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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.
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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.
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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?