apparently a massive turd, but i didn't think so

Take a look at a movie like Highlander. It was made for $16 million in the 80's - that all that big of a budget. The biggest actor in the movie was Sean Connery, who definitely was big, but it was before he won his Oscar.

That movie was great - bigger than what it should have been.

Contrast that to WWW. It's budget was more than 10 times that of Highlander, the four main actors have all been nominated for Oscars and the director was pretty well regarded.

Things that stuck out to me - I'm ok with Jim West being black in this movie. I'm not ok when they had the racist/disabled insult fest between him and Loveless. I wasn't offended, it just made it about race. And, if they are going to have that big of a thing about race in the movie, then do it throughout the whole movie.

Yes, the north fought, at least in part, to free the slaves, but that doesn't mean that most in the north accepted them as equals.

The two main characters bickering the whole movie only to reverse roles and then make amends is cliched to say the least.

And the complete disregard for physics lost me. I can accept the fantasy part of it - maybe he could put together a giant, metal, walking spider. But flying buzz-saws which change direction and never lose propulsion?

Or, and this was the one that totally did me in. I can accept in Django DeCaprio's character using the flawed method of grooves on a skull as a way to determine intelligence because they didn't really use it to prove anything.

In the WWW, they used projecting light through a dead person's eyes to show the last image he saw as a way to get info. That may have been a theory at the time the movie was supposed to take place, but it has been proven false without a doubt since then. To use that as fact is beyond ridiculous.

The only good part of the movie was Salma's azz showing, but of course they edit that out of any network showing of the movie. Why not just edit out CZJ's maneuvering through the red strings in Entrapment?

The movie was cr*p. It's fine that you liked it - everyone has different tastes. But it was supposed to be a blockbuster, with top names attached, and a big budget. For it to end up like that took some effort.

After seeing it in its entirety after so many years earlier this week...It's even worse than I remembered.

Besides some of the visual effects, which have actually held up pretty well, NOTHING else works in this movie.

None of the actors have any chemistry with each other, you can't believe for a second that Will Smith and Kevin Kline are partners or buy into the love triangle between them and Selma Hayek's character.

The attempts at comedy are so cringe inducing and in bad taste I find it hard to believe most of this didn't stay back in the cutting room floor, especially considering the timing and delivery are just so flat from everyone.

Visually, it's quite a mess. Nothing really feels genuine or concrete, everybody and everything does not mesh well with each other.

It's also so tonally inconsistent it's hard to look at it with a straight face - Sometimes its trying to be a little serious but most of the time its so over the top and ridiculous its hard to get remotely invested or care. Apparently test audiences felt the same way too, as the trivia says.

Kevin Smith's Superman story says it all - No wonder this movie turned out the way it did, Jon Peters...What was that guy on?