Wild Wild West (1999). Hot Hot Mess.
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- Опубликовано: 27 июн 2024
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Stam Fine Reviews takes in a deep breath to look at Wild Wild West for the arbitrary reason that the film came out 25 years ago. Wild Wild West resurrected a 60's spy/western hybrid series as a summer blockbuster, reuniting the director and star of Men in Black and turned out to be an expensive movie that didn't quite light the box office on fire. It was successful, just not successful enough to recoup its enormous budget.
Stars Will Smith, Kevin Kline, Kenneth Branagh, Salma Hayek, Ted Levine. Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld. 
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The Blackadder cut was genius. Top work Stam Fine.
To be fair to Will Smith, he did admit many years later that he would have ruined The Matrix had he accepted the role at that point in his career.
I watch this movie in the theaters as a kid, I think for some reasons the giant mechanical spider and all of loveless machine just fascinate me and I enjoyed the entire movie and had a great time cause I guess giant mechanical spider looks super cool as a kid.
Ahtal Ka vibes
Maybe, it's because I was 9 when I watched this movie in theatre but i always remember it being good.
I love this movie as a kid. Much later in life I would find out through the power of internet that people hated it.
It's okay, you were just a kid then 😉
Still like it. It's an entertaining movie
Wild Wild West... A 170 million movie tie in to the best pop song of 1999 of the same name!
Everytime I see that giant, mechanical spider, Kevin Smith's voice echoes through my head, "...But then all of a sudden, like a giant-f*cking-spider shows up!"
Exactly what I was thinking, Jon Peters and his ridiculous giant spider.
Ha! You beat me to it! It's here if anyone wants to watch it: ruclips.net/video/Wo2KB1dEDdk/видео.htmlsi=6pWhlLylyUZM2Ffa Say what you want about Kevin Smith as a director, but he is a fantastic lecturer and storyteller. His interview of Mark Hamill on his "Fatman on Batman" podcast years ago (about 3 hours long!) is one of the best interviews - period - I have ever heard.
You know what..? You actually convinced me to finally watch this movie. It looks like a very specific kind of bad. It's like the creators were convinced that every single trick they have will be SO COOL when they end up being laughably lame - but at the same time the jokes are not self-aware and they keep on coming thinking they're the best jokes ever.
This isn't "so bad it's good" movie, it's "so lame it's badass" it seems.
I'm probably one of the few people here to recognize the "RCA Victor - His Master's Voice" sight gag. I didn't think it was clever nor funny but at least I spotted it.
It’s a very silly and fun film, it’s in the same vein as the Brendan Fraser mummy. It doesn’t take itself seriously and is a good time.
Salma Hayek, Bai Ling and Musetta Vander were hot in corsets and that's the only good thing about this shitty movie. Funniest thing is that Robert Conrad, the original James West, went to the stage and accepted those multiple Golden Rapsberries this movie rightfully collected. Good Show, Bob!
WWW really fought it out against early internet domain names.
I know I’m in the minority here, but I have always enjoyed this movie. I never got the hate it gets.
i KNOW RIGHT? This movie had it all but critics are snobbish %^^$$## son's of $$#@@%^
I do love Kenneth Branagh in this movie, he’s eating more scenery that a giant spider at a fly convention lol
That's the thing. It only really works when everyone else buys into it being that kind of movie.
The TV show was original, stylish, even hip, especially those superb opening credits. But this thing. . .
This movie was a desecration of the TV series.
Painful memories. The first movie I walked out of.
I remember the hype for this movie was huge.
Fun Fact: Richard Donner (who directed original episodes of Wild Wild West) was going to direct the movie with Mel Gibson as Jim West, but they left because dealing with Jon Peters was too crazy and they made Maverick instead… I would of loved to have seen there take on the movie
I think there's a key difference between the adaptations the highlights the problems with WWW very well. Maverick was very much in the style of the original, with a bit more action and sillier comedy for a modern movie audience. It never strayed from the concept of gambler who'd rather just mind his own business getting wrapped up in stuff and having to use his wits, rather than guns, to solve his problems. They understood that the charm of the lead actor is what made the show and and would make the movie.
