Maelstrom: The Odyssey of Waterworld (1:42:20): This featurette was not made specifically for fans of the film, this was made for fans of all movies.
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Again, this is a significant upgrade over the original Blu-ray. Colors are bright and vibrant, details are cleaned up and backgrounds and settings are more noticeable and distinguishable than ever before.Īudio: The DTS-HD audio on all of the versions of the film are quite solid. This is without a doubt the best the film has ever looked. The older Blu-ray release of WATERWORLD left a lot to be desired, but Arrow Video has really gone above and beyond when it comes to cleaning up a forgotten blockbuster. Video: I was surprised by how good this transfer actually is. That, coupled with some nice packaging, and this is a release that will look great in any collection. Arrow has gone out of their way on this release, giving us a great video presentation and an exhaustive documentary that covers the film’s troubled production. But if you remember liking WATERWORLD or if you are anxious to revisiting the film, I highly recommend investing the $30 or so to pick up this copy. The price tag on this limited edition Arrow release is going to scare away a lot of customers, especially for a movie most people don’t remember much about. But time has done the film a lot of favors and when you experience WATERWORLD without the burden of caring about how much it costs or seeing it covered on the news every day, it turns out to be a nice surprise. But it can’t live up to the lofty expectations it’s production price tag merits and so it feels like a bit of a letdown. This is a perfectly fine apocalyptic action-adventure. And maybe that’s the overarching problem with WATERWORLD if the film had cost $80 million, I think people would have given it a little more leeway in terms of expectations. But again, the stunts performed don’t add up to $175 million. It was fun seeing Costner jump around his boat to outrun and outsmart the bad guys. Revisiting the film so many years later was enjoyable and I was most surprised by how well the action pieces hold together.
Could I have done without him selling trading Helen for a few pieces of paper? Sure, but again, the good outweigh the bad when it comes to our hero’s charm. Kevin Costner adds a lot as our mysterious hero, making him likeable without being too obnoxious. But through the plot holes and continuity problems, director Kevin Reynolds has created an interesting world that’s fun to explore. And that’s why the movie is hailed as such a flop movies that cost $175 million aren’t supposed to have those kind of problems. So there are a lot of problems and it doesn’t take long to pick apart the plot holes. The “map” is a circle with an arrow, the hero’s origins and mutation are never explained, we never learn how Helen and Enola met and we never really understand how everyone just happens to know that Enola has a map to dry land on her back. So our hero has to step out of his drifter lifestyle to protect them and maybe find the way to dry land.īefore we get too far into this, let’s be clear that there are a lot of problems with WATERWORLD.
Enola has a tatoo of a map on her back that everyone wants, including the evil “smokers” led by a crazy Dennis Hopper. Our hero gets stuck with Heln (Tripplehorn) and her sort of adopted daughter Enola (Tina Majorino). The premise is that the polar ice caps have melted and the world is one giant body of water. It’s a strange way to open a film, but sets the tone that the world we’re about to enter is…unique. In the opening shot, our no-name hero (Kevin Costner) is urinating in a cup, which he then proceeds to pour into a contraption and drink. A big reason why is because when all of the behind the scenes drama is ignored, the film turned out to be a good time. True, the film only grossed $88 million domestically, but it earned it’s budget back overseas and when coupled with home video sales and cable licensing, the film eventually turned a profit. But in a rare feet, I think history has actually been kind to WATERWORLD and people have looked back and realized that a) the film wasn’t as big of a flop as originally thought and b) it’s actually a fun film. At the time, that was an insane number, especially for a movie that already had a questionable premise. Before the movie hit theaters, everyone knew that WATERWORLD suffered a terrible production with problem after problem which skyrocketed the budget to over $175 million. When people talk about WATERWORLD, they often immediately point to the film’s famous “flop” at the box office.
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