Waterworld (1995)

Waterworld
1995
Dir. Kevin Reynolds

How do you go about expressing your undying love for a movie that most people seem to revile? How do you go about enlightening the nay sayers, the detractors and the haters?
Waterworld has, in many ways, the same appeal as "Starship Troopers"; it's essentially a B movie with a summer blockbuster budget. Watching this movie is like seeing what would happen if you took a "SyFy original movie" script and threw in some talent and $175,000,000.
None of that is a bad thing, by the way.
This is one of the few movies where Kevin Costner isn't a repulsive ass, and one of the many where Dennis Hopper proves he is one of the most entertaining actors in Hollywood (doubt me? check out "Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2").
Sure, there are a couple places where the logic and the reality of the movie don't quite meet: the bad guys travel around in what seems to be an oil-tanker fused to an island, they propel it with massive oars. Kevin Costner has gills. Somehow people are building mini-cities on top of water...
But I ask you this: what about ANY of that doesn't sound fucking great? Seriously.
Lastly though, we must apply the canceled show rule. This rule states that if a cast member from a great, but canceled-to-early show appears in a film, the fun quotient goes up a few. In this case, the show is Veronica Mars and the cast member is Tina Majorino.
There is a lot wrong with this movie, but none of it matters. The movie is too much fun to ignore.




Apologies for rambling