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Future cult classic ?

posted 12 years ago by MyDarkStar
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Sure, it's stupid as hell and ridiculous. And every who was expected some amazing new thriller hated it in the theater. But now that's been established that it's just a campy over the top laughable flick can't you see people turning it into their personal secret love yea, it's a total waste of $150m , but it's also entertaining and I can see people who weren't around when it was initially destroyed by critics loving it in 10yrs or so.

Just take it for what it is and it's fun.

[–] dogout43 12 years ago

I completely agree, 100%. Thank you for posting this. My sentiments exactly.

[–] MartyScorsey 11 years ago

Not the best film ever made but certainly not the worst.

Saying that, it came at the end of a run that included Bad Boys (surprise hit), Independence Day (massive blockbuster), Men In Black (acclaimed comedy) and Enemy of the State (slick action thriller). You can see why it was a letdown to a lot of people.

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[–] Blueghost 11 years ago

No, it's just a bigger symptom of a problem that is contemporary modern Hollywood, who always makes a film with some social agenda attached to it.

Why not just make a traditional Wild Wild West picture? Why not do that? Why turn it into a laugh festival for people who weren't even born when the TV series aired?

Hell, why not make the Lone Ranger a Chinese guy or Burmese? Why not make Robin Hood a Masai? At some point you have to stop and think about whether you're helping advance good social feelings, or whether you're actually rubbing people's noses in a lesson they're tired of hearing about.

Here's another one; "The Vikings" with an all Mexican cast. And by Mexican, I mean cholos with low riders, white t-shirts, slicked back hair, bandanas, blaring some deep Salsa tunes while driving with chain steering wheels.

Why not do that? I mean, show people how far we've progressed. I mean, it's not racist if you like their race, right?

That's why.

[–] MyDarkStar 10 years ago

Why not just make a traditional Wild Wild West picture? Why not do that?

because nobody in the 18-25 demographic wants to see a traditional western.

[–] Blueghost 10 years ago

Well how about my all Mexican remake of Kirk Douglas's "The Vikings"?

[–] mmw_rocket 9 years ago

If anything "traditional westerns" LACK black and Asian characters. The real historical west wasn't just a bunch of white guys as portrayed in westerns from the 50's and 60's. Those films were historically inaccurate and "whitewashed" real history to make it seem like Cowboys were synonymous with white. Around one quarter of all Cowboys were black.

There are a million things wrong with this movie but for you to harp on race just shows something is wrong with you. As far as the Lone Ranger is concerned at least it has tended to use actual First Nation actors for Tonto instead of white guys with makeup like most traditional Westerns. I would have 0 issues with an Asian Lone Ranger since many Asian people did live in the American West. PS the original Lone Ranger, Bass Reeves, was black.

This whole "everyone must be white because that is what movies from the 1950s told me and everything else must be PC tokenism" is rubbish.

[–] IMDB_Vits 11 years ago

It's been over 10 years and people still talk about it like a bad movie. I can't say if it's consider one of the worst of all times, but it is consider one of the worst of '99. So, no. It won't be a cult classic.

[–] Vansnitchzel 10 years ago

I believe it will get more popularity over time. For some reason people are just made to hate it today even though it isn't really a bad movie.

[–] Darwinskid 9 years ago

16 years later and...Where's the cult following? Nowhere that's where. This movie will never be a cult favorite, it's just bad and not in an amusing kind of way try annoying.