Waterworld movie scene
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Thus, early on, The Mariner floats his vessel into an atoll, checking everything out as if he’s on a slow-moving boat ride at a Disney theme park. It’s at its best when it doesn’t leave you pointing at the screen and questioning what it’s actually doing. Waterworldisn’t as good a film, but it’s still a solid one.
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We’re not going to push the comparison further, just to say that if you were drawing Venn diagrams, and you need two films to interlock a lot, we can recommend a couple of DVDs to get you started. Several times, he shoots his action from overhead, boats circling the floating community in the manner that any old vehicle circled the desert-based one. Both are helped by people who make flying contraptions, both find themselves outsiders to the people they’re trying to help, and both turn a little bit nice towards the end.ĭirector Reynolds draws influence from George Miller too. Tellingly, Waterworldis nearly twice as long.Ĭostner’s Mariner, as with Mel Gibson’s Max, is actually unnamed for the entire film, and both characters aren’t really very pleasant people. Swap the deserts for water, the trucks for boats and the need for fuel for the need for 20 Bensons, and Waterworldbears a lot of similarities. George Miller’s Mad Max 2is one of the finest practical action movies committed to film ( The Road Warrior and Waterworldwere both shot by Dean Semler, not coincidentally). It’s pretty much here that the Mad Max 2comparisons begin. Dry Land (for it is a proper noun now) is a myth, apparently, but given that the objective of the movie is to find it, you suspect early on that it’s much of one. That notwithstanding, we’re introduced to a world – thanks to a brief voice over and a bit of buggering about with the Universal Pictures logo – where the icecaps have melted. There’s good reason why you don’t drink sea water, but given that at various points throughout the film people are gasping for liquid, it might have been an idea to either a) invent something that filtered the sea water instead or b) explained why you can’t drink the stuff. Comfortably setting the scene for the degree of logic that the rest of the movie would sit on, he pees into a Goonies-esque contraption, which filters his urine and he glugs it down. Mind you, the film actually opens with Costner drinking his own piss. Meanwhile, the sea based vessels have a velocity that Speed 2: Cruise Control would unsuccessfully grope for a couple of years later. It’s a big set, floating in the sea, dressed to the max and with human beings running around it. Take the early sequence in Waterworldwhere the Smokers turn up for the first time. With Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves, Reynolds showed that he could direct fluid action, and juggle lots of moving parts in the same scene (he’d do so again with the excellent, if unfaithful, adaptation of Dumas’ The Count Of Monte Cristo). Relying little on computers (although there are moments it needs them), as a result, the practical sequences have very much stood the test of time. It’s got an abundance of problems, but if you’re going to take $175m to make a big sea-based film set in a world that’d been all but flooded, at least put it on the screen. And in truth, I’ve always quite liked the film. But for the here and now, it’s the theatrical version we’ve taken another look at. There’s more than one cut of Waterworldin existence, and we’ll come to the extended version shortly. The same article would note that those executives were treating that project “the same way that many government officials dealt with the Vietnam War – saying, essentially, they were not responsible”.įor wasn’t Waterworldset to be a disaster?