Just had to ask.
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danielcw — 12 years ago(August 06, 2013 09:23 PM)
There are 2 movies with that name, both based on the same book, plus a recent movie just called "Poseidon", which was initially also called "The Poseidon Adventure". Each has his owns strengths and weaknesses.
One of them is considered a classic, the 1972 movie.
Imho it is a good movie, because it focuses on the characters in the situation.
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tay-15 — 12 years ago(August 21, 2013 02:26 PM)
The opening scenes of the 1972 film are extremely silly, but once the disaster hits it's a fun ride, with cool special effects for the time, and I agree it's the best of the '70s disaster films.
I saw the 2006 remake and frankly don't remember much about it. There was also a 2005 TV remake that was awful.
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oldsalt61 — 12 years ago(October 17, 2013 10:12 AM)
I liked both films. One thing that bugged me about the original was that the Captain had plenty of time to react to the oncoming wave but took no action until the last second. At least in the new version the wave came out of nowhere with no time to react.
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DLSchindler — 11 years ago(July 29, 2014 01:45 AM)
We are talking about the original right? Otherwise just watch Titanic again.
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mikekuhlman-415-393642 — 9 years ago(May 31, 2016 06:50 PM)
The 1972 original is quite good, suspenseful and tragic. Didn't much care for how Ernest Borgnine and Gene Hackman were going at each other all the time (it wasn't enough to have the ship capsized and sinking, they had to add the human element), but storytelling is drama, and that made for good drama. Also, hated how Gene Hackman as the preacher, in Christ-like fashion, sacrificed himself at the end by falling into the boiling hot water. Couldn't someone have thrown him a rope or something and he swung over to the ledge? I really liked that guy!
Having watched my brother die of cancer in real life, I could really feel the pain of the characters who lost loved ones in the quest to get up to the engine room, where the hull was only one inch thick