I love this movie as a kid. Much later in life I would find out through the power of internet that people hated it.

@monsterguyx6322

Ай бұрын

It's okay, you were just a kid then 😉

@evigmann525

Ай бұрын

Still like it. It's an entertaining movie

@bart2019

Ай бұрын

I wasn't a kid any more but I still loved this movie. I also was a fan of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. I really must have bad taste.

@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx

27 күн бұрын

@@bart2019 Well, that's not for me to agree with you...

@littlekingtrashmouth9219

22 күн бұрын

I recall in junior high that my friend and I were entertained by it. I didn’t know it was so universally hated until I was older. I just thought it was movie theater entertainment fluff, no dumber than the next blockbuster

Screw the internet haters. Wild Wild West is a fun movie. So many one liners came from it.

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.

@MansMan42069

Ай бұрын

Ahtal Ka vibes

@spartan456

2 күн бұрын

hello my fellow giant mechanical spider lover. I'm 31 and I don't remember a single thing from this movie other than giant mechanical spider. It was definitely cool. If it wasn't cool I wouldn't still remember it.

@MansMan42069

2 күн бұрын

@@spartan456 spinny boob tassels that's the only other thing I remember.

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.

@jasonblalock4429

Ай бұрын

Yeah, say what you will about Keanu's brand of underacting, but he ended up being absolutely perfect for Neo.

@StefanConstantinDumitrache

5 күн бұрын

Ah, I was actually trying to remember which famous movie he turned down to do WWW, and I thought it was Titanic. The thing is, he would have ruined The Matrix at ANY point in his career.

@thehalfmanTL

4 күн бұрын

That's exactly right. We have to be thankful for this movie, otherwise the matrix would suck and John Wick would be a fever dream

@JDCALDECOTT

Күн бұрын

He had enough hits in thee 90s, so it's okay haha

@Ross_5979

Күн бұрын

I did not know that fact until this video, but they really matrix dodged a bullet on that one. It would have just been a dated late 90's Will Smith movie instead of the timeless classic it has become.

I know I’m in the minority here, but I have always enjoyed this movie. I never got the hate it gets.

@LuisLopez-zh9kh

Ай бұрын

i KNOW RIGHT? This movie had it all but critics are snobbish %^^$$## son's of $$#@@%^

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!"

@TitusAnjohnicus

Ай бұрын

Exactly what I was thinking, Jon Peters and his ridiculous giant spider.

@JustWasted3HoursHere

Ай бұрын

Ha! You beat me to it! It's here if anyone wants to watch it: kzread.info/dash/bejne/iaNmraRqlKiqlM4.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.

The Blackadder cut was genius. Top work Stam Fine.

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.

Wild Wild West... A 170 million movie tie in to the best pop song of 1999 of the same name!

Maybe, it's because I was 9 when I watched this movie in theatre but i always remember it being good.

@Gobbersmack

3 күн бұрын

It is good. This guy is literally british

@jxw457

21 сағат бұрын

Sheesh. Remember that soundtrack?

@Gobbersmack

20 сағат бұрын

@@jxw457 No, don't be silly.

Criminally underrated film, loved it as a kid and still do as an adult.

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!

I do love Kenneth Branagh in this movie, he’s eating more scenery that a giant spider at a fly convention lol

@carlrood4457

Ай бұрын

That's the thing. It only really works when everyone else buys into it being that kind of movie.

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

@carlrood4457

Ай бұрын

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).

@user-be7tc2bd6e

Ай бұрын

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.

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.

@jahbad01

14 күн бұрын

I paid to see it in the theater and she was the only thing I remember. Everything else I tried hard to forget.

I was 8 when this movie came out, but I liked it. I watched it many times back then and enjoyed it. Many kids my age did.

WWW really fought it out against early internet domain names.

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.

@DavidTSmith-jn5bs

Ай бұрын

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.

@probablynotmyname8521

Ай бұрын

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.

This movie was amazing and every shot in this critique proves it, super cool!

The TV show was original, stylish, even hip, especially those superb opening credits. But this thing. . .

@Bfdidc

Ай бұрын

This movie was a desecration of the TV series.

Any movie with mid 1990s Salma Hayek is worth watching. End. Of. ❤

This movie is hilarious and I implore anyone who hasn't seen it to watch it, I never stopped laughing or grinning.

