She also has a momentary panic attack when one of the others gets stuck inside. Claustrophobia: Elena suffers from this, and has to be physically dragged inside a flooding air vent that offers her only chance of survival.When the survivors make it out of the ship, that lone life raft is there, waiting for them to wait in until help arrives. Chekhov's Gun: When the ship turns over, a lone little life raft pops to the surface as testiment to the completeness of the disaster.Despite preparing to commit suicide just before the wave hits (he's despondent over the end of his relationship), Richard is one of the final survivors. It ends with a thoroughly haunting, chilling shot (the ominous music really doesn't help) of the now ruined ship turning back over before finally sinking for good. Bookends: The movie opens with a spectacular shot of the magnificent ship in all its glory.Bittersweet Ending: Six people survive and are rescued by helicopters, but everyone else from their group ( including Robert) is dead along with everyone else on the ship with the ship itself sinking.Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Everyone else gets thoroughly soaked several times before Emmy Rossum's hair finally stays matted down like it should.Sure enough, once the group recovers from the shock of what just happened, they move on without a second thought. He completely ostracizes Robert in front of the others before he takes his turn to cross the fallen elevator track, and is crushed underneath an entire falling engine. Artistic License Physics: Lots and lots of examples, from Convection Schmonvection, to the ballroom windows all imploding at exactly the same time, to flaming columns of diesel fuel, to that bow thruster motor being so powerful it creates a 100 mph wind tunnel and easily sucks in a heavy acetylene tank.I'm just going to put myself directly in the middle on this one. I realize it's not a great movie, but I also won't blast it like just about every one else. It's one of those movies where I just can't form a true opinion on it. I don't necessarily like it nor do I dislike it. Overall, I'm pretty much indifferent on this one. Where the movie disappoints is when the actors actually have to speak to one another and we have to listen to their dumbed down dialogue. The movie isn't really about acting though, it's about the visuals and the visuals don't disappoint. The supporting cast that is assembled around them isn't terrible either. Kurt Russell, Josh Lucas, Richard Dreyfus, and Emmy Rossum make for decent main characters. It basically winds up being close call after close call, and every once in awhile a character will drop off. Along the way, they have to deal with fires, water, and narrow spaces. They begin to make their way up the ship to the bottom of the ship, which is now the top. When the captain of the ship tells everyone to stay in lobby and promises them safety, a small group of passengers rebel and leave the group. Poseidon's cool effects and big water scenes make the movie watchable, but nothing more.Ī ship is flipped by a huge rouge wave. Movies like 2012 and The Day After Tomorrow are examples of disaster movies that work despite not having a great human element involved. So visual effects and big action sequences must take over and propel the movie to watchable in order to find entertainment in it. Most of the movies that fill this genre are like Poseidon in that regard and that's where the problem lies in most of them. Poseidon is one of those disaster movies that worries about visual effects over actual human interaction or feeling. Robert Ramsey: You know, there's nothing fair about who lives and dies.
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