Stereogum Home
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.

Posted at 10:54 AM in
Tags:




14 Comments

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
Score = 0 Vote up Vote down

I think 'Unbreakable' was one of the better films he's been in.

Posted by: juano at 03/09/07 11:55 AM | Reply
Score = 0 Vote up Vote down

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
Score = 0 Vote up Vote down

Unbreakable is a classic!!!

Posted by: Scott at 03/09/07 12:29 PM | Reply
Score = 0 Vote up Vote down

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
Score = 0 Vote up Vote down

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
Score = 0 Vote up Vote down

But "The Last Boyscout" kicked ass right?

Posted by: Damon Wayans at 03/09/07 1:31 PM | Reply
Score = 0 Vote up Vote down

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
Score = 0 Vote up Vote down

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
Score = 0 Vote up Vote down

That is the best outfit I've ever seen.

Posted by: Kurt at 03/09/07 10:58 PM | Reply
Score = 0 Vote up Vote down

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
Score = 0 Vote up Vote down

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
Score = 0 Vote up Vote down

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
Score = 0 Vote up Vote down

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
Score = 0 Vote up Vote down

Leave a comment


 

The 'Gum Drop

Get our newsletter. MP3s and giveaways weekly.

Search




Sort by:date relevance

Information

  • Contact:
  • About
  • Press
  • Advertising
  • Stereogum RSS Stereogum RSS XML Icon
  • MP3-Only RSS Stereogum RSS XML Icon

Staff

Founder/Editor-In-Chief
Scott Lapatine
Executive Editor
Amrit Singh
Senior Writer
Brandon Stosuy
Columnist
Jon McMillan
Technology & Operations
Jim Jazwiecki
Angela Williams

The Cool Kids

All Stereogum Posts

Get Flash to see our mp3 player. Here are our mp3s: The Fireman (Paul McCartney) - Nothing Too Much Just Out Of Sight (»)
Letters To Cleo - Awake (»)
Letters To Cleo - Here & Now (»)
Au Revoir Simone - Lark (Ruff and Jam Remix) (»)
John Maus - Do Your Best (»)
John Maus - My Whole World Is Coming Apart (»)
Gang Gang Dance - House Jam (»)
Department Of Eagles - No One Does It Like You (Album Version) (»)
Annie - Two Of Hearts (»)
Final Fantasy - The Butcher (»)
caUSE Co-MOTION - Which Way Is Up (»)
Matthew And The Arrogant Sea - Mock Origami (»)
Matthew And The Arrogant Sea - Pretty Purple Top Hat (»)
Crystal Stilts - Shattered Shine (»)
Marnie Stern - Transformer (»)
Luomo (Feat Apparat) - Love You All (»)
Conor Oberst - 10 Women (Live) (»)
Conor Oberst - I Got A Reason 2 (Live) (»)
Conor Oberst - Kodachrome (Live) (»)
Department Of Eagles - In Ear Park (»)
Department Of Eagles - No One Does It Like You (»)
The Blithe Sons - Try To Find A Memory In A Dark Room (»)
The Ivytree - White Sun (»)
Shearwater - The Snow Leopard (»)
The New Pornographers - Myriad Harbour (»)
Fleet Foxes - He Doesn't Know Why (»)
Lewis & Clarke - Disintegration (»)
Port O'Brien - Stuck On A Boat (»)
Okkervil River - Lost Coastlines (»)
Au - RR vs D (»)
Annuals - Confessor (»)
Lykke Li - Little Bit (»)

Band to Watch logo

Band To Watch: Blank Dogs

Blank Dogs are actually singular: It's the insanely prolific one-man Brooklyn-based band of Mr. Blank Dog. We don't know too much about the biography of the guy behind the bedroom new-wave pop/punk and he's usually covering his face with masks...

MORE »

Quit Your Day Job logo

Quit Your Day Job: Midlake

Eric Pulido plays guitar in Midlake: The Texas band, who last released The Trials of Van Occupanther two years ago, are currently at work on a followup in their Denton studio. Pulido also stays busy running a coffee company Cappulido...

MORE »

Premature Evaluation logo

Premature Evaluation: Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul

Pushing Noel off a stage in Toronto might bruise the erstwhile Oasis mouthpiece's ribs (maybe even his spirits) and cause the band to cancel a show or two, but nothing can stop the slow procession toward a new Oasis album....

MORE »

Video Hangover logo

Video Hangover: Marcy Playground - "Saint Joe On The Schoolbus"

Every week, we dig in the archives for videos that we find noteworthy, memorable, or just unbelievably stupid. And then, Jon McMillan breaks 'em down for you. This week: Marcy Playground blows their one chance at video immortality.

MORE »

Oldstand logo

OldStand: Rolling Stone, September 13, 1984

Take our ink-stained hands and join us at the OldStand, where Jon McMillan goes to remind everyone what an honest-to-goodness music magazine is supposed to look like. Lots of Huey Lewis (and the News) news lately, so let's go back...

MORE »

The Outsiders logo

The Outsiders: Vol. 19: The Blithe Sons, The Ivytree, Varghkoghargasmal

Not all of Stereogum's favorite sounds conform to what folks expect us to cover. In this space, resident Bananafish fetishist Brandon Stosuy focuses on bands, albums, singles, and villages in Sweden that may otherwise pass by unnoticed. This installment's virtual...

MORE »

The 'Gum Drop logo

The Sea & Cake - "Car Alarm"

The Sea & Cake's eighth album Car Alarm is out 10/21 via Thrill Jockey. A couple weeks ago, we posted the sun-kissed summertime video for electro-infused "Weekend." In this week's Drop, we're offering Car Alarm's expansive, affecting title track. We...