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[Bud Brewster]

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Here's a few interesting comments from All Sci-Fi member Phantom.


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Waterworld (1995)



Count me on the positive side.

This is a grand, preposterous popcorn movie with equal amounts of drama and side splitting comedy (intentional and not).

Forget science and minor details like where they were getting food and fuel to maintain their society in a world totally covered with water. It isn't important when Costner is sailing the single sea, fending off the ocassional psycho who shows up to trade his stock for Tripplehorn, and growling at Majorino like a seafaring Wally Beery thinking up tortures for Jackie Cooper.

Topping it all is an outrageous Dennis Hopper (with eye patch) dispensing cigarettes to the masses as if it were candy and threatening to skin a child alive in order to obtain a map to dry land tatooed on her back.

Favorite scene: the old slavey in the bottom of the ship who sees a roaring wall of fire coming toward him and says "Thank God," knowing his long agony is at an end.

The short version rips along at breakneck speed and doesn't really give you a chance to think about all the absurdities in the plot. Still, I would like to see the longer cut, if it ever plays on cable (not holding my breath).
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