It's inevitable that every movie star has at least a few projects they regret making, and Bruce Willis is no exception, having spoken out negatively about a handful from his career. Willis made his debut as a leading role in a feature film with the 1987 rom-com Blind Date. From there, he spawned a well-known and lucrative movie career, studded with iconic gems like the The Sixth Sense, 12 Monkeys, and Nobody's Fool.
But there's been a lot more to Willis' time as an actor than delivering perpetually-quoted lines like, "Yippee-ki-yay!," as John McClane and "Zed's dead, baby," as Butch Coolidge. While he's still a household name, Willis is no longer a leading man, as he once was, and it's easy to overlook the fact that even he has some regrets about certain career choices. In 2007, he interacted with fans on the website for Ain't It Cool News, answering queries and shedding light on past films and his feelings surrounding some of them.
Within the comments, Willis shared his feelings on 1988's Sunset and 1993's Striking Distance. In Sunset, he plays veteran actor Tom Mix, who befriends real-life Wyatt Earp (James Garner) on the set of a silent film and works with him to track down a murderer. In Striking Distance, he plays homicide detective Tom Hardy, who's being taunted by a killer. He said about both films, "I reject all judgment, and in general keep my own counsel, for good or bad. Which is why I can take credit for deciding to do movies like 12 Monkey's and Pulp Fiction, as well as having to hang my head for deciding to do dogs like Striking Distance and Sunset." Though there isn't much elaboration, Willis clearly doesn't hold the latter two films in high regard.
Between the two, there were other successes, including Willis, who will likely not be returning for Red 3, seemed displeased with the movie's inclusion of full-frontal nudity on his part during a sex scene in the director's cut: "When the w*** shot appeared in dailies, the director promised me it would never be in the film. But during the editing process, the Director got into a fight with the Studio, lawsuit followed, and as a concession, the Director got his director's cut, and he left the w*** shot in for all time. But it is a highly skippable movie... "
Five years before his possible Die Hard 6, there were bound to be a few projects he didn't love.
