[Michael Bay]] and ''[[Transformers (film)|Transformers]]''.

** Though she's certainly not the only one who feels that way, as [[Shia LaBeouf]] has mentioned that he wasn't too fond of ''Revenge Of The Fallen'' himself, claiming that the film made no sense to him (or anyone else for that matter), and Bay definitely has a real talent for pissing people off, as several actors and actresses including [[Scarlett Johansson]], Kate Beckinsale (who claimed that Bay made her feel "ugly" on the set), and Bruce Willis have all said in one way or another that they would never work with Bay again.

* In her Razzie acceptance speech for Worst Actress, Halle Berry called ''[[Catwoman (film)|Catwoman]]'' an "awful, piece of shit movie." And the crowd went wild.

** Stallone has also expressed distaste towards ''[[Rocky IV]]'' and ''V'', and to a lesser extent ''Rocky III''. He said that if he could make ''Rocky IV'' again he would have hired Bill Conti to score it (this is the only film of the series to have been scored by someone else - [[Transformers: The Movie|Vince DiCola]], if you're wondering) and would have punched Brigitte Nielsen in the face.

** He also deeply regretted ''Rhinestone'' but did enjoy working with Dolly Parton nevertheless.

* Many of [[Peter Sellers]]' early 1970s efforts, when his star had fallen far enough he was willing to do just about anything, qualify as this in one way or another. He tried to prevent the release of 1970's ''Hoffman'' and badmouthed 1972's ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' before it opened. In fact, he called his 1965 through mid-1970s output a "bad patch" to [[Time (magazine)|''Time'' magazine]] not long before his death. Sellers was infamous for being overly self-critical of his work, though - the truly shameful work didn't kick in until the '70s. (And ''Hoffman'' is surprisingly popular with the more devoted fans.)

** This movie did have a very good, and tragic, reason to be regretted; it was shot in Nevada near an atomic test site, and many of the cast and crew (including director Dick Powell, co-star Susan Hayward, and Wayne himself) were later stricken with cancer - studio owner Howard Hughes was so devastated he took the film out of circulation.

* [[Fritz Lang]] came to dislike his best-known film, the sci-fi epic ''[[Metropolis]]'', called it "silly" and "ridiculous" in interviews, and tried to draw attention to his favorite film ''[[M]]'' instead. There were many reasons for this: the heavy [[Executive Meddling]] by distributors who cut a quarter of the film's footage (Lang died believing that a full cut no longer existed), reports that it was [[Adolf Hitler]]'s [[Misaimed Fandom|favorite film]] (especially bitter since Lang was half-Jewish, and emigrated from Germany in 1934 to get away from the Nazis <ref>As well as the Jewish ancestry, which the Nazis knew about, Lang’s previous film, ''The Testament of Doctor Mabuse'', had shown his titular villain spouting Nazi propaganda phrases as part of his insane rants, and had been banned for incitement to public disorder. Controversially, Lang recounts that Josef Goebbels called him in for an interview, claimed to have had no personal part in the banning of ''Doctor Mabuse'', and offered to make him the boss of the government controlled film studio UFA, overlooking Lang’s Jewish ancestry as part of the deal. Lang asked for time to consider, then fled the country that night.</ref>), and that the plot ''was'' a little silly (and was written by his ex-wife, whom he divorced over political and creative differences). Not to mention that it overshadowed the other three decades of his long film career.

* [[Jerry Lewis]] to this day refuses to talk in any great detail about his unreleased film ''[[The Day the Clown Cried]]'', a WWII comedy (with heavy tragic elements) about an inept German clown who is sent to a concentration camp and who, feeling unaccepted by the people on his side of the fence, decides to entertain the Jewish prisoners. Few people have ever seen the film, and Lewis apparently keeps his own VHS copy locked away for good.

* Paul Verhoeven disowned ''[[Showgirls]]'' after Joe Eszterhas the film's writer edited the film without his permission. When the film won its numerous Razzie Awards, [[Medal of Dishonor|he accepted them]] to show his hatred of the film.

* [[Harlan Ellison]] has made it '''very''' clear that he is not a fan of ''[[The Oscar (film)|The Oscar]]'', which to this day remains his only feature screenwriting credit.

* Screenwriter Mike White disowned ''[[School of Rock]]'' after the director decided to play up gay stereotypes without his involvement. Being bisexual and with a gay father, White was not pleased when he saw the final product.

* [[William Gibson]] has distanced himself from the film adaptation of his short story ''[[Johnny Mnemonic]]'', for which he wrote the screenplay, claiming that [[Executive Meddling]] turned what he and director Robert Longo had envisioned as a more experimental, independent film into a mainstream, generic sci-fi action movie.

** His dislike may have more to do with the fact that even a lot of his staunchest supporters were calling the film ridiculously self-indulgent and an exercise in worshiping himself even before it came out, considering that it was a "documentary" of a series of events he hosted himself. It was basically even more blatant as "Look How Great I Am!: A Michael Moore Documentary, By Michael Moore, Starring Michael Moore" than usual, and everyone and their sister called him on it.

* [[Wes Craven]] has disowned a pair of movies in his career. He disowned ''[[The Hills Have Eyes|The Hills Have Eyes Part II]]'' as he only made the film for the money and felt the story ended with the first movie (he later co-wrote the sequel to the remake though, which may have been him feeling what he could have done to make it better). Many years later, he disowned ''[[Scream (film)|Scream 4]]'' due to the constant [[Executive Meddling]] the film suffered and the amount of rewrites and reshoots done on the film. He has hinted making a fifth film though.

* Jim Sheridan has come out and disowned ''[[Dream House (film)|Dream House]]'' after the film's producer locked him out of the editing room after reshoots where done (which were done after the film tested poorly). It is not known what Sheridan's original cut was like.

** As stars [[Daniel Craig]] and [[Rachel Weisz]] refused to do any promotion for the film, it's safe to say they aren't too fond of it either.

* Michael Biehn disowned ''The Blood Bond'', a film he starred in and co-directed, after its nightmarish production and being fired as soon as filming ended (as the film's writer felt it was his movie and not Biehn's). Biehn's voice was also dubbed and he was horrified when he saw the released version.

* [[In-Universe]] in ''[[American Dreamer]]'', the writer of the Rebecca Ryan books has his mother claim to write them, as he feels the books are just pulp trash.

* Mickey Rourke severely dissed ''A Prayer For The Dying'' before its release (he said making it was "a nightmare"), and director Mike Hodges tried to take his name off the credits; needless to say, both have disowned it.