Because he is a great example of the phenomenon known as "Oscars ruined my career". After winning two Oscars he obviously started to be full of himself and his ego was the thing that controled him.
Waterworld and The Postman are among the first pieces of shit I've ever seen. They were both way too long, without any substance, filled with totally irrelevant plot lines, were totally confusing when it came to find out what really they wanted to tell (The Postman had too many useless dialogues and in the end I stopped to oven bother about the purpose of everything that was going on), in both cases the acting was simply painful to watch (especially Coastner who simply looked like an arrogant asshole), the dialogues were generally ridiculous, the pacings felt disorganized, etc.
I could also talk about Coastner's directing in The Postman which looked like he didn't even care about what was going on. It was like if he knew that he was making a total piece of garbage and therefore, didn't bother to even try making something decent out of it. Maybe he thought that he was the new Martin Scorsese who could make gold out of any material he works with (not all Scorsese's movies are masterpieces but even his weakest movies are at least decent).
I think Coastner is just like Nicholas Cage or Cuba Gooding Jr. Winning an Oscar so easily certainly made them think too much of themselves. What other performance would you even consider in Nic Cage's career after Leaving Las Vegas? I didn't see everything he has done but from what I saw, his movies were abysmally awful.
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