Here, any scrap of paper, any mirror or antique from the old world of land, possesses value. They live on floating slums known as atolls, bartering for trinkets brought by mariners who spend months at sea troving for them (and food). Set in the year 2500, and beset by a planet covered in water after the melting of the polar ice caps, humans cling to life in a barely hospitable world. Twenty-five years later, the disastrous Waterworld is primed for a remake. Conceptually based upon the catastrophic extremes of global warming and decorated by spectacle, the adventure made a bid for political relevance as a cultural flashpoint, while roping in one of Hollywood’s biggest stars, Kevin Costner, when the actor could do no wrong at the box office. Kevin Reynolds’ post-apocalyptic action flick Waterworld holds the usual traits of other bombs - big stars, questionable creative decisions and performances - except pitched to eleven. Though box office bombs come and go, some live on in infamy.
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