I still wear my Burger King glasses on the reg

Will Smith has dressed up so often as a dancing girl I'm starting to think it's a stipulation of his contracts.

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.

@docsavage-8616

Ай бұрын

Jim West was one of the first Characters to get Race Swapped in Movies.

I remember seeing this at the movies and loved it as a six year old boy. The actor who played Loveless did a fantastic job and his performance is very underrated in my opinion and I’m sure others…. Also Will Smith did some of the soundtrack and those tracks were always on the radio back then around 99’-00’.

Jesus… I never realized at the time how many of these tv shows from the 50s and so on were made into movies. A few that pop in my head The Saint, Maverick, McHale’s Navy, The Brady Bunch, Starkey and Hutch, Dukes of Hazard, Chips, Swat… good god…

@jahbad01

14 күн бұрын

You forgot The adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle (2000) with Robert De Niro and a truly forgettable version of I Spy. All but Maverick lost more than what they cost to make.

I liked it as a kid. However, now that I’m a wise adult who has set aside childish things, I still like it

I have a soft spot for This movie, since I grew up with it. But compared to the show I can see why it was hated.

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.

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.

Loved this as a kid and the burger king toy tie in 😂

My corvid brain is drawn to all the brass in this movie

Honestly this movie isnt bad. I can understand people not liking the western scifi mix, which made me love the movie. It was like mib but a western and no aliens.

@AleksandrPodyachev

20 сағат бұрын

This is wild west crossed with steampunk, for what a sci-fi western mix would look like, watch a TV Show called "Firefly" with Nathan Fillion playing the main character

@lindinle

18 сағат бұрын

@@AleksandrPodyachev steampunk is just scifi set in the past.

@lindinle

18 сағат бұрын

@@AleksandrPodyachev though its commonly associated to the victorian era.

The only Wild Wild West worth mentioning...aside form the original...is The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. HINT. HINT. HIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNT.

The best reaction I heard about this film was a review that was titled, “Men in Bleccch!”

@monsterguyx6322

Ай бұрын

Sounds like a Mad magazine movie parody.

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.

@LifeWithPico

Ай бұрын

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.

@langleymneely

Ай бұрын

@@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.

@LifeWithPico

Ай бұрын

@@langleymneely You nailed it!

@ZachAttackIsBack

21 күн бұрын

Lost in Space already came back to Netflix despite a lackluster 90s reboot. Wild Wild West will be back, too. It's only a matter of time.

Good review. I think the main culprit here is whoever wrote the screenplay. Effects good, actors capable, costuming & music fine -- script abysmal, deeply unfunny, and crass as hell: cringe before cringe.

I always liked this movie and I'm not stopping now

25 years later, still forgot this exists. But The Phantom Menace dominated that year (and Summer).

Loved this film as a kid, the PC game was the worst thing tho! Let's face it, we are all glad Will did this instead of Matrix! LOL Do LOVE the theme song though... it's a bop!

Why _on earth_ has Stam still only got ~60k subs. Mystifying.

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.

@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx

27 күн бұрын

You're ten years old but you remember the 1960s? Are you Marty McFly?

As a kid i loved this movie

Very much apart of my childhood lol i loved this movie 😂❤

This movie slaps, a real breath of fresh ass. I love it.

I always enjoyed this movie 🎥

Just watched it again on netflix not long ago it was nostalgic and funny. Everything from the plot to cinematography to dialogue is so early 00s

Two biggest problems were the outlandish steampunk conventions and the two stars both thinking they were the lead and the other guy was the sidekick.

I have this on VHS and I remember not even finishing it.

I loved this movie as a kid! One of the first movies I ever saw in the theatre

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.

I remember seeing this in theaters when I was 16 in Bellingham, Washington with two older girls I didn't know very well. They just happen to be going. I remember being mostly unimpressed, particularly with the end dance sequence. But Kevin Kline seemed to be actually trying.

In the TV series, Loveless was played by the superb Michael Dunn. This guy, however. . .

In its favor: this was one of two movies (the other being "Dogma") that cemented my late-'90s crush on Salma Hayek.

had this on vhs as a kid. good little flick.

I've always loved this movie, as a kid and adult! It may have its issues but it's still a fun action movie.

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.

@neilmclaughlin2347

Ай бұрын

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).

