What bugs me about BTPA

I love Irwin Allen and his films a great deal. However I agree this was not a very good film and a poor sequel to a great movie. All that "The Poseidon Adventure" had this movie lacked. The music is awful, the sets are cheap looking and too well lit, I wanted to strangle Sally Field. The movie cost a fortune to make and it certainly did not show. Irwin Allen was a much better producer than he was a director. I wish he would have hired someone else to direct this film.

I just this movie on DVD and was left shaking my head.

I realize you have to suspend disbelief at a certain point but really--

The upside down ship tends to have explosions every now and then. From the engine/boiler room judging from the scenes shown. Now the engine and boiler room is wrecked, with the machinery and boilers torn loose from their mountings. So just how exactly are the exploding? at regular intervals no less.

The TS character had shipped arms and plutonium on board. The relationship between the TS character and Vernonica Hamel character was not made very clear.

But anyway:

The ship overturns and TS decides if he's going to get his cargo, he'll have to do it himself. Maybe I'm missing something, but how does TS learn of the disaster, put together a crew, head out to sea, and find the ship in only a few hours? that is, just a few hours within learning of the disaster?

And where is all the rescue people? Telly learns of the wreck and gets to the scene within a couple of hours but no other ship does? KInd of hard to believe he could find the ship.

Find it he does, however. What's more, out of hundreds, if not thousands of people on the ship, who does he run in to immediately upon entering the ship? why, none other than his confederate Vernonica Hamel! Talk about a lucky break, eh?

Now this Vernonica Hamel character is pretty tough. She survives a disaster and is entombed in an upside down ship that might sink any minute. After wandering around all night with little hope, she runs in to her partner, recently arrived. What's more, she doesn't let on to the others that she knows him. Talk about self control.

However, the TS character decides to kill her, so it really doesn't matter.

BUt TS, man, he sure is single minded. He wants his cargo. He someone finds his way in the wrecked ship to the cargo hold, finds his stuff, AND THEN MANAGES TO HAUL IT THROUGH THE SHIP, THROUGH THE WRECKED ENGINE ROOM, AND IN TO SHAFT ALLEY.

All this happens off screen of course, because that's the only way such a fantasy can be glossed over. We're not talking about a sack here. No, we're talking multiple crates that weight hundreds of pounds, not to mention a 50 gallon drum full of plutonium.

At this point, things are so far fetched you're just praying for then end. Although the ending looks like it was filmed in a bathtub with a firecracker.

Complete waste of time. Irwin Allen at the end of his career.

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