Theme: Bad Movies Based on TV Shows Hosts: Oz & Curtis
This week, Oz and Curtis saddle up for a movie marriage so confused it probably wandered in from a different century: Men in Black meets Django Unchained with a sprinkle of Much Ado About Nothing and a whole lot of Slap Shot. The result? Wild Wild West — a film so bafflingly bad that even Will Smith regrets it, and this is a man who once released a song about picking up a 12-year-old runaway.
Join your two favorite members of the Let’s Talk About Flix-verse as they unpack:
How the movie opens with a scientist being decapitated by a flying saw blade… because kids love that.
Why every attempt to make Kevin Kline “funny in drag” lands with the grace of a bowling ball tossed down a staircase.
How Kenneth Branagh plays Dr. Loveless like he’s trying to win a Razzie on purpose while strapped to the world’s steampunk wheelchair.
Why the film assumes neck magnets, flamethrower boobs, and exploding Lincoln heads are all just normal things that happen in 1869.
How the giant mechanical spider — somehow the best part of the movie — feels like it was designed after a 3rd-grade field trip to a steam museum.
From magnetized murder discs to racist Arabian seduction dances, from the world’s horniest steam-powered henchwomen to a flying bicycle built out of Utah corn scraps, Oz and Curtis slog through a movie that proves once and for all: some TV shows should never, ever become films.
Final Verdict
Oz — The Rating Is Just “No.” Curtis — ½ of a Kenneth Branagh Both — Still asking why Will Smith’s Fresh Prince slipped through the PG-13 edit.
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