Waterworld intro narration

[mase5701]

why did the appalachins go into the sea before the east coast did?

[lonestar2078]

WHO DOES THIS FRICKIN' INTRO?!!!! I know what he looks like, I just can't remember his name!!!

P.S. It's not Don LaFontaine

[hazardous1990]

one of the best intros ever

[angusyjr]

when the sea levels rise in this scene, the east coast of america dissapears first.

the state of virginia is the very first to dissapear underwater. and i live in virginia!

0.0 oh shit.......i live in VA beach. my city is below sea level, my city will go first.

OH NOOOO! LOL! XD

[MrClau88]

....the best intro ever !!! I like't so much.......inegalabile voice.....:) and a very nice movie, I have't in my colection..

[videomaker359]

Omg If the earth will be One big swimming pool I have a to live on a Luxury yacht ^^

[drMerkwuerdigliebe]

...if the polar caps melt .... well try it: make a cup completely full with ice water and wait till the ice has melted...the water wont spill.

The water level will get higher if the climate gets warmer...but not because of the poles but ice bound on land...

[Wiiimzy]

@drMerkwuerdigliebe one of the poles are land. Antarctica...

[drMerkwuerdigliebe]

@Wiiimzy ...well - true of course. What I meant was the typical picture of the North Pole melting - and therefore the water level rising...the problem isnt the "swimming" ice - but the landbound ice - (like at the South Pole of course :)

With -14degC record temperature and normally quite stable temperature around -25degC in summer and around -65degC in winter with nearly no sun at all - its on the other hand pretty unlikely that the South Pole melts completely while you dont cook elsewhere.

[drMerkwuerdigliebe]

...I shouldnt try to be a smartass there anyhow - thanks for the advice - good movie also.

[SuperAnnuatedDoodle]

This was by far one of the most unsettling intros I have seen to a movie.

[fatboy2oo]

I love the intro. I watch it over and over. I wish I could find a program or something that showed the earth as water levels increased/decreased. Besides the epicness of the narration, I also like the way Universal animated it.

[melodymx86]

there isnt enough ice to cover the earth, not enough to saise sea levels by 5 miles

[fatboy2oo]

@melodymx86 We know that now. But that doesn't mean this isn't a great intro or movie. It's an alternative universe lol. Where there was more ice. lol. :)

[Catface91]

Considering the 2 best days of a boat owners life (Jet-Skis included) are the day you buy it & the day you sell it. What's more believable here, that the polar ice caps melting covered the earth, or that boats & jet-skis could last & still run for a century?

[papinsac]

One of the best intro's to a film, other Universal films have used the iconic Earth logo for cool intros. I also loved this soundtrack.

[edyoung44]

this movie made me have to go to the bathroom.............ALOT!!!! haha

[RkivUnderground]

An Inconvenient Truth 2: Somebody Listen to Me!

[Steadyrock100]

Slowly but surely were turning into waterworld. Have you ever noticed that river you lived next to all of your life, the level just seems to increase little by little each month, each year? If you havent you need to pay attention to it.

[angusyjr]

@Steadyrock100 well, if the ploar ice caps in the north and south pole melted compleatly and covered the earth with water, then that would really suck. my guess for the movie is that, it probibly took hundreds of years, or maybey a thousand years for the earth to become covered in water. the fast simulation of the earth that they shown with the universal logo earth, was awesome. i bet it took 1000 years for the earth to become water world.

[ColbertandStewartpwn]

see, guys? we don't really have to be afraid of climate change, because we can just all 'adapt' to live on the ocean.

[DarthCipient]

This movie is awesome. I don't care what any fucking bandwagon-jumping critic says. Hell, the movie is worth watching simply for that boat that Kevin Costner's character sails on. I love "Waterworld"

[STEVEDIGIBOYtv]

Post glacial reality perhaps, LOL! glaciers are shrinking faster than admitted?

