Which is not to say these stunts aren't dangerous. They honestly might be more so. Water terrifies me, and the idea of having to do any of this terrifies me. I'm just saying that the end result, on film, is definitionally, inherently not as exciting to the eye as the road version of what is essentially exactly this same idea. It's Speed and Speed 2. Everything that makes the first compelling, from a marketing standpoint, is erased from the derivative work.
It's probably terrifying and dangerous IRL, but to us, it just looks like 'bloop' and then he's gone and we cut away. It doesn't play well on camera. Which, tbh, is kinda like me. I've got a great voice, I hope you hear it soon, but I don't photograph well and I'm only marginally better on camera/in motion. The camera doesn't like me, I feel. Whoa, sorry, this just got super personal and real and heavy. That's what you get in the alt-text, baby! The real, real me.
Stuff like this excited me initially! You guys remember. I was all about it. But then all that awful, horrid, weird shit happened, and I 1,000% cannot and will not get past that, and so seeing stuff like this just infuriates me now. Like, all this in service of... what? Awful.
Yeah, these water stunts aren't a patch on #MadMax, bc people just dump into the water afterward, and don't, like, slide, 40 ft across bad asphalt into a burning truck or whatever.
#Waterworld has all the hateful, rapey creepiness of #RoadWarrior, cranked to 11, but none of its redeeming qualities.
