Waterworld (1995) - WTF Happened To This Movie? 

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.

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.

I was certain he was the pilot.

@@mrnobody6447 He was he was a pilot

Water world was a amazing movie. All movies in the 90s was better then the movies today. And yes black jack was in it. He was the pilot. But please tell me more about water world. Like we're was it made at.

Costner's character should have had a shark-like shlong with teeth. It could bite bad guys and eat flies and shrimp!

@@iamthatiam4637 The video literally says it was made in Hawaii.

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 consider ..its best for a Remake ! This movie and story has to done again ..

@@charislinos I think the concept of waterworld is amazing. and always what kept me coming back to watch it. Perhaps it was just too soon for that type of story then. But now. Would be pretty epic for sure.

Proper cinema is the right word. But don't worry, nowadays we have Sonic the hedgehog movie, and two more movies about those damn mutant turtles.

The whole premise was retarded. If all the ice caps melted it would be at most 200 feet of water rise worldwide, yet somehow it covered all the land?

So right ha, every time I see it on I watch it.

Gossip my friend gossip. Its a deadly poison

I never heard about this movie before I have seen it on the TV. It was uninspired, boring, flat, had no big idea. Everything at least mildly interesting there is taken from mad max, moby dick, terminator and several cheap old comedies. The premise is nonsense (oceans simply can not go so high). It is a OK C-movie.

It was considering a "flop" because of how little it initially made at the box office in comparison to it's extremely high production budget. @ Petr. The oceans absolutely could go that high if all or most of the ice at the 2 poles melted. In fact the oceans have been much higher than they are now (see Pangea).

It was the most expensive movie of all times (at the time) so maybe expectations were just too high. I've always liked it.

Steve - Pangea is completely different thing, if we are talking about continental drift, that has nothing to do with ice. If all the ice on earth melted, the oceans would rise less than 220 feet (cca. 65 meters). So no Netherlands or Florida, but most of the landmass would still be untouched. for a long time (for example late Cretaceus), there was no or almost no ice on earth.

Yes, I have seen that show in 1997, with the jetskis going underwater like in the movie, it was the best show I had seen.

I love my parents for taking me there in the 90s when I thought the back to the future thing was amazing

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.

Sarah Lunafire ditto! I still think it’s a great film...

Sarah Lunafire saw your Channel Sarah, you've got some cool stuff, like the way you think.

I was literally talking about this movie with my wife yesterday. She had never seen it. and I listed it in my own "so bad its great" list from the 90s /00s We are watching it tomorrow. I've loved this movie since I was an early teen.

100% agree. Love this movie to. A Classic. :) Costner should make his own Waterworld 2 ;)

Right? It fed me a ridiculous premise and then managed to get me to suspend my disbelief. It had action, adventure, drama, and comedy. They even managed to cast Costner in a role where his sometimes wooden acting actually suited the character. Not only did I watch it enough to damage the VHS tape it was on I also watched the ABC extended cut when it was on TV and spent years trying to (eventually succeeding) hunt down a copy of that extended cut to watch again. It's one of my list of must watch films for a post-apocalyptic movie marathon alongside A Boy and His Dog, and Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior.

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...

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?

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.

Agreed, there is a Ulysses cut that has all the cut-out footage, the movie is a classic that never got the cut it deserved.

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.

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

Mad Max Fury Road has a lotta tangible stuff (The storm is not one lol) and it shows

#MeToo

@@brian19991 I still love that scene. Superstorms of that magnitude can reality.

brian19991 Can we give Miller an unlimited budget to remake or create a sequel to Waterworld? I feel it would be even more immersive shot with modern technology.

EoS pound me too?

Considering how tough it must have been to film entirely on water, agreed.

You are delusional and wrong.

@@the-NightStar Care to elaborate? I think it's a great film.

Yea; I loved it! I also liked No Escape too!

tiabran Let’s not go too far.

Camille McALoon The mid 90s movie ( No Escape ) with Ray Liotta

Translation: I'm old and technology scares me.

@@lazylightning1197 Translation: I'm sick of the shallow, blatantly fake looking CGI ruining movies.

Yep,when the entire environment is CGI it's hard to suspend disbelief and buy into the reality of it. It's just too inauthentic to believe, let alone become immersed in the story. Done right, it can really add to the movie, imo. But when it's overdone, it's like watching a computer game that you can't even control. Maybe it _is_ an age thing, but cgi movies make me yearn for the bad - but real - special effects without computers.

