6. Waterworld (1995)
What Everyone Remembers: A few flashes of the movie itself, a scene where Kevin Costner drinks his own urine, and the fact that this was a massive flop at the box office: that's all anyone seems to remember. Even if nobody has actually seen
Waterworld since it was first release, it's one of those movies that has become trendy to call "awful."
Why It's Nowhere Near As Bad: Don't worry: I'm not going to call
Waterworld a masterpiece or even a good movie, but is it the ocean-sized flop and disaster that we've all been lead to believe it is over the last twenty years? Nope. And to be entirely frank, it doesn't come close to matching all the negative buzz that's been looming over it for all this time. Here's a blockbuster that, had it not cost so much, would have probably been far better received, given that it's - for the most part - entertaining and intriguing enough to warrant a couple of hours of your life. There are corny moments, of course, but this movie is called
Waterworld... what did we expect? And the set-pieces more than make up for the bad parts. Oh, and just so you know:
Waterworld did make its money back at the box office.