It is a terrible movie that is also a glorious spectacle and everyone (except Kevin Costner) is fantastic. Nothing makes any sense, but is fun to see and frequently illogically clever.

Watched it last week!

The thing about Waterworld is that it's a) a lot of fun, and b) absolutely terrible, but it's only terrible in the way that most movies of that time were terrible. It has this outsized reputation for being bad which is mostly down to the fact that it lost a lot of money (because it was extremely expensive to shoot and audiences immediately clocked it as being a Mad Max rip off with no new ideas to bring to the table). It's no more awful than any other summer action blockbuster of its time, and it has plenty of fun moments in amongst all the usual trash.

I've never understood why everyone dislikes this movie. I've loved it since I first watched it.