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They didn't have the budget for them
TheSheepLookUp — (archived)

You have to remember this was 1997, when films were just starting
to get the ridiculous amounts of money they ask for. I must admit
that one thing I did not like in ST was the absurd way the soldiers
ran into battle, as one massed group, then they all ran back to the
ships screaming when the Bugs went after them. Who the heck
planned that strategy? Of course that may have been yet another
point Peter V. was trying to make on the absurd waste of war.

Just two years earlier, Waterworld was jumped on by all sorts of people
for costing the crazy sum of $100 million to produce. Now even comedies
like Evan Almighty cost $50 million more than that.

Waterworld was not a great film (that other SF flick Costner was in, The
Postman, was a real depressing stinker), but it did not deserve the
smacking so many so-called film critics gave it. I doubt most of them
would understand SF and films in general if their lives depended on it.

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