10 Great Movies Everybody HATED Making

It's perhaps fitting that a film as fearlessly metal as Mad Max: Fury Road had one of the most troubled productions of any Hollywood blockbuster this past decade, enough that there's even a quite brilliant book written about its tumultuous shoot.

The fourth Mad Max film was in development in various forms for the better part of 30 years before it began shooting, and that's where the issues really started.

First and foremost, the unforgiving landscape of the Namibian desert was severely detrimental to the physical and mental health of the cast and crew, who had to deal with excruciating heat, extreme cold at night, and dust storms.

With the cast and crew suffering so much - including actress Riley Keough catching hypothermia - it was decided to give everyone a week's break in the middle of filming.

But there were also creative issues - Charlize Theron bristled with Tom Hardy over his penchant for method acting, and both Theron and Hardy had difficulty working with Miller. Theron felt that Miller wasn't directing her adequately, while Hardy frequently argued with him.

Many said that Miller was visibly weathered by the six-month shoot, losing an enormous amount of weight, all while having to contend with a deeply concerned Warner Bros., who sent studio reps to the set to supervise his work.

Yet Theron and Hardy in particular have since been hugely emphatic in stating their joy at the film's reception, with Fury Road receiving near-universal praise while winning six of its ten Oscar nominations.

Upon seeing the film at its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, Hardy also publicly apologised to Miller for his attitude on set, calling him "brilliant."