I’ve only seen a handful of circumstances where CGI was actually terrible. Most of the time it’s great. Most People don’t really want to go back to stop motion animation and puppet monsters xD

@@aeringothyk5445 CGI games were cool but CGI movies was not.

I like Costner arguring with the little girl in front of her mom

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

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.

What is man? A miserable little pile of secrets!

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

Really?

@@hellbenderdesign Yeah, and he and his wife are not alone. Though, I wouldn't call it one of my favorite, but it was certainly a good movie.

Because clickbait is a drug and "journalists" love handing it out like candy.

Same thing with Cutthroat Island and Long Kiss Goodnight

I wish it would’ve done better, it was such a cool idea for a movie and it was set up perfectly for a sequel

LMAO

Yes...

"All of the above"

justcallme... can’t do much with salt water

Agreed, but that was only one of the problems with this movie. As a start, the premise of the movie was a total looney joke. I mean, who the hell believes that all land would be underwater if all the ice on the planet melted?

@@ATAATX In a 100 years we might know it!

@@CrniWuk Yea, in a hundred years we will know it's a load of hooey.

@mike york You dumb fucks are trying to destroy the world. You are like a bunch of mad scientist promising heaven when all you will produce is hell. The world has been heating up sinse the last ice age, and its natural. Now you want to believe that once the glaciers melt there will be no land left. God, what freakin idiots!

Fortunately for us old folks, HD resolution isn't important if we like the story. We grew up with 9" B&W TV's that had vertically rolling pictures. Of course, we also had great, big old elaborate movie theaters (with mezzanines and balconies, too, where the couples could hide from the world and make out!) with 100 foot screens as the norm, and it didn't cost a weeks pay to go to the theater. You could stay in the theater and re-watch it as many times as you wanted, nobody kicked you out, there was always a 'B' movie as every show was a double feature, AND we had great WB cartoons in between the movies.

@@d.e.b.b5788 That was definitely before my time. The cheapest multi-plex theater tickets I can remember as a child were six dollars for the twelve to four o'clock showings and you couldn't stay for another viewing unless you payed for another ticket. I collect Blu-ray's as a hobby plus it's nice to see old movies restored to theater quality but I get what you're saying. There are several old movies pre 90's that I have on dvd that I just can't bring myself to upgrade for nastalgia reasons.

I saw it in theater too when I was like 9. I thought it was a blast.

This movie is still awesome . f*** all the haters.

@Bush Doctor Try that logic with Matrix

Well as a kid I loved it and am glad they made it family friendly! I do see how adults could like it more had it not have been but would families be able to see/watch it together if that were the case? Not as likely. Either way, I enjoyed it!

@@PSYCKYO Well the topic was why the movie failed overall. You know real good old Disney's classics where great hits but imagine if they made a movie like Cinderella but 18+ with nudity, swearing, drug use and ultra gore scenes. Many would have enjoyed it but it would probably have been a commercial failure. Even then, a 18+ Disney movie would probably do a lot better like Japanese animated movies. There's nothing family friendly about a post apocalyptic world. The last Mad Max is a great example of how it should be done. The third Mad Max also was a failure because they made it a bit family friendly. When you try to please everyone, you often end up pleasing no one.

Couldn't have said it better.

I saw this movie before the Road Warrior, it blew my mind as a kid. In fact I think it was a better pirates movie than the Pirates of the Caribean's first movie, which was highly cheered by everyone.

@@MankindFails I think you failed to watch the entire video. It didn't fail overall! Watch the video again! Also, when you try to please everyone you tend to please everyone but yourself and the haters! You may not please everyone and you may not please yourself but you will please the majority! (I am only speaking about movies of course) If you look at anything the majority was or is pleased with those individual creators succeeded in pleasing the majority.

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.

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 RU-vid videos about shit they were involved in. Like was he searching RU-vid 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"?

Yep. People hate it, I love it. A tad long though.

@Crow What about the man who said "resin" and "half an hour"? Such a wholesome character.

It wasn’t all that bad

You like crappy movies, nothing wrong with that.

@@Spills51 It's a wonderful movie.

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.

Why not both? Venom pretty much pulled that out for me not so long ago.

Me too. I only don't care for that gill thing.

same here brother

"I like it allot!"

OK then

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

Great summer movie, that deliver on an action packed adventure.

​@Evil The Boogeyman He said he'll discuss the issue with people who disagree with him. Only liberals do that nowadays? Hummm...

I enjoy watching it, but it is a terrible movie.

Facts son!

Waterworld is a crazy-bad movie.

