SPACE AGE MARINER SHIPS ON DESTINY MOVIE

The tie-in comic implies it was bombardment by gigantic icy asteroids. The icecaps clearly melted (global warming and all), but there seems to have also been a geomagnetic reversal and the moon is far too close.

How exactly it happened is also unknown.Apocalypse How: Class 2: Planetary Scale, Societal Collapse, with massive disruption to the biosphere thrown in for good measure.Always Chaotic Evil: The Smokers seem to fit this to a T.All of the Other Reindeer: Don't like the mariner's gills.

SPACE AGE MARINER SHIPS ON DESTINY MOVIE

Near the end of the movie it's revealed that the Smokers' base is the remains of the Exxon Valdez and 'Old Saint Joe' is a portrait of the ship's disgraced captain, Joseph Hazelwood.

All Hail the Great God Mickey!: The Deacon every so often mentions 'Old Saint Joe' with the same reverence as an actual saint.

Most of humanity has not survived, and the remnants have been reduced to living in makeshift rafts and cities of flotsam.

After the End: The film takes place in 2500, where the polar ice caps have melted and flooded the world.

Ace Pilot: The Smoker who manages to survive and escape his encounter with The Mariner despite losing his gunner and being injured.

Not to be confused with the type of Single-Biome Planet where the whole world is an ocean, although obviously the Earth in this movie comes pretty damn close. It also had a tie-in game that holds the distinction of being the only movie-licensed game to be released on the infamous Virtual Boy. The general consensus is that both remade versions are much better than the theatrical release.ĭespite the film's financial failure, it ended up spawning a stunt show at the Universal Studios parks, called Waterworld: A Live Sea War Spectacular, which over time became more popular and better-known than the movie itself. Unfortunately it also cut a lot of violence and some of the rougher scenes as it was meant for television, so a fan-made version known as the Ulysses Cut was made that mixed the theatrical and extended releases. The film had a notorious Troubled Production that caused the film's $100 million budget to balloon at $175 million (in 1995 dollars), making it the most expensive film ever made until Titanic two years later.Īn extended edition of the movie was also released, adding roughly one hour of world building and background information, which was cut before the theatrical release. He'd prefer just look out for himself.Įssentially, it's Mad Max with the opposite problem: too much water. And the Mariner is not your traditional plucky hero. However, with The Smokers hot on their tail, their journey encounters more than a few bumps along the way.

Conveniently, Enola's back has been tattooed with a map indicating the alleged way to Dry Land. A woman named Helen (Tripplehorn) and her adopted daughter Enola ( Tina Majorino) bribe the Mariner to take them to the mythical Dry Land, which no one has ever seen. A gang of raiders known as Smokers, led by Deacon (Hopper), attacks the Atoll. The Mariner (Costner) enters one of these Atolls to trade, but is discovered to be a mutant and sentenced to death. What's left of humanity is surviving on ramshackle crafts tied together to make Atolls (villages). Set In a World… where the polar ice-caps have melted due to havoc caused by a geomagnetic reversal. It also stars Jeanne Tripplehorn and Dennis Hopper. Its images are calm and storm, sun and moon, life and death its values are loyalty and betrayal, fear and hope, guilt and deliverance.Waterworld is a 1995 Science Fiction film and the second major collaboration between actor Kevin Costner and director Kevin Reynolds after Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. Its setting, perhaps the only one possible, is the sea. Everything seems perfectly alive, perfectly unexplained, perfectly inescapable, terribly intense. Whether ‘it is’ an ancient Mariner, or an albatross, or a ship of death or a hermit, we encounter the object and it encounters us as in a dream. ‘By thy long grey beard and glittering eye’ - strange invocation, as if feared and hypnotic qualities could be somehow besought! From the start, there is curious double vision everything is fated and necessary, everything startling and dreadful. It is as if the story comes loose from time, gravitating towards that somehow eternal quality which haunts all its parts - the dramatic violence of sudden storms and appearances, sudden actions. It is as if the whole poem is here in embryo: narrative vividness, fixed and immediate human encounter, intense yet trancelike questions, asked in terror or nightmare, needing answers but getting none, for whatever ‘answer’ there is comes obliquely. ‘It is’ … Coleridge’s poem starts from the present tense, active, and, as it turns out, irresistible the tense of absorbed narrative and compulsive confession.

Space age mariner ships on destiny