There was a lot of speculation and, of course, head scratching when this disc was announced. For me, I definitely would recommend checking it out and forming your own opinion. Depending on who you are, that is either a good or a bad thing. To this day, no movie looks or feels like Waterworld. I found myself really enjoying most of the film and laughing out loud at the bad portions of it. At the end of the day, Waterworld is a stupid idea executed brilliantly. I am not secretive about the fact that I like Kevin Costner, and Dennis Hopper was more fun than I remembered as the villain. The acting was actually, given the circumstances, great. The film was made for $175 million dollars, and it really looks like it (aside from the dated special effects in the last thirty minutes of the film.) The stunts in the film are some of the best put to celluloid, sometimes besting scenes from the Mad Max Trilogy.

The set design and imagination shown throughout the film are mind-blowingly good. Parts of it are flat out terrible, mainly anything to do with Costner having gills, but parts of it are jaw dropping. Watching it all these years later, I found myself actually really enjoying Waterworld. Oh yeah, Kevin CostnerРІР‚в„ўs character also has developed gills. Through circumstance Costner must help Helen and the child to avoid Deacon and get to dry land. There is also an evil leader of rough pirates named Deacon played by Dennis Hopper. All of this makes sense and I could get on board. Costner meets a woman named Helen (Jeanne Tripplehorn) and a child that has prophecy of where to find dry land and a map tattooed on her back. Costner plays the anti hero of the film, an unnamed mariner that likes to go it alone in his decked out sail boat. When we first meet Kevin CostnerРІР‚в„ўs character he is peeing, purifying it, and drinking his own urine. Resources are incredibly scarce, especially soil. People live in tribes that have formed small floating communities on top of the water. The polar ice caps have completely melted and the world as we know it is completely underwater. The plot of the movie is a bit of a mess. That meant that I was extremely excited that at least one of these movies was only PG-13. Features on 12 Monkeys, Event Horizon, Dark City, and Waterworld immediately come to mind. One of the great things about the Sci-fi channel was that they ran extended segments on any upcoming science fiction films, so even though I wasnРІР‚в„ўt allowed to see most of the actual films I would gaze in wonder at the worlds they were creating. I would watch reruns of The Twilight Zone and anime on Saturday mornings and anything else that could hold my ADD at bay. When I was a ten year old living in Arkansas, my favorite channel was the Sci-fi channel. This reputation did not stop me from buying it for about five bucks. People at the time took to calling it РІР‚СљFishtarРІР‚Сњ and РІР‚СљKevinРІР‚в„ўs GateРІР‚Сњ and relegated the film to the realm of flops and critical disasters. The movie may not have been a box office success state side, but it did actually achieve decent numbers over seas and eventually regained all the money that it initially lost. I remember that even as a kid I was a little bit let down by the film, but still enraptured in all of the imagery in the movie. The film actually managed to receive on average about a two star review with some people loving it and some people (like my mother) hating it. I know that many people look down on this movie as one of the biggest box office disasters and a critical disaster as well.

Waterworld movie portrait