[MaxWasteland]

because post apocalyptic movies are supposed to have opening narration - especially this one, which is basically Road Warrior at sea (that is to say, on the salt water wasteland)

[DW8807]

WTF they actually have this shitty intro explaining it with a narration? how awful. Even a half decent movie would just explain it through dialogue, or simply imply to the audience what happened.

[JingleJoe]

Oh man this film was my religion as a kid :D Fuck the acting, its bloody brilliant anyway!

Don't worry guys, just learn distilation and stockpile fishing rods and we'll all be fine :)

[SpunkySkunk347]

al gore

[magog1138]

::looks at comments below::

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So, I liked this movie despite it being panned at the time of its release. It was a great popcorn movie, IMHO.

[2sillytube]

doesn't ice take up more space than water

[gelatinouslove]

It does indeed. Ice is a crystalline solid, so it is less dense than water. Now shhh...Universal must not hear of your treachery.

[taylerc76]

i think people all around the globe to stop this happening if the ice goes we go all the lost people wild life and more i find it hard to belive that people dont really care its our world please look after it :)

[germanviking86]

I'm prepping for this ordeal.

People are stupid, so, they will most likely cause this.

[JohnWolf21]

This is the way the world could turn, if nuclear war doesn't destroy organised Civilisation, then most people's selfish limitless use of fossil fuels will inevitably do this to the planet. North, South Poles and Antarctica melt then we are finished.

[halo41293]

i just realized... when was this movie made? and how did they know that this was going to happen. i mean if they knew about this BACK THEN why didn't they start doing somethign about it?

[HelpSaveTheEarth2051]

1994 i think and they knew about this long before but no one really cares

[proadmin1]

@halo41293 it's rather like it is today, 40% of everyone think's it's a big hoax and even if it's real why should they be bothered, so long as they have theirs.

[halo2maxifoo]

@proadmin1 i see... also nice on replying to a 9 month old comment and wow i realized what was i thinking i dont think they really even knew that you know global warming and stuff i think it was liek fantasy liek this will NEVER happen so lets make a movie about it

[proadmin1]

@halo2maxifoo Well, I think it's not so far-fetched as this movie. I don't buy into the whole "end of the world" scenario, but we can have alot of misery when we have bad policies. So take something that is non-controversial, barring some miracle invention that replaces oil, in 30 or so years, we hit the wall, on fuel. 40 years ago we knew that rather definitively, and in the US in particular, absolutely no effort was made, whereas Japan, Germany & other nations have made very sincere efforts.

[Anthonyk312]

@halo41293 because even if all the ice in antartica and the north pole melted, the water level would only be raised 200 meters. Nowhere near the height of mount everest.

[1king4all]

@Anthonyk312 Yeah that would still equal to about 700 feet, therefore pretty much engulfing all cities, much less those on top of mountains but still, you'd only be able to see the tips of the skyscrapers in the end if you would be out in the open.

[Anthonyk312]

@1king4all definitely all shoreline cities, but definitely not every city in the world. Every city isn't built on sea level.

[Zoopedia]

It's funny because The icecaps melting won't make the sea rise. Only ice on the land that melts and drains into the sea will cause the sea to rise.

[Titanlord10000]

Thats not true because ice is much more dence than water so water speads out more. Also some of the ice floats on the surface of the water

[Zoopedia]

Ice is more dence than water and takes up more room, you are correct. But that is why when ice floats there is always part of it above the water. When the ice melts the water only takes up the room that the underwater part of the ice was taking up.

[HelpSaveTheEarth2051]

You make no sense dude....

[RiotActI]

thanks a lot George Bush!! LOL

[INJUNJANE]

I personally loved this movie, one of my favorites! In fact, I am currently writing a sequel to it, in the form of a television series. This film is the best, top notch sci-fi! I only hope I can do it justice with this tv series.

[the3588dawn]

oh no! florida fucked up first!!!!

