10 Films Directors Regret Making

10. The Game - David Fincher

Though few are going to hold up The Game as one of David Fincher's better movies - largely due to the sheer number of stone cold masterpieces he counts among his back catalogue - by any metric it's a taut, solidly crafted thriller.

Yet Fincher, ever the famous perfectionist, has serious misgivings about the film's third act, enough that he even wishes he followed the advice of his wife/producer Ceán Chaffin and didn't direct the movie at all.

In a 2014 interview with IndieWire, Fincher said:

"In hindsight, my wife was right. We didn't figure out the third act, and it was my fault, because I thought if you could just keep your foot on the throttle it would be liberating and funny."

Though The Game's ending - where it's revealed that Nicholas' (Michael Douglas) entire harrowing ordeal was indeed a staged game - is certainly the film's most polarising aspect, there are still many fans who are very, very happy that a director as skilled as Fincher was the one to make it.