# NBC's Poseidon Adventure! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 21, 2005, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbcs-poseidon-adventure/332032 "2005-11-21T04:25:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2005, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbcs-poseidon-adventure/332032/1 "2005-11-21T04:25:14Z")
It’s so horrible! I love it. We’re only 30 minutes in and they have yet to create any interesting characters. Even Firefly’s Jayne is uninteresting. Rutger Hauer as a Bishop! C Thomas Howell is treated as a hunky but the dude’s leathery and well-lined face ain’t pulling it off. ---
**Author:** ![Valerieblaise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@Valerieblaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Valerieblaise)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2005, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbcs-poseidon-adventure/332032/2 "2005-11-21T04:36:25Z")
Yeah, I had to watch it because it had the potential to be hilariously bad. In the end, though, it’s mostly just bad. I’m fairly sure that Steve Guttenberg was in a coma for the whole thing. ---
**Author:** ![Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7cd45c/32.png) [@Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glory)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2005, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbcs-poseidon-adventure/332032/3 "2005-11-21T07:23:39Z")
My favorite part was when Steve Guttenberg ripped off the sleeve of his shirt to show a surprisingly buff arm/shoulder in a gratuitous himbo moment. Hilarious!!! ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2005, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbcs-poseidon-adventure/332032/4 "2005-11-21T14:34:26Z")
…who makes Steve Guttenberg a STAR!? WE doooo…WE dooooo… Rutger Hauer? Steve Guttenberg? Bryan Brown? C. Thomas Howell? Peter Weller? What is this? The Ship of Lost Hollywood Souls? ---
**Author:** ![Marine\_One](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/marine_one/32/3461_2.png) [@Marine\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marine_One)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2005, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbcs-poseidon-adventure/332032/5 "2005-11-21T14:58:50Z")
How can they get away with this on TV when [another movie is being made!](http://movies.about.com/od/moviesinproduction/a/poseidon070505.htm) I imagine this one will be a bit improved. But it better have the guy falling into the upside down skylight!!! ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2005, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbcs-poseidon-adventure/332032/6 "2005-11-21T16:56:55Z")
> [@Marine\_One](#): > > I imagine this one will be a bit improved. > > But it better have the guy falling into the upside down skylight!!! -Ex-swimmer fat lady who has a heart attack -Someone falls from a catwalk into a big oil fire -Someone falls down the upside down smoke stack ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2005, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbcs-poseidon-adventure/332032/7 "2005-11-21T19:14:14Z")
After Bishop Ladyhawke explodes the bomb, it creates a hole in the bulkhead with a part shaped like a perfect diving board. Hand o’ God, I tells ya. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2005, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbcs-poseidon-adventure/332032/8 "2005-11-21T19:30:18Z")
And why do people always have to walk over dangerous catwalks balance-beam style instead of crawling on your hands and knees (which would not only lower your center of gravity but allow you to grab on in case…I don’t know…the ship started to settle). ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2005, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbcs-poseidon-adventure/332032/9 "2005-11-21T19:34:36Z")
I have no idea why I wasted time watching that piece of crap. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2005, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbcs-poseidon-adventure/332032/10 "2005-11-21T20:38:20Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > And why do people always have to walk over dangerous catwalks balance-beam style instead of crawling on your hands and knees (which would not only lower your center of gravity but allow you to grab on in case…I don’t know…the ship started to settle). We were actually yelling this at the TV. Funny how the only two people to fall in were a) the terrorist, and b) the massage bibmo who would have ended the story with a loose end, had she lived. I wanted to smack the “I’m in charge! I’m in charge!” guy. ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2005, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbcs-poseidon-adventure/332032/11 "2005-11-21T20:45:32Z")
