Waterworld (1995) - WTF Happened To This Movie?
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- In this new series, we'll be taking a look at a variety of films that had historically troubled productions or controversial problems in making it to the big screen. Some were massive hits despite their problems, while others died a slow box office death. Regardless of where they ended up, we have to ask the question: WTF happened to this movie?
Join host Ian Michael Jentzsch as he deep dives into the troubled production of Kevin Costner's post-apocalyptic adventure pic Waterworld from director Kevin Reynolds and co-starring Dennis Hopper, Jeanne Tripplehorn and Tina Majorino.
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Im 32 and i always loved water world.. I saw that movie 6 times it RULES!
Yea I think the Critics were out of touch even then. What he said about people may never see it because of what some idiot said is true. Even today people hop on that train..... But it wasn't a bad movie and atleast people back then had the excuse they got wrapped up in the high of bad news.
The problem with real life is there's no danger music.
@@Tomgd420 Like Alita.
When referencing goes over heads ☝🏼😆
@@firthlaist218 shhhhh dont tell them.
People talk shit about Waterworld, it is still one of my favorite movies of the 90s.
Masochists lol 😂
I watch it 4 times a year
@@socratese5 Yes daddy, spank me. Give me some more hot delish waterworld garbage XD
Ok cool. But it's still garbage.
Agree. It's not the best movie but it is extremely entertaining and beats a lot of CGI movies.
I really liked this film. It was crazy and hilarious.
It was neither. You are objectively wrong.
I enjoyed it.
the little girl is in Napoleon Dynamite lmao
No escape was a good one too!
I agree, fuck the critics, I enjoyed it, and paid to see it. So there! :P
Waterworld is awesome. Last of the live-action effects epics.
Agreed! I loved it.
Not the last, Mad Max Fury Road is BY FAR the last of live action real effects epic films!!! And good god it is THE KING!!!
@@raymondnewbill5294 😃
@Sativa Rommola 😂
@Sativa Rommola it sure did.. I forgot about that, lol
I never understood why this movie is/was considered bad. It's one of my favorit post apocalyptic movies.
same...in Hungary where i am from this movie was huge...then i moved to canada and people told me that this movie was a bust back in its days, and i was like "what are you talkign about??"
@@stojo33 Same in Spain. For several years they would show this movie several times a year on TV and always got a lot of audience.
@@R0ndras yeah the gap between the european and american movie market is huge (well specially on the older movies) . i am not sure if you know them but Bud Spencer and Terrence Hill movies for example are some of the most watched movies backhome here they dont even know about them. The movie "The Intouchables" was all over europe winning hearts, in the us they literally just made the same movie with kevin hart "the upside" and when i tell people that its literally a copy of a movie that is not even old people have no idea about it.
I think it has more to do with Kevin Costner and not the movie itself. He became blacklisted when he did the movie JFK. Like it or not, but the media is owned by corporate interests that also own most of Congress, and they can't risk a star like Kevin Costner was back in the day to be involved with movies like JFK that start to get the masses to question official stories. The elite don't want smart people, they want people easily manipulated and controlled, and the easiest way to do that is through entertainment.
It's only considered an awful movie by film critics which are about the worst judges of the quality of a film as you can get. The real people liked water world just fine.
“Dry land is not a myth!!!!” Waterworld is better than 99% of the cgi filled garbage released today.
Indeed!
Water World, the Postman these movies had an intuitive story building that most modern movies lack (See Disney Star Wars trilogy)...
@@Fenris77 Both movies i loved very much and proud to have in my collection.
@@zehdarian81 Indeed.
Sadly I don't have them, recorded them from cable TV once...
Well, it's a lot cheaper to use CGI instead of actual set pieces. Imagine Aquaman filmed underwater.....
@@hashtagunderscore3173 True it is cheaper and of course the quality of the movie in question suffers for it...
As a sailor myself this movie was sick and that guy was badass
It's nice to hear that I'm not the only one in the world that liked the movie. I wondered if I was crazy for a while . Thanks for the typically great post.
GOOSE AF I used to think I was, too
my dad has made me watch this movie like 100 times
@@alipr2928 so the question then is did you like it?
I was 16 when I watched WaterWorld in the cinema, I remembered it very well, it was a great movie. After many years I watched it on TV several times, I still think it's a good sci-fi.
