Waterworld

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Theodore S Apr 9, 2019 So much horrible science that it makes the film much more comical than it ought to be. Costner's character is fundamentally unlikable and the film seems to have a vendetta against anybody who hasn't gone green. The baddies treat evolution like a bad word, have smoke and carbon coming out of every orifice, and embrace some kind of religion that of course tries to kill anything different from it. Come on Hollywood... Climate change fanatics ought to love this movie nowadays. Anywho, costuming was great and the scenes were pretty entertaining, but overall the film hits a really flat note with me. Best way to describe it is Mad Max on water with a lot of lame political jabs to ruin the script. See more

Hermione S Mar 30, 2019 One of the most expensive films at the time that didn't even come close to making its money back...really, people saw this as a bad movie? I know this movie's production went about as smoothly as that of Heaven's Gate but the end-product still has a considerable amount of effort put into it. Kevin Costner is bland as hell, isn't exactly a hero - throws little girls who can't swim IN A FUTURE WHERE SWIMMING IS THE ONLY WAY TO SURVIVE into the ocean to drown, is ready to willingly abandon women to their doom in Davy Jones' Locker making his character development later in the movie feel unearned and CUTS THEIR HAIR! Uh... *gasp* BARBARIAN! - and the plot feels too much like Mad Max at Sea. But Waterworld isn't a disaster. I think its more the critics too distracted by the notoriously troubled production to actually judge "Kevin's Gate" by its own merits. The action sequences are fun, the boats/trimarans/ship/atoll set look cool, I do love seeing how most of this stuff works the costume design helps the movie stand out and Dennis Hopper is a fun villain. More interesting than the more bland hero. Why are we rooting against him again? I know because they're pirates but they want to go to MacGuffin Land too. The world-building might be confusing - I can buy them making trimarans and boats and maybe an atoll but where the hell do they get gunpowder and bullets as well as non-seafaring methods of transportation like helicopters and what exactly is the explanation for having Costner be an evolved human of sorts that can breathe underwater? - but Waterworld is fun so the glorious yet hellish battlefield that was this movie's production wasn't completely pointless. See more

Luke P Mar 11, 2019 Way better than Mad Max 3

Mar 8, 2019 This movie is one I have always loved since the first time I ever saw it, to the Universal Studios show.

Theodore W Mar 3, 2019 This is a vastly underrated film and a good example of critics telling the masses how they should feel.

Luke S Feb 24, 2019 Negatively reviewing this movie is kind of like kicking someone while they're down. It famously had a massive budget and was overly hyped-up, raising expectations. I acquired nearly the entire collection of action figures in anticipation of this blockbuster. When it came out, and everyone considered it a steaming turd, I cut my losses and avoided the movie. I finally saw it recently. I was expecting a laughably bad movie. The movie is not that bad. Mainly it is a boring Mad Max knockoff on water. It is hard to hate a movie that is clearly trying hard. The filmmakers didn't take many short cuts in the production. It suffers more from having flat characters and not being particularly believable. It is set at some point in the distant future, far enough in the future for some humans to have evolved gills, but not so far a word starting with an "R" an ending in "etard" to have fallen into disuse (Rotten Tomatoes won't let me post the review with the actual word). We don't get enough backstory and feel let down. Where did the little girl come from, and why does she have a map tattooed onto her back (other than as a plot device)? The PG-13 action is another huge problem. The bad guys, including Jack Black, fire thousands of rounds of bullets, and don't manage to hit anyone. Kevin Costner blows up the bad guys' lair (the Exxon Valdez), but we don't see anyone die. The bloodlessness gives an impression of a lack of stakes, which when combined with characters we don't really care about, make for a boring film, despite how great it looks. See more

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