Anyone watching this right now on NBC? I only saw bits and pieces of the original, but there's been a remake. Adam Baldwin-- "Jayne Cobb" from Firefly-- is in it.
A part of me wants sit down and predict who will drown/be shot/get horribly mutilated by the end of this film...
--j_k
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Posted by SteveRogers (Member # 7130) on :
Adam Baldwin? Of the Baldwin family? I thought Canada bombed there mansion?
Posted by Avadaru (Member # 3026) on :
Adam Baldwin is not related to any of the other famous Baldwins (Alec, Stephen, etc.)
Posted by Aerto (Member # 8810) on :
I, unfortunately, suffered through the entire 3 hours of this movie, because Adam Baldwin is almost always worth watching. Simply put, the movie was not good. I should have known I was in trouble when I saw that Steve Guttenberg had a big part. The heyday of Police Academy is long gone.
Posted by Theaca (Member # 8325) on :
What made ship turn over in the original movie? How did the escape hole get made in the original?
Posted by Aerto (Member # 8810) on :
**Spoilers for 1972 Poseidon Adventure**
In the original movie, a huge tidal wave capsized the ship. The survivors made their way to the hull where they pounded on the hull until a rescue team cut through the hull with blow torches.
Posted by KarlEd (Member # 571) on :
SPOILER ON ORIGINAL MOVIE!!!!
In the original, the ship was overturned by a "tidalwave" (i.e. a tsunami).
In the original, the survivors make it through a maze of wreckage to the bottom hull of the ship (now the top-most point) where a rescue crew cuts a hole to free them (IIRC - it's been years since I've seen the original).
How does this differ from the remake?
Posted by Aerto (Member # 8810) on :
**Spoilers for Poseidon Adventure (TV) Remake**
Ship is overturned because of a terrorist set bomb-blast on one side of the hull. A second bomb on the other side was stopped before it went off. To escape, the survivors set off the second bomb once they reach the hull, blowing an "escape hatch"
[ November 21, 2005, 11:28 AM: Message edited by: Aerto ]
Posted by pH (Member # 1350) on :
Ah, terrorists.
-pH
Posted by Aerto (Member # 8810) on :
If you need a villian to blow a hole in your ship so it will tip over and you can send 14 or so poorly drawn, boring characters scurrying for their lives call: 1-800-Generic-Terrorist
Posted by pH (Member # 1350) on :
Pretty much.
I love how "terrorists" are the generic villains for everything now.
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