a5c7b9f00b Sometime in the future, the polar ice caps have melted and the world's oceans and seas have covered the land. People are few and far between, living in small communities at sea or sailing from one to another as traders. All the people seek dry land.. something nobody has seen. The world is flooded. Civilisation is lost under the sea. The Mariner sails his trimoran over the seas, drinking his own Urine and visits a floating atoll of "Drifters". When they find the Mariner to be a mutant they sentence him to death. Meanwhile, a girl with supposedly a map to get to dry land tattoo-ed on her back, is the objective for an attack by a gang of smokers who attack the atoll. Waterworld is a surprisingly good movie. I say surprising' because with all the hype that surrounded this movie before its release, it got blasted by critics who seemed to focus more on the movies budget (it had the largest one for its time) than the actual film itself. Could someone explain to me why critics suddenly become accountants whenever a movie causes a stir in Hollywood because of its budget? I'd really like to know where that comes from. If the movie's good, it's good, if it's bad, it's bad, it doesn't matter what the budget is. Blair Witch Project proved that. Waterworld is filled with some interesting stunts, including a few things that I've never seen in film before. It has some cool ideas, but few that stand up to any real scrutiny. But it's fun sci-fi, with the emphasis on the fiction more than the science part.<br/><br/>Yes, Waterworld is not without its faults, but it is still a decent enough adventure flick. It's been called "Mad Max on water", although it's much less grim than Max. Its story actually more resembles the sequel to Max, The Road Warrior (anyone who has seen it will recognize many of the plot elements). Costner gives the standard Costner performance, which isn't bad if that's what you like (personally, I kinda like him, but at the same time I've never had to work with him). And ya gotta hand it to Hopper, he really throws himself into his villain roles. The guys a riot, I always look forward to him as the nasty one. I wonder if he has as much fun playing the characters more based in reality in the lower-budget, more independent films he's been doing the last few years as opposed to the larger than life bad guys he's played earlier in the nineties (no doubt the catering is better on the big budget action flicks). I guess I just liked the spirit of this movie, enough so to give it a 7/10 stars. You really can't measure a films worth by its budget. The best you can hope for is to be entertained in this type of film, and I think it delivers quite nicely. G'night! First off. I like this movie. It's an enjoyable enough action-flick, and much underrated. When you go to see a movie like this you shouldn't expect too much in the way of realism in some aspects (remember Armageddon?) but it was perhaps unfortunate that, at the time this movie came out, I was teaching SCUBA diving.<br/><br/>As an instructor you learn certain basic facts of physics regarding the sea which perhaps took the edge off this film's impact. For a start, the opening sequence depicts the world completely flooding when the ice-caps melt - I don't think so. Then we had Kev Costner distilling fresh water out of his own urine? What's wrong with all that sea water he's floating on? No ammonia to get rid of there, for a start. A lot easier.<br/><br/>Finally, we had him taking Jean Tripplehorn down into the murky depths to show her a drowned city. Someone obviously never told the writers that air compresses under pressure, so her little diving bell's supply would have been compressed down to a bubble probably not much bigger than her head. Not to mention that normal air becomes toxic beyond a certain depth. Ah well.<br/><br/>Despite these negative comments, I still like this film and watch it occasionally. Its mediocrity guarantees this lavish, soggy retread of futuristic Australian action classic "The Road Warrior" a place in the ranks of forgotten extravaganzas. The movie was heavily cut for the Theatrical Version. Several years later, the American network ABC aired a reconstructed Extended Version that ran more than 43 minutes longer than the original theatrical version, featuring scenes that were cut prior to the movie's theatrical release. Later on this version was released on DVD as well. In short... no.<br/><br/>Much of the melting would make no difference at all to sea levels. This is because a lot of the ice in the arctic and antarctic is sea ice (ice floats and the icebergs are floating on water). Most of this is already below the waterline - and the only reason a small percentage of an iceberg sticks out of the water is that ice is a bit less dense than water. As it melted the berg would submerge completely, but the ice would also shrink by the same amount as it turned back into water. So the overall effect on the oceans would be zero, or at least very close to it.<br/><br/>What would matter is the ice that is on land melting and that extra water running into the oceans. We don't have a perfect number for how much of this ice there is, but we do know it is reasonably close, and if all the ice on land melted it would raise sea levels by around 400 feet.<br/><br/>Given that most of the world's population lives within 400 feet of sea level this would certainly be a global catastrophe of unprecedented scale. But it would cover only a small fraction of the total surface. It is shown in a deleted scene that the Dry land they find at the end of the film is the top thousand feet or so of Mount Everest, which would indeed be the last place to flood if the ocean could rise that far. But in reality, a 400 foot sea level rise would leave the world with almost as much dry land as it has today, in percentage terms.<br/><br/>To give an example of how far the movie is from reality, consider that it shows the Mariner diving thousands of feet down to explore the sunken city of Denver. In reality a 400 foot sea level rise would leave Denver still almost a mile above sea level, and more than 1,000 miles inland from the coast.
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