10 Filmmakers Who Defended Their Terrible Movies

10. Jerry Bruckheimer Claims The Lone Ranger Is "Terrific"

Clearly an attempt to capture that Pirates Of The Caribbean magic, 2013's The Lone Ranger brought back the exact same creative team behind that swashbuckling series: leading man Johnny Depp, director Gore Verbinski, writers Ted Elliot and Terry Rossio, and producer Jerry Bruckheimer.

But it wasn't to be. The Lone Ranger was utterly annihilated by critics, and it ranks as one of the biggest box-office flops in recent memory.

Despite this negative response, the filmmakers don't think the movie is all that bad. Speaking to the press around the time of its release, Bruckheimer called it "terrific", adding that the critics simply "missed" what made it so great.

Elsewhere, Depp (and co-star Armie Hammer) defended the movie's vitriolic reception by claiming that critics were "gunning" for the project, with Hammer even labelling all American critics "sad".

As evidenced by the abysmal box-office run The Lone Ranger suffered in the months after this press day, these comments did little to sway public opinion on the movie.

Shocking, we know.