@ricardocantoral7672

Ай бұрын

In Peters' defense, Superman didn't fly in the early comics.

@trevorhoffler-xu5bq

7 күн бұрын

​@@ricardocantoral7672 indefensible...nobody wants to see Superman NOT fly

This movie got me into steam punk so I will forever be grateful for this coming out. It’s a great movie if you turn your brain off and just enjoy the view.

Loved this as a kid.

This movie is so funny. I don't know why people hated it so much.

Well I'm one of the weird ones who loved this film 😂 think I went to see it in the cinema and got the spider as a happy meal toy after 😅 and as I'm 33 now it's a quirky pleasure film

When I was younger the movie seemed fun

I love this movie

I unironically love this film, flaws and all.

I fell asleep during this movie. In the theater.

@kaykutcher2103

29 күн бұрын

At least you had good seats.

@jahbad01

14 күн бұрын

Consider yourself lucky. It was so bad it still comes back to me in my nightmares!

@Blink_____

14 күн бұрын

@@jahbad01 Trust me I know how bad it was I only fell asleep right near the end. It was free midnight viewing because my sister worked for the theater but I still left wanting my money back

Another great vid. Keep them coming

Wild Wild West was a good movie. It will be appreciated someday. There will definitely be a stage version to hit Broadway.

I love this movie!! 😊 God damn hilarious from beginning to end. 🤣👍

I always kinda enjoyed this film, and never understood the lambasting it got.

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.

@ricardocantoral7672

Ай бұрын

This film was trash.

@billr3053

Ай бұрын

Will Smith was / is trash too.

The worst part is that when you search for Escape Clubs - Wild Wild West, YT seems to think you’ve lost your actual mind and we’re searching for this movie.

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?"

I love the film and my daughter watched the dvd of it a few times.

On the slim chance MSSP wouldn't exist without this movie I'd say it's a must for humanity, no matter the quality. Dog Bless to all.

You were far too generous when you said some jokes worked.

@kaykutcher2103

29 күн бұрын

Too generous in implying this film had any jokes.

I loved this as a kid back then but I still find some parts are still funny today

I was a HUGE will Smith fan when this movie came out and from the first time seeing the trailer I thought it looked absolutely terrible and was sure I'd never watch it

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.

I feel like watching this movie would make me feel like I have the flu.

"It slaps" 😂

This movie was awesome as a kid and going back to it now its just a fun turn you brain off time

Kevin Kline is fantastic, I wish he was in more.

It's fine. Not great but not as terrible as people say.

Painful memories. The first movie I walked out of.

@captainpoppleton

Ай бұрын

I remember the hype for this movie was huge.

This movie is stupid as all hell and i love it! Branagh makes one of the most entertaining villains in history

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 loved the song “wild Wild West” with Dru Hill and Smith more then the movie

This movie was made for kids because I loved it as a kid. Watched it back to back sometimes

Honestly, I love this movie. It's fun as hell and does the whole "retro tech" in a way that is somewhat believable. I actually think in today's world, this movie would track extremely well. Kline and Branagh bring a Shakespearean level to their roles and Smith delivers his trademark bravado which is a nice dichotomy to both formerly mentioned characters. It's a good film. Herd mentality on the internet is real.

We got this instead of Tim Burton’s Man of Steel… because Burton rightfully refused to make the the final form of Braniac as that giant spider thing

I loved the movie

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.

This movie was very middle of the road. I didn’t think it was horrible at the time, just forgettable.

You get a like just for the Blackadder reference. 😃👍🏻

The best thing we got out of this movie was Wow Wow.

@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx

27 күн бұрын

Well that was super easy, barely an inconvenience.

I loved this movie

I actually really like this film but I also love Howard the duck. Both are just silly fun that don’t take themselves seriously.

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.

@francistaylor1822

Ай бұрын

I really liked this movie, I have no idea why all the hate

@clyde9803

Ай бұрын

​@@francistaylor1822It's despised mainly by those who know the original, and rightly so.

@kaykutcher2103

29 күн бұрын

​@@clyde9803 I saw it as a kid in the mid 2000 without knowing of the show and still had a rotten time.

@jahbad01

14 күн бұрын

@@kaykutcher2103 You got taste kid! It was an insult to the original.

Will smith left matrix film for this????