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Josh Brolin has been quite clear about his thoughts on his film Jonah Hex over the years, telling Variety, "It was not successful creatively or monetarily. I mean, everybody knows how I feel about Jonah Hex." He said in 2024, "I won't ever stop shitting on Jonah Hex because it was a shitty fucking movie!" Brolin had previously blamed much of the problem on his hiring of an inexperienced director, Jimmy Hayward; he'd done so after being rushed by the studio to pick someone within two weeks. "I just think we made a big mistake with the director — not to blame it all at him, because that was my choice, that was my bad choice."

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"And then the studio took it over, and every time that's happened, in my experience, it has only gotten worse. That's what happens when you start cutting to this idea of pandering for an audience, and how testing can bite you in the ass," he continued. "You don’t know what the audience is going to want. Jonah Hex was them taking the movie back and saying, how can we make this the most accessible movie? And they ended up making the least accessible movie." On another occasion, he said he "hated" making the film. "The experience of making it – that would have been a better movie based on what we did. As opposed to what ended up happening to it, which is going back and reshooting 66 pages in 12 days."

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He said he'd wanted it to be like High Plains Drifter, and that if he'd had $5 million, he would do the movie he'd originally envisioned, because "that's the version of that movie that would have been successful."

Channing Tatum really, reallyyyyy didn't want to do G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. He reportedly turned it down seven times, but was eventually contractually obligated to star in it. He told Howard Stern, "I fucking hate that movie. I hate that movie. I was pushed into doing that movie."

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For the second film, G.I. Joe: Retaliation, he asked that his character be killed in the first 10 minutes.

From Coach Carter, they signed me to a three-picture deal … As a young [actor], you're like, 'Oh my god, that sounds amazing, I’m doing that!'" He continued. "Time goes by, and you get other jobs, and you're building your quote, and you have a dream job you want to do. And … the studio calls up, and they're like, 'Hey, we got a movie for you, we're going to send it to you.' And they send it to you, and it’s GI Joe." Tatum said the script was bad, but he was told he'd be sued if he refused to do it. He complied and even returned for the sequel, though he asked that his character be killed in the first 10 minutes.

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Matthew Goode knew that Leap Year would be a mess from the start. "I just know that there are a lot of people who will say it is the worst film of 2010," he said, revealing he mainly took it so he "could come home at the weekends." (The shoot was in Dublin, and Good was then living in England with his girlfriend and newborn.) "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. A bit like Chasing Liberty again. 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."

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Hugh Grant called Did You Hear About the Morgans? a "massive turkey" and a "total failure," and blamed it for his career cooling afterward. He called his offers drying up "slightly embarrassing" and said he was sensitive at the time about people not liking the film. He also regretted how many rom-coms he made at the time; though some have stood the test of time (particularly Music and Lyrics), he felt, "I should've made interesting decisions and done different stuff. Instead, I repeated myself almost identically about 17 times in a row."

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However, he said, "It was very charming to me" of the storyline, so it's not all bad.

Ben Affleck openly mocked Armageddon throughout the DVD's commentary, dissecting the main plotline of the film. "I asked Michael why it was easier to train oil drillers [to become astronauts] than astronauts to become oil drillers, and he told me to shut the fuck up, so that was the end of that talk," he says at one point. He also questions, "In a week, we’re going to learn how to be astronauts?", calling it a "logic stretch" that astronauts couldn't learn to drill. "They don't know jack about drilling? How hard can it be? Aim the drill at the ground and turn it on."

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