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

At the time it was well known that Costner basically did what is now known as a Tom Cruise: changing the script constantly to put more emphasis on his role. That not only made it way more expensive, it made the continuity of the movie very difficult and sometimes impossible to mantain. All the fighting behind the scenes between Costner, the directors, the scriptwriters and the studio points to this and as a result it went way, way over budget. Costner wanted everything to be perfect for what was to be his masterpiece, and perfection is expensive. Kevin Costner made a string of very succesfull movies and thus expectations were very high for Waterworld. Costner was at that moment considered "too big to fail" and got what for all means and purposes could be seen as a blank cheque to make this movie, because his name would ensure that it would become another blockbuster movie. With the expectations for Waterworld being so high and all the changes in the script and stages being far more expensive than calculated, Costner ran the risk that in the end the movie would become só expensive that it wouldn't make a decent profit. And that's what happened: in comparison to the costs the movie didn't make the expected profit and is thus considered a flop. Waterworld was too pretentious, too expensive, too much changed along the way and way less succesfull than previous Costner movies, costing him his "too big to fail status." As a story it doesn't make much sense and as a movie it has numerous plotholes, bad scripts and dialogues and poor characters (except Costners of course).

it still is. lol

To be honest it IS a cult hit movie... but at the time they were expecting a huge "Titanic/ Jurassic Park" type blockbuster... so going from Blockbuster to having a cult following is considered to be a failure in the eyes of Hollywood. I am glad this movie ended up turning a profit in the end though, more risks need to be taken now a days like this, everything being done seems too safe in my opinion.

Teemuslayer Oh no? Not even the fact that it was the laughing stock of Hollywood when it was out? This really must be a college thing somewhere because I’ve never met one person that liked Water World at all. Not one ever. Never heard a single positive review or opinion on it until some of the comments here. It was never even a movie that was so bad it was good or funny.

@@rise5558 In the early 20 when i was a little kid it always showed this movie on tv and i just instanly liked it because it was so different like the movies premase that everything is on water and there is no land that was just amazing even if the whole movie was flawed

I think there are some weak points but over all it is one of the better movies.

I love my bad taste Which must be true because I also like John Carter

Me too

@@Heavywall70 dude I liked waterworld a lot and jon carter it's on netflix now!

@@Heavywall70 John Carter is one of my favorite movies. I wish there were sequels. Disney screwed up their marketing for that movie.

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 yes, The Postman no.

The postman is one of the greatest movies ever, such an insane story but penned beautifully

I agree. I thought I was the only one till I heard Patrice Oneal on O &A

My 11 year old son watches & loves both!! Postman is an awesome movie, plus its got Tom Petty, cmon’

I feel like watching The Postman when i return to a Fallout game.

watching this movie as a kid, i always had great fun

it has a truly vital line of dialogue that was edited out of the theatrical version...something about our way of life being out of control and thats what caused the world to flood

also I only realized that Jack Black was in it when I watched that ultra extended version...he always has the big goggles on and never talks during the scenes they didnt delete...Yes Jack Black was in Waterworld!!!

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.

CGI is a movie plague. Real effects were getting pretty amazing in the 90s, and if shitty CGI hadnt come along they d have kept improving.

@@nikoskabbadias CGI gets better just look at infinity war

Unless you consider Fury Road. Which is 1000x better than Waterworld.

It was so awful. Wtf are u talking about

@@diadokhoi5722 CGI gets better but it's still CGI. Nothing beats real explosions on real sets.

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.

Nice atc250r

@@mabehalzuqyadeek Thank you! I sold it a little while back- I'm really thinking that the decision to do that I was a big mistake! I miss it terribly...

Trinity would be proud

Nah. I didn't really enjoy the movie personally (mainly for the writing), but I still think the sets, stunts, and action were still impressive and worth watching the movie for.

What's the Ulysses cut..?

@@Buckeye_4_Life_ think he mentioned it around the 12 minute mark

Watch it again at lunch ;-)

I think he was describing the path the industry took in that conclusion. CGI is just much safer. You don't have to deal with weather conditions, building giant props that could fall into themselves or outdoor on set catering, and people don't get lost at sea for a whole day or almost get run over by boats. xD That CG in the early 2000s loox like crap today but we learned from it and it paved the way to what we have today where so much can be completely modeled from nothing and the audience is none the wiser. From the Starwars prequals we learned how rubbish it loox making EVERYTHING in CG so now they often take mixed approaches where part of the sets are actually built so the characters actually interact with varying terrain and actions scenes can look more organic.

@wannabchomsky And look at The Hobbit for the exact opposite in quality.

Yup. Usually on tbs or tnt.