The Poseidon Adventure (DVD)

The Poseidon Adventure, 1972, running time 177 mins approx. This weekend channel 5 showed the 1972 classic The Poseidon Adventure, I was so excited as it has been ages since I have seen it and I am planning on watching the latest version Poseidon opening in cinemas this week. The Story: It is New Years Eve and the S.S. Poseidon is heading from New York to Athens when a Sub Sea Earthquake in Crete sends a massive tidal wave heading straight towards ...
...guests are in the ballroom celebrating the New Year when they are flipped upside down, the ceiling has now become the floor and floor complete with upside down table and chairs and Christmas tree is now the ceiling. A lot of lives were lost in the turn but a lot are still alive, Reverend Frank Scott has an idea for their escape. As the boat is upside down they need to climb up to get out and try and make their way through the ships engine room and ...

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What with the recent Wolfgang Peterson remake of The Poseidon Adventure (adventurously re-titled "Poseidon") hitting the big screens and consequently sinking just as disastrously as its titular ship, I thought it would be a good idea to plunge myself into the world of 1970s disaster movies. It would seem watery tales create mixed feelings with cinema goers (some hate this film, whilst a recent survey named it as the greatest disaster film ever), ...
...got my rubber ring at the ready and sat down to watch (duh duh duh) "The Poseidon Adventure"! The story (as if you don't know it already) tells of a luxury cruise liner, The Poseidon, which happens to be captained by Leslie Nielson. "Oh no" I hear you cry, but don't worry, he dies when it is hit by an enormous tidal wave on New Year's Eve. After flipping right over, some of the passengers (amongst them a renegade preacher played by Gene Hackman, ...

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This film is one of the more intelligent "disaster" films of the 1970s. Directed by Ronald Neame and released in 1972, it covers many themes from religion to love, as well as the human spirit to survive. It's also based on the novel of the same name by Paul Gallico. While "the Poseidon Adventure" looks dated nowadays, it is great for the time it was made. Even now, it's hard to figure out how the made it look so realistic in the various rooms on ...
...Day, an ocean liner on the way from New York to Greece is capsized by a tidal wave. An earthquake has happened 130 miles from Crete and the ship is caught in the aftershocks. Can anyone make it out alive? The effects aren't brilliant but the true horror of the situation is still put across very well. The title song "The Morning After" at the start of the film is indicative of what is about to happen. Incidentally, The Poseidon is the God of the Sea. ...

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...I have never had the delight of watching this before, for some reason every Christmas the family would be watching something else, but I must say it exceeded my expectations. Gene Hackman plays a rebellious priest who ends up by the force of his personality leading the survivors to safety. The 'clever bit' is that the ship is upside down so they have to get to what is actually the bottom of the ship, to get to the top of the sea! The characters ...
...stock middle aged woman, the women in tight clothes (handy when they get wet!. The older couple were quite appealing though, in their devotion to each other. I liked the character mix overall, and none were deeply unlikeable, so you were willing them all to get through and admiring their will to survive. The setpieces were good, and the scenery. The ship looked very realistic for the most part, not bad considering it was way before CGI and Titanic! ...

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...strikes again in another of the disaster films that are almost morbidly bad. Made in that era of disaster movies that was the 70's this has all of the usual cliche's - an ok/big name cast, people in peril, and lots of little personnal stories that all come together. Let's face it, this is never going to win an Oscar (although it's title song DID) and what we have here is pure unbridled entertainment. To hell with realism, or high quality - the creators ...
...of his own, and mkaes the perfect choice as our lead survivor, but he gets great support from Borgnine, Winters and co. (all of whom get their individual moments of screen time). The story is pure production line, and the effects are laughably bad (nowadays) but does it matter? It's formulaic and half but a great way to spend a Sunday afternoon and somehow strangely compelling ...

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...Towering Inferno this was probably the best of those disaster movies around in the seventies. Even though the script is banal and just daft at times you do become fairly engrossed in the struggles of a bunch of survivors on a liner after it's capsized by a huge wave. The special effects aren't very special but remember this was a good 25 years before they started really utilising digital enhancements in movies. Gene Hackman does his best with the ...
...been attracted to it for the money I suppose - they certainly have vastly more talent than this deserves. Still its entertaining enough and has a very nice theme song which won an oscar - (The Morning After). Not brilliant but at least nowhere near as bad as it's sequel Beyond the Poseidon Adventure. Beyond belief more like. ...

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