Considering how tough it must have been to film entirely on water, agreed.
The old guy in the oil compartment always cracked me up. 'oh thank god' lol
Oldy Oleson!
"Four feet, nine inches of blaaaaack stuuuuff"
I wish sumbodee would spat in my face you lucky bausterd.
Edward bevington
lol Same here. Sweet release. 😂
my favorite scene as well.
"In fact you talk all the time! It's like a STORM when you're around!"
*Throws girl in ocean*
This movie is another childhood classic for me.
What is man? A miserable little pile of secrets!
The scene where he almost traded people for paper is one of the most underrated scenes in movie history.
The subtext is thick.
It’s Paper ! Paper!
what is the subtext? Is that scene supposed to show us that he is a good guy who does ultimately care for Enola and Helen? Because not long after that he goes back to being a jerk to them. What happens that finally makes him decide that he's going to teach Enola how to swim and that they are worth saving?
@@joemangione3117 paper = money.
@@Gurrehable that's not subtext, and it no paper doesn't equal money in the context of the movie. It a barter system and I get that paper is rare, but what I didn't get is why should the audience care about this scene. It doesn't really make The Mariner likeable as a hero, like it was probably intended to do. It doesn't push the plot forward, and either there is zero subtext, or it's so thick that the majority people didn't get it. lol
@@joemangione3117 paper is slang for money in our day and age, and has been for a very long time. It's such a well known slang that it's basically a synonym. People like money and would do a lot to get money, and people have been known to sell people for money, despite money in itself being completely useless, while the people are what is actually important. This is what the murman in Waterworld realizes (people are important, things are not) and this realization is what turns him into an actual good guy. Not saying it's a great scene, but that is the subtext.
I loved this movie because it's fun and I liked the practical effects without today's CGI.
Today's CGI is great, but we can still tell them apart in major scenes.
Lol no we can't - it's just that you see bad CGI.
Exactly.
After seeing the CGI used in Logan that I would have never been able to notice without being told and then shown. His berserker scene at the end was absolutely amazing and I would have never knew it wasn't him. Amazing what we don't see when CGI is done by true professionals.
@@velianlodestone1249 check your eyes
Dennis hopper stole the show lol he was always an awesome villain.
Most of the villains do, Tim Curry in Legend, Alan Rickman in Robin Hood, Micheal Ironside in Heavy Metal 2000, the list goes on :D
He and Bob Hoskins and Jon leg were the only thing good about the super Mario bros movie. And he was a fantastic villain in land of the dead
@Hannibal Barca Oh, of course Nicholson! Really, anything where he's a "bad guy" he is awesome at :D
The point when the big actor playing the villian notices the movie ain't gonna be a masterpiece and just enjoy their role.
Yes especially in Super Mario Bros lol
Saw this movie last night. Never realized what a masterpiece it was. I love the deleted scene where they find a marker showing mount Everest.
The sinking of the atoll set did not happen. The object that sank was the slaver’s tower, a minor floating piece that appears briefly in the scene where the Mariner uses the reverse periscope to discover Smokers hiding underwater. One of the links that held two of the eight floating platforms that made up the atoll was damaged during a storm, but it did not take on water and did not sink. These two stories got mashed together and reported in the news falsely as the atoll sinking. I was the lead engineer for the atoll floating platforms and know this first hand.
You did an amazing job. I adore the scene where the generator is activated and the lights come on.
How did he do with everything else?
Could a few slaves really row an oil tanker? That doesn't seem physically possible to me and totally unbelievable
@@dougrogan379 Haha I don't think so. This movie was pretty funny in some moments.
It's so weird when people like this guy find UA-cam videos about shit they were involved in. Like was he searching UA-cam for Waterworld videos? Did he see it just randomly in his feed? Or was he subscribed to this channel and was like "oh shit, I worked on this movie"?
It was mad max on the water for sure. I loved this flick.
yeah, except better than mad max
@@JuiceBoxScott I don't know if you have seen all the Mad Max movies, but I think MM2 The Road Warrior is the best of the lot. Imaginative, action-filled, tense, but with a delicious sense of humour in there as well, it's still an object lesson to this day.
I went to see Waterworld to see if it was as bad as its reputation, and was very pleasantly surprised. It would knock the misjudged borefest fiasco that was Prometheus out of the park.
@@JuiceBoxScott lmao not even close
"What´s your budget for this movie?"
