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Do waterworld again!
Is it a flop? I thought it's good from recent viewing, no nostalgia involved because i never watched it back then. Wouldn't mind for another one in that setting though.
It was the most expensive movie ever made at the time, which attracted a lot of criticism. It made a profit though.
For some reason some people thought "it's just Mad Max on water" would make other people not want to see it.
I think the movie is amazing, but it was generally panned as an expensive flop. I think the setting is really interesting and the practical effects were out of this world
Waterworld was a flop that got a reappraisal, and is now considered a pretty cool movie. It was really a victim of a critical wall that was against it from the start. That happens with some movies.
Babylon is another. That's going to get a reappraisal at some point, and become a cult classic.
Showgirls is going through a reappraisal, and people are starting to see it differently. It was a Paul Verhoeven movie, of course it was great.
Yes! Then Battlefield Earth!