The Postworld

The postman runs just shy of 3 hours compared to 130 minutes of Water world, so to call them the same movie is clearly wrong. So in a nutshell, The Postman is about a Shakespearian actor/drifter in a post apocalyptic American wasteland, who turns America back and more prosperous then ever by means of a fistfight against a copier machine salesman?

Possibly some of my best photoshoppin' ever

My favorite scene would have to be when the postman passes the little boy in the road holding a letter high in the air. Obviously the postman has a lot of shit to do because he's riding full boar to wherever he's going. But he stops and heads back to get the boys letter at full speed , and instead of stopping he rides full speed past the child and grabs the letter heading in the opposite direction in which he was headed originally. Sense factor=0. And on top of that, he crumples it up . So much for handle with care.
So maybe I missed it somewhere. In Waterworld, I believe the reason for the apocalypse is that the polar ice caps melt. This makes sense to, because at the time of its release, The world was in the middle of its fear of the whole global warming farce. If anyone was trying to ride the coat tails of free publicity and fear, it was the makers of this flick. The Postman on the other hand, unless I slept through this part on numerous occasions, fails to tell us why the world is like it is and why a copier salesman rules what's left of America.
I could sit here and tell you all why its such a crappy movie, but I don't have to . It's my blog and I can just say it really sucked. I will point out one more scene. It's a long scene that takes part in the woods at a cabin that Kevin Costner and his woman discover while on the run from the bad guys. They waste about 30 minutes on this part and it just didn't need to be there. I want that part of my life back. It was wasted. I think at this point in his career, Kevin Costner believed that he was untouchable(pun intended). Not the case, especially after seeing this movie. Bottom Line is, he needs someone to pick his scripts for him. If you want to See a good Costner movie, of course, Dances with Wolves is top of the list. After that I would say go for A Perfect World with Clint Eastwood. Costner plays the villain in an eerie, skin crawling way that makes you not want to watch him. I love it
And that's all i have to say for now!