More Movies Please!
More Movies Please!
The Poseidon Adventure & Poseidon - Presented by Carnival Cruise Lines
On the podcast this time, Steven and Sean are waging a desperate, death-defying war with an overturned boat. Twice. We watched the Ronald Neame film from 1972, The Poseidon Adventure, AND the Wolfgang Petersen film from 2006, Poseidon.
In celebration of the age of the first film we watched, we’re doing a disaster movie double feature! We’re out at sea and celebrating New Year’s Day on a boat that just can’t seem to stay afloat. The whole dang thing is a quitter.
I mean, what sort of thing capsizes because of a giant wave? If boats are going to defy all logical sense by being behemoths and still floating on water, the least they could do is stand up to a wave or two.
But noooooo, these dang things have got to immediately flip over and kill about 98% of its passengers and crew. Many people will blame the wave for this destruction, but maybe we’ve been looking at it all wrong.
I suggest that the boat is the real monster here. Maybe if it had tried harder, then those hundreds of people would still have their lives. What an abject, horrifying monster the S.S. Poseidon is.
(Recorded on August 04, 2022)
Links to Stuff We Mentioned:
The Poseidon Adventure (1972) — The Movie Database (TMDB)
Poseidon (2006) — The Movie Database (TMDB)
Wolfgang Petersen — The Movie Database (TMDB)
Man of Steel (2013) — The Movie Database (TMDB)
Grindhouse (2007) — The Movie Database (TMDB)
Kevin Dillon — The Movie Database (TMDB)
Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser - Walt Disney World Resort
Star Wars (1977) — The Movie Database (TMDB)
Titanic (1997) — The Movie Database (TMDB)
Speed (1994) — The Movie Database (TMDB)
Mission: Impossible (1996) — The Movie Database (TMDB)
Emilio Estevez — The Movie Database (TMDB)
Armageddon (1998) — The Movie Database (TMDB)
Kingsman: The Secret Service (2015) — The Movie Database (TMDB)
The Towering Inferno (1974) — The Movie Database (TMDB)
Cast Away (2000) — The Movie Database (TMDB)
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