Random Actors Who Aren't Ashamed Of Their Flops (14 items)

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  (#12) Uma Thurman

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  Batman & Robin (1997) has the distinct reputation of being the worst Batman film of all time and for putting the franchise in the grave for nearly a decade. The misguided movie takes what Tim Burton was doing with the Dark Knight in his two successful Bat-pictures and throws it out the window. Batman & Robin tries to hark back to the 1960s Adam West show by dialing up the camp to 11, forgetting to bring the charm with it. 

  Uma Thurman stars as Poison Ivy, one of the villains, and she thinks the film was unfairly railed on by fans who were threatened by the campiness. She told HuffPost in 2014: 

  I think at the time the idea of taking a male superhero and having fun with it and someone using the c-word [campy] on it caused people to be very nasty. And that kind of nastiness was acceptable on those terms. And I think that’s the reason some people were particularly annoyed. They didn’t like seeing that tone applied to their heterosexual male icon.
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  (#1) John Travolta

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  If you're looking for a big-budget, sci-fi epic that's utterly reviled by critics and audiences alike, then look no further than 2000's Battlefield Earth. This action film adaptation of the L. Ron Hubbard novel of the same name managed an abysmal critics' score of 3% and an audience score of 12% on Rotten Tomatoes. This is backed up by its dreadful box office performance and the fact that it swept the Golden Raspberry Awards that year.

  One of the few who seem to dig Battlefield Earth is its star/producer John Travolta. During a 2017 interview with the Daily Beast's Marlow Stern, Travolta was asked if he regretted making the movie. "No way," he replied. "Are you kidding? Why would I ever regret that? I had the power to do whatever I wanted, and I chose to do a book that I thought was worthy of making into a movie. It's a beautiful film."
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  (#14) Bruce Willis

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  In addition to being a true box office flop - grossing just over $17 million domestically on a reported $65 million budget - 1991's action-comedy Hudson Hawk was dismissed by critics at the time. Star Bruce Willis had more at stake than usual with the project, cowriting the theme song as well as having a "story by" credit. 

  It's evident that Hudson Hawk was a bit of a passion project for Willis, and he still defends the movie when it invariably comes up in interviews. While doing promo for Looper in 2012, Willis was asked about the 1991 bomb by HuffPost's Mike Ryan. "I like it a lot," Willis explained. "I still take pride in that film. it was just a little outside the realm of what people [expected]."
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  (#8) Cybill Shepherd

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  At Long Last Love is a 1975 musical comedy that was nearly lost to time. It was lambasted by critics at the time of its release and barely made a blip at the box office. Written and directed by Peter Bogdanovich, the wunderkind director behind The Last Picture Show and Paper Moon, At Long Last Love only had one home video release (in 1981) until it was finally released again in 2013 on Blu-ray in an alternate cut, prompting reappraisal from critics like The New Yorker's Richard Brody, who claims the film is a "masterwork."

  Cybill Shepherd, who was in a relationship with Bogdanovich at the time of filming, reflects on the production with nothing but positive memories. In an interview with RogerEbert.com, Shepherd called her time working on the film "a complete joy and one of my happiest experiences."
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  (#13) Halle Berry

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  The only Hollywood film directed by the one-named Frenchman Pitof, 2004's Catwoman was an utter disaster. Near-universal derision from critics and audiences, a failure to even make back its budget, and baffling ignorance of the source material are just a few of the reasons this film is ridiculed to this day. This doesn't mean the film's star, Halle Berry, looks back on her time in the cat-suit with regret, though.

  During the 2018 Matrix Awards, Berry reminisced to the audience about Catwoman. "I met so many interesting people that I wouldn't have met otherwise," she said. "I got to learn two forms of martial arts and I got to learn what not to do, and learning what not to do is as important as learning what to do. And I got that gift, and I got a sh*tload of money that changed my life."
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  (#10) Armie Hammer

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  2013's The Lone Ranger, while not an entirely terrible film as its reception makes clear, is mostly remembered for losing Walt Disney Studios a lot of money and for the controversy around casting Johnny Depp in a Native American role. Also notable was the decision to cast a then-little-known Armie Hammer as the lead. Though the film proved a controversial failure, Hammer doesn't have any regrets.

  The Lone Ranger enhanced Hammer's profile, leading to roles in pictures like The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and The Birth of a Nation, which further solidified his rising clout. When critics came out against the Disney flop, Hammer struck out at them, claiming the media was "gunning for our movie" and "they decided to slit the jugular of our movie."

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