The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 114: Waterworld (1995)
Added 2024-11-11 23:01:17 +0000 UTCWe continue to dive ever deeper into the world of big budget failures with Waterworld, a sea-faring post-apocalyptic adventure so middle-of-the-road that only its astronomical budget could possibly be the source of its lasting cultural impact.
CHAPTERS:
(00:00:00) - The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 114: Waterworld (1995)
(00:00:21) - Intro.
(00:02:10) - Our movie is Waterworld, let's get right into the budget talk.
(00:03:40) - The Costner factor.
(00:10:32) - Getting into the ridiculous production history of this thing.
(00:21:16) - Fishtar.
(00:26:07) - What is the Ulysses Cut?
(00:28:56) - Some of the finer points of this goofy apocalypse.
(00:33:37) - Drowning the Universal logo in Kevin Costner's recycled piss.
(00:37:26) - A long stretch at an atoll.
(00:45:37) - Gills? In this economy?
(00:51:02) - Break!
(00:51:20) - Escaping the atoll.
(01:01:51) - Boy does the mariner hate these women.
(01:07:03) - God, this other drifter character.
(01:13:20) - OK, the fishing bit isn't bad. The part where the kid can't swim? Less so.
(01:16:32) - Yes! Please! Show us Drylan...d'oh...
(01:22:21) - Enola is taken.
(01:26:10) - Some more context for how Costner gets that jetski, and scattered Smoker talk.
(01:29:43) - Deacon's speech, and the mariner Solid Snakes his way through the boat.
(01:37:39) - Deacon's dumb end.
(01:39:13) - Off to Dryland.
(01:45:47) - Final thoughts.
(01:49:23) - Closing out our month next week: Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within!
(01:51:18) - Outro.
Comments
So funny how depressed they acting, because the election lol
Jeremy cangemi
2024-11-20 23:35:30 +0000 UTCThe way of Waterworld has no beginning and no end.
csl316
2024-11-20 03:15:37 +0000 UTCI think I am where Vinny is at with Spirits Within. I rewatched it while deployed in 2016 and it just was tedious. Removed from the “oh wow, this new CG thing looks cool!” I had, at best, difficulty caring about much about what was going on. I still rate it higher than Cutthroat Island, which was just painful, but something I can’t say I enjoyed. At least Waterwold had bits here and there that I found enjoyable and fun to watch.
swiftdraw
2024-11-12 16:58:33 +0000 UTCAlso, I started listening to another podcast that developed "The Helen Test" specifically while covering the Universal stunt show as a variation of the Bechdel Test. It was less about the quality of the female characters but asking if the naming of the female characters is as interesting as the male character names. "The Mariner" "The Deacon" "Helen"
Michael Jacobson
2024-11-12 01:07:52 +0000 UTCThanks for giving a better measured recounting of what is ACTUALLY added/different in the Ulysses Cut. My attempts to find a list of the changes was either getting articles & reddit threads saying "it really fleshes out the world" w/o saying how or an OVERLY second-by-second list of changes that was drier than dirt. I stopped scrolling through before they got to the Attol battle. The only notes I gleamed was the family offering their daughter pointing out something like "there is one less so we can have one more" and when saying all the things she doesn't have, Helen includes she could retire if she had a magazine.
Michael Jacobson
2024-11-12 01:04:51 +0000 UTC
