Actors' Who Aren't Ashamed Of Their Biggest Movie Flops (But Should Be)

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."

Famously described by The New York Times' Vincent Canby as looking "like the most expensive B-movie ever made," 1981's Inchon is not a beloved film, nor was it financially successful in the least. In the four decades since its release, it has never been made available on home video. It's a film almost forgotten to history, but Hollywood legend Laurence Olivier wasn't embarrassed by his involvement.

In an interview during the film's production, he made his reasons for starring in Inchon abundantly clear: "People ask me why I'm playing in this picture. The answer is simple. Money, dear boy... I'm almost used up now and I can feel the end coming... Nothing is beneath me if it pays well. I've earned the right to damn well grab whatever I can get in the time I've got left."

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."

In the late '80s and early '90s, Kevin Costner became one of the most successful actors in Hollywood thanks to films like The Untouchables, Field of Dreams, Dances with Wolves, and The Bodyguard. But 1995 brought the sci-fi post-apocalypse of Waterworld, and Costner's career was never really the same after its release. It isn't entirely hated by those who have seen it, and it made a reasonable amount of money upon release, but it was the most expensive film ever made at the time and it failed to live up to the lofty expectations set by that kind of funding.

Costner made headlines in 2015 after ardently defending the film against naysayers: "I know that people might think of Waterworld as a low point for me. It wasn’t... The movie with all its imperfections was a joy for me." Of course, he doesn't think it's perfect. He mentioned to HuffPost in 2013 that "...it was flawed - for sure. But, overall, it’s a very inventive, cool movie."

After Michael Caine became a Hollywood mainstay in the '60s and '70s, but before he became a go-to supporting actor throughout the '90s and 2000s, the actor hit a bit of a career slump. This downturn saw Caine taking roles in lackluster films because, well, a guy's gotta make a living. One of these pictures was 1987's Jaws: The Revenge. With the all-time great tagline of "This Time It's Personal" and an astonishing 0% from critics on Rotten Tomatoes, Jaws: The Revenge is one of the most iconically bad movies of all time.

So, does Caine regret starring in it? Far from it. The actor once said, "I have never seen it but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific." If you could make enough money to purchase a nice house from a few weeks of work (in the Bahamas, no less), it stands to reason you'd feel the same way.

Hot off the heels of the massive successes of both Star Wars and Indiana Jones, George Lucas decided one of the projects he would like to executive produce was 1986's Howard the Duck. The oddball comedy, based on the Marvel comic of the same name, signed a death warrant for Marvel in Hollywood until Blade, X-Men, and Spider-Man brought the company back into the limelight. The movie struggled to make back half of its budget and was destroyed by critics upon release, but not everyone reflects on the project negatively.

Tim Robbins had a supporting part, and while he knows it isn't a great movie, he did manage to make a pretty penny for his role as Phil Blumburtt. In a 2016 interview with Mandatory, Robbins talked about the movie:

[I]t wound up going over its shooting schedule and I wound up getting paid twice for that movie because of all the overtime. So I think more about that than about the quality of the movie. I think more about that allowing me [the] opportunity to do a movie like Five Corners and to produce great plays with The Actor’s Gang, because of the money I was able to take in on that movie.