Philbert
Since: Dec, 1969
10/04/2011 00:00:00
You must have been watching a different version that I did. "The Wild Wild West" was so horribly bad that Will Smith has pretty much disowned it. It was garbage. Badly written, poorly directed and badly acted. Kenneth Brannaugh (one of my favorite actors) was ridiculous as the villain-and what was the point with the racial/handicapped insults throughout the movie?
Total waste of time.
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Definitely a good movie.
No one really cares that this film wasn't faithful to the original show, since no one in this movie's target audience had ever even heard of it before the movie. It gets a bad rep for some bizarre reason, despite doing well exactly what it sets out to do: provide some cheesy Cattle Punk fun for a little under two hours. Sure, it tries a little too hard to be Men In Black, but the dark tone and Elfmanesque score just add to the film's charm instead of detracting from it. Just about the only complaint I can lodge against it is the script's dip into cartoonland when Smith's Jim West survives a 50-foot fall, but that's really about it.
Plus, that giant spider was too dope.