10 Great Movies Everybody HATED Making

Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now is arguably the greatest war movie ever made, and certainly the one whose production most closely resembles an actual war in its own right, enough that a brilliant documentary, Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse, was made about it.

In Hearts of Darkness, Coppola famously said of the shoot:

"We were in the jungle, there were too many of us, we had access to too much money, too much equipment, and little by little we went insane."

He's not exaggerating.

Shot in the Philippines for over a year while going massively over-budget, Apocalypse Now wore its cast and crew down over the course of production, with Coppola becoming so despondent by everything that went wrong that he had a nervous breakdown, lost a terrifying amount of weight, and considered suicide.

In terms of the cast, Martin Sheen had a near-fatal heart attack mid-shoot which took him out of commission for six weeks, Marlon Brando showed up to set overweight and without having learned his lines while clearly having little desire to be there, and Dennis Hopper found Brando irritating enough that he decided to intentionally anger him wherever possible.

Many other cast and crew members were drunk or high for much of the shoot, and given the utterly ramshackle nature of the production, can you really blame them?

This is just the tip of the iceberg for how Apocalypse Now came to be, and while it likely shaved years off the lives of some involved, the end result is a peerless, towering piece of work.