While he had a varied career and did play against type at time (e.g. Woodrow Call in Streets of Laredo), Maverick was pretty much Garner's bread and butter character. He played variations is Support Your Local Sheriff, The Great Escape, and The Rockford Files (which he pretty much described as Maverick in the present day).
Maverick is a much better film than WWW,saw both in the cinema,WWW had a TOO long intro musical score/scene,I couldn't wait till it ended. LOL. TRULY enjoyed Maverick tho,nice action scenes,good humor and not TOO silly situations that made me chuckle or laugh.
Why _on earth_ has Stam still only got ~60k subs. Mystifying.
This is similar to the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen in that both were steampunk-ish concepts with lots of potential and good ingredients on paper, but just somehow still turn out bad.
I saw this in the theater. At one point this guy in the row in front of me stood up and said, "Horseshit!" and then walked out.
This movie is so funny. I don't know why people hated it so much.
What was so frustrating about this movie is that it completely ruined the perception and legacy of the original 60s tv show which I was a fan of watching in syndicated reruns. It’s a great premise with cool characters and a really unique steam punk aesthetic that was just completely shat upon thanks to this. It’s now an IP that no one will touch or revisit even though I think it could still make for a great film or series.
No, it's better left alone. If dumb studio execs shat this out in the 90s, just imagine what they would do to it now.
@@LifeWithPico Like with most IP cash grabs the problem with this film and others is that they wind up being made by people that have no real affinity or love for the material. You don’t need to be a fan to make an adaptation work but when it comes to an IP that has become as niche or as tarnished as this one it can only remotely work if the creative team behind it actually gives a fuck about the story and IP.
@@langleymneely You nailed it!
The giant mechanical spider was something of an obsession of producer Jon Peters. He'd been attached to a Superman reboot that never happened that Kevin Smith was hired to write. Apparently did he not want Superman to fly or have a cape, but also insisted he had to fight a giant mechanical spider. He literally wouldn't give that up.
Yes…I was wondering how long it would take for someone to bring Jon Peters up.
He did well for himself, considering he started out as Barbara Streisand’s hairdresser (no joke).
In Peters' defense, Superman didn't fly in the early comics.
As a 10 year old smack dab in the target demographic, I can assure you this was the perfect 1960s Friday night action TV show. Especially in the James Bond era.
Good luck making that into the 1999 summer movie blockbuster.
I always kinda enjoyed this film, and never understood the lambasting it got.
I'm a big fan of the original series. This film is not Wild Wild West. About the only thing I can say good about it is, the costumes were spot on great. HOT HOT MESS is a good name for it.
Jim West was one of the first Characters to get Race Swapped in Movies.
In the TV series, Loveless was played by the superb Michael Dunn. This guy, however. . .
Will Smith has dressed up so often as a dancing girl I'm starting to think it's a stipulation of his contracts.
Another great vid. Keep them coming
The best reaction I heard about this film was a review that was titled, “Men in Bleccch!”
Sounds like a Mad magazine movie parody.
The only Wild Wild West worth mentioning...aside form the original...is The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. HINT. HINT. HIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNT.
Wild Wild West was a cult TV series and still had reruns on French TV in the 90s (Star Trek, by comparison, had much less reruns in France).
The most baffling decision was to not use the original music theme, and a similar intro sequence than the TV-series. They were so iconic.
The best thing we got out of this movie was Wow Wow.
While I always remember WWW stars Will Smith, I always forget who appears with him and who the villain is.
"Kevin Kline? Are you sure because that sounds like a mistake? Kenneth Branagh? Why?"
You mention Will Smith's star losing some shine due to Wild Wild West. Hey, Kevin Kline's too! Remember, he had co-starred with 💥Meryl Streep in Sophie's Choice.
I fell asleep during this movie. In the theater.
