It technically made $50 million or so worldwide but is remembered as an ignominious bomb, with all the Golden Raspberry awards and appalled reviews that status implies. I will not attempt to convince you otherwise.
Wild Wild West, directed by Barry Sonnenfeld and starring Will Smith opposite Kevin Kline, opened on June 30, 1999, the same day as South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut. “So I’m sitting in the theater watching the movie,” Kevin continues, “and I’m like, ‘Good lord, this is a piece of shit.’ But then, all of a sudden, like, a giant fuckin’ spider shows up.” Plenty of unfortunate souls in the audience know what’s coming.
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“But I was really reminded the next summer, when I went to the movies and saw a movie that Jon Peters had produced, and it was called the Wild Wild West,” he says. And Kevin, now onstage at Clark University, gets not so much the last laugh as the only one. Eventually, Burton signs on and kicks Kevin off the project Superman Lives flames out from there.
Peters, a former Barbra Streisand hairdresser who in 2018 produced Bradley Cooper’s A Star Is Born and was revealed to have been sued for sexual harassment at least five times, evidently has a huge thing for giant spiders, and further encourages Kevin to add “a gay R2-D2” character and a scene where Brainiac fights polar bears outside the Fortress of Solitude.
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