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- Despite its bad rap, WATERWORLD does offer solid entertainment (and it did find minor box-office success). It's got fun swashbuckling and cool low-tech nautical gadgets and imaginative production design that is indeed otherworldly.
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Jul 28, 1995 · The movie begins with the trademark Universal globe spinning in space, and then we see the polar ice cap melting while a deep voice (not James Earl Jones for a change) sets the story in “the future,” when all of the Earth is covered in water.
Jul 28, 2020 · Tanked by drama and bad press in the '90s, the post-apocalyptic Kevin Costner movie Waterworld is a fever dream about global warming.
Jul 11, 2020 · A mysterious young girl has what may be a map to that mythical dry land tattooed on her back, and a mutated fish-man must guard her from a floating fleet of sea-bikers. High-seas adventure ensues.
Jul 24, 2017 · It was a legendarily expensive action vehicle for Kevin Costner in 1995, but Waterworld originally began life as a subtly different story...
- The Disaster of Waterworld
- Waterworld Is A Bad Movie Worth Watching
- Dennis Hopper: Great in Terrible Movies
- Great Idea, Terrible Execution
If you’ve never seen it—and why would you have—the movie takes place on Earth in the distant future, after global warming has melted the ice caps and flooded the entire planet. Costner plays The Mariner, a drifter who encounters a young girl named Enola (Tina Majorino) with a map to the fabled Dryland tattooed on her back. The Mariner decides to he...
To be clear, I am not saying Waterworld is a good movie, nor will I ever. I approach it with the same obsessive joy that I do when I rewatch Congo for the 80th time. It’s a genuinely captivating artifact of so many broken parts that I can’t help but giggle like an idiot every time I start thinking about watching it again. There are also a handful o...
Dennis Hopper, on the other hand, simply cannot help but be entertaining, regardless of how shitty the movie around him is. As I said earlier, there are a few good ideas in Waterworld, and hands down the best one is casting Hopper as the leader of a bunch of petroleum-worshipping doomsday pirates. He lives in the wreckage of the Exxon Valdez, which...
Ironically, the best parts of Waterworld are what made it such a colossal failure. First of all, it’s a really cool idea! A grungy dystopian action movie in a planet covered entirely by water sounds dope as hell, especially when you toss crazed pirates and gigantic mutant sharks into the mix. (The movie would have only benefited from more of these ...
- Tom Reimann
Aug 10, 1995 · Waterworld Review. In a future world, where land has become submerged by water, the Mariner teams up with a woman and little girl to find dryland. by Jeff Dawson |. Published on 01 01 2000....
Waterworld is a 1995 American post-apocalyptic action film directed by Kevin Reynolds and co-written by Peter Rader and David Twohy. It was based on Rader's original 1986 screenplay and stars Kevin Costner, who also produced it with Charles Gordon and John Davis. It was distributed by Universal Pictures.
