Madame Net, Marvel’s newest superhero film and a Spider-Man spinoff, debuted in February 2024 to overwhelmingly destructive evaluations. Its 13 p.c ranking on Rotten Tomatoes and 26/100 Metacritic rating have been unhealthy sufficient, however the movie’s star Dakota Johnson’s personal feedback on the film’s press tour didn’t precisely assist issues.
Requested if she may title the three Tom Holland Spider-Man films, she replied (in between giggles) with “Spider-Man: Right here He Comes, “Spider-Man: And He’s Again” and “The Goblet of Spider-Man.” All are, clearly, incorrect.
She didn’t cease there as she continued one of many extra entertaining press excursions we’ve ever seen. Johnson later mentioned she’d seen precisely 4 p.c of all Marvel films, that she may win an Oscar for her stunt driving in Madame Net (spoiler: she didn’t do the stunt driving), and the way she’s continuously making an attempt to get her pal arrested.
Oh, and he or she has no plans on truly seeing the film she was selling.
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To be honest, that’s sometimes Johnson’s coverage for all her films. She calls it a method of self-care.
“For me, it’s a approach to not have, like, an existential disaster,” the Fifty Shades of Gray star mentioned in an interview with Magic FM. “Not watching my films is like self-care.”
She later added,“I don’t know after I’ll see it.”
Johnson hasn’t outwardly referred to as Madame Net a flop but, however that’s apparent. The numbers and the evaluations say all of it. As we await her subsequent viral second, hold scrolling for the way different actors have reacted to their greatest field workplace bombs.
Jennifer Hudson: Cats (2019)
Jennifer Hudson in “Cats” Common Photos
“You realize what? I feel it was a bit overwhelming,” the EGOT winner mentioned of the critically savaged, star-studded adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber‘s Broadway musical. “It’s unlucky that it was misunderstood. I feel later down the road, individuals will see it in a different way. However it’s one thing I’m nonetheless very happy with and grateful to have been part of.”
Rooney Mara: Pan (2015)
Typically the criticism goes past the standard of the film. Critics blasted Pan (about Peter Pan et al) for casting Mara, who has European ancestry, to play Native American character Tiger Lily. In hindsight, Mara sees why individuals have been indignant.
“I actually hate, hate, hate that I’m on that facet of the whitewashing dialog. I actually do,” she mentioned. “I don’t ever need to be on that facet of it once more. I can perceive why individuals have been upset and annoyed. … Do I feel all the 4 fundamental individuals within the movie ought to have been white with blonde hair and blue eyes? No. I feel there ought to have been some range someplace.”
Ryan Reynolds: Inexperienced Lantern (2011)
Ryan Reynolds in “Inexperienced Lantern” Cowl Photographs
“There was simply too many individuals spending an excessive amount of cash and when there was an issue reasonably than say, ‘OK, let’s cease spending on particular results and let’s take into consideration [the] character,’” he mentioned on the Only for Laughs comedy competition in 2023. “That simply by no means … the considering was by no means there to do this. … It was not a sense I needed to repeat. So I actually spent the next years simply proudly owning as a lot as I may, it was the one approach to form of course of it.”
George Clooney: Batman & Robin (1997)
Clooney famously performed Batman for only one flick. “Let me simply say that I’d truly thought I’d destroyed the franchise till any person else introduced it again years later and adjusted it,” he mentioned throughout an look on The Graham Norton Present. “I believed on the time that this was going to be an excellent profession transfer. It wasn’t.”
Alec Baldwin: Rock of Ages (2012)
“It was a whole catastrophe,” Baldwin instructed The Wrap of the movie tackle the hit Broadway jukebox musical. “Every week in you go, ‘Oh, God, what have I finished?’”
Jessica Alba: Implausible 4 (2005)
Jessica Alba in “Implausible 4: Rise Of The Silver Surfer” Cowl Photographs
“I hated it. I actually hated,” she instructed Elle of her early foray into superhero fare. “I keep in mind after I was dying in Silver Surfer. The director was like, ‘It appears too actual. It appears too painful. Are you able to be prettier whenever you cry? Cry fairly, Jessica.’”
