raven56706

Ok i am almost done with the movie and i have to tell you.... just as bad as 10.5 but better then any CBS movie.


i couldnt believe my eyes to see Mahoney in this movie

wm lopez

C. Thomas Howell looked very bad and he's not that old.
If anybody can post a picture.

Eric F

It sank.

FinkPish

I'm proud and embarrassed that I worked on this.

Deftones

I didn't watch it, but the fact that it wasn't in HD was a big mistake. None of these new made for TV movies should be in SD. That's just ridiculous.

FinkPish

It was in HD, at least here in LA; in DD5.1 too. At least it was supposed to be.

theedge

Yep, was in HD here too..just saw a few minutes...thought I would wait to see what TV Talk says about it....er rips it apart...

mikehunt

why?
as in "why the fuck did they remake this movie?"

Charlie Goose

The recent made-for-TV disaster movies have been cheesy fun, but this one wasn't fun at all. There was no emotion to it. The original PA had screaming and sobbing and you believed that those people were in an upside down ship. That was absent tonight.
"Hey, the ship is upside down."
"Oh, okay."

"Mom, while you climb the Christmas tree, I'm going to stay here and face certain death."
"Oh, okay."

"That terrorist just shot the captain."
"Oh, okay."

"We saved nine people out of three thousand."
"Oh, okay."

Obviously, those quotes aren't real but show just as much emotion as the script or cast did. Not one actor did anything more than pay their mortgage.

Rogue588

This was an actual MOVIE? I thought it was a joke..

Deftones

It wasn't in HD here in Phoenix. So either someone forgot to flip the switch or for some reason our affiliate didn't get the HD feed.

FinkPish

Too bad; I know originally, had this aired on the Hallmark Channel, it was only going to be SD, but since they made a deal with NBC, they pushed for HD, to make it more of an "event."

I agree with most of the complaints here; having seen this a thousand times, the common problems are: too long, too slow, the writing is too on the nose (i.e. no subtlety), the acting is kinda not great, etc. At least the music sounds good; that's all I care about in the end.

Bill Needle

I liked it better the first time when it was called "The Poseidon Adventure." /David Spade

sabre

I am still trying to figure out why that woman took off her dress so they could rip it apart to use as a mask to breathe. didn't someonelse have something else to use. i love t&a but that was beyond laughable.

the weirdest part of this tv movie is
isn't wolfgang peterson directing kurt russell and emmy rossum in a feature film remake of the poisden advenure? i guess two studios for some reason have the remake rights of the movie and one is trying to screw over the other. i think the original poisden advenure was a shared production of wb and universal. I think Universal tried making this tv movie as bad as possible to stop people from wanting tosee the wb feature film next summer directed by wolfgang peterson and starring kurt russell. universal hopes people will say i saw that on tv and it was the worst show ever.

raven56706

see i found it weird when freaking Mahoney was with that chick and he kept on looking at his wife with fear and disgust....

no idea what his problem was....

the only classic moment was the chick when she took off her clothes and the kid videotaped it....

BamaDan

Yeesh, this sucked. I love the original, but this one was just horrid. I didn't understand why they changed up so much (Rogo is a super-agent, terrorist plot, Navy on the scene so early) but tried to reccreate so much shot for shot (swimming fat woman, falling off the ladder, etc.) Make up your mind and stick to one way or the other. And no singing of "Morning After" just sucks.

lisadoris

I want my three hours back.

Quatermass

Well, that explains a lot! I kept flipping this back on to see if I could catch a glimpse of that Fergie chick from the Black-Eyed Peas, because I saw a bit on Access Hollywood or ET where she was filming a scene. They said she was in a remake of the Poseidon Adventure, I just assumed they meant this one, it turns out she's in the other remake. Who would have guessed they were going to make two unnecessary remakes back-to-back.

You are probably right about Universal trying to scuttle WB's version, although there was a TV version of Titanic just before James Cameron's version came out in theaters and it obviously didn't hurt that too badly.

Steve Phillips

It was in HD/widescreen in Las Vegas. It didn't help. It was pretty bad. It can't touch the original. It can't even touch the sequel BEYOND THE POSIDEON ADVENTURE!

Maybe the theatrical remake POSIDEON will be better. It couldn't be worse.

FinkPish

Universal/NBC had no hand in producing this version; the remake rights for TV were held by the Hallmark Channel. The only input NBC has was in approving the final cut, mix and visual effects; they had no say in the script, casting, etc. There could have been some underhandedness in buying this version, but the NBC guy who I dealt with seemed genuinely interested in the project; they weren't trying to air the worst version possible to piss off WB.

http://www.variety.com/article/VR111...ryid=1238&cs=1

riley_dude

Like the Love Boat before it, this movie is filled with Has-been stars.
The ship turning over wasnt even exciting.

I'm looking forward to the Big Screen version. At least they are sticking with a rogue wave hitting the ship.

scott shelton

If there was any sneaky behavior on NBC's part, they wouldn't have aired the TV film 7 MONTHS before the film version.

raven56706

i was amazed at how many well known people were in there

Michael T Hudson

He was here in Austin this weekend for Red Dawn at The Alamo Draft House. The picture for the showing on the website was from the Outsiders.

Quatermass

Maybe not, but it should at least make the DVD release of this one coincide with the theatrical release of the other remake.