If you liked "The Poseidon Adventure," I recommend watching "Beyond the Poseidon Adventure," but I don't recommend buying it unless you absolutely have to have it so you can say you own both movies in the series. However, it's not nearly as interesting or as suspenseful as the original was in my opinion. It has good enough acting, decent special effects, and in parts it's somewhat interesting. "Beyond the Poseidon Adventure" is a decent movie. But it might not be as easy to find the riches and then get off the ship as they first think it will be. Instead of several people taking a cruise on the luxury liner called the Poseidon, this time around, a few people headed by a captain (Michael Caine), board the capsized and upside down Poseidon in search of plutonium and gold.
Therefore, when I found out that a sequel had been made, I couldn't wait to see it.
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All-star cast and impressive sets, this movie is one of the best of the disaster craze of the. Remade as Poseidon in 2006, another failure.I saw "The Poseidon Adventure" a few months ago and thought it was a great, classic movie. Definitely a must-watch for disaster movie fans. Director Neame tells the story of a group of people that must fight for their lives aboard a sinking ship. The Poseidon Adventure was one of the first Catastrophe films and began the Disaster Film genre. The 1979 sequel Beyond the Poseidon Adventure was a box office and critical failure despite an equally star-studded cast. Who will survive-in one of the greatest escape adventures ever. Parts were filmed aboard the RMS Queen Mary, whose encounter with a rogue wave in 1942 inspired the book the film’s based on. Its song ‘The Morning After’ won an Oscar for Best Original Song, while the credible, then state-of-the-art visual effects steal the movie, as well as a Special Achievement Academy Award for Visual Effects. It stars Kurt Russell, Josh Lucas and Richard Dreyfuss with Emmy Rossum, Jacinda Barrett, Mike Vogel, Jimmy. It is the third film adaptation of Paul Gallico 's 1969 novel The Poseidon Adventure, and a loose remake of the 1972 film of the same name. Nielsen gives a stalwart performance as the captain of the ship, in the days before he spoofed this kind of movie, and any others he could send up too. Poseidon is a 2006 American action disaster film directed and co-produced by Wolfgang Petersen.
Some of the other cast members fare rather better: Borgnine, Buttons, Albertson, Carol Lynley, Arthur O’Connell, Pamela Sue Martin, Roddy McDowall, Stella Stevens, Fred Sadoff and Eric Shea are among them. Perhaps as consolation, she won the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress and was nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Oscar. Winters’s non-swimming character who has to swim to survive is an unintentional hoot. Producer/co-director Irwin Allen, king of the disaster movies, turns in a well-produced, entertaining movie, even if some of the dialogue and performances are good mainly for a laugh, though this only adds to the fun. The rest of the passengers perish at the hands of the well-staged giant wave that submerges the dining lounge during the New Year’s Eve party. Then the Reverend Frank Scott (played by Hackman) leads an ill-assorted, motley crew of ten would-be survivors, all of them stock movie stereotype characters, as they attempt to climb up a Christmas tree then upwards through the vessel to hoped-for safety. His mayday and hard left turn are too late as the 90ft tidal wave hits the ship and she capsizes in the devastating storm in the Mediterranean. On New Year’s Eve 1971, while passengers celebrate in the dining room, Captain Harrison (Leslie Nielsen) is called to the bridge in response to a report of an undersea earthquake and told a huge wave is approaching from Crete at 60 mph. The luxurious super-ocean liner SS Poseidon, about to be retired and scrapped, makes her way across the Atlantic and the Mediterranean from New York City to Athens. It’s cast strongly with an all-star cast who include five Oscar winners: Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Jack Albertson, Shelley Winters and Red Buttons.īased on Paul Gallico’s novel, with a screenplay written by Stirling Silliphant and Wendell Mayes, it is a fairly preposterous but rather exciting and endearing tale. The Poseidon Adventure **** (1972 Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Shelley Winters) – Classic Film Review 1209ĭirector Ronald Neame’s famous 1972 definitive disaster movie launched the Seventies vogue for the genre and still provides a good measure of entertainment.
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