"Yes"
LMAO
Yes...
"All of the above"
I don’t understand people hating this movie, I legit liked it.
Yeah mother used to love this movie
@@CerealKiller You say most people follow critics, but most people tend to hate critics and don't listen to them. Everyone I know who likes the critic reviews are people who can say why they agree with critics before looking at critic reviews. However, everyone else I know doesn't listen to critics in the slightest and only listens to audience reviews.
disaster lol it´s on my top 10 best movies ever made XD
Why not both?
Venom pretty much pulled that out for me not so long ago.
The Mt Everest shot is a great concept, the equivalent of the Statue Of Liberty in Planet Of The Apes. Cutting it out is sheer intellectual and aesthetic blindness.
very well put
Hollywoods primary talent is sheer intellectual and aesthetic blindness
it is stunning how often a non moviemaking professional public so clearly can see that what the movie making experts do is what makes the movie a failure
like Karate Kid the only reason it wasnt just another boring karatemovie is that the director refused to take out the scene where miyagi is drunk and mourns hes wife who died in the japanese concentration camp in USA during the war
but the producers pressed him saying "it slows the movie down" just cut it out, lets get things going
i dont believe for a second that it is lack of talent actually i am sure that it is a tool of the propaganda machine to create soulless movies to crush the human spirit, that is another story and topic...
Wasn't there another scene where they dove down to friggin' New York City? One of those scenes definitely had to go if it was to be believable.
Absolutely agree
This was the first time I saw that shot, it definitely should have been in the film.
@@fluff7773 If you ever pause the movie when you see the girl's tattoo and google the coordinates you'd find it was everest all along. I've known for 20 years!
Waterworld is a masterpiece, don't know how anyone liking dystopian science-fiction movies wouldn't think that too :D
No, it, ain't!! No where even close.. it's a souped up b-action, with very poor, dull acting.. And worse of all, it could have been great! Just like any other grotesquely expensive movie with shit scripts, actors, directors and producers, like the new Mad Max movie for example being one of the most poorly made, shitty movies of all time in pretty much every single way! Except for effects. Actually, it even makes water world look great in comparison. And other examples are of course pretty much any Marvel movie entirely or for the most part. So what qualifies a good, great or even fantastic movie you ask? Especially when it comes to the action genre! Well.. here are a few very obvious examples.. Terminator 1 and 2 (there isn't any more made than that btw ; ), Aliens, Alien 3 (Half the first half at least) (and also there aren't more than 3 made) Heat (thriller-action) The last action hero (yes, it's not fantastic or great, but good overall, especially the first 2/3) The Bourne trilogy, (Again, only three exists) Ronin to some extent. The unusual suspects, The first and one and only: Speed, Jurassic park, Jaws, Predator, Blade Runner (parts of it, mostly the music, scenery and environments) The duel - a thriller (Spielbergs feature film), some early Bond movies though of course quite corny for the most part. And a few more that I can't remember right now.. But there aren't many through the film history to be honest! The action genre is kind of like the comedy genre. There are just so many good timeless pics that still holds up!
Oh and of course! How could I forget! "Hard Target" (Van Damme).. just kidding! hehe!
AGREEEED!
Waterworld ROCKS!!
@@Superknullisch, so you don't like Alien, Moon and Total Recall, right?
I agree, I put it right up there with " The Postman " as one of my favorite post apocalypse films.
Personally, I loved it. Kevin Kostner has nothing to be ashamed of here.
Loved Waterworld. My favorite part was when the little girl is telling how Costners character will come for her and how he will kill them and they wont see it coming...and the camera view changes and Costner is doing exactly what she said he would do.
I like Costner arguring with the little girl in front of her mom
This movie will always have a special place in my heart. Great movie
Oh yeah watching this movie is practically a family heirloom. Me, my parents, and even my grandparents all love it. And one day my kids will watch it lol
I never understood the hate about this movie, it's one of my favorites from my teens. Granted in the 90's as a teenager I didn't know or care a flip about movie budgets or behind the scenes shenanigans. That's probably the movie that gave me my love for post-apocalyptic, dystopian type films.
