10 Filmmakers EMBARRASSED By Their Own Movies

3. Steven Spielberg - 1941

1941 is not Steven Spielberg's worst movie, not by a long shot. It was, however, the first genuine failure he made, and considered by the director to be a necessary humbling experience as a result.

To put you where Spielberg was when this movie came out, the man was considered to be unstoppable. He had ushered in the age of the blockbuster with Jaws, revolutionized science fiction films with Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and was now set to do to screwball comedy what he did to horror and sci-fi.

That is NOT what happened. At all.

1941 instead turned out to be a toothless, meandering, unfunny comedy with slapstick that barely ever stuck the landing, and absolutely wasted genuine comedic talents like John Belushi. Not quite as bad as, say, Crystal Skull, but still pretty bad, and definitely a humbling blow to Spielberg's growing ego.

To this day the famous director considers it to be his first real failure as an artist, and while he has grown to view it as having been necessary for his personal growth, that doesn't make it suddenly not suck.