Waterworld
WHAT WENT WRONG
Sad Boom Media
4.8 • 4.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2020
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Near decapitation, sunken sets, and an incredibly expensive divorce... 1994 was not Kevin Costner’s year. This week Chris & Lizzie discuss the notorious box office bomb that wasn’t: Waterworld. Join them as they dive into the story behind a film that lost audiences before it even hit theaters.
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| 0:00.0 | Kha Kha Kha Kha Kha! Hello and welcome to this week's episode of what went wrong. I am one of your hosts, Lizzy Bassett, here virtually with your other host Chris Winterbauer |
| 0:24.1 | Chris how's it going it's going well Lizzy glad to be recording the podcast on |
| 0:28.4 | another lovely Friday night in my 97 degree apartment. |
| 0:33.0 | It's so hot, it's horrible. |
| 0:35.0 | It's bad. |
| 0:36.0 | So last week I'm well aware of the fact that I promised you all |
| 0:40.0 | this week's episode would be about the Wizard of Oz. I have to throw myself on |
| 0:44.1 | the altar of shame here and just tell you that I did not get my shit together in time |
| 0:48.0 | for it to be an episode on the Wizard of Oz. It will be coming next week and |
| 0:51.6 | based on what I have learned so far I'm pretty excited for it. |
| 0:55.3 | So instead of the Wizard of Oz this week we are covering another W movie. |
| 1:01.1 | Chris, what is it? It's actually a double movie. a |
| 1:05.0 | W movie, uh, Chris, what is it? |
| 1:05.0 | It's actually a double W. It is. Water World. |
| 1:07.0 | A film that has lived in infamy since its release in 1995, |
| 1:11.0 | the movie that spawned a Universal Studios ride and endless puns involving water and |
| 1:20.0 | and fiasco's. |
| 1:21.0 | So Lizzy, I believe you saw the movie for the first time last night, please share your thoughts. |
| 1:27.0 | Yes. I have seen the Universal Studios show previously, which is 10 out of 10 fantastic lots of explosions and |
| 1:36.0 | jet skis highly recommend the movie however like I knew it was going to be bad. I, the whole thing about Water World is like, oh, it's terrible. |
| 1:46.4 | I didn't understand what I was getting myself into and my biggest question is, why is Kevin Kossner's character just such a bag of |
| 1:54.9 | dicks to all the women in the movie for the whole movie? He's like a domestic |
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