7:15 that "local stuntman" was legendary surfer Laird Hamilton, who was helping coordinate water stunts and overseeing safety. He was living on Maui and the show was being filmed off the big island. They were doing the jetski stunts and he wanted to use his own jetski, so he decided to drive his out from the island out to the set. He ran into some terrible fog, plus the current was double the speed that day. He was about 60 miles off course and low on gas by the time the fog cleared. Luckily for him he had a tracking device on which led the coast guard to him, 60 miles north of Hilo ("you're a needle in a hay stack, you're going to Alaska after that, it's pretty much over, it's open sea") and he credits his life to it. He tells the story in a very Laird way, totally matter of fact, but it's pretty terrifying.
Damn I remember him from an episode of rob dyrdeks fantasy factory
Absolute legend of the big wave surfers
Well he's the dumbass who was too cheap to spring for a GPS.
Laird should have known better, but then so should have Eddie
Taking a single engine anything out in ocean at distance is a risk (planes are notable)
, besides the Ocean risk in itself. A jetski? LOL , yep lucky he ain't dead. professional surfer or not
Who doesn't love this movie...exciting from beginning to end!
The Island was the mount Everest!!!, now I know.
I never knew there was any cut other than the one where it's revealed to be Mt. Everest.
@@Gottaculat That's a shame, as they sensored some of the best lines in the TV directors cut, its only been restored in the limited edition Bluray.
it was? ??
i never saw the mount everest scene
Of course its Mount Everest.... Even as a child i thought "hm it must be a very high Mountain"
@@Mr_Dink True! Simply because the map on the girl, that is the center of the movie, was in an Asian language.
Waterworld was fuckingawesome I don't care what you say
And a partial nude scene with Jeanne Tripplehorn didn't hurt either :)
A 1,000 thumbs up for both comments, the movie was brilliant.
Lesson one, don't shoot in the most expensive location just so you've got a good hotel.
*....but I actually liked this movie. lmao*
And why would this be "funny"? How can this movie be NOT liked and adored by anyone in their right mind?
me 2. the scenario where there is no dryland anymore, got me interested.
Lol doesn't matter. People back then thought that the immensely huge costs represented Costner's pride. So they did their best to pick it part, talk bad about the movie, and make sure everybody dislikes the movie so that they can prove Costner wrong and make him suffer for his so-called "pride". They succeed in making it a flop on release.
Btw people back then have no actual, solid evidences that Costner is being prideful though. Just negative preconceptions that soon gathered public and media momentum. But that's how human beings are - Whenever we assume things, we will always treat our own assumptions as already representing the absolute truth, and that we can never be wrong etc.
Creux
The Postman & Dancing With Wolves // WTF? Could Go Wrong?
"I dont know what all the fuss was about. I saw that movie six times, It rules!" Exactly.
It's amazing how a group of grown men can't get along with each other to make a movie. Waterworld is by far the best classic of its time and its one of my favorite movies.
I've always enjoyed Waterworld. It had such a unique style of cinematography and such an interesting premise. I never knew about the Everest shot. That would have been one of the most interesting shots in the movie had it been in the original.
Always been a fan of post-apoc movies from this era.
I love seeing what went on with this movie, I've always liked it and over the years I've heard how it didn't go down exactly how we all had heard...
I loved this damn movie 🍿 I was always hyped when it was on tv ! Back in the ole days lol
Yup. Usually on tbs or tnt.
I saw this movie every afternoon after school. I was in 10th grade back in 1995 , I really loved it!
It's actually a pretty good movie. Dennis Hopper stole the show as usual. That in itself makes it worth seeing.
yeah when they say it sucks you remember it has dennis as the villain and then you realize whoever said it sucks obviously sucks themselves. its just not possible for a movie to suck with dennis in it to such a degree as this, simply wont ever happen
@@sewme7861
This is true.
"PAAAAPER!!!! HAVE YOU EVER SEEN PAAAAPER!!! LOOK AT IT, SMELL IT... IVE BEEN SAVING IT FOR A SPECIAL TRADE"
"half n hour half n hour half n hour halfa half n hour"
😂
@@StneCldKilla best character lol
@@franktrejo2558 ikr!
2 pages in Here man I could get half a dozen girls
Half an hour, we trading or not
Ok(sad response)
@@StneCldKilla Oh god, I still say this every single time I use "Half an Hour." In any sort of conversation. I was an early teenager when I first saw this movie and that was what stuck with me for some weird reason.
"We'll be there in half an hour...( under my breath) ...Half n hour, half n hour half n hour."
