[V_TWIN]

I heard how bad waterworld was. When I finally watched it I liked it and watch it when I see it playing. Kind of a mad max on water. I guess movies are like types of food, what you like I may not and Vice-versa.

[cuban leaf]

I heard how bad waterworld was. When I finally watched it I liked it and watch it when I see it playing. Kind of a mad max on water.

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I had the same experience. To use a car analogy, it’s like the Volkswagen Phayton. It was a sales dog because VW was the wrong brand for it. It was still a darned nice car and you could get it for a song used. However, VW never should have produced it.

However, Ishtar and Battlefield Earth are just plain terribly bad horribly made movies. It looks like Heaven’s gate was too. To use the car analogy: more on the scale of a Cummins diesel Oldsmobile. It was always best avoided at any price over the scrap metal value. ;-)

In fact, to paraphrase:
Waterworld and Postman = VW Phaton - VW lost a bundle but a lot of people got a great car for far less than it cost to make.

Battlefield Earth and Heaven’s Gate = Oldsmobile diesel car - for anyone who touched it, it left a mark.

[discostu]

The problem Waterworld had is it was written to be Mad Max on water, a low budget action movie. The Kevin Costner got his hands on it, filmed in the ocean (even after Spielberg warned that would be a huge mistake), and spent $175 million bucks making it. If you watch it as a low budget Mad Max on water it’s a fine little movie. $175 million is supposed to buy more than an Mad Max ripoff though.