WHEN ACTORS SLAG THEIR OWN MOVIES
It kinda sucks when you go to all that effort to make a movie and your actors slag the shit out of it.
Tippy Hedron's bad experience on The Birds doesn't count. Nor does Ed Harris's near-death experience in James Camerons The Abyss.
I’m talking about divas getting paid huge bucks to sit around all day like lounge lizards and yet they still complain.
Maybe these types of actors should cut the film-makers a break?
Take Star Wars for example. Everybody hated it. The camera crew hated it. The editor refused to edit it. The actors thought it was the worst script they’d ever read.
Director George Lucas was really up against it.
‘It almost didn’t get made at all’ He once said. And no wonder. With that sort of encouragement, film-makers require tough skins to deal with such rejection.
Janeane Garofalo played The Bowler in the 1999 cult-classic Mystery Men and slagged the movie off big time. She said:
"It was very long hours and very little got accomplished. It was one of those alleged blockbusters that was over budgeted and over hyped. It went from being a great script when it was sent to me, to being - in my opinion - a fairly mediocre non-event. But it was nice to get paid that much to sit around. I have no idea what they were trying to do with the film, but they sure didn't accomplish it."
Although it bombed at the box office, fans united world-wide in their praise of its slick humour, stunning sets and imagination.
It really doesn't take much to bomb a movie. A couple of bad reviews is enough. In the 1960s Dalek Mania took Britain by storm.
So it was only natural to make movies about them.
But only two ever got made before the British Press got their claws in and killed it with a couple of bad reviews. Yet, despite all that, the films became cult classics and even actor Peter Cushing regarded his portrayal of Dr Who as one of his faves.
Tom Hardy was pretty cynical of Mad Max: Fury Road. But I believe he formally apologised after seeing it.
Invariably it’s the end result that counts. Because long after the movie stars of today fade into tomorrow, who cares about who bitched about what.
