10 Directors Who Admitted Their Movie SUCKED

There are few major filmmakers working today more versatile than Steven Soderbergh - the director has proven himself capable in a wide array of genres, styles, and shooting formats, and continues to experiment with new techniques to this very day.

And while Soderbergh's filmography is typically quite consistent, even he admits that he has one dud among the bunch - 1995's The Underneath, a second adaptation of Don Tracy's 1934 novel Criss Cross.

In a 2014 retrospective, Soderbergh freely admitted that his heart wasn't in the film for a multitude of reasons, and that the project suffered as a result:

"I think it's a beautiful film to look at and I think the score is beautiful, but fifteen seconds in I know we're in trouble because of how f**king long it takes to get through those opening credits... That's just an indication of what's wrong with this thing: it's just totally sleepy."

Soderbergh, whose mind was preoccupied by an on-the-rocks marriage, knew the film wasn't working while he was making it:

"It's a very unpleasant feeling to know that, not being able to discuss that with anybody, and see everyone working so hard - cast and crew to give you what you want every day. And you know this thing is dead on arrival. I resolved during that that was never going to happen to me again."

In fact, Soderbergh had so little confidence in the film that when the Cannes Film Festival approached him to screen it at the 1995 edition of the fest, he turned them down, bluntly telling the organisers, "It's the worst thing I've ever made. I'm not even going to screen it for you." Ouch.