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Universal President Ron Meyer has slammed some of his own studio’s recent movies, explaining that while “we set out to make good [movies]”, it doesn’t always work out that way, with both The Wolfman and Cowboys & Aliens coming under direct fire.

Speaking at the Savannah Film Festival, as reported by Movieline, Meyer said “Wolfman and Babe 2 are two of the shittiest movies we put out… It was one of those things… That’s one we should have smelled out a long time ago. It was wrong. The script never got right…” He also directly blamed the casting, the director, and star Beneficio del Toro for the film’s failure.

As far as Cowboys & Aliens was concerned, it simply “wasn’t good enough. Forget all the smart people involved in it, it wasn’t good enough. All those little creatures bouncing around were crappy. I think it was a mediocre movie, and we all did a mediocre job with it… Certainly you couldn’t have more talented people involved in Cowboys & Aliens, but it took, you know, ten smart and talented people to come up with a mediocre movie.”

The Will Ferrell remake “Land of the Lost was just crap,” Meyer said. “Cowboys & Aliens was a big loss, and Land of the Lost was a huge loss. We misfired. We were wrong. We did it badly, and I think we’re all guilty of it.”

Meyer also explained why he passed on Ron Howard’s version of Stephen King’s Dark Tower sequence and the H.P. Lovecraft-based At The Mountains of Madness. “We looked at the economics of [At the Mountains of Madness and Dark Tower] and it just didn’t make sense for us, for what we would have to put out for what we could make back. It didn’t feel secure enough for us, and that’s the reason we didn’t do it.

“They’re both good projects, they just were more expensive than made sense for us to spend. If I thought that we could get a better return and everybody was willing to cut their gross, I wasn’t afraid of the price — I was just afraid of the return. I didn’t want to invest, you know, $200 million to not make enough to show that that was worth investing that money.”

The full interview, in which Meyer also talks about his rise in the industry, and why it’s unlikely we’ll see films like A Beautiful Mind again, can be read here.