What a wonderfully awkward bastard he is. We’d soon find out that main antihero the Mariner wouldn’t stoop to provide a voiceover himself as we zoomed in on his rusty but fitted-out trimaran and Costner’s backside. And what better person to tell us it’s a whole new world than Mr Voiceover himself, the legendary Hal Douglas earning one of his easiest cheques. That’s one of the first things you notice, about the same time as the vast swath of ocean and just after the rather droll use of the globe in the Universal Studios logo to show the ice caps melting. Just without the song.Īlthough James Newton Howard did provide a suitably pelting percussive score. How could they follow that myth-compounded action spectacular with its huge sets, rather uncharismatic gruff leading man, stellar comic violence, dash of supernatural, mind-wrenching end credit song and iconic villain? Waterworld of course! It had all the above.
Yes, a great film: It even had Brian Blessed in it. The two Kevs had recently emerged from the forest of ebullience surrounding Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. How could they follow that myth-compounded action spectacular? It’s a film everyone loves to hate, and that’s precisely why those immensely watchable two hours are bloody great. But somehow, that was even worse, forever banning it from pity lists, a true cult following and even sneaking into snobbish, art-house speakeasies of dumbing down. Of course now we all know that it wasn’t the “Kevin’s Gate” critics were quick to label it – that “Kevin” being interchangeable between Reynold and star/producer of the moment Kevin Costner. Many films have been hit by the curse of water, but of the two most notable examples James Cameron’s Titanic (1997) rose to unprecedented success and… Kevin Reynold’s Waterworld (1995) will never lose its disaster tag. In case you’re wondering, one of those last two was a classic. The Apes may be having a year off, but they’ve led a charge that’s dodged the turgid eco-sci-fi of Oblivion and Elysium to lead Mad Max and Terminator back to the multiplexes. What better time to have a big birthday than during this glorious resurgence of Hollywood dystopia. Blockbuster folly, by the numbers, laugh-out loud… It’s the masthead film that has everything.ĪHOY! YES, THIS POST COMES TO PRAISE KEVIN COSTNER’S SLIPPERY ANTIHERO NOT TO RECYCLE HIM TO DIRT! It’s the summer of resurgent dystopia – so how could Jokerside ignore the 20 th anniversary of Waterworld.
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