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== Animated ==
* [[Richard Williams]] was so devastated by what happened to his masterpiece ''[[The Thief and the Cobbler]]'' that to this day, he absolutely refuses to talk about or even acknowledge the films existence to ''anyone''.
* Disney's ''[[Robin Hood (Disney film)|Robin Hood]]''. It was considered by the company to be a piece of crap, but it was and is quite a popular film.
** They've never been excited about ''[[The Black Cauldron]]'' either, which only occasionally pokes its head out of the Disney Vault and gets little to no mention of even existing.
** Don't forget Disney's ''[[Song of the South]]'', about a Reconstruction-era freed slave telling folk stories to two young white children on a plantation. Yeah, they like to pretend that did not happen.
** [[Walt Disney]] actually claimed he disliked how the ''[[Alice in Wonderland (Disney film)|Alice in Wonderland]]'' film turned out, that Alice herself had no heart, and was glad that it failed at the box office. In fact, unlike others of his films, it would never be re-released to theaters in his lifetime. It would not get a theatrical re-release until 1974, more than twenty years after its release!
*** Which becomes [[Hilarious in Hindsight]] when Alice is a Princess of Heart in ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]''...
** Walt was also similarly uncomfortable with ''[[Dumbo]]'', apparently. It was a low-budget, cartoon-like, hour-long movie that he had had very little to do with; and it ended up making more money than the high-budget, realistic, feature length films like ''[[Pinocchio (Disney film)|Pinocchio]]'', ''[[Fantasia]]'', and ''[[Bambi]]'' that he was heavily involved in. Never mind that it was released at a time when he was trying to prove that animation was more than just cartoons (see the second ''Fantasia'' example below). According to Neal Gabler, Walt dismissed ''Dumbo'' as "just one of those little things that we knocked out between epics."
** Although ''[[Peter Pan (Disney film)|Peter Pan]]'' fared better at the box office than ''Alice'', Walt didn't care for that film, either, claiming that the titular character was unsympathetic and unlikeable. However, unlike ''Alice'', Walt must have been able to look past his misgivings about the film and its characters to allow ''Peter Pan'' to be re-released to theaters during his lifetime, its first theatrical reissue (there were five in all) being in 1958.
** The Pastoral Symphony segment from ''[[Fantasia]]'' initially featured a full-on 'darky' caricature named Sunflower as one of the 'centaurettes'. She was removed in 1969 and, despite the presence of old, uncensored prints, Disney denied her existence until the release of the re-mastered edition in 2000.
*** Speaking of ''Fantasia'', Walt Disney mentioned the film when he appeared during the 1942 [[Academy Award]]s to accept the Irving Thalberg Award. [[Tear Jerker|Trying to hold back tears]], he said "Maybe I should have a medal for bravery. We all make mistakes. I shall now rededicate myself to my old ideals." He was ashamed of ''Fantasia'', not so much of making the film as of its pitiful box office performance. He felt that audiences were ready for a film like that in the wake of ''[[Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Disney film)|Snow White]]'', but when it flopped (and was right on the heels of ''[[Pinocchio (Disney film)|Pinocchio]]'' being a flop), Walt's self-confidence was rattled. ''Fantasia'''s performance discouraged Walt from making anything else too artistic, which was why any films made thereafter, such as ''[[Cinderella (Disney film)|Cinderella]]'' or ''[[Peter Pan (Disney film)|Peter Pan]]'', were safer, more mainstream fare.
* [[Don Bluth]] dislikes his 90s films like ''[[Rock-a-Doodle]]'' and ''[[A Troll in Central Park]]'' as much as his fans do. In fact, he hated ''[[The Pebble and the Penguin]]'' so much that he actually removed his name from the film.
* [[Orson Welles]], who played Unicron in ''[[Transformers: The Movie]]'', apparently couldn't even remember what it was called, and stated that his role was that of "a huge toy that does horrible things to other toys."
** And he died ''five days'' after completing his work on the movie. That is some rapid Creator Backlash.
* [[Dan Harmon]], one of the screenwriters of ''[[Monster House]]'', wrote a [https://web.archive.org/web/20130512151326/http://kellyoxford.tumblr.com/post/479774445/my-story-about-the-film-monster-house wonderful apology letter] to a young girl after her mother, a friend of a friend, wrote him explaining the girl's nightmares over the movie, a letter in which he complained about the [[Executive Meddling]] on the movie.
** "And next time ''Monster House'' is on, just remember that the guy that wrote it told you it was dumb."
* Peter Sallis, voice of Wallace in ''[[Wallace and Gromit]]'' stated that he preferred the original shorts such as ''[[The Wrong Trousers]]'' to the duo's big screen debut in ''The Curse Of The Wererabbit'', making him one of the movie's few critics. Nick Park has also stated that while he holds no regrets over the movie, he feels personally that ''[[Wallace and Gromit]]'' are better suited to the short films, rather than feature-length.
== Live-Action ==
* [[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%).
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* "Fictional" example, ''[[Jem and The Holograms]]'' was such a bad movie that one critic decided to get a bunch of friends to cosplay the characters from the original cartoon to review it - Jem's initial reaction being, "What the **** was ''that?''. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVQ9r3Smooo Watch the whole review here.] Biggest irony? Most viewers who rated the 5-minute low budget video claim it's more entertaining than the movie was.
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