“Waterworld” is an ambitious sci-fi action movie with a unique premise, stunning visuals and intense action. But Kevin Costner's post-apocalyptic adventure is remembered as one of Hollywood’s biggest ...
“Every generation gets the Waterworld it deserves,” wrote Time Out’s David Ehrlich a few months ago, in reference to the Wachowskis’ big-budget megaflop Jupiter Ascending. It’s just the most recent ...
Waterworld isn’t remembered for having the best acting or the most coherent screenplay, but it’s still memorable. Set in a post-apocalyptic future where melting polar ice caps have flooded the world, ...
1995’s Kevin Costner vehicle Waterworld is widely regarded as one of the biggest cinematic belly flops of all time. (Cards on the table, I loved Waterworld in 1995, and I love Waterworld now.) Costner ...
It was once the most expensive movie ever made — and of course it didn’t make much of a profit. But Waterworld, the first post-apocalyptic fiasco starring Kevin Costner did better than the second such ...
According to Little White Lies, Waterworld is “exceptional” in its world-building, “creating an innovative aqueous ecosystem” in which ideas about global warming can be explored What’s often seen as ...
One of the common myths of modern movies, that we’ve explored in our broader look at the film here, is that Waterworld was a big box office flop. Certainly people expected it to be: when the budget ...
Waterworld is a remarkable reminder of a unique time in film history. A time fueled by ego, untrammeled star power, and the last vestiges of an unbridled, money’s-no-object ambition that powered ...
Children of Leviathan sees the Mariner continuing his sea-faring adventures after Waterworld, having built a new Trimaran after his original one was destroyed by the Smokers. The Mariner also ...