The top mistakes in Waterworld http://www.moviemistakes.com/film1384 en Sat, 04 Oct 2008 05:55:08 +0000 8449 In the opening scene where Mariner is sailing his boat into the distance, land can quite clearly be seen on the horizon up ahead. 8437 How far ahead in the future are we anyway? Hundreds or maybe thousands of years? Do you know how long tankers like that can stay at sea? Twenty or thirty years at the most. That's a rather short time for everyone to forget about dry land. 8440 Right before the Smokers show up, you can see land on the left hand side of the screen. 108714 The Exxon Valdez is designed to carry crude oil. Crude has to be refined into higher octane products to be used in jet skis, automobiles, etc. The refining process is difficult and requires large amounts of power. It would be impossible to do on the tanker itself. And it is extremely unlikely that the smokers would have come across high octane products on another ship. They tend to be refined near to their consumers and not shipped around. 46815 When the Mariner hangs a man from a rope on his ship, the man jumps ahead a little: he puts his hand round his throat and makes strangled noises before the rope even goes straight.