10 Directors Who Admitted Their Movie SUCKED

2011's Green Lantern film remains one of the most infamous superhero movie duds of the last 20 years - an ambitious yet cataclysmic misfire which star Ryan Reynolds has repeatedly made fun of himself over the years.

But the film's failure was especially disappointing given the involvement of director Martin Campbell, who had previously helmed two of the strongest entries into the James Bond franchise - GoldenEye and Casino Royale.

Yet in an interview with ScreenRant last year, Campbell not only confessed the film's problems - including an excess of producer oversight - but also admitted he should've never directed it in the first place. He said:

"The point was, right at the beginning of the movie, there was a whole sequence where [Hal Jordan is] an 11 year old kid. It's how his father dies in the air crash, which was a really good sequence. But [the production head] at the time decided that he wanted the death of the father intercut with Hal plunging in the plane, and he saw these flashbacks come to him. That was something that I didn't like very much.

But you know what? The film did not work, really. That's the point, and I'm partly responsible for that. I shouldn't have done it. Because with something like Bond - I love Bond, and I watched every Bond film before I ever directed it. Superhero movies are not my cup of tea, and for that reason, I shouldn't have done it. But directors always have to carry the can for the failures. What do they say? Success has many fathers, failure has one. And that's me.

Since Green Lantern's release, Campbell has returned to the non-superhero wheelhouse he's clearly more comfortable in, helming more modest action thrillers such as The Foreigner, The Protege, and Memory.