The haircut alone is an autofive.

I knew a guy who worked as a set painter in LA in the late 90s.

He said it was pretty common knowledge among the career types that Waterworld got a decent amount of its then recordbreaking budget from deep-pocket industry types who used the lagoon set (built outside of coast guard jurisdiction) for the sort of sex-and-drug parties that they'd rather not have inside US borders.

There's a reason why I went back and saw Scream 5 times. It's because SCREAM was about the love of movies, especially the most unlovable movies.

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I'm not at all ashamed to admit that I consider Waterworld the most unjustly maligned movie in history.

Say what you want about Kostner's acting (which was canceled out by Hopper being a blast), but everything else about it was top notch for a summer action movie. The set designs and Mad Max boats were amazing and haven't really been topped since. Everyone was blowing Titanic just 2 years later for its sets, with half of that was badly dated CGI (seriously, go back and look at the daytime exterior shots) and the whole thing attached to a sappy cliche love story.

Everyone also gushed over Independence Day one year later, and that was objectively a godawful wet fart.

I would take Waterworld (or hell, even The Postman) over 90% of Marvel movies, to say nothing of the Transformers trash fire.