{"id":313281,"date":"2025-08-03T01:06:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T01:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/313281\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T01:06:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T01:06:14","slug":"the-michael-caine-movie-no-one-got-pleasure-from-watching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/313281\/","title":{"rendered":"The Michael Caine movie no one got “pleasure from watching”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Michael<\/p>\n

(Credits: Far Out \/ YouTube Still)<\/p>\n

Sat 2 August 2025 19:45, UK <\/p>\n

According to IMDB, Michael Caine<\/a> amassed 175 acting credits across 70 years in the movie business, so it stands to reason that he\u2019d occasionally make a dud\u2026or ten. <\/p>\n

Brilliantly, though, Caine was always so honest about his career that, if he starred in a turkey, he\u2019d be happy to tell you about it.<\/p>\n

Over the years, Caine was often confronted by critics and fans who were baffled about why he\u2019d signed up for certain projects that looked like disasters on paper, and turned out to be just that. For instance, people questioned his judgment after he made\u00a0The Swarm,\u00a0a creature feature about killer bees<\/a>\u00a0invading Texas. <\/p>\n

To their shock, Caine agreed the film \u201cwas one of the worst I ever made\u201d, and even claimed it was \u201cdoomed\u201d from the start. However, he said he was OK with the picture because it helped him break into the American market, so all\u2019s well that ends well.<\/p>\n

Similarly, when Caine didn\u2019t learn his lesson the first time and incomprehensibly chose to make another creature feature in 1987, critics once again lambasted him. That ill-advised monster flick was Jaws: The Revenge, the fourth instalment in a franchise that has only ever boasted one great movie, and Caine had the bad luck of turning up in the worst one of all. Did it bother him? Nope.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s like when people ask me why I made The Swarm,\u201d Caine lamented in the wake of Jaws: The Revenge\u2018s release, before delivering one of the funniest and most honest explanations<\/a> any actor has ever given about why they took on a role. <\/p>\n

\u201cI made The Swarm because my mother needed a house to live in,\u201d he added. \u201cThen I made Jaws 4 because she was lonely and I needed to buy her a bigger house, which she could live in with all of her friends. It\u2019s that simple.\u201d <\/p>\n

\"'The<\/a>(Credits: Far Out \/ Warner-Path\u00e9)<\/p>\n

Amusingly, Caine was even prone to admitting that he chose to make certain movies because he could hang out with his friends and have fun, all while getting paid for it. Unfortunately, though, that didn\u2019t always lead to good motion pictures emerging on the other side, and one film he made with his best pal ended up being such a dud that, to his knowledge, no one in the world liked it.<\/p>\n

By the time 1990 rolled around, Caine\u2019s career had hit a sticky patch. Despite winning a \u2018Best Supporting Actor\u2019 Oscar only three years earlier for Hannah and Her Sisters, he followed it up with a succession of flops that hurt his standing in the industry. Perhaps the movie that best exemplifies this low point was Bullseye.<\/p>\n

To Caine, the film probably sounded like a great idea. It was directed by Michael Winner, with whom he\u2019d been friends for years, and co-starred Roger Moore, legitimately his best friend in the world. The two actors came up together in the British film industry and Hollywood, and stayed close for the rest of their lives. In fact, Moore would often come to Caine\u2019s home for Sunday dinner.<\/p>\n

Indeed, the Bond star once told Interview magazine, \u201cApart from being an extremely talented actor, Michael is an equally talented cook\u2014not many people know that. He is also a very talented raconteur and an extremely generous host. Oh, and he has great taste in his choice of friends. I say this only because he is my best friend!\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite being pals for so long, until Bullseye, Caine and Moore had never actually starred together in a film, and the idea of larking around in a movie where they played the dual roles of inept nuclear scientists and low-rent con men sounded like a barrel of laughs. Ultimately, they did indeed have a whale of a time on set, but when they finally watched the resulting film, they were in for a rude awakening.<\/p>\n

\u201cBullseye, which I made with Michael Winner and Roger Moore, could not have been more inappropriately named,\u201d Caine candidly concluded in his memoir Blowing the Bloody Doors Off. \u201cWe had a blast making it, but as far as I could tell, no one got any pleasure from watching it, and it never came close to hitting any target.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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