What's wrong with it?
>>217352734It's honestly not that bad, I've never understood why it catched so much flak back then. Sure it's a little corny but not really more than most other Hollywood action/adventure movies, so it's still pretty entertaining.
>>217352734too much water
>>217352734Mad Max but the underlying Aussie humour is replaced with tiresome Hollywood schmaltz. Kevin Costner is another problem, he's always very bland.
>>217352734Nothing. If you were a kid at the time it was the best movie ever regardless of what some stupid critics thought about it being too ambitious. All that money was well spent.
>>217352734Nothing and I've never pretended otherwise. I am a real man that doesn't let retards and women influence his opinions.
>>217352734I want a garden gnome stuffed up my ass in remembrance of George Floyd.
>>217352734Nothing, it's a good movie. It was probably some faggot like that chinless critic that convinced audiences it was somehow bad. People used to treat talking heads on TV like they were apostles of god.
People saw Dances With Wolves were hoping that Costner had something profound to say with Waterworld. Costner had a lot of public goodwill back in those days and when everyone heard he was making this huge movie with massive sets they had big dreams for Kevin Costner.
>>217352734>costner being a humorless edgelord>literally everyone else involved hamming it upIt's like going to a fun party for 2 hours but the entire time you have to stand in the middle of the room next to a guy who won't stop talking about how he's too cool for that party.
Needed to be a quarter the budget and starring Bruce Campbell
>>217352734no rape
>>217352734Nothing. It's kino.
>>217352734The theatrical cut was too long
>>217353320>too long>136 minutes No?
I really enjoyed it as well but i watched the ulysses cut. All i know is it bombed
Good I wished we had fun but bad movies like waterworld, Postman, Batman and Robin...now Movies are just bad
It's a good movie but lesbian critics didn't like it so they screeched in the reviews.
>>217352734Ulysses Cut > theatrical cut
>>217352734It was just really really silly writing for the time you know? Like what the fuck an original concept?
Do you honestly think that movie critics would have been so harsh if they knew what cinema would turn into today?
>>217352734Hollywood hated it cause they trend was to hire little boys in movies. Dick Tracy, Terminator 2. Jurassic Park even flipped the ages of the kids from the book to have a little boy in the movie. This one hired a little girl.
>>217352734Nothing. It was a good movie. Also Costner is always nice to watch, he is cool in everyday man way.
>>217352734its the same as Postman. Its cool and all but most of the movie is boring and nothing happens.
>>217353151There is nothing more important than warning humanity of the imminent consequences of man-made climate change.
it's crazy to think that a movie's reputation could be ruined because of a movie's approach to something and the critics' perception to that approach. people still have a stigmitized view of waterworld, even if they haven't watched it yet.reminds me of cutthroat island and the stigma that movie has when it comes to box office bombs, another movie that i kind of like.
>>217353780This has happened time and time again in the past. Media coercion has immense capabilities considering half of the population are brain dead NPCs. An entire website reddit was created to brain wash millions. It's been proven time and time again that quality of production does not matter if you control the media aspect. Avatar is fucking shit but they have the media.
>>217353780Expensive movies get a bad stigma in hollywood cause they run the risk of collapsing the business. Cutthroat Island is a perfectly passable and fine pirate movie. It's not bad at all, but I wouldn't call it a must see. Most of the expensive of movies usually comes from salary. No one ever accounts for how cheap it is to film in a studio vs on boats. The amount of crew triples, the logistics triple, everything triples. Can't rotate extras cause of continuity, suddenly they're featured extras if not full on supporting cast.
>>217352734you couldn't make a film like this in 2025. mankind has forgotten how
>>217353777>mfw Al Gore was right
>>217352734Nothing wrong with the film, its pretty standard 90s action film with a bit of a fantasy element to it.The trouble it had was because it was just a standard average action film, but it had the sort of run away budget that is fine on a brilliant or really spectacular film that people will want to see in their droves, like Jaws, Avatar, Gone with the Wind etc, but there is no way its going to make its money back by being "just OK".By being desperate to be suitable for a family audience, the film has to pull its punches. Imagine, if you will, how much of a stone cold classic this could have been if it was allowed to be a little more "adult" not just being able to be more gory, with kino scenes like blood flowing into the water or peoples faces getting burned off by burning oil slicks and stuff, but imagine the lewd... Lots of wet tshirts showing off erect nipples, they could have cast someone with absolute giga nips like Bai Ling in it and lots of men would have gone to see it. This was released before the internet was a thing, and you really can't over emphasize just how thirsty men were in those days. It would have been glorious.But no, the film was neutered into being an average 3 star film, that not too many people saw because it was just that. It needed to do a lot of heavy lifting to make its budget back and a lot of the extra budget came from the marketing budget, so it had to do that with less buzz around it. They couldn't do the standard things they did with other family "blockbusters" like a McDonald's happy meal, lots of TV advertising, action figure range in a paid for prominent position at Toys R Us, etc, so it was doomed from the outset.
>>217352734the major problem is that it had a retardedly high budget for the times, mostly because the production was plagued by many problems (bad weather, floating sets destroyed, etc.).If it managed to stay in the initial approved budget ($100 million instead of $175) it would have been a hit.
>>217352734too long and too boring. Kevin Costner is up his own ass again. Also the ending is retarded.
>>217352734Nothing. It was kino. I built a floating barge settlement in Fallout inspired by it.
>>217353761Postman is so much worse than Waterworld. That piece of shit rightfully put an end to Costner's run as a big name in the 90's.
>>217354131>I built something in a video game in response to a movieGod, I hate the current state of society
>>217354131Fallout? Urrgh, isn't that a first person game? Gross.
>>217354664How are you gonna check out Nora's tight vaultsuit-clad ass in first person?
