![]() But let me propose a possibly heretical idea: What if Waterworld isn’t actually that bad? What if it’s actually…kind of good? ![]() In retrospect, there was really no way that it couldn’t have become the biggest cinematic folly of the ‘90s. For months, the tabloids had chronicled the film’s ever-escalating budget, its seemingly endless string of production delays, and the off-screen trials of its star, Costner, who’d become ensnarled in a messy private divorce from his wife at the time and an even messier public one from his Waterworld director, Kevin Reynolds. Like any $180 million ego trip-especially one top-lined by a guy who America had decided was overdue for a crash-and-burn bit of karmic comeuppance- Waterworld was doomed to fail before it ever stood a chance.
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