“I just know that there are a lot of people who will say it is the worst film of 2010.”

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He said he'd wanted it to be like High Plains Drifter, and that if he'd had $5 million, he would do the movie he'd originally envisioned, because "that's the version of that movie that would have been successful."

For the second film, G.I. Joe: Retaliation, he asked that his character be killed in the first 10 minutes.

However, he said, "It was very charming to me" of the storyline, so it's not all bad.

He's also called the film "the weirdest, kind of wonderful, strange, otherworldly movie experience," so it certainly doesn't seem he had a bad time filming it.

"I was horrified and traumatized when I saw the film. I was sure my acting career had begun and ended with the same picture. It was god-awful. It's kind of a distinction to say I was in the worst film to be made in the entirety of the 1950s," he wrote.

However, ultimately, "I think it's a badge of honor to have a real flop on your resume," he said.

"That Monday started the new phase of my life, a new concept: Only love is going to fill that hole," he said of processing the news. "You can't win enough, you can't have enough money, you can't succeed enough. There is not enough. The only thing that will ever satiate that existential thirst is love. And I just remember that day I made the shift from wanting to be a winner to wanting to have the most powerful, deep, and beautiful relationships I could possibly have."

"In many ways, I think [the relationship] was the inevitable tragedy that comes from a child of want, which is what Crawford was, and a child of plenty, which is what the little blonde girl was," Dunaway continued.

Cross actually lost out on $150,000 due to his brutal honesty about the film. He was supposed to receive the amount as a bonus for promoting the film, but lost out on it after publicly trashing the movie and his experience on set.

"I read the script. It was so bad," Schwarzenegger said. "So I went in – this was during our war [between Schwarzenegger and Stallone] – I said to myself, I'm going to leak out that I have tremendous interest. I know the way it works in Hollywood. I would then ask for a lot of money. So then they'd say, 'Let's go give it to Sly. Maybe we can get him for cheaper.' So they told Sly, 'Schwarzenegger's interested. Here's the press clippings. He's talked about that. If you want to grab that one away from him, that is available.' And he went for it! He totally went for it. A week later, I heard about it, 'Sly is signing now to do this movie.' And I said, [pumps fist] 'Yes!'"

However, he ultimately came around to the film later in life, calling it "terrific" and "timeless."