Fortnite Season 3 is now live, and as was rumoured, it brings with it a flooded map and a host of other new features.
The western portion of the island is now almost submerged, with the Agency – a focal point in the previous season – has been transformed into a fortress. NPC enemies known as Marauders will also be present, and your base is a floating collection of hastily-constructed buildings. Oh, and water skis will also feature.
If all of this sounds familiar, then you're probably old enough to recall the 1995 box office bomb Waterworld, starring Kevin Costner – the world's biggest movie star at that time. Set in a world where the ice caps have melted and oceans cover the globe, it features oil-loving baddies called Smokers who travel around on jet skis harassing people who live on floating, man-made islands. Costing around $175 million to make – an eye-watering amount in the mid-'90s – Waterworld took $264 million worldwide (of which the cinema chains would retain around half) and was successful on home media, but it never quite shook off the stigma related to its troubled production (Costner nearly drowned during a stunt and a hurricane damaged the set at one point).
Outside of the Hollywood influence, Fortnite's latest season will also include sharks you can ride on and even drivable cars. It would also seem that, as the season progresses, the flood water will recede, opening up more of the map (those cars will obviously be more useful then). Oh, and DC's Aquaman is also coming along for the ride, continuing the comic book theme that has already seen The Avengers and Deadpool come to the game.
Let us know what you think of Fortnite's latest season by posting a comment below.
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I actually really enjoyed Waterworld as a kid. Never understood the vitriol behind it.
Chapter 2 has been mostly lackluster so far. Season 1 was ok, and season 2 started fine but it dragged on for far too long and unlike previous seasons it didn't add new modes or content all throughout it. But chapter 3 looks like it's going to be an amazing season.
Waterworld is a dreadful movie, but this should make Fortnite interesting for its player base. My recommendation to those young enough to have never heard of or seen Waterworld: don't bother. Enjoy the theme in the game and forget the movie exists. It'll be 3 hours of your time you will never get back.
@Ooccoo_Jr I think its because Waterworld is just a very slow movie. It could easily be cut down much shorter by cutting out all of the filler. It would have been much better as an hour and 30 minute flick
This seems fun, not to mention that Waterworld is a great movie. I’ll have to give this a try.
@Ooccoo_Jr It's a great film, I've got nothing but fond memories of it.
Waterworld on SNES at least has an incredible OST. That’s about all the praise I have for Waterworld though.
I can't really remember it so this article made me download it. I can only remember Dennis Hopper's eye patch and him flicking a cigarette into the oil. Or something like that lol.
@Damo wow, gonna have to take anytime you use "great" to describe something with a very large grain of salt forever. To each their own, but you can't say that is a great film and be serious. You just cannot.
Never understood the draw of Fortnite, but I always got bored quickly with FPS games. To each their own — looks like a fun theme and hope people enjoy it!
@cptspaulding It's almost as if people are entitled to different opinions!
@Damo you're free too have different opinions. Just as long as they completely aline with my ideologies. Can't have any straifers in the hive mind, Ya know?
Jack Black as a pirate, that's what I remember from Waterworld. oh and "paper, reeaal paper!". Was never as bad as people made out in fact it is a masterpiece compared to some of the shlock released these days.
To be followed by
Fortnite: Heaven's Gate
Fortnite: Cats
Com'on @damo even you have to admit that headline is a bit of a stretch. I literally just googled the headline - starting at Hollywood - and guess where Waterworld appears on the list? It doesn't. And the list is alphabetized so it's easy to see. Though it is wiki, maybe all the Costner Stans took it off. 🤣
Google it yourself: "Hollywood's Most Infamous Box Office Bombs"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_biggest_box-office_bombs
FYI - Waterworld - which failed miserably in the US and was obvs a flop - made enough money overseas that it isn't considered a "box office bomb", that title is reserved for films that lost money. Overseas markets FTW.
I'm not even sure it was Costners worst box office flop, which was "The Postman", which is on the list.
And that's our Film 101 lecture for today. Class dismissed. 😎 (Did you guys have "Social distance" learning w/ your kids over there, mine just ended Friday, finally.)