So post movie questions… Sea Marshals? Do they really have those? Especially an American on a boat out of South Africa and going to Austrailia? Was there any point to the Aussie tv producers character or his pop idol girfriend? Other than a reference to one of the challenges on his show being similar to the final engine room catwalk cross it seems he could have been a salesmen or the King of Town. They had no story to tell. Was there any reason for the pop girl losing her accent every once in awhile? Did I miss the part where she reveals she wasn’t actually french? Rogo commented on her accent earlier in the movie and when she had her break down while crawling around it was gone until she started to come out of it. Why did the terrorist stick around so long? Was it simply for VENGEANCE against Rogo? He was prepared to die. He wanted Rogo to kill him why didn’t he just start walking away and force Rogo’s hand or jump into the fires or water? It really was just a terrible movie. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2005, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbcs-poseidon-adventure/332032/12 "2005-11-21T20:59:58Z")
Glad I watched [I Love the Holidays](http://www.vh1.com/shows/dyn/i_love_the_holidays/series.jhtml) instead. ---
**Author:** ![Greywolf73](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d9b06d/32.png) [@Greywolf73](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greywolf73)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2005, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbcs-poseidon-adventure/332032/13 "2005-11-21T22:47:35Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Bishop Ladyhawke… _Snicker_ I gave up on it after Steve Guttenberg realizes that _gasp_ his family may be injured or possibly dead in another part of the ship, but still takes time to kiss and share a tender moment with his other woman. :rolleyes: I turned the channel to PBS and watched the second half of [The Virgin Queen](http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/virginqueen/), which I cannot recommend highly enough, by the way. If I weren’t so lazy today, I think I’d start a thread on it. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2005, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbcs-poseidon-adventure/332032/14 "2005-11-21T23:16:50Z")
Did the remanke preserve the religious overtones? ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbcs-poseidon-adventure/332032/15 "2005-11-22T01:18:04Z")
Screw the religious overtones. The part I liked best in the original was when Gene Hackman told the three cute girl survivors “You can’t climb in that long skirt! You’ll have to take it off!” And then didn’t bother to say it to fat old Shelley Winters, who spent the rest of the movie (until her untimely demise, anyway) wearing her long skirt. I also liked that the cute girl survivors for some reason all decided to wear hot-pants underneath their long skirts on New Year’s Eve, just in case they had to take them off to climb up to the bottom of the ship. Yay for 1972! ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbcs-poseidon-adventure/332032/16 "2005-11-22T03:26:31Z")
I only saw a little bit of it. Mainly I wanted to see what Peter Weller was looking like these days. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbcs-poseidon-adventure/332032/17 "2005-11-22T05:46:54Z")
How the hell did they manage to send an email? The terrorists shut down the communications system, and the ship’s satellite dishs & radio antennas are _underwater_ and aimed at the ocean floor! Also funny how the terrorist never tried to escape or do anything until the very end (and fell into a pit of fire, cand we say religious overtones). And of course the nuclear family unit survived intact; am I the only one who was cheering for the father’s death? ---
**Author:** ![Greg\_Charles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Greg\_Charles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greg_Charles)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbcs-poseidon-adventure/332032/18 "2005-11-22T09:05:28Z")
I couldn’t get through much of it, and only lasted as long as I did because of the presence of Jayne (i.e. Adam Baldwin, aka “The Hero of Canton”). The OP notwithstanding, he was good in the bits I saw. If the others had been like him, it could have been an entertainingly bad movie, just like the original. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbcs-poseidon-adventure/332032/19 "2005-11-22T10:19:47Z")
Eh, it was okay, for a TV movie. Not as suspenseful or exciting as the Irwin Allen version. Sending the e-mail was the only jaw-dropping stupidity for me. I was yelling at the TV that their satellite uplink was now pointing at the ocean floor, but nobody was listening to me… ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbcs-poseidon-adventure/332032/20 "2005-11-22T10:22:50Z")
> [@Glory](#): > > Steve Guttenberg ripped off the sleeve of his shirt to show a surprisingly buff arm/shoulder in a gratuitous himbo moment. [Italian grammar note](http://www.etimo.it/?term=bimbo): _bimbo_ (“boy”) is the masculine; _bimba_ (“girl”) is the feminine. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbcs-poseidon-adventure/332032.md?page=2)