10 Directors Who Admitted Their Movie SUCKED
4. David Lynch - Dune (1984)
High-profile duds don't come much more fascinating than David Lynch's 1984 adaptation of Dune, which despite enormous hype and a colossal production was a gigantic critical and commercial failure.
It's been well-documented since the film's release that surrealist filmmaker Lynch, nothing if not an unconventional choice for a project like this, was excessively micro-managed by producers throughout shooting and editing, enough that he disowned the final film.
Though Lynch doesn't often speak publicly about the movie, he did open up a little around the release of Denis Villeneuve's new Dune adaptation last year, speaking to The A.V. Club about where the film went wrong:
"People have said, 'Don't you want to go back and fiddle with Dune?' And I was so depressed and sickened by it, you know? I want to say, I loved everybody that I worked with; they were so fantastic. I loved all the actors; I loved the crew; I loved working in Mexico; I loved everything except that I didn't have final cut. And I even loved [producer] Dino [De Laurentiis], who wouldn't give me what I wanted [laughs]... But the thing was a horrible sadness and failure to me."