[mistifais]

lol XD

[KimLeesBoy]

I like the way the intro. was set out..Brilliant. One of the best movies of the 90s. This film beats some of the action movies out on dvd these days...

[chidlovskiiukrainian]

Nice intro. But it can't happen. The sea level is about 80 meters for all the Earth ices, and less than 100 meters for the dilatation of the waters(because of the increasing temperature of the ocean). But in movies, everything is possible!

[fred21679]

one of the best intros ever! i love it when production companies expand their signature logos!

[xenomorphelv426]

ocean rising up to 8000 meters ? bullshit !

[brucegayle]

It's just a story, stupid. Now Rambo, that's REAL bullshit.

[xenomorphelv426]

so does the Mount Everest are dryland...?

[roboticnoface]

yes it is

[cochranexyz]

Um, it's the introduction.... It says so. On the page here.

[1poiuztrewq2]

LOL shit CGI! They should of used Paint.

[AcaiBerryMONAVIE]

global warming

[aussieblackhawk123]

yes but what of other countrys like india and indoneisa or philipines?..plus we need those polar ice caps..because if we ran out of drinking water..we can only get it from there

[cunnycunny]

If you want to drink saline water and make yourself sick as a pig lol

[olivemike81]

I'm no scientist or anything but even if the entirety of the polar ice caps melted it wouldn't cover the whoe planet in water. The eart has had periods with no arctic ice at all. Cool intro though.

[mistifais]

just figure that just Antarctida alone is bigger than Europe or Australia...and not only talking about the surface...but the huge amounts of ice in it's height...endless miles...not to mention the north pole...

[jezus22]

ice has lower density then wather so in fact when ice melting and became water it need less volume. If every ice on whole planet will melt the global wather level will rise up to 80 meters from todays.

[fred21679]

can you prove this? in fact where do you get your information? humans cant even accurately measure their own numbers, but you know just how much volume is contained within all the ice on a whole planet! sure glad your here to explain this stuff to us Einstein.

[jezus22]

Earth diameter = 12 745,591 km - let's say this is diameter to sea lev. and earth is perfect sphere.

the highiest point on earth - mount everest - 8,848 km above sea lev.

sphere volume = 4,19*r^3

earth volume to the sea lev. = 4,19* (6372,7955 km)^3 = 258815300534,911307508875

km^3 ~ 258.815.300.535 km^3

evsl=258.815.300.535 km^3

earth volume to the top of Mount Everest = 4,19*(6372,7955 km + 8,848 km)^3 = 4,19*(6381,6435 km)^3 = 259894816747,544910112875 km^3 ~ 259.894.816.747 km^3

[jezus22]

evME=259.894.816.747 km^3

difference: evME-evsl=x

259894816747,544910112875 km^3 - 258815300534,911307508875 km^3 = 1079516212,633602604 km^3 ~ 1.079.516.212 km^3

i do not consider preasure because of continents volume so let's say it's ok

you need more than billion cubic km of wather to cover whole world and from that volume yon can make sphere with 1272,628694 km in diameter

btw ice have smaller density than water so when ice melt the water from it take less volume.

[j2murada]

um

if u arent aware, waterworld is a MOVIE

and this is the beginning of the movie.

[Fridaey13txhOktober]

A pseudo-rational explanation would be a small ice planetoide that gets into orbit around earth. It breakes down into a ring of comets, water evaporating from these comets fall into the atmosphere and cause the water level rise. :D

[jezus22]

heh, unique and original idea, maybe not possible (cause evaporated water will not fall to the ground) but still good.

[jezus22]

now, do you have any prove that i'm wrong or you just talking bullshit only just to talk? do you have any information that i'm wrong?

[electricalsemen]

There's something eerie about watching all the land gradually disappear.

[Realxpresion]

good movie!

[ninja987]

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah ima die  omg

[ron3484]

lol, its all good, eveyone will die including me.