10 Filmmakers EMBARRASSED By Their Own Movies

The hate lobbed at Joel Schumacher for Batman and Robin was overblown in a way that only early Internet comic book nerds could escalate it to, but that doesn't make the movie suddenly good. Even the late great director himself admitted to the film being by far his weakest. Which might not be true (The Wiz on the other hand...) but it's certainly in his bottom five.

Joel Schumacher was one of the most fascinating directors of his time, his work spanning all kinds of genres, from gritty dramaa to, well, campy comic book movies.

Schumacher, being the stand up guy he was, took all of the heat for the film's failure as both an adaptation of the comics as well as a standalone narrative, claiming that no one was responsible for the film's failings but himself. While objectively, this cannot be true, seeing as how film is a collaborative medium so failure is never the fault of one person or factor, the fact that he took the heat for all of it said a lot about his character.

Whether he did all of this out of genuine retrospective cringe at a previous project, or was just so browbeaten by the decade-spanning mockery and ridicule by whiny Batman fans, we might never know. But this is definitely the most famous example of a famous director who looks back on a previous work with nothing short of embarrassment and shame.