Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-03-13 (Wednesday)

On 3/14/24 6:56 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:

Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
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I watched:
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What did you watch?

 Hey, thanks for asking!
 I watched.
 THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE
 No, not the 1972 classic.
 No, not the 2006 Kurt Russell remake.
 Did you know that there’s a really substandard Hallmark  version from 2005?
I didn’t.
 The guy who wrote it, switched up things as much as he could, and added all
sorts of really stupid plot devices. This time the ship flips over because
terrorists blow a hole in it.  But first they turn off all its electronics
and then kill themselves so that nobody will ever know what happened. The
Poseidon just vanished from the radar and was never heard from again. What
the hell kind of stupid statement are the terrorists trying to make?
 it has just a few people you’ve heard of at the top of the credits and then
I think they picked up everybody else in South Africa where it was filmed.
 Adam Baldwin plays Ernest Borgnine, repurposed as a sea Marshall. Stella
Stevens stayed home.
 Rutger Hauer plays Gene Hackman. Pretty much the same character.
 Steve Guttenberg plays Pamela Sue Martin‘s father, a new character
 Bryan Brown Plays Carol Lynley’s boyfriend, the movie producer
 Peter Weller  plays Leslie Nielsen, the ships captain
 Alex Kingston plays a new character some sort of CIA spook back at
headquarters
 Alexa Hamilton plays Pamela Sue Martin‘s, mother, a new character
 Sylvia Sims plays Shelley Winters, whose husband died before the movie
began
 Amber Sainsbury please Pamela Sue Martin. You may remember Amber as the
Cordelia Chase character in Hex.

I remember her. And I also remember her pretty much disappearing soon after "Hex"...

Nathalie Boltt plays the ships whore who Steve Gutenberg is fooling around
with.
 Tinarie van Wyk Loots plays Carol Lynley

She seems to be attractive... And she's still working!

The dreadful script hits most of the points you remember from the original.
They spent way too much time trying to explain how the ship flipped over
and stayed flipped over and they keep saying that it’s taking on water
through the whole blown in the bottom of the hole but it’s upside down and
the hole is way the hell out of the water so…
 The ship goes down at the end with everybody else still aboard her so there
won’t be a sequel.

Wait! - So everybody dies in the end?!!
If so, this is very un-Hallmark Channel-like!!
Ian  (What's also interesting is that I have no recollection of this ever having been made, or aired, despite it being from c.2005(?))