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      • By the time Waterworld had arrived in the UK just two weeks later, its status as the most expensive film ever made at the time, its well-publicised production problems, average-to-negative reviews, and comparatively poor domestic box office performance had all combined to leave it dead in the water.
      www.bbc.com/culture/article/20200916-waterworld-at-25-reappraising-cinemas-biggest-flop
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  2. May 11, 2022 · Waterworld was a box office failure upon its release back in 1995, but what went wrong with Kevin Costner’s costly aquatic flop — and why? Costner was one of Hollywood’s A-List stars back in the early 1990s.

  3. 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.

  4. Sep 17, 2020 · But if film fans are now beginning to appreciate Waterworld, why was it so eagerly dismissed and savaged when it originally hit cinemas?

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  5. Jul 28, 2020 · Initially planned as a $100 million “Mad Max on water” adventure, the Kevin Costner vehicle suffered from natural disasters, including a multimillion-dollar set being destroyed by a hurricane,...

  6. Jan 18, 2021 · Joss Whedon was brought in to fix some of the horrendous writing but he claimed that the script was untouchable by that point. The screenplay was so bad that there was no water in the last 40 pages even though the setting for the film was literally an oceanic dystopia.

  7. Jul 11, 2020 · Waterworld arrived right at the precipice of audiences beginning to play a bigger role in cementing the narrative around a movie’s success⁠⁠ or failure—and it may have been their first victim.

  8. Apr 10, 2021 · When it finally hit theaters, Waterworld did mediocre at the American box office, but its decent international reception and DVD sales pushed it over the edge to become a moderate success.

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