| 09:49 |
gregorynyssa |
So apparently, Waterworld was a rip-off of Mad Max. |
| 09:49 |
gregorynyssa |
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/waterworld-1995 |
| 09:51 |
gregorynyssa |
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/626655/waterworld-movie-facts-kevin-costner |
| 09:52 |
gregorynyssa |
Sixteen years before the premiere of Waterworld, George Miller launched |
| 09:52 |
gregorynyssa |
an action franchise set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Waterworld differs |
| 09:52 |
gregorynyssa |
from the Mad Max series in some major ways (while Waterworld’s setting |
| 09:52 |
gregorynyssa |
is an endless sea, most Mad Max movies take place in the desert), but they |
| 09:52 |
gregorynyssa |
both imagine a primitive, violent future. Waterworld still gets compared to |
| 09:52 |
gregorynyssa |
Mad Max today, and the similarities aren’t a coincidence. The script’s |
| 09:52 |
gregorynyssa |
original writer Peter Rader said the idea for Waterworld was conceived as a |
| 09:52 |
gregorynyssa |
Mad Max rip-off in 1986 following the success of 1981’s Road Warrior. |
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| 15:09 |
thimbronion |
lekythion progress: Refactored a rather large lisp function into smaller functions while debugging several urls in the logs missing from the index. |
| 15:10 |
thimbronion |
It turns out that my copypasta regex for matching urls was a piece of shit. Currently using the very simple regex found in the logotron source with much better results. |
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| 20:04 |
Vexual |
I haven't read or watched Riverworld. Waterworld is similar to Mad Max, but Costner gets about in a 60 ft trimaran @ 30 knots, whereas Gibson has a V8 ford. |