Poseidon Trailer

[Dapper Dan]

New Poseidon Trailer Hits
Source: Warner Bros. Pictures
March 17, 2006




Warner Bros. Pictures has provided ComingSoon.net with a first look at the new trailer for director (http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=13671#) Wolfgang Petersen's Poseidon (http://www.comingsoon.net/films.php?id=8234), hitting theaters (http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=13671#) and IMAX on May 12. The action-adventure (http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=13671#) stars Josh Lucas, Kurt Russell, Emmy Rossum, Jacinda Barrett, Mike Vogel, Jimmy Bennett, Mia Maestro, Andre Braugher and Richard Dreyfuss.

Click here (http://poseidonmovie.warnerbros.com/) here to watch the trailer!

[Caroline Forbes]

Hmm I saw this somewhere on tv...

[Jill Monroe]

this movie will never compare to the original with Gene Hackman and Shelley Winters. That movie is classic...and they simply arent made that way anymore. This movie, from what i've read is trying too hard to be clever and trying to address the issue of "social classes".

[Lethal]

oh how i love the original movie. i may see this one out of nostalgia.

[Jill Monroe]

oh how i love the original movie. i may see this one out of nostalgia.

your nostalgia will be replaced by disappointment. this "remake" is NOT loyal to the original plot of the first "Poseidon Adventure". They even tried to weave in a "terrorist" sub plot for this remake but it was taken out.

trust me..if you have nostalgia for the original film, RENT the dvd from a video store LOL! The original is FAR SUPERIOR to this crap.

[Lethal]

your nostalgia will be replaced by disappointment. this "remake" is NOT loyal to the original plot of the first "Poseidon Adventure". They even tried to weave in a "terrorist" sub plot for this remake but it was taken out.

trust me..if you have nostalgia for the original film, RENT the dvd from a video store LOL! The original is FAR SUPERIOR to this crap.


i cant stand when hollywood pulls crap like this! It just burns me up!
:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

[Jill Monroe]

"Poseidon" sinks again in pointless remake
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By Sheri Linden
Tue May 9, 9:19 AM ET

The cries of "Why?" over "United 93" might better be applied to this spectacular but uninvolving remake of "The Poseidon Adventure," the 1972 Irwin Allen production that kick-started the modern-day disaster genre.

Updating the story of a capsized luxury liner, the $160 million production boasts more than a few astounding set pieces. But its intensity is strictly physical, the intended emotional impact submerged in a numbing onslaught of death, danger and derring-do as a bunch of mostly annoying, self-centered passengers fight their way to the surface, finding their inner heroes as they go.

Among the willing cast, only Jacinda Barrett and stars Josh Lucas, Kurt Russell and Richard Dreyfuss manage, just barely, to suggest a third dimension to the script's cursory character sketches. But that won't matter to audiences craving a disaster thrill ride. A simultaneous Imax release will up the summer-movie draw for Warner Bros., which will find "Poseidon" well afloat in international waters.

Director Wolfgang Petersen, who knows his way around cramped nautical sets ("Das Boot") and soundstage water tanks ("The Perfect Storm"), has corralled an ace team of artists and technicians to create his doomed vessel. The ship is the film's most fully realized character -- beginning with the powerful sunset scene that opens the film, the camera circling the Poseidon in the great expanse of a calm sea. It's an awe-inspiring image of the floating city's might, enormity and opulence.

The '72 film was a kind of biblical "Love Boat," complete with floods and hellfire, maverick ministers and Israel-bound Jews. The new film's script by Mark Protosevich ("The Cell") forgoes the quasi-religious angle and much of the humanness as it revolves around a new set of central characters (sorry, no heroic Shelley Winters type). The cheese factor remains, however, especially in the awkward introductory scenes. But Protosevich and Petersen make quick work of the setup and cut to the chase: As the New York-bound Poseidon's passengers celebrate New Year's Eve, an enormous "rogue wave" slams into the ship, turning it upside down.

Amid the well-captured chaos of crushed, drowned and electrocuted bodies, our hardy band of survivors emerges, determined to climb through the formerly lower decks, against the orders of the captain (Andre Braugher), and escape the sinking vessel. Counting on the power of GPS to bring rescuers their way, the captain stays in the ballroom with the other survivors. The powerful point at the center of the saga is that most people would wait with him -- and seal their fate.

Leading the small group of brave souls who don't wait is gambler Dylan (Lucas), who intends to exit solo until a 9-year-old boy (Jimmy Bennett) and his single mother (Barrett) demand to go with him. Dylan's transformation from selfish loner to responsible scout master is so quick and complete that the implied reluctant-hero business is utterly unconvincing. Although it's dispiriting to see a fine actor like Lucas bellowing "It's our only option!" his character's spectacular ingenuity enlivens the proceedings with daring dives through flames and the impromptu creation of an aerial tram.

Another single parent, Robert (Russell), matches Dylan's Navy experience with his credentials as a one-time fireman and former mayor of New York -- perhaps a bit of hat-tipping to the heroes of September 11, or, as one character exclaims when she learns of his background, "Cool!" Joining them are Robert's petulant 19-year-old daughter (Emmy Rossum), her boyfriend (Mike Vogel), a stowaway (Mia Maestro), the waiter who hid her onboard (Freddy Rodriguez), an obnoxious drunk (Kevin Dillon) and a despondent architect (Dreyfuss) whose boyfriend left him just before the cruise.

They don't all make it, and in some cases that's A-OK. As the ship implodes around them, the group races the rising water through topsy-turvy corridors and flooding ballast tanks, the most nerve-wrenching episode being a vertical climb through a tight A/C shaft.

Though the urgency is almost always at a remove, the devastation is masterfully rendered courtesy of William Sandell's outstanding production design, John Seale's multiple cameras, and the "computational fluid dynamics" of George Lucas' ILM effects house. Occasionally rising above the dense sound design, Klaus Badelt's music is variously rousing, mournful and histrionic.

Cast:

Dylan Johns: Josh Lucas

Robert Ramsey: Kurt Russell

Richard Nelson: Richard Dreyfuss

Jennifer Ramsey: Emmy Rossum

Maggie James: Jacinda Barrett

Christian: Mike Vogel

Elena: Mia Maestro

Conor James: Jimmy Bennett

Captain Bradford: Andre Braugher

Lucky Larry: Kevin Dillon

Valentin: Freddy Rodriguez

Gloria: Stacy Ferguson

Director: Wolfgang Petersen; Screenwriter: Mark Protosevich; Based on the novel by: Paul Gallico; Producers: Wolfgang Petersen, Duncan Henderson, Mike Fleiss, Akiva Goldsman; Executive producers: Kevin Burns, Jon Jashni, Sheila Allen, Benjamin Waisbren; Director of photography: John Seale; Production designer: William Sandell; Music: Klaus Badelt; Co-producers: Todd Arnow, Kimberly Miller, Chris Briggs; Costume designer: Erica Edell Phillips; Editor: Peter Honess; Visual effects supervisor: Boyd Shermis; Special effects supervisor: John Frazier.

Reuters/Hollywood Reporter