Back then I would have watched Salma Hayek reading the newspaper for two hours (in her underwear) so I actually paid to watch this film.
This movie is the Crystal Skull of westerns.
The only thing I remember from this movie is the giant spider and that thing called Will Smith.
I really liked this movie, I have no idea why all the hate
@@francistaylor1822It's despised mainly by those who know the original, and rightly so.
Well thanks for rewatchign this so I don't have to. I think your compilation of many of the scenes represents about what I reember of the film, so that's enough.
The song Wild Wild West sampled a Stevie Wonder tune, so of course it slaps. :D Also, Will Smith is such a charismatic actor (his real-life antics notwithstanding) that this movie is still watchable, even if not very good. Plus...Salma Hayek.
When pops took me to the movies, there were two than stand out as the ones he walked us out in the middle of because he hated it so much. This was one of them. He insisted it was "awful and stupid".
Funnily enough, he said the same thing about Inspector Gadget, the other movie he walked us out on.
10:02 I think you can count The Phantom and The Shadow here, too. It was a few years late to the party, but I'll add Get Smart as one of the moderate successes.
It's kind of amazing that such stunningly ill-conceived projects as this ever see the light of day.
"The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" did the flying head first.
So 𝘺𝘰𝘶'𝘳𝘦 the person who saw that movie! 😄
@@monsterguyx6322 I bought the DVD also!
I didn't know there was an actual show of this and that was much better than the movie.
I love this movie!! 😊
God damn hilarious from beginning to end. 🤣👍
Great review of an utter misfire of a film. Now I really really want to see the original tv series get the Stam Fine analysis.
I love the film and my daughter watched the dvd of it a few times.
You were far too generous when you said some jokes worked.
Where I live, I am up far too late or far too early to be this early to this vid 😅
This movie was awesome as a kid and going back to it now its just a fun turn you brain off time
Will Smith was too big of a star at that point and it turned the movie into a vehicle for him rather than something that was good in its own right.
This film was trash.
Will Smith was / is trash too.
I actually really like this film but I also love Howard the duck. Both are just silly fun that don’t take themselves seriously.
Any movie with mid 1990s Salma Hayek is worth watching. End. Of. ❤
Why do the buzz saws explode when they hit each other?
Mr. Sheffield once mused to Niles that before he met Miss Fine he never thought he would have need for an emergency transvestite, but much like Joseph Joestar trying to enter the base in Mexico, that seems to be Plan A with these two.
Based on films having everything but not working please do Ghost in the Shell. I worked on that one, be interested to see what you think! I went to the crew screening, and despite having bought the DVD which is still unwrapped, haven't watched it since!
One of my guilty pleasure movies.🤣
You shouldn't hold back. Tell us what you really think about this flick.
Thank you so much. After watching the debate, I needed a FUN disaster.
LOL right I heard I did not watch it but I sure heard about it its a one man race now LOL
I thought the debate was hilarious.
The Opening Credits and Score are awesome, as good as the Thomas Crown Affair (1968). I actually like the movie, it would be better if Face Slap Boy wasn't in it. Loved the rest of the cast.
I was a teenager when this movie came out and I enjoyed the hell out of its first summer on HBO. The chemistry between West and Artemis wasn’t great but there were plenty of good jokes in this movie. Kenneth Branagh’s Loveless was on par with Gary Oldman’s Zorg from the fifth element and you get to see Selma Hayak’s ass. Better lead casting might have made this a totally different movie.
Saw it in the theater and on the same day South Park, Bigger, Longer and Uncut. Whereas I don’t think this movie is better at all, I also think it’s pretty damn fun, funny. I truly don’t get all the hate.
I feel like watching this movie would make me feel like I have the flu.
You get a like just for the Blackadder reference. 😃👍🏻
Will Smith could have been Neo.
This movie was very middle of the road. I didn’t think it was horrible at the time, just forgettable.
