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March 9, 2007

Bruce Willis's Sixth Sense: Regret

Taking a cue from Joss Stone, macho man John McClane has come clean with a list of movies he wishes he’d never made. Via Monsters & Critics:

'There are some films I would love to go back and delete. There is maybe a handful of films that I really regret doing - but mostly I am content with what I have achieved in my career.' The 56-year-old revealed that the movies he is most ashamed of are 'Hudson Hawk' and 'The Bonfire of the Vanities' - films that the actor made in the early 90s.
What, no Look Who’s Talking Too?

But if Willis has any artistic choices to regret, it should probably be his music career. We’d much rather sit through an Unbreakable/Armageddon double-feature than listen to The Return of Bruno. We barely got through an iTunes sample of his rendition of “Respect Yourself” before our ears started bleeding.

In case you don’t believe us, here’s some bonus footage of Bruce caterwauling like a drunk Paul Schaeffer.

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I am searching the interwebs for a place to buy those glasses right now.

Posted by: Ethan at 03/09/07 11:08 AM  | Reply
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Haha... I got almost the same looking glasses for $10, bought them right on the street

Posted by: bnw movies profile link  in reply to Ethan's comment at 09/11/09 2:55 PM  | Reply
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I think 'Unbreakable' was one of the better films he's been in.

Posted by: juano at 03/09/07 11:55 AM  | Reply
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He's ashamed of Hudson Hawk?

That film is so-bad-it's-good.

"Bunny, ball ball!"

Posted by: Michael Houghton at 03/09/07 12:07 PM  | Reply
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Unbreakable is a classic!!!

Posted by: Scott at 03/09/07 12:29 PM  | Reply
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Yeah, Hudson Hawk is good. So good, it deserved a spot in my DVD collection. Well, woldn't it deserve a spot in your collection for 4 bucks? Yes. The answer is yes.

Posted by: Jeremy at 03/09/07 1:13 PM  | Reply
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i didn't like unbreakable at all. that was the beginning of the end for me and m. night.

but hudson hawk is ace!

Posted by: tad at 03/09/07 1:21 PM  | Reply
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But "The Last Boyscout" kicked ass right?

Posted by: Damon Wayans at 03/09/07 1:31 PM  | Reply
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I love Hudson Hawk--I thought it was a great cartoon action film, and I thought that scene with Danny Aiello (timing a break-in by cues to "Swinging on a Star") was cool as hell.

Posted by: gorjus at 03/09/07 2:28 PM  | Reply
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I think the Seagram's Golden Wine Cooler ads were his best work.

Posted by: Philco Brothers at 03/09/07 4:32 PM  | Reply
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That is the best outfit I've ever seen.

Posted by: Kurt at 03/09/07 10:58 PM  | Reply
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im glad to see there are a handful of other people out there who actually enjoyed the so bad its good Hudson Hawk... too bad bruce isnt one of them.
And I though Unbreakable was great... Though since then, M Night's work has been a steaming pile of shit.

Posted by: knarf at 03/10/07 9:35 PM  | Reply
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Let me preface my comment by saying that I think Bruce Willis is the sexiest man I have seen! It however, appears that he was running late from his work at the hospital and couldn't change out of his lab coat! I think Hudson Hawk was seriously bad. :) I had to stop my workout to turn it off! Bruce Willis rules!! (just not in this clip).

Posted by: sunshine at 03/11/07 9:28 PM  | Reply
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Hudson Hawk has some of the best intentionally bad dialog ever committed to celluloid. Most of the best lines are thanks to Richard E. Grant's "Darwin Mayflower"

Mayflower: History, tradition, culture... are not concepts! These are trophies I keep in my den as paperweights!"

Mayflower: I'll kill your friends, your family, and the bitch you took to the prom!
Hudson Hawk: Betty Jo Byarsky? I can get you an address on that, if you want.

Mayflower: If Da Vinci was alive today, he'd be eating microwave sushi, naked, in the back of a Cadillac with the both of us.

Posted by: El Payo at 03/11/07 10:56 PM  | Reply
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I wasn't aware that Bruce Willis had made bad films. In fact were there even films made before Die HArd?

Posted by: Deano at 03/12/07 2:16 PM  | Reply
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