Wild Wild West (1999 Box Office Flop)

The third episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1999 features the year’s biggest flop, Barry Sonnenfeld’s Wild Wild West. Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, based on the 1960s TV series The Wild Wild West and starring Will Smith, Kevin Kline, Kenneth Branagh and Salma Hayek, Wild Wild West was a box-office failure and was nominated for nine Razzies.

The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/wild-wild-west-1999), Janet Maslin in The New York Times (https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/film/063099west-film-review.html), and Noel Murray in the Nashville Scene (http://www.filmvault.com/filmvault/nash/w/wildwildwest1.html).

Please like, share, rate and comment on the show and this episode, and tune in for the next 1999 installment, featuring the Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or winner, the Dardenne brothers’ Rosetta.