Every single time! It annoys the crap out of my man.
Waterworld lives. The love that's come for it since ain't going away.
The scene where he teaches enola to swim always grabs my heart, its very sweet and the music is perfect.
I'm very glad to learn Water World turned a profit in the end. The plot and acting were well engaging and I enjoyed it immensely.
It's encouraging to hear that.
Hurray for Waterworld!
It sounds like the Kevins both got divorced so they could squabble like an old married couple themselves! 😂
i think its safe to say, water world has hit cult status. ive always loved it (more than any mad max)
Not really. Something being a cult classic implies that it was not successful in it's initial release and only gained popularity much later. Water world was plenty successful in it's initial release and most people thoroughly enjoyed it. The fact that it's production was a nightmare and they didn't make as much money on it as they could have because of huge budget overruns and there was all the bickering and infighting amongst the crew is revisionist history that nobody outside the studio cared about then or now.
There’s much worse movies like suicide squad or captain marvel.
I agree. I miss a lot of the type of films we got in the 90's.
Or Pearl Harbor. The only good thing about it was the action scenes but the movie altogether was fucking terrible. Waterworld is better lol. I know one is based off true events but never understood why people were so in love with that movie.
I saw this movie recently and to be honest, it was great! The characters were interesting and I really liked the dynamics between the hero and the villain. Also it had some amazing scenes that just felt so harsh and real.
There should be more movies like that today.
I wish they would do a 4K remaster of waterworld
Well Arrow Films in UK actually did www.kultcinema.ca/waterworld-arrow-films-4k-blu-ray/
This was a good movie. I watched it a few times and would watch it again.
Waterworld's show at universal studios is one of the longest running theme park shows of all time. It us keeping the waterworld name relevant for over 30 years.
There was also a tie in video game on Nintendo's Virtual Boy.
Dennis Hopper was so over-the-top in this flick, one can enjoy it for his performance alone. Definitely in the "so bad it's almost good" category. Eminently watchable. Nice video.
He watched speeches from Mussolini, you can see the similarities.
Hopper makes any movie he's in. Possibly the greatest villian in acting.
I watched this on UPN when I was a kid and I thought it was amazing. Rewatched it as an adult several times and it still holds up. I don’t feel the pull in different directions like you stated, I feel that it’s a complicated look at what real life would be like if this were to actually happen. Love it.
Water World was also a live show at Universal Studios. Anyone remember that?
They only closed it this past year. It says a lot about how well this film aged.
It's not closed (Los Angeles). It's still going. One of the more popular attractions at the park. It was refurbished in 2015 and again recently. @@vampyrick
@@HoldandModify Interesting. Before I left Universal last year they had announced publicly that it was on the chopping block. Still a fun show.
I watched it once or twice back in the day at Universal Studio's. Thought it was fun!
@@vampyrick maybe the one in Orlando closed.
I was born in 86, and grew up watching and rewatching this movie! I love it, for all its cinematic and narrative and characterization flaws. I am going to rewatch it right now on Hulu in fact. This video was a great telling of the behind the scenes drama I never knew. Thanks!
EDIT: WHOA ULYSSES CUT?! I NEVER HEARD OF SUCH THING!! I'm going to find that!
Yep, born in 86' also. There seem to be a lot of people our age in the comment section. Pretty cool.
Mobile phones SUCKED at this time the movie came out....
Today this movie is still one of the best ive seen !
And today mobile phones still suck when it comes to the signal we get !
At least it wasn't loaded with CGI...
Joe Dirt
Exactly. And that makes it gold. All "big budget" movies now days are filmed in warehouses on green screens and look like the Jews stole all the money and just claim it costs $100 million to make.
Le CgI bAd
@@Pube83 oh nice to antisemitism out of the blue
"Jews" etc etc , please don't sound like an idiot.
movies today are actually made with a lot of practical effects still, it's a myth that people like to complain that everything is CGI.
@@kbanghart lol no it's not
I liked this movie, always have, never understood why people thought it was bad. Maybe I'm not a refined enough.
It was a real mess of a film but it wasn't bad.
One of the most underrated films ever made
This movie was amazing. I don't care what anyone else thinks.
I’m sure I will be there in about an Italian morning to see if I can find out what time to meet up this week
Thank you, Mr. Abrahams.
