Regarding Waterworld....the critics were just in a mood to roast Kevin Costner, because he had become too successful for a while there. There's nothing more dangerous than becoming too popular. They put you up there just to knock you down. They then established the idea in people's minds that ALL future Kevin Costner movies must necessarily be absolutely rotten, each one worse than the last, and everybody bought it. This was assisted significantly by Kevin Costner himself when he made "The Postman", which really was a rotten movie in most respects. I thought his "Wyatt Earp" was very good, but I seem to be about the only person around who did. It was far better and more accurate history than other movies about Earp (Tombstone in particular...Tombstone was great entertainment, but nonsense as history).

- LH