Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Jesse Eisenberg as Zuckerberg in "The Social Network." Drew Angerer/Getty Images; Sony Pictures The biopic is one of Hollywood's oldest genres, going back to early-20th-century movies about historical figures like Beethoven, Cleopatra, and General Custer. As time went on, biopics began to tackle more recent subjects, sometimes being based on events that happened only a few years prior to the release of the film.

In fact, there are even a few cases in which people had the opportunity to play themselves in movies based on their lives, such as Howard Stern ("Private Parts"), Muhammad Ali ("The Greatest"), and Audie Murphy ("To Hell and Back").

Not surprisingly, as actors started playing real-life people who were still around and could weigh in on how they were being portrayed by Hollywood, the reaction wasn't always positive. Few of us will ever know what it's like to see an actor play us in a movie and watch him or her go through fictionalized versions of significant events in our lives, so it's tough to find fault with people criticizing actors and movies they don't think get things quite right.

But that sometimes goes with the territory of being a public figure, and notable figures don't always get much — if any — say in who will play them, how they'll play them, or what Hollywood liberties will be taken with real events.

Here are 15 biopics that were hated by their subject: