Poll: Movies That Were Disliked By Their Own Directors

Results of 1,762 votes:

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   American History X (1998)

    

   Director: Tony Kaye After completing the filming of the movie, Kaye was told by the studio to make the film longer as it ran at 87 minutes. After a lengthier cut was made (apparently by Edward Norton…
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   Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)

    

   Director: Steven Spielberg "too dark, too subterranean, and much too horrific" Both Spielberg and George Lucas had gone through divorces and this dark and depressing time in their lives wa…
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   Annie Hall (1977)

    

   Director: Woody Allen "The film was supposed to be what happens in a guy€™'s mind, and you were supposed to see a stream of consciousness that was mine, and I did the film and it was completely …
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   Rope (1948)

    

   Director: Alfred Hitchcock "€œI undertook €˜Rope€™ as as stunt; that€™s the only way I can describe it. I really don€™t know how I came to indulge in it. The stage drama was played out in the ac…
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   Batman & Robin (1997)

    

   Director: Joel Schumacher "I always knew that if you get lucky [enough to be offered a sequel], walk away. But I was shooting A Time To Kill and the studio had been very generous to me, and much…
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   Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)

    

   Director: Michael Bay "We made some mistakes. The real fault with is that it ran into a mystical world. When I look back at it, that was crap. The writer's€™ strike was coming hard and fast. It …
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   Alien³ (1992)

    

   Director: David Fincher There were many problems during the production of the film, with shooting starting without a finished script. It was often re-written on set and production was shut down sever…
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   Dune (1984)

    

   Director: David Lynch "Dune I didn't have final cut on. It's the only film I've made where I didn't have, I didn't technically have final cut on The Elephant Man but Mel Brooks gave it to me, an…
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   Manhattan (1979)

    

   Director: Woody Allen Allen was very disappointed with Manhattan (1979), telling United Artists that he'd direct another film for them for free if they shelved the movie.
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    Fear and Desire (1952)

     

    Director: Stanley Kubrick "a bumbling amateur film exercise" Kubrick went as far as to buy the original negatives of the film and all available prints to ensure no-one would ever see it. A…
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    Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)

     

    Director: Woody Allen Another film Woody Allen was disatisfied with was Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), saying: "Hannah and Her Sisters was a big disappointment because I had to compromise my or…