it was bad for the studio. its production budget ballooned to $175M, total cost $235M. the most expensive movie ever made at the time. it lost money at the box office.

i enjoyed it.

May I see your Waterworld and raise you a Poseidon Adventure?

A lot of fun movies get a bad wrap for being unserious and I fucking hate it.

Best complaint I heard was "it's just mad max on water" .

WTF? That sounds awesome.

I found it quite preachy, but still watchable if you don't think about it too hard.

"Oil = bad". "Smokers = bad". Hopper aside, the bad guys were as shallow as you can get in character development.

Plus at 2h15m it was about 45 minutes longer than it should have been, and Kevin Costner is a polarising actor for some due to his lack of charisma.

All that said, I watched it twice. Once partly to admire Jeanne Tripplehorn's dress, which should have got a best supporting role.

Where did they get the cigarettes? Were they 20 year old stale cigarettes?

I don't think I'm quite as effusive about it as you, but it was a good movie and I don't understand the hate either

I’ma put Super Mario Bros. up as a contender too. Doesn’t get much better than Dennis Hopper and Bob Hoskins.

I’ll talk all kinds of shit about that movie, but I’ve watched it end to end more times than most movies I’ve seen, and it’s never been a hate watch.

I love Dennis Hopper as Bowser in the Super Mario Brothers

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Finally someone likes this movie I loved it. I need to watch the ulysses cut sometime