Well, I like it.
No one should complain about this, as long as all those transformers movies are out there.
Same thing with postman/twilight.
@TheAstrius clearly you've never seen Gattaca or the Langoliers.
@@danj7404 Gattica was absolutely fantastic!
I guess you dont appreciate substance over spectacle.
Langoliers was a TV mini-series and WAS one of the most horrid things ever made.
@@danj7404 Langoliers was good, it just lacked the oompf and effects to make the movie less 'quiet and slow' and the Langoliers less stupid looking. I think anything B-rated should start getting triple A budgets, IMO. Look at Starship Troopers, such a schlocky B movie but with that budget, it's fantastic. You see the same trend in video games. Triple A budgets go to what's safe, but the Indie scene is what's turning out fresh, new, good games.
@@danj7404 what are you talking about? Langoliers is my absolute favorite so-bad-it's-good movie!
Waterworld is one of my most favorite movies ever. So many dynamics and adventure and everything else.
I just remembered about this movie tonight randomly, and I wasn't sure if it was just a dream I had or it was actually a movie. I'm glad it is because it seems to me like it was a lovely movie
I don't get it... I loved this movie.. Also the other flop cutthroat island
Oh, man. CutThroat Island was terrible lol. Though I still owned it on VHS for years. The music score was great, but Gina Davis dropped the ball playing Morgan. Waterworld however, I did like very much. Not too big a fan of Dennis Hopper though
@@jamesobrian1643 terriblygood 😉
Cutthroat Island was a hidden gem as well. Deep, rich stories and real sets. Epic films that special effect-laden movies will never replace.
@Viktor Blomstergren waterworld only made 40 million after all the costs and outlays so I was referring to the profit margin I guess not the attendance. Cutthroat island cost over 100 mill to make and only grossed 10 mill in the states. Obviously I'm just using a little rhetoric by quoting the word flop, but it was hardly a sucess regarding ticket sales... Sorry to offend you 😉
@@believein1 yes I can still watch it today and enjoy it... It was epic for myself growing up and watching this. Full of action and traces of quirkyness and moments of comedy
I freaking loved Waterworld... But, I like a lot of famously bad movies... I much prefer Judge Dredd over Dredd... I love Super Mario Brothers, and Demolition Man :D The 90s had some fun, dumb movies...
Though, watching Demolition Man the other day, I realized it's not nearly as dumb as it's pretending to be... No joke, it's a film adaptation of "Brave New World". It's not even subtle about it... At one point, Wesley Snipes flat out says, "It's a Brave New World" Sandrah Bullock's character is named Huxley, after the author Alduous Huxley, and Stalone's character is frequently referred to as a "savage", referencing one of the protagonists of Brave New World. I don't know who managed to smuggle such a brilliant literary classic into the blockbuster action movie market... but bravo, bravo!
Yeah I loved all those movies as well, they have their charm lol. But I do feel like Dredd did get it right over judge dredd, the accuracy was near perfect to the source material and it made a lot of fans happy in that regard. But the Sylvester Stallone version was fun, I still think about how the hell the sea shells would work lmao
Ye, can't forget Batman vs Superman. That was a master piece of epic proportions! :D
I actually mean that, I burst out laughing repeatedly watching that movie.
It... just.. has so much movie magic going on, entangled scripts fighting for dominance, an overacting villain, a completely nonsense climax, and tons of money burning behind the scenes. I love it xD
Yes, Like it back then. Still watch it now. Own the DVD
I like Waterworld a lot. Massively underrated movie just like Hudson Hawk. Some people are just movie snobs and it's really annoying. Movies like these have a certain quality that the snobs just don't seem to understand
Yeah, the quality is called 'thet suck.'
often reviewers are just anti white, so any masculine strong white character that saves the day means they hate the movie. very strong pattern regarding this.
@@sewme7861 funny how most critics are white tho
@@sewme7861 Yeah, take that anti sjw, woe is me for being a white Male, bullshit somewhere else. These movies were far before SJW was a thing, me too, etc so your pathetic persecution complex is misplaced.
Hudson hawk was one of my favs back in the day. Great flick!
Fun fact: That's Jack Black flying the airplane. 😜
No it's black jack
@@sassythesasquatch1571 in the back!
ugh... I find him to be as mediocre as Will Ferrall...
Mark the time, ass.
