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Screen Junkies revisits Will Smith ’s infamous 1999 bomb with their Honest Trailer for the steampunk westerly action - comedyWild Wild West . The film came out at a prison term when Smith was at the height of his smash hit plot , having asterisk back to back inIndependence DayandMen in Blacka dyad years originally , and being fresh off another hit in Tony Scott’sEnemy of the State . On newspaper , the thought of Smith reunite withMen in Blackdirector Barry Sonnenfeld for another irreverent , genre - blending tentpole loosely based on a lesser - love IP ( here , the 1960s idiot box seriesThe Wild Wild West ) seemed like a decent musical theme , but ended up being something else altogether in motion .
Six writers and a $ 170 million product subsequently , Wild Wild Westopened to all but universally short review and fall well short of covering its filming price domestically ( its world-wide box office total was only $ 222 million ) . It had the same mix of satire , buddy comedy , and haywire sci - fi elements as Smith and Sonnenfeld ’s previous collaboration , but the capital punishment was n’t there and it failed to make up with the difference by being extra large , in gain to doubling - down on the innuendo . Twenty years later , the film has age about as gracefully as one might expect .
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In that time , there have been a few movies with similar elements ( likeDjango Unchained ) that’ve gone on to become hits , paint a picture thatWild Wild Westhad the potential difference to be better than it was . For more on that , check out theWild Wild WestHonest Trailerin the space below .
As level out here , Wild Wild Westturning out the room it did was actually a skilful affair in some way . The moving-picture show prevented Smith from starring inThe Matrixand , in doing so , assist to revive Keanu Reeves ' action motion-picture show career after he made a string of stillborn thriller post - Speed(some of which , true , have gone on to attain furor condition , likeJohnny Mnemonic ) . It also seemed to learn Smith a worthful lesson about his vocation , at a fourth dimension when he was actively trying to avoid being pigeon - holed as " the sci - fi alien film guy " .
Smith and Sonnenfeld later run short on to act together again on a pair ofMen in Blacksequels , and Hollywood has largely persist away from sci - fi western mashups since then ( with exceptions likeCowboys & Aliens , which was only relatively more successful thanWild Wild West ) . And as suspicious as it would ’ve been , it ’s probably for the undecomposed that producer Jon Peters forced his elephantine wanderer estimation into this undertaking rather thanA Star is Bornor his followup collaboration with Smith onAli .
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