@rjejr When the film was in production, news stories circulated about the spiralling costs (which led to the "Fishtar" and "Kevin's Gate" insults in movie magazines at the time, both alluding to previous box office bombs) - my dad used to own his own chain of video rental stores here in the UK, and we'd regularly discuss what a disaster the promotion was for the film.
When it eventually released, it was the most expensive movie ever made - and while it did eventually surpass its costs (not including marketing, which apparently bumped the total spend up to $235 - in 1995!), $88 million in North America on a film with that kind of budget didn't exactly make it a success. Sure, overseas (pardon the pun) made a difference, but it never shook off that stigma.
Sure, it's not on that list, but in terms of column inches, it's certainly one of the most high-profile box office bombs (that list you cite has films that very few people even heard of at the time - Waterworld was EVERYWHERE back in the '90s, and starred the world's most bankable movie star, which is why so many people remember it as a bomb), even if the gulf between total cost and eventual revenue isn't that big.
I actually can't believe I'm debating whether or not Waterworld was a bomb. 2020 be weird, y'all.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/aug/18/kevin-costner-waterworld-is-beloved-around-the-world
"Star of the 1995 box office disaster claims that it is a favourite among fans and was a ‘joy’ to work on"
https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/kevin-costners-waterworld-overlooked-or-underwater/
"one of the most notorious blockbusters of the 1990s"
https://entertainment.time.com/2009/08/28/top-10-disappointing-blockbusters/slide/waterworld/
"Top 10 Disappointing Blockbusters"
Film 101 school is over
@Damo Hang on lets not confuse things here. Waterworld wasn't a box office bomb, it debuted at Number 1 in the USA and the UK, finished in the top 10 US films of 1995, 7th for the year in the UK (ahead of the likes of Apollo13!) and was 9th in the worldwide top 10 film releases of 1995.There were some very big films in that 10 and it held its own.
The fact that it went massively, massively over budget is a completely separate issue and is more of a case study in poor project and budget management rather than it being poorly received.
i like waterworld. especially the one in universal studios
@Morph You are technically right - it was not a financial bomb as if you factor in video / tv rights etc plus Hollywood accounting practices, it covered costs, possibly even made a modest profit. From a critical perspective AT THE TIME, it received mixed reviews. It was a massively expensive disappointment for Universal but definitely not a disaster in the same bracket as things like Ishtar and Heaven's Gate, both of which had far more profound impacts on the companies that made / distributed them.
@Damo "I actually can't believe I'm debating whether or not Waterworld was a bomb. 2020 be weird, y'all."
This conversation is like the most normal thing I've had happen in 2020.
I will give Waterworld is't due, it's famous. But films like Ishtar and Heaven's Gate were the true $ bombs, but I'm not holding out hope for either of those in Fortnite. I think Waterworld is seen more of a joke now, it's a bomb but it's funny bad, an unintentional parody of Mad Max. That's it's fame, ridiculously bad, not being a "box office" financial bomb. It's a modern "Plan 9 From Outer Space".
Man, your dad ran a rental chain you must have seen a lot of movies. My dad repaired TVs, we always had plenty of tvs in our home, like 1 in every room, I watched a lot of bad tv shows growing up.
@rjejr I watched SO many films (both good and utterly terrible) as a consequence of him owning those stores. The best thing is that his stores also doubled as game shops - he had a bunch of arcade machines in them at one point during the early '90s (so lots of SNK stuff, Street Fighter 2, etc) and also sold video games during the 16-bit and 32-bit era, right the way up to around 2005 when he sold it on. Good times!
“You wanna see dry land?!”
@Damo definitely entitled to your own opinion, but be prepared to have it checked if you call a movie like Waterworld great. And I mean this is as light hearted as possible of course! I will continue to enjoy the content you provide us and I thank you for it!
Didn’t mind the movie, it was a different approach of a story. I was more surprised to see the kid pop up after all this time in the cult classic Napoleon Dynamite.
I actually enjoyed the movie Waterworld 😅 Certainly a lot more than the Twilight movie...
Waterworld is pretty much Mad Max... except it’s set in the ocean.
@Damo Well, that explains 95% of your twitter feed right there.
@Ooccoo_Jr I've seen it several times over the years and I still enjoy it.
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