Scott era, pointing out that garish stockpile of trophies against the film clips featuring their sweaty, disheveled limbs probably came off sort of pugnacious, almost punk.

Which is undoubtedly why, when The Poseidon Adventure was originally released, itвЂ™s promotional materials wore the crewвЂ™s collective 15 past Oscar wins like a badge of knowingly dubious honor. Poseidon herself, a faded luxury ship being вЂњrushed to the junkyard on her last voyage,вЂќ as Captain Leslie Nielsen barks to the slimy bean-counter breathing down his neck-flipping topsy turvy from the surge of an underwater youthquake. In one sense you have the filmвЂ™s roll call of generally unimpressive but extremely specific examples of humanity who get put through their paces to give its audience the vicarious thrill of surviving the worst (i.e., вЂњIf that dumb blond hooker can climb that boiler ladder in her six-inch platforms, I sure couldвЂќ), which is the primary reason I suspect the remake from Wolfgang Peterson, who never met an engorged pectoral muscle he didnвЂ™t send his DP in to fondle in loving close-up, will fail miserably, unless I missed my guess and all audiences really want nowadays is to envision themselves the pick of the crop in their neighborhood YвЂ™s weightrooms.Д«ut in a more meta sense, you also have the spectacle of the classic model of Hollywood filmmaking-represented symbolically by the S.S. Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979), the sequel to the 1972 film, directed by Irwin Allen. Film adaptations of the novel: The Poseidon Adventure (1972), directed by Ronald Neame.

What the glittering, star-driving survivalism of The Poseidon Adventure actually presents is a nightmarishly schematic fantasia of guiltless discomfort. The Poseidon Adventure may refer to: The Poseidon Adventure (novel), an American adventure novel by Paul Gallico, published in 1969. Producer Irwin AllenвЂ™s first of a neverending cycle of disaster epics remains the most beloved of the entire maligned genre: a guilty pleasure to end all guilty pleasures. So while the new remake barely inspires me to start a whisper campaign in a butch lesbian bar, IвЂ™d still give the hypothetical neophyte a double take and exclaim, вЂњYouвЂ™ve never seen The Poseidon Adventure?вЂќ IвЂ™d hump the filmвЂ™s leg in mixed company if the mood struck. For a film thatвЂ™s almost impossible to excuse on artistic grounds, IвЂ™ve introduced The Poseidon Adventure, two hours of Hollywood has-beens and never-would-bes trying to climb up to the bottom of an overturned luxury liner, to more friends than almost any other one I can think of, and with the tenacity and introspection of a pitbull in love.

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