Wild Wild West is not a bad movie

Odradek · 2016-01-19 18:02:51

It ends with Kevin Kline and Will Smith riding a giant mechanical spider into the sunset.

Bad movies do not end with Will Smith and Kevin Kline riding a giant mechanical spider into the sunset.

Klinotaxis · 2016-01-19 18:26:22

is it supposed to be? I always thought it was fun.

Odradek · 2016-01-19 18:27:21

Klinotaxis said:
is it supposed to be? I always thought it was fun.

It gets on a lot of "famously bad movie" lists.

Bee · 2016-01-19 19:42:12

A lot of Will Smith movies do. Some of them are deserved, and some of them are put there by snobs drinking highballs.

Odradek · 2016-01-19 22:10:56

I thought I Am Legend was a decent movie marred by a studio mandated ending.

Without it, it's a solid three out of five.

Obā-san · 2016-01-19 22:13:48

Baldanders said:
I thought I Am Legend was a decent movie marred by a studio mandated ending.

Without it, it's a solid three out of five.

Definitely agreed

Sredni Vashtar · 2016-01-19 22:24:50

Yes.

Odradek · 2016-01-19 22:26:20

It is proof test audiences are the idea of a mad man and a fool.

Sredni Vashtar · 2016-01-19 22:29:14

Or that people here really need to get with the programme and understand that not every action movie needs to end on a happy note, let alone a triumphant 'MURRICA FUCK YEAH moment.

Sredni Vashtar · 2016-01-19 22:31:10

The very title of the story only makes sense with the original ending. It's this enormous gut punch and it completely flips how you look at everything that has happened up to that point and that's what makes it a good story in the first place.

Klinotaxis · 2016-01-19 22:32:41

http://www.theonion.com/article/gigli-focus-groups-demand-new-ending-in-which-both-606

Odradek · 2016-01-19 22:33:19

Sredni Vashtar said:
The very title of the story only makes sense with the original ending. It's this enormous gut punch and it completely flips how you look at everything that has happened up to that point and that's what makes it a good story in the first place.

They shoehorn the title in via gratuitous Christian symbolism.

Odradek · 2016-01-19 22:36:44

Klinotaxis said:
http://www.theonion.com/article/gigli-focus-groups-demand-new-ending-in-which-both-606

The thing you need to know about Gigli is that it contains the line "The girls on Baywatch make my penis sneeze"

Odradek · 2016-01-19 22:40:53

http://www.papermag.com/showgirls-gigli-worst-movie-dialogue-1475868306.html

This list is terrible.

Half these lines aren't even that bad.

Odradek · 2016-01-19 22:41:33

Also there's no clear delineation of what lines are responses to other lines.

Obā-san · 2016-01-19 22:44:46

what is papermag

is it like, the worse Cracked or something?

Odradek · 2016-01-19 22:48:05

Some shitty clickbait site I found while confirming whether I correctly remembered that line from Gigli.

Klinotaxis · 2016-01-19 22:53:35

Baldanders said:

Klinotaxis said:
http://www.theonion.com/article/gigli-focus-groups-demand-new-ending-in-which-both-606

The thing you need to know about Gigli is that it contains the line "The girls on Baywatch make my penis sneeze"

This is informative.

Anonus · 2016-01-20 04:15:15

Gigli seems like the most Revolution Studios thing ever

Bee · 2016-01-20 05:04:34

The funniest thing about Gigli was that Ebert somehow found it in his shriveled heart to give it 2.5/4 stars.

Video games aren't art. But fucking Gigli is a solid above-average film.

Obā-san · 2016-01-20 05:06:52

im sorry but gigli is better than most video games I've played

Yarrun XIX · 2016-01-20 05:13:51

we need to get you on sunless sea

Obā-san · 2016-01-20 05:15:09

granted, I have not played that many video games, but still

Fossilmaiden · 2016-01-20 06:15:39

All I know about Gigli is that a lesbian played by Jennifer Lopez falls in love with Ben Affleck.

Alduin · 2016-01-20 10:38:16

jeez, he apologized about the video games thing already

Salix Babylonika · 2016-01-20 10:53:33

he liked Cosmology of Kyoto so at least he picked a good one to like.

Odradek · 2016-01-20 11:35:04

Bee said:
The funniest thing about Gigli was that Ebert somehow found it in his shriveled heart to give it 2.5/4 stars.

Video games aren't art. But fucking Gigli is a solid above-average film.

He liked Anaconda too. J. Lo had incredible powers over that man.

Also the video game thing was just a throway thing he said as an old man who was getting a little out of touch with the world he lived in, and I wish people would stop bringing it up.

Alduin · 2016-01-20 11:49:49

It wasn't a throwaway thing so much as it was an entire article, but yeah the dude apologized already.

Salix Babylonika · 2016-01-20 12:03:25

Jane said:
he liked Cosmology of Kyoto so at least he picked a good one to like.

Sredni Vashtar · 2016-01-20 23:33:30

Also, his argument was not that video games cannot be deeply engaging entertainment with moving artistic elements, but that games as a category are not the same thing as art-qua-art. I don't necessarily agree with the sentiment categorically—the game is a medium of aesthetic communication as much as any other, just one different terms—but I see how he could arrive at that conclusion, intellectually speaking.

Wild Wild West is not a bad movie

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