18 celebrities who famously trashed their own movies

We've all had jobs we've hated and celebrities are no exception. But stars tend to feel backlash on the rare occasions they ditch their canned sound bites and offer up their real thoughts on their projects. Any inkling that an actor is less than 100 percent grateful for the opportunity to work in Hollywood is often met with derision, but their trash talk can be refreshing when you realize they hated their movie just as much as you did.

Of course, brutal honesty works better in some cases than others — and sometimes it's better not to say anything at all.

Below are 18 celebrities who bit the hand that fed them:

George Clooney

George Clooney knows "Batman and Robin" is an awful movie and won't try to convince anyone otherwise. The actor has also never tried to hide his motivations for doing it. In 2002, Clooney told the New York Times, "I've been in those 'Pluto Nash' kind of movies — 'Batman and Robin' cost $160 million — and you know they're a waste of money." 

Regardless of how bad the film might have been, playing Batman was a way for the actor to jump-start his movie career. Clooney said he signed onto the movie because he "was trying to not just do TV" at a time, when despite his starring role on "ER," he was still having trouble just getting auditions for movies.

Clooney was just as candid when he spoke to Total Film in 2011:

"With hindsight it's easy to look back at this and go, 'Woah, that was really shit and I was really bad in it,'" he said. "The truth is, my phone rang, and the head of Warner Bros. said 'Come into my office, you are going to play Batman in a Batman film,' and I said, 'Yeah!' I called my friends and they screamed and I screamed and we couldn't believe it!"

Mark Wahlberg

Mark Wahlberg has looked back on a couple of his movies with a sense of regret. The actor, who is a practicing Catholic, told the Chicago Tribune in 2017,"I just always hope that God is a movie fan and also forgiving, because I've made some poor choices in my past." When asked for specifics, Wahlberg said the 1997 movie "Boogie Nights," in which he played porn star Dirk Diggler, "was at the top of his list."

Wahlberg later tried to mitigate the comment by offering a clarification to People.

"I was sitting in front of a couple of thousand kids talking about and trying to encourage them to come back to their faith, and I was just saying that I just hope he has a sense of humor because I maybe made some decisions that may not be OK with him," he said.

The actor also likely includes 2008's "The Happening," which he called a "bad movie" on his list of regrets.

At a 2010 press conference for "The Fighter," he admitted that his co-star Amy Adams "dodged the bullet" when she didn't get the role that would ultimately go to Zooey Deschanel in the M. Night Shyamalan movie about killer trees.

Jim Carrey

Actor and comedian Jim Carrey condemned the "level of violence" in the movie "Kick-Ass 2." The actor spoke out against the film ahead of its release, explaining that he'd had a "change of heart" about the film in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting in December 2012.

"I did Kick-Ass 2 a month b4 Sandy Hook and now in all good conscience I cannot support that level of violence," Carrey tweeted in June 2013. "My apologies to others involve [sic] with the film. I am not ashamed of it but recent events have caused a change in my heart."