“Gotta stick to what we each do best!” Time for a throwback to 1999 and a whole different era of Hollywood movies. Who remembers this one? More importantly – who can forget this one? Even though it’s so awful, I still remember it. Wild Wild West is a famously bad 90s movie creation that became an infamously bad box office failure in 1999 – just two years after Men in Black was a huge box office smash for Will Smith. Directed by MIB’s director Barry Sonnenfeld, Will Smith stars in this western-steam punk fusion action comedy remix. The two best special agents in the Wild West must save President Grant from the clutches of a diabolical, wheelchair-bound, steampunk-savvy, Confederate scientist bent on revenge for losing the Civil War. Kevin Kline co-stars as an inventor, with Kenneth Branagh as bad guy Dr. Arliss Loveless, Salma Hayek, Ted Levine, M. Emmet Walsh, and Bai Ling as Miss Mae Lee East. Many movie fans may also know that Kevin Smith used to tell a story about how a producer tried to get a giant mechanical spider into a movie – and Smith refused until it then ended up in Wild Wild West instead – becoming an iconically bad villain gimmick. These two classic 90s trailers below were scanned from original 35mm prints and uploaded to YouTube for our enjoyment. Fun to hear Big Willie’s WWW rap song for this film right in the trailer, too. // Continue Reading ›