Holy shit, it was.
Waterworld in 5 seconds... Humanity has evolved to grow gills but the Kawasaki wave runners are still functioning just fine...
ye, bad fantasy, intellectual incest, actual incest , hollywood has got it all...
@@torrace12 would rather watch this 5 times in a row than watch Disney's The Last Jedi.
@@jacobring7274 absolutely star wars latest movies are like anti-movies
everytime i have seen one , afterwards i feel like i have seen five movies less then i had before i started watching
@@jacobring7274 Yeah well a young Jeanna Triplehorn will do that...
Jet Skis, not Waverunners...those were Yamaha.
I was 9 when this was released and I absolutely loved it.
I loved Water World and I wish they made a sequel. I dont mind that I am alone :P
It was just missing a bit more to the story line. I was so curious because I think they did a decent job of world building.
You are definitely not alone my friend. I actually really love this movie and I think a modern version could be awesome. Vin Diesel as the villain!?
I wouldn't be surprised if they made one within the next decade. It would fit right in with the usual idealist--politically motivated garbage coming out these days.
@@zacharyhutchison4006 Sadly true. It would have a woman as the badass and a straight white religious male as the villain.
@@discoveryoutdoorskcfishing236 almost every movie/tv series with a female protagonist is a feminist product and should be boycotted.
I fell in love with this movie when I was a kid. It was the first time I had heard of climate change in such a drastic way. The first post apocalyptic movie I ever saw. And I thought that the story was super good even if later on I would see the contrivances for what they were.
It's totally Mad Max on water. If you view it as that, it's actually a great movie.
My kids 12 and 9 years love this movie. They notice how its not all cg like everything nowadays. Now matter how good the cg is its still noticeable and this movie is awesome
Stu Penwarden you’ve raised them very well
Just film the entire movie on the beach, in close-up, with the sea in the background. Duh.
That saves you $75 million right there.
If only they thought of that...oh wait, it's Hollywood
Yeah or some large pier.
@@yavorkrustev9127 yeah, spend 1 million dollars on a pier first
Waterworld was one of my favorite action flicks growing up. It is an awesome movie, and his boat is freaking cool as hell.
first time i watched this movie
i had an aquatic illusion while
out at sea i put a shell to my
ear and i could here land
Hardly anyone mentions Reynolds' prior film, Rapa Nui. Oddly similar themes of sunken lands and legends of possible other islands or continents far over the horizon. It also went well over budget, mostly due to Reynolds' insistence on filming on the actual island, rather than subbing in the Azores, Canaries or somewhere in the Caribbean or Pacific. Doing anything on Easter Island is a logistical nightmare, let alone filming an epic. Waterworld, in the final analysis, may have turned a profit, but Rapa Nui was definitely a loss. Costner was a producer on that film, which probably helped escalate the tensions between him and the other Kevin. Reynolds is still, in my opinion, a highly underrated director. His first major film, the Beast, is truly excellent. Even Rapa Nui, as awkward as the dialog is at times, has some earnest performances, exciting scenes and is beautifully shot.
I've seen it and watching this makes me appreciate it more.
I heard it sucks but I absolutely LOVE the soundtrack
I saw this movie in the theater with my dad ! We had fun the whole damn time !
I remember a red-haired interviewer shouting "Mr. Costner, Mr. Costner. In Waterworld, why did you play a fish". Costner was not amused. I was.
Not a bad movie, but really a Mad Max movie on the ocean.
Wet Max
Solid movie following in the footsteps of a sold movie! Waterworld rocked. Saw it last night. It was awesome. Trust me, i should know.
Honestly.. Waterworld IS an amazing movie.
Nice story, good plot, well found characters, and Kevin actually looked quite cute with all that wet water splashed on him theeheee
Interesting background. I actually really liked the film and happily watch it again every few years or so. Not a flop in my book.
@@pashadyne no, you're the mental patient.
@@pashadyne they did infact turn a profit thats also the point of this video.. it was a modest success but people believe the lengend it was a huge flop.
I loved this movie so much. I watched it first on TV back in the 90s…
I can watch it once a month and never get sick of it.
No clue how it failed in theaters.
It’s so good.
14:32 ...and by 1999, George Lucas showed that entire movies _shouldn't_ be made in a computer
ftfy
Got to start somewhere. James Cameron would laugh his ass off at this comment. (Plus Episode 1 had Darth Maul, the best Star Wars villian, and one of the best soundtracks out of all the Star Wars movies).
