Who knows why actors say such things. I mean, few ever set out to make "the perfect movie" (surely one can't expect he had high hopes for Armaggeddon?).
The reviews and ratings suggest this movie was a "flop". Financially, it's easy enough to subtract the budget from the revenues and say it made money or lost money, fair enough.
But there are people, myself included, who are movie fans, amateur critics, have a scope based on NOT being behind the scenes, don't know how movies are made, and come away with a favourable impression of this film.
Yes, I have read the book. I enjoyed the book. I also have seen this movie, and I enjoyed it too for what it symbolized, the statement it was attempting to make.
And, for Bruce Willis, it clearly showed he's not just a shoot-em-up action guy, but a multi-layered actor who can play wimps, nerds, intellectuals, whatever in addition to against-all-odds-nothing-can-kill-me-a-hundred-bad-guys-who-can't-shoot-straight-are-no-match-for-a-gritty-cop-having-a-bad-day. He can dominate a screen, or allow others to occupy the screen with him.
What in this is to be ashamed of?
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Beaubelle
11 years ago
In the biography on Doris Day written by A. E. Hotchner, she makes the remark that there are movies in her past that she hates, that no amount of money could make her sit through, but for each of those, she had had people come up to her and say that movie, THAT movie, held a precious memory for them, of sitting with a loved one or dear friend, it had said something to their hearts that they remembered, something precious. I've always thought of that when an actor trashes his work.
Tom Hanks gets under my skin with some really nasty comments he has made about Turner and Hooch. For one thing, dangerous as the rotties, pit bulls, dogues de Bordeaux and other "bull" types can get, they are magnificent animals, and it was a delight to see Hooch at work. Another good point made by that movie is that you cannot take an animal bred to be active (whatever the activity it is trained for: shepherds and working breeds are also good cases in point) and keep it in the house all day without companionship and "something to do." And we do not always like the things they find to do!!!!!
ETA: I think a BIG disadvantage working against any movie of BOTV is that the book takes place in Sherman's head: you see what he saw, you hear what he heard, and Wolfe makes you feel what he felt. That cannot really happen in the movie: you see the impact, you hear the crunch and you see the stinkin' car drive away from a dying kid.
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