Kumail Nanjiani: Eternals (2021)
Adverse evaluations can bruise any actor’s ego, and Nanjiani admitted on Michael Rosenbaum‘s “Inside You” podcast that the response to Marvel’s Eternals — for which he famously reworked his physique with a private coach — brought on him to hunt remedy.
“It was actually exhausting, and that was after I thought it was unfair to me and unfair to [my wife] Emily, and I can’t method my work this manner any extra. Some [thing] has to vary, so I began counseling. I nonetheless speak to my therapist about that.”
Tom Hanks: The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990)
“One of many crappiest films ever made,” he mentioned of the movie based mostly on Tom Wolfe‘s basic novel. “And but if I hadn’t gone by means of that have, I might have misplaced out on one thing precious. … Bonfire taught me that I couldn’t manufacture a core connection. … After I was enjoying Sherman McCoy, individuals stopped me on the road to say, ‘You’re not Sherman McCoy.’ I used to be like, ‘Oh, yeah?’ I used to be going opposite to all the pieces concerning the character and even the screenplay, however I stored telling myself, ‘No, no, no — there’s a method I can get into this.’”
When it hit theaters 25 years in the past, on July 6, 1994, Forrest Gump not solely primed Tom Hanks for his second consecutive Finest Actor Oscar win however proved him to be one in all Hollywood’s most bankable and revered actors. His roles in movies like Toy Story, Saving Non-public Ryan and Solid Away solely cemented that […]
Halle Berry: Catwoman (2004)
Berry confirmed up on the Razzies to personally settle for her award for Worst Actress in Catwoman (a standalone DC Comics flick about Batman’s nemesis) and used her acceptance speech to slam everybody concerned with the film.
“To begin with, I need to thank Warner Bros. for placing me in a piece-of-s–t, godawful film. It was simply what my profession wanted! I used to be on the high, after which Catwoman simply plummeted me to the underside. Find it irresistible! It’s exhausting being on high. It’s a lot better being on the underside,” she mentioned. “I need to thank my supervisor Vincent Cirrincione. This man loves me. … He loves me a lot that he convinces me to do initiatives even when he is aware of they’re s–t! That’s how a lot he actually loves me. My solely recommendation to you … is subsequent time I do a film, if I get an opportunity to do one other film, possibly you must learn the script. … Simply counting the zeros behind the one actually isn’t sufficient. You actually acquired to learn the script. I like you, man. Love you.”
Jamie Lee Curtis: Virus (1999)
“That may be the all time piece of s–t. … It’s simply dreadful,” she instructed IGN of the field workplace flop based mostly on the comedian e-book of the identical title. “That’s the one good purpose to be in unhealthy films. Then when your mates have [bad] films you may say ‘Ahhhh, I’ve acquired the very best one.’ I’m bringing Virus.”
Ben Affleck: Gigli (2003)
Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck in “Gigli” Cowl Photographs
“It engendered a variety of destructive emotions in individuals about me,” Affleck instructed Leisure Weekly of the movie costarring his love Jennifer Lopez. “There’s that facet of folks that I acquired to see that was unhappy and exhausting, it was miserable and actually made me query issues and really feel disenchanted and have a variety of self-doubt. But when the response to Gigli hadn’t occurred, I in all probability wouldn’t have in the end determined, ‘I don’t actually have another avenue however to direct films,’ which has turned out to be the true love of my skilled life. So in these methods, it’s a present. And I did get to satisfy Jennifer, the connection with whom has been actually significant to me in my life.”
Charlize Theron: Reindeer Video games (2000)
“That was a nasty, unhealthy, unhealthy film,” she instructed Esquire in 2007. “However despite the fact that the film may suck, I started working with John Frankenheimer. I wasn’t mendacity to myself – that’s why I did it.”
Jennifer Lawrence: Mom! (2017)
“It’s superior, what we did — some individuals hate it and the individuals who hate it, actually hate it,” she instructed Selection of the divisive movie directed by then-boyfriend Darren Aronofsky. “Nevertheless it’s nothing that must be defended and if I learn a destructive overview, I simply really feel defensive.”
