Film: Bagging the Biggies

Bagging the Biggies

REMEMBER Kevin Costner’s waterlogged Waterworld? In that apocalyptic stinker, postArmageddon remnants of humanity jet- samed it up on the seven seas; in the current superturkey, The Postman., we get a rerun on dry land. In the new dystopia, the United States is, by 2013, mostly unpeopled desolation, though an abandoned car, vacant house, or thriving township pops up whenever required to help Costner and the preposterous plot along. The actor-director seems determined to appear as the savior of the world, although the world has yet to figure out how to save itself from him.

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Bagging the Biggies

REMEMBER Kevin Costner’s waterlogged Waterworld? In that apocalyptic stinker, postArmageddon remnants of humanity jet- samed it up on the seven seas; in the current superturkey, The Postman., we get a rerun on dry land. In the new dystopia, the United States is, by 2013, mostly unpeopled desolation, though an abandoned car, vacant house, or thriving township pops up whenever required to help Costner and the preposterous plot along. The actor-director seems determined to appear as the savior of the world, although the world has yet to figure out how to save itself from him.