Worst film ever "The Postman"

Of course you're right -- I enjoyed "Dancing With Wolves" but it's not a film that I would return to again. It was beginning to look like Kevin was a one-trick-pony. Even his starring roles of late have been in bland, unappealing movies (aside from "Thirteen Days"). "Open Range" was back to up to bat but fell far short from the success of DWW.

"The Postman" was in my view good, but not really special.

It went through the motions and had a valuable core theme but it had no spirit. Costner has self-inflated the scope of his own talent -- "Open Range" proved he could make movies with an impact, certainly on similar themes a far greater film than "Heaven's Gate," also a product of a self-inflated scope of talent.

The worst Film ever made "Ishtar" with Warren Beatty
and Dustin Hoffman

The Postman? You mean with subtitles in italian - Il Postino?
That was a great movie!

No, Kevin Costner's "The Postman" about and yet another future world after a devastating war. "On the Beach" is a vastly superior film on a similar theme. Costner's film is snore enducingly boring and only suceeds in muddling perfectly good source material.

Il Postino? My recall is one of it being a little masterpice.

The Postman was in a league with my all time benchmark for bad--Johnny Mnemonic. And both for similar reasons: they took a fascinating premise or story and beat the hell out of it.

Kevin generally suffers from uber-smarminess, but some of his films have nuggets of beauty in cinematography or performances or something. This one, sadly can't crawl out of the muck, just like "Johnny" couldn't crawl out of the annoying and bloody.

Perhaps another would be Aliens 3...the sidetrip from hell. Excuse me, a film where you're hoping the alien kills everyone so you can stop the pain? Enormous disappointment: investing so much energy in meeting the people in Aliens 2 and then just zap, oh well, they're dead. Even the interest of a dog version of the alien couldn't save this disaster.

So for me, their disappointment value way outrates their simple "badness."

Obviously none of you has seen Charlies Angels-Full Throttle....

or Pie

1994 "The Postman" (Il Postino) A gem of a movie.
As I recall, a postman longs to become a poet.

1997 "The Postman" Sci-Fi film set in 2013 directed by Kevin Costner.

Titles are not subject to copywrite laws. You can title a work of art anything you want.
So, go forth and write Hamlet, Jurasic Park or whatever.

Is "Pie" about grandma's fabulous apple pie or was the movie "PI?"

You're right, Billy, copywrite laws do not cover titles which is why Ray Bradbury had no legal hold on the term "Farenheit." If it's marketed in such a way to deceive, like a game, it can be litigated under a registered trademark. "Jurassic Park" is a registered trademark so I wouldn't suggest anyone go about writing anything under that title.

yea PI would be the one... where its in black and white and PI has something to do with the bible... i watched a part of it and gagged and walked out...

I didn't think "Waterworld" was so bad. It was ripped to shreds before it even reached the movie theatre but, it wasn't the worse movie ever made or even close to that, IMO. How about "Down With Love"? Now THAT was a baaaad movie.

I agree with you, Don. Costner has made some really bad movies. The only redeeming feature of Waterworld, was Dennis Hopper; I did like the one with Anthony Quinn, however. Can't remember the title right off.

Ah, Mr. wizard. One the Beach. Read the book and loved the movie.

Watched another Pet Cemetery movie last night. Really...really bad.

OH, now see, eoe,
I quite liked Down with Love. As a satire of those old Doris Day/Rock Hudson films, played in a totally presentational non-realistic style, I had a ball.

Bad, like Show Girls bad? Bad like...?

"Waterworld" was spectacular in the theater -- saw it at the Big Newport screen which is the largest on the West Coast. Dennis Hopper was a delicious villain, Kevin was trying hard to play the anti-hero but was upstaged by the other actors. It was just not a memorable experience -- my favorite water movie is still "The Abyss." "The Postman" was simply not a cohesive story with an atmosphere and point of view, not reaching the poignancy of Nevil Shute and Frankenheimer's direction of "On the Beach." Those final scenes are still some of the most forebodingly haunting in all of film. The black-and-white gave it a starkness it needed -- it was epic without trying hard to be epic.

I think the one you mention Letty with Anthony Quinn was called Revenge, it's the one where Costners character is bonking Quinn's wife hence the revenge.

Obviously none of you have seen "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen"...a true waste of talent...or Van Helsing...not even hugh jackman could save that trash...lol...but i agree with Waterworld...such a droll picture..."Ishtar" was pretty bad too...

A droll picture?

Yes, Kevin as an aquaman could be called droll as he's not a troll, but those gills weren't causing anyone to drool.