Funny you should bring this up. I’m making a comic where I mix this and men in black called “Aliens West”. The men in black hunting aliens in the old west. #alienswest. I’ll make this movie a hit for sure.. 😂 (it paused homage to South Park too, it’s competition)
I like it!
...the movie, And all the "Stam Fine's" couldn't bring in the Superman thing?
I like the director and the whole main cast but something in like movie is like a vacuum of their talent.
They used the Silverado set town for this film
It's a shame that they also used Kevin Kline from that movie.
KK among others was + in Silverado. 1988
Really cool mechanical spider, totally wretched in every other sense. Watch the end with the spider and skip everything else.
This flopped so hard at the german box office.
11:45 I'd argue the film's opening titles don't so much evoke "a Bond film" than they do, you know, the opening titles to the original Wild Wild West TV show.
You may counter-argue that the opening titles to the Wild Wild West TV show themselves evoke a Bond film, but I'd counter-counter-argue that they have far more in common with the work of Saul Bass or Pablo Ferro than they do the work of Maurice Binder or Robert Brownjohn...arguably.
I recognise it isn't a "great movie". Having since seen the TV show it was based loosely on, I can even see it was a terrible movie adaptation of a pretty cool show. But - and this is important - there is a 15 year old version of me who couldn't get enough of this movie when it came out back in the day, and for 40+ year old me it'll always be a guilty pleasure. For better ir worse, I can sit down with this movie any time and enjoy it as much as the first time I ever saw it.
Like Will Smith, it slaps!
Damn!
Great video, i subscribed
I loved this movie when it came out and I even re-watch every few years
So….when are we getting Blackadder?
I can see this having a certain cheesy charm, but yeah, I'm not too beat up about missing this one
My corvid brain is drawn to all the brass in this movie
I took a date to Wild Wild West. That didn't work out.
That's it no more mr knife guy!!😅😅
I still wear my Burger King glasses on the reg
as a small boy, I had enjoyed the TV series very much. I was so disappointed in the movie.
I saw this with a friend when it came out. Given the cast, we thought, "What can go wrong?" If it's not the worst film I've ever seen, it's pretty damn close. I don't remember a single second of successful humour.
Independence day had already tested and exceeded my patience for WS. An d couple with the fact that in the UK no one seemed to have heard of WWW let alone remember it from the 60s it just looked stupid. So like Godzilla it got a hard pass.
I think Will was actually one of the few redeeming qualities of ID4.
A great inspiration for Django Unchained.
14:42 This was honestly my favorite gag of the film. I know it's dumb, but it was so out there and had nothing to do with anything that I loved they included it.
I don't hate this movie. Is it great? No. But I had fun with it.
In advance I thought it would be awful. I liked it when I first saw it. I have often seen it since and I still like it. It’s ridiculous, fun, cynical, surrealist nonsense, presented by an excellent cast with their tongues firmly in their cheeks. There are even open stabs at arrogance, hypocritical behaviour and bigotry. So what is there not to like beside Hollywood never acting up to the ethics it claims to promote.
Loved this movie was I was 11.
And do you still love it if so keep it to your self you want to look smart don't you ?
@@jimAndCheryl LOL, nah. I think it's horse manure now.
At least the song Will Smith did for the movie was good
This movie had no business even being made.
I feel sorry for the few people who paid to see it .
To think the same people - pretty much - who made Men in Black followed that up with this. Just goes to show there’s no guarantee of success
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Anyone else enjoy this movie ironically?
The only good thing from this movie is the Neil Cicirega remix of the Will Smith song in the credits. Wow Wow is a marked improvement.
I'll be honest, I think Wild Wild West is a terrible movie, but kind of a guilty pleasure anyway. I've rewatched it at least a few times....it's one of those movies that bad but entertaining enough. I'd probably give it a 6 out of 10.
Your review is better than the movie!
When you said there was a MY FAVORITE MARTIAN movie I thought you were having a mild stroke, but no.
Its a shame. All of the clips I see of this film. Look like it should be good fun.
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