The Hollywood film that was shoot in the real world. Incredible.
IMO what Waterworld signalled was the beginning of "Internet buzz" making or breaking a film. I remember when it came out, all the reviewers wanted to talk about was how much money it cost, how long it too, problems, ect. They were basically saying "it was not WORTH that much time and effort and money", instead of just reviewing the product on the screen.
I liked it. It's got problems but it's a lot of fun.
Sorry Kevin Costner Alan Rickman is the man!
RIP ALAN RICKMAN..
He steals the scene from every move he has been in.
From DIE HARD as Hans Gruber to Professor Snape in Harry Potter.
And has comedic chops as well went to space Quest..
And seeing Robin Hood prince of Thieves..
In the movie theaters when it came out.
The Sheriff of Nottingham rocks and is a great villain.
@Tidder T rewatch the vid bub.
he talks about costner and rickman in Robin Hood....NOT waterworld
Yeah, he was either jealous he was being upstaged or too blind to realize that the movie was going to be painfully bad without some heavy hamming it up to add a touch of camp...or both.
$175 million was just the production budget. Marketing was probably $50-$75 million.
Yes absolutely as it was marketed as summer blockbuster. So that would mean that the movie needed to gross at least $400 to $425 just to break even as 50% goes to the theaters.
So even with $264 mill. worldwide gross, profit is really in question. Maybe TV syndication, VHS and DVD sales managed to rake in $161+ million so far but I highly doubt it.
Also economy 1on1 for the author of this video: the loss of profit that might have been grossed in the last 25 years had the money been invested elsewhere (eg long term bonds) also has to be calculated into the movie's profitability estimate.
@@tamarans.ns.ii.4968 don't forget the toys, the video game and the theme park attractions. That could be considered revenue no?
I know a store I worked at at the time sold WW action figures and while they didn't sell well the manufacturers probably paid big dollars for the license.
Heck it's probably still selling DVD's and merch to edgelord hipsters today.
That's an insane amount of money put into a movie, especially for a 1990's movie
@@tamarans.ns.ii.4968 I worked in a media store for years and nobody has ever bought Water World. Even I, as an aficionado of schlock 90's movies of my childhood, having bought hundreds of films on disk, forgot about it's existence and especially that there is a better directors cut version out there. The problem is almost everyone read the negative press about it as it being a "bad movie", so never saw it, never bought the physical release and will switch it off if it comes on TV etc. It happens to a lot of films designated as failures or flops in the media from controversial news stories leaking out from the set before they even release, Hook, John Carter and even Star War's Solo are all good films that got slated from bad press and reviews causing them to box office bomb. It really shows that once a negative word of mouth movement starts in the media it can be hard to stop negative perceptions even with massive marketing and production budgets. Bad publicity is never good publicity in film making.
And yet, it was one of my favorite movies of the 90s...
I honestly consider this the most fascinating bombs in cinematic history.
I loved water world. It felt just like mad Max on water it was great
Holy crap......this movie is even more amazing hearing the back story behind how it was made!
seems incredible it was even made at all
I almost cried when the smokers destroyed his awesome boat! I wanted to see more of that thing!!
I'm with Jim Carry on this one, "it rulled"
I have watched this a couple of times recently, having seen it at the cinema on release. What really struck me is how stunning it is visually and how well choreographed the actions sequences are. Also the Mariner does have a nice character arc, although it depicts a world that is dangerous for women (probably realistic) in a way that you probably couldn't do now in a blockbuster. There is some unforgivably clunky dialogue in places - but there is honestly not as much of it as I remembered from the first time round. I enjoyed watching it again and for the most part it's aged pretty well.
Love this and The Postman. Both are severely underrated. The Untouchables cemented me as a Costner fan.
i didnt watch waterworld when released due to so much bad press. I only watched it recently for the first time and was thoroughly entertained. Such an epic adventure film set at sea. loved it!
I just bought the dvd I wish they would do it justice and do
A sequel
It’s one of my fav of all time
I love this movie! It is great and cool. 100% Denis Hooper naild it
I saw it in the theater, it was great and the audience loved it. The practical stunts are still impressive along with that boat. I even bought the soundtrack at the time, a classic by James Newton Howard.