When it gets so bad there’s nothing to but revel in it

Gone are the days when actors shot a movie and then moved on to their next project. With the rise of marketing and social media, promoting a film is part of the contract and actors might find themselves in year-long commitments promoting a film sometimes worldwide.

Sometimes, things fall apart hilariously! Here are four actors who absolutely, vehemently and without hesitation hated the movies they were in and want the whole world to know.

Robert Pattinson can’t stop himself mocking Twilight

Twilight was a film series in the early 2010s set around the romance of a girl and a vampire. It was based on a book series and despite commercial success was met with generally negative reviews and ridicule. Nobody made more fun of the series though than its protagonist Robert Pattinson. The actor could never hide his bewilderment at how well the movie was performing and how utterly bad it was. Even from the first instalment, he came out saying that he couldn’t believe the book got published, that it was obviously fan fiction and that writer Stephenie Meyer genuinely thought herself to be the female interest, Bella.

He went on to say it made him uncomfortable to read it as he got the feeling that certain details about his character were too specific to be a coincidence.

As if casually implying that the author of the book was nuts and talentless wasn’t enough, Pattinson admitted that he only saw the movies at the premiere (a contractual obligation), called his character “an axe murderer” and even went as far as to dunk on the fandom for watching the films.

David Cross implored fans not to watch Alvin and the Chipmunks 3

Alvin and the Chipmunks is one of those children’s movies that hits its mark by being annoyingly childish and with barely enough plot to help parents begrudgingly sit through it. Chipmunks is what you put on TV when watching just one more episode of Peppa Pig or Paw Patrol is an unbearable thought.

Comedian David Cross signed off on three Chipmunks movies but when the studio finished production with the second one, he couldn’t get anyone on the phone to confirm that there would be a third film. After repeatedly trying and failing to get a straight answer, Cross decided to move to London where he started pre-production on one of his own projects. He brought a team of 70 people with him and as they were about to start, he got a call from the studio informing him that in two weeks he needed to be in Hawaii for filming. Things got even worse when Cross got the script and saw that he could have been informed months in advance.

It gets worse.

For the first two weeks of filming Cross was supposed to be in a pelican suit. Full body, no face showing. As in, anyone could do it. The comedian implored the studio to let him go back to London and use a stand-in but they refused because, as he said it, “I had a distinctive walk that couldn’t be replicated”. Cross said in many interviews that the producers went out of their way to make his life miserable but he repaid in kind.

When on a press tour to promote the movie Cross constantly trash-talked it and even appeared on a late-night show where he outright begged people not to watch it.

Matt Damon’s not so Great Wall

When you have been doing movies for decades, you are bound to churn out some flops. For Matt Damon, that would be the Chinese production The Great Wall. The actor is constantly reminded of his misfire by none other than his daughter, who kept referring to the movie as The Wall.

Wanting to correct her, Damon pointed out to his teenage daughter that the movie was called The Great Wall, with her responding “There is nothing great about that movie”.

A story that Damon shared in interviews, after saying that the movie was “not very good”.

Halle Berry accepts Worst Actress award

In 2004 the world was made to suffer as Warner Bros unleashed Catwoman, a superhero film starring Halle Berry. It was universally panned, bombed at the box office and is now known as the “worst superhero film ever made”. How did the actress take it?

Like a bloody legend.

Berry actually attended an award ceremony where she was given an award for the Worst Actress of the Year, Oscar in hand, and mockingly recreated her Academy Award acceptance speech, before going on and trashing every single person that was involved. It was glorious!