This is one nit I have not heard anybody mention, and that is the ease with which Gregor (I think that was his name) finds dry land once he figures out the coordinates. While determining lattitude using a sextant is fairly easy, determining longitude is a good deal trickier. It requires setting a fixed location as a reference and then determining how far you've travelled from it based on the speed you're travelling and the amount of time that has passed. They would have to go to the right lattitude and just keep going horizontally until they found it.

Well if most of the world is water i dont really see a big problem with that since they really didnt have much else to do anyhow.

Maybe, but think about the resources that would take. Do any of the people in this movie look like they're rolling in that kind of suplies?

What supplies? Drinking water? You are surrounded by thousands of gallons of water all you need to do is distill the salt out of it. And viola! Food? While Fish for breakfast lunch and dinner might not be very exciting it is survivable (Plus seaweed and probably phytonplankton not to mention bob who got too old to swim well;-) )

Drinking water? You are surrounded by thousands of gallons of water all you need to do is distill the salt out of it

Not to mention that thing he pees in then it turns into drinking water. Ick.

I was trying not to mention that.

So I had to.

"Of course, Ankh-Morpork's citizens had always claimed that the river water was incredibly pure. Any water that had passed through so many kidneys, they reasoned, had to be very pure indeed." -- Terry Pratchett

Which actually kinda makes you think )or try not) about what it means when you live on a river and have cities upstream.

This film has an unfair reputation as a major flop. Actually, despite it's bloated $175 million budget (history's biggest, until Titanic) it turned a profit.

Yes it was one of those, "since it didn't become the biggest movie of the year" it must be a flop, even though it was still in the top 10.

I can't believe no one mentions the obvious fact that there isn't enough water on Earth to flood the entire planet. Even if all the polar ice caps melted, (which happened during the reign of the Dinosaurs) sea level would only rise a few hundred feet.

It's so obvious mentioning it would be unnecessary.

I only heard a couple rumors why this movie was so expensive but just to be sure was it because one of the sets was damaged about halfway through filming and they had to reshoot?

Anyway, I like this movie. I found Dennis Hopper's dialog to be hilarious. He had several one-liners that I was repeating for sometime after my first viewing. The Deacon had a sense of humor and was an excellent marksman. Hitting the Mariner with a rifle is understandable, because rifles are typically easier to hit distant targets with, but shooting a rope with a handgun on a jet-ski, I don't think so. The same goes for Helen hitting that plane with a teathered harpoon.

Reading the map on the girls back was confusing because the poles were reversed. The ice just melted, would that really cause a shift in the poles? The atoll 'recycled' dead bodies, and was used for death sentences, but what was that stuff? Where did the Smokers get all those cigarettes and ammunition? NANJO; when the Mariner took Helen down to see the city (anybody know which one that was?) there's a submarine, Ohio class by the looks of it, wrecked on the bottom. I didn't see any damage so unless it's reactor just gave out I gotta wonder why it didn't make it. Mariner may be able to breath under water but he should still have trouble seeing clearly. I would love to have gills and be able to breath in either environment.

The ice just melted, would that really cause a shift in the poles?

I don't think the ice was supposed to have anything to do with it. It's just something that happens every so many thousand years. The movie is a bit ambiguous as to how far in the future it's supposed to take place in.