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Films even the starring actors find hard to watch

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Former Doctor Who star Christopher Eccleston is the latest in a long list of stars who've bagged out movies they starred in.

The English actor, who is best known for his TV work, has a few Hollywood credits to his name. But in a recent interview with The Guardian, he made it clear he wasn't a big fan of the blockbuster movies he starred in.

"Working on something like G.I. Joe [The Rise of Cobra] was horrendous," Eccleston told The Guardian.

"I just wanted to cut my throat every day. And Thor [he plays Malekith in Thor: The Dark World]? Just a gun in your mouth. Gone in 60 Seconds was a good experience. Nic Cage is a gentleman and fantastic actor. But GI Joe and Thor were … I really paid for being a whore those times."

So who are the other stars who've dissed the very films they starred in?

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CHANNING TATUM

Yes, I starred in this - Channing Tatum admits that he hates GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra, which must have made attending this Los Angeles Special Screening in 2009 particularly hard. Photo / Getty
Yes, I starred in this - Channing Tatum admits that he hates GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra, which must have made attending this Los Angeles Special Screening in 2009 particularly hard. Photo / Getty

The actor didn't even attempt to hide his disdain for his 2009 movie, G.I. Joe: The Rise of the Cobra, during an interview with Howard Stern.

"Look, I'll be honest. I f**king hate that movie, I hate that movie," Tatum said.

"The script wasn't any good. I didn't want to do something that I thought was 1) bad, and 2) I just didn't know if I wanted to be G.I. Joe."

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The star explained that he'd signed a three-picture deal with that particular movie studio and was "pushed" into starring in the film which has just a 35 per cent rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

But Tatum admitted he could have got a far worse picture to star in.

"I could have been given … I don't know, Scream 5," he said.

"I'm super lucky and blessed to have been given that film. That was really not all that bad. [But you have] no option. 'You're doing this or we're gonna sue you.'"

BILL MURRAY

Bill Murray only has himself to blame after misreading who the scriptwriter was for the woeful Garfield movies. Photo / Getty
Bill Murray only has himself to blame after misreading who the scriptwriter was for the woeful Garfield movies. Photo / Getty

The Ghostbusters star voiced Garfield in not one but two movies in the early 2000s.

They were both duds, with the 2004 movie sitting on a 15 per cent rating on Rotten Tomatoes and the sequel on just 11 per cent.

In 2010 Murray opened up to GQ about the dodgy movies and denied that he was in it just for the cash.

"I thought it would be kind of fun, because doing a voice is challenging, and I'd never done that," he said.

"Plus, I looked at the script, and it said, 'So-and-so and Joel Coen.' And I thought: Christ, well, I love those Coens! They're funny. So I sorta read a few pages of it and thought, Yeah, I'd like to do that."

When Murray finally got around to voicing his lines in LA, he was somewhat surprised by the script.

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"I worked all day and kept going, 'That's the line? Well, I can't say that.' And you sit there and go, What can I say that will make this funny? And make it make sense? And I worked. I was exhausted, soaked with sweat, and the lines got worse and worse. And I said, 'Okay, you better show me the whole rest of the movie, so we can see what we're dealing with.'

"I sat down and watched the whole thing, and I kept saying, 'Who the hell cut this thing? Who did this? What the f**k was Coen thinking?' And then they explained it to me: It wasn't written by that Joel Coen."

The movie was actually written by Joel Cohen. Oops.

SALLY FIELD

Sally Field pulls out the movie star smile for the LA premiere of her dud The Amazing Spiderman in 2012. Photo / Getty
Sally Field pulls out the movie star smile for the LA premiere of her dud The Amazing Spiderman in 2012. Photo / Getty

The legendary actress played Aunt May in both The Amazing Spider-Man [2012] and The Amazing Spider-Man 2 [2014].

But the two-time Oscar winner told Howard Stern that she wasn't a big fan of the sequel.

"It's not my kind of movie," she said, before explaining why she agreed to star alongside Andrew Garfield again in the sequel.

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"My friend Laura Ziskin was the producer, and we knew it would be her last film, and she was my first producing partner, and she was a spectacular human. It's really hard to find a three-dimensional character in it, and you work it as much as you can, but you can't put 10 pounds of s**t in a five-pound bag."

MATT DAMON

Matt Damon didn't pull any punches when bagging the original script for 2007's Bourne Ultimatum. Photo / Getty
Matt Damon didn't pull any punches when bagging the original script for 2007's Bourne Ultimatum. Photo / Getty

He's considered the nicest guy in Hollywood but Matt Damon shocked the industry when he publicly bagged out Tony Gilroy, who wrote the script for 2007's Bourne Ultimatum.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Gilroy was only contractually obligated to do one draft of the script and Damon felt it wasn't up to standard.

"I don't blame Tony for taking a boatload of money and handing in what he handed in," Damon told GQ in 2011.

"It's just that it was unreadable. This is a career-ender. I mean, I could put this thing up on eBay and it would be game over for that dude. It's terrible. It's really embarrassing. He was having a go, basically, and he took his money and left."

MICHAEL FASSBENDER

Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard attend Assassin's Creed New York premiere in 2016. Fassbender thinks an opportunity was missed with the film. Photo / Getty
Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard attend Assassin's Creed New York premiere in 2016. Fassbender thinks an opportunity was missed with the film. Photo / Getty

Assassin's Creed was a stinker. Released in 2016 and co-starring Marion Cotillard, the film was panned by critics and has an 18 per cent rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

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The movie is based on a video game of the same name and a film critic from Slate wrote about the flick: "I suppose you could say the film made me slightly more likely to play one of the games, but only because I'd do just about anything before I saw this movie again."

Even the star of the film, Michael Fassbender, has been open about its shortcomings.

"For sure, it wasn't ideal," Fassbender told Movie'n'co. "I think we missed an opportunity there a little bit".

When asked what he'd change about the film if he could, Fassbender said: "I would make it more entertaining, that's really the main note. The feeling of the film, I think it took itself too seriously and I would get to the action a lot quicker. I think there's three beginnings of the film, which is a mistake."

DANIEL RADCLIFFE

Daniel Radcliffe finds it hard to watch Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince. Photo / Getty
Daniel Radcliffe finds it hard to watch Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince. Photo / Getty

The English actor starred in eight Harry Potter movies, but he's not a huge fan of the sixth one and only has himself to blame.

"It's hard to watch a film like Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince, because I'm just not very good in it," he told The Daily Mail.

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"I hate it. My acting is very one-note and I can see I got complacent and what I was trying to do just didn't come across. My best film is the fifth one [Order Of The Phoenix] because I can see a progression."

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