Dear fans stay away: movies that stars have regretted for being a part of

Recently, Saif Ali Khan expressed his disappointment about his last release Humshakals. The nawab had admitted that he had "surrendered" himself to Sajid even though he was not sure about the content. "The film didn't have a script as such, it was all there in Sajid's mind. I did whatever he asked me to," said Saif speaking to a newspaper. The humour was not the kind I enjoy."
Actors rubbishing their films and publicly regretting their movie choices is nothing new, as there's a huge history of such films. Here's looking at some of the Holly stars who dissed their films...

'A movie for geniuses'
Megan Fox Transformers on Revenge of the Fallen
Of Michael Bay's 2009 follow-up to the film that made her a star, she said, "I don't know how you saw it in IMAX without having a brain aneurysm or at least a migraine headache… I'm in the movie, and I read the script, and I watched the movie, and I still didn't know what was happening. So I think if you haven't read the script and you go and you see it and you understand it, I think you might be a genius. This is a movie for geniuses."

'I regret this film'
Alec Guinness on Star Wars
Alec Guinness said of his role as Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars, "Apart from the money, I regret having embarked on the film. I like them well enough, but it's not an acting job, the dialogue - which is lamentable - keeps being changed and only slightly improved, and I find myself old and out-of-touch with the young."

'We killed the franchise'
George Clooney on Batman & Robin
George Clooney, who played Batman alongside Chris O'Donnell as Robin, said of Joel Schumacher's Batman & Robin, "I think we might have killed the franchise."

'My worst film'
Sylvester Stallone on Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot
Sylvester Stallone said, "I made some truly awful movies. Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot was the worst. If you ever want someone to confess to murder, just make him or her sit through that film. They will confess to anything after 15 minutes."

'Touching the bottom'
Halle Berry on Catwoman
Halle Berry accepted her Razzie for 'Worst Actress' for her role in Catwoman and said, "It was just what my career needed - I was at the top, now I'm at the bottom."

'Don't watch it'
Edward Norton on The Italian Job
Edward Norton said of The Italian Job, in which he starred as Steve, "My real fans should give this a miss."

'Humourless and uptight'
Katherine Heigl on Knocked Up
Katherine Heigl criticised Judd Apatow's Knocked Up by saying: "…a little sexist. It paints the women as shrews, as humourless and uptight, and it paints the men as loveable, goofy, fun-loving guys."

'Dear fans, stay away'
Bill Cosby on Leonard Part 6
Bill Cosby was at the height of his Cosby Show fame when he took an idea for a spy spoof to Columbia Pictures. Leonard Part 6, a flaccid comedy that suffered under studio interference, the uncertain hand of director Paul Weiland, and Cosby's own shaky premise. When Cosby got a look at the final product, he knew he had a bomb on his hands — but unlike most of the other actors on our list, he decided to get out in front of it, taking the rare (and financially disastrous) step advising fans in print and television interviews to stay away.

'Boring'
Mel Gibson on The Million Dollar Hotel
Gibson's own production company, Icon, was responsible for the wildly uneven but still modestly intriguing picture, so his dismissal of it at an Australian press conference — "I thought it was boring as a dog's ass". Gibson later apologised for his slip-up, "I thought 'God, why did I say that? I'm an idiot! I produced this film. I'm distributing it!' It was pretty thoughtless of me, because a lot of people worked very hard on that film… So I really regret saying that. I have written a lot of apology letters about it."

'It sucks'
Richard Pryor on Stir Crazy
This 1980 Sidney Potier-directed buddy comedy (the second of four collaborations with Gene Wilder) was Richard Pryor's biggest box-office hit, but the comic sure couldn't figure out why.
He expressed his initial doubts in a notorious interview announcing, "What do you wanna know about this movie? IT SUCKS!"

'A piece-of-shit movie'
Jamie Lee Curtis on Virus
Curtis made her return to horror in 1998 with Halloween: H20, an enjoyable follow-up to the film that made her a star, so her 1999 shot at sci-fi/horror seemed promising. But the $75 million movie tanked in its January 1999 release, and the reviews were brutal. "That's a piece of shit movie. It's an unbelievably bad movie; just bad from the bottom…It was maybe the only time I've known something was just bad and there was nothing I could do about it. I just do the best I can and there have been bad movies that have been wildly successful and great movies that have tanked, so you never know," he had said.

Bad film, but I got paid
Matthew Goode on Leap Year
This 2010 turkey was an attempt to make Amy Adams into a romantic comedy ingénue. The critics agreed that the results were just terrible. So, did co-star Matthew Goode, who called it "turgid" in an interview a month after its release, admitting that he took the role primarily for its Irish locations, "so that I could come home at the weekends. It wasn't because of the script, trust me. I was told it was going to be like The Quiet Man with a Vaughan Williams soundtrack, but in the end it turned out to have pop music all over it. Do I feel I let myself down? No. Was it a bad job? Yes, it was. But, you know, I had a nice time and I got paid."

'F**k it!'
Mark Wahlberg on The Happening
Mark Wahlberg's career's biggest bomb. Said this about Amy Adams, who almost did the film, "She dodged the bullet.… I don't want to tell you what movie … All right. The Happening. F**k it. It is what it is. Fucking trees, man. The plants. F**k it. You can't blame me for not wanting to try to play a science teacher. At least, I wasn't playing a cop or a crook." Wait, The Happening is bad? What? No!

'Bad, bad, bad movie'
Charlize Theron on Reindeer Games
The actress harboured no illusions about the film. "That was a bad, bad, bad movie," she admitted in 2007. "But … I got to work with John Frankenheimer. I wasn't lying to myself — that's why I did it," she said.

'Most irresponsible bit of filmmaking'
Brad Pitt on The Devil's Own
Before the film's release, Pitt offered up an explanation to Newsweek, "We had no script. Well, we had a great script but it got tossed for various reasons. To have to make something up as you go along — Jesus, what pressure. It was ridiculous… I tried to (walk away) when there was a week before shooting and we had 20 pages of dogshit. And this script that I had loved was gone." He also called the film "the most irresponsible bit of filmmaking — if you can even call it that — that I've ever seen."

'I got manipulated'
Drew Barrymore on Wishful Thinking
The film was shot in 1996, while she was under an old-studio-style contract with Miramax, and was told by Miramax co-chair Harvey Weinstein that she had to make it, if she wanted to appear in Miramax's Woody Allen musical Everyone Says I Love You, she told Vogue in 1996. "I got fucking manipulated into doing a goddamn movie I hated!"