The year was 1995. I was only nine years old and even as a nine year old, I knew how stupid and senseless this movie's plot was. The idea that the continents could be drowned by the oceans is incorrect and wildly exagerated. Even if all the ice on earth melted like it did in the movie, it would only raise sea level by a few feet or so. To suggest that even the highest mountains, several miles higher than the oceans, could be submerged by melting polar ice is just absurd! Thats like saying that the ice cubes in your freezer are going to flood your entire house if you turn the heat up too high! I can't reccommend Waterworld to anybody. Global warming is nothing more than a whacko doomsday theory, and a story about it does not make a movie entertaining--it just causes stupifying boredom! Even watching paint dry is more fun than watching Waterworld!