"I Hated That F*cking Movie" — 15 Critically Acclaimed Films The Writers Hated

He said of the casting of the iconic star that he'd been "double-crossed in every conceivable way." He also allegedly said to the creators of the movie, "You know, of course, that I want to play the male lead." 

The movie was nominated for five Oscars in 1962, winning two of them. Its critic's Tomatometer score sits at 88%, with critic James Breen of Sight & Sound writing, "It can be faulted as a narrative and it doesn't take a serious moral view. But the people who querulously insist on such points have clearly not surrendered to Miss Hepburn's magic spell." 

He said of the novel, "it became known as the raw material for a film which seemed to glorify sex and violence. The film made it easy for readers of the book to misunderstand what it was about, and the misunderstanding will pursue me till I die." 

It was nominated for three Academy Awards, three Golden Globes, and a Directors Guild of America Award. It won, or placed, in three New York Film Critics Circle Awards and now has a critic's rating of 86% on Rotten Tomatoes (audiences gave it 93%).

"I kept my mouth shut at the time, but I didn’t care for it much," Stephen King said. One of his issues with the film is that "The character of Jack Torrance has no arc in that movie. Absolutely no arc at all... All he does is get crazier. In the book, he’s a guy who’s struggling with his sanity and finally loses it. To me, that’s a tragedy. In the movie, there’s no tragedy because there’s no real change." 

The Shining had mixed reviews when it came out, but has since become a horror classic. It's currently got an 83% Tomatometer from critics and 93% from audiences.

"What was intended as a satire of movies like The Singing Nun and TV shows like The Flying Nun and all of those hug-happy, sugary nun flicks, turned into one of those," he told NPR. "Though by the time the Disney people got through with my original script, it formed very little resemblance to what I intended."

Rudnick chose to go by Joseph Howard in the credits instead, as the end result of his writing was very different to what he'd envisioned. The movie won the People's Choice Comedy Award, two NAACP Image Awards, was nominated for two Golden Globes, and currently has 75% critic approval on Rotten Tomatoes.

In the conference, he called it "that revolting movie" (woah). "I saw the final script five days before the premiere and only as a result of a judicial verdict in Munich," he said. "I was horrified. They had changed the whole sense of the story."

Though the movie had mixed reviews when it came out, it did win some awards  — and now, it's got a Tomatometer score of 83% from critics. 

He didn't like that the film removed Chief Bromden as the main narrator and even sued the makers of the movie for "breaking our verbal agreement and ruining the book". He claimed to have switched TV channels when his movie came on. 

A 1976 New York Times article revealed he watched that year's Oscars night — in which One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest won five Academy Awards — with a "sense of the absurd." He said, "It was like pumps trying to say they're more important than the well and the water" when he felt his contribution wasn't acknowledged enough by those accepting the awards.

He told the New York Times that for a lot of the projects he'd had published with DC and turned into movies, "I don't want anything more to do with these works because they were stolen from me — knowingly stolen from me."

Though Natalie Portman was nominated for a Stinkers Award for her hair in the film, the movie has since earned a very decent 73% critic's score on Rotten Tomatoes.

"Gene Wilder was rather too soft and didn’t have a sufficient edge. His voice is very light and he’s got that rather cherubic, sweet face. I think [Roald Dahl] felt…there was something wrong with [Wonka’s] soul in the movie  — it just wasn’t how he imagined the lines being spoken," Donald Sturrock, a friend of the author, told Yahoo! News. And despite its score being nominated for an Academy Award, Dahl didn't like the music, either. 

It's currently got a whipple-scrumptious 92% critic's Tomatometer score.

He really, really didn't like what director Oliver Stone did with the script — "I hated that f*cking movie," Tarantino said. "If you like my stuff, don’t watch that movie."

The film was nominated for a Golden Globe and won three awards at the Venice Film Festival. It's got mixed critical reviews, but audiences gave it 81% on Rotten Tomatoes.

"How do you adapt The Iliad?" the author asked. "How do you have that experience be the same as an experience that was conceived as a book? You’re getting a watered-down, second-hand version of it, in a way. If you’ve written a novel, you’ve written a novel because it is a novel." 

He added, "The book itself doesn’t really answer a lot of the questions it poses, but by the very nature of the medium of a movie, you kind of have to answer those questions. And a movie automatically says, 'It’s real.'" 

American Psycho was nominated for two London Critics Circle Film Awards and has an 85% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, with the critic's score coming in at a respectable 68%.

"What I now know, which wasn’t known when I wrote Jaws, is that there is no such thing as a rogue shark which develops a taste for human flesh,’’ he said in 2000. "No one appreciates how vulnerable they are to destruction." 

The movie won three Oscars, was nominated for a fourth, and has a near-impeccable 97% critic's Tomatometer score on Rotten Tomatoes.

That's partly because the studio was sneaking out products behind his back and even using his friend's brother's serious illness to apply pressure on him, he claims.

Matthew Rosa of Salon has since said of the film, "When given a great story and told that his job is to simply adapt it, Snyder more than rises to the occasion" — it's got a respectable 65% Tomatometer critic's score.

Three months before the movie came out, he told the LA Times that of the film's 200 scenes, "only one corresponds with my book." 

It's now got a healthy 72% critic score on Rotten Tomatoes, with Janet Maslin from The New York Times writing, "Patriot Games delivers the best possible version of a tale that boils down to nothing but gamesmanship, as its title implies."