Impressive Exterior Set
Does anyone else think that the hull that Micheal Caine, Telly Savalas, Sally Field and Co land on it a great set! Apart from the minor inaccuracy of the colour, it is a great set!
any Comments?
Hi-sorry....I thought it was horrible. You mentioned the color. Also you can see where it ends just as it goes into the water. Also, in the shot where they are hiding just under the surface, you can see a billowing black "curtain", that is supposed to represent the hull. There was a cool shot (only shown in the longer version)where Michael Caine and Karl Malden are walking up the hull, and the set was combined with a matte painting. Too bad they didnt keep that in. You can see a screen grab of it at my site here:
http://www.jimusnr.com/beyondposeidongallery.html
I thought the shot of when they land were great especially because it was shot out at sea in the real ocean! i agree about the curtain though, but i thought when they land and first go into the ship was exerlent!
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PS. That Is A *ucking great site!
I thought it was a horrible set piece. Aside from the bright, shiny well-painted red hull of a 40 year old ship, it was also shown to be on angle of about 30 degrees sticking out of the ocean. As soon as everyone boards the boat it appears that the ship is now level. But in subsequent scenes of the hull its still on an angle. DUH! This movie looks so cheap it makes the original Star Trek TV series sets look impressive.
shareYes, the fact that the upturned hull looked as though it had just come out of drydock always bothered me. Any other ship and I might have believed that it had just been cleaned of marine growth, repainted, whatever. But the Poseidon, whose fictional existence was supposedly intended to closely mirror that of the Queen Mary on which she was based, was on the way to the wreckers. We're told that in the first movie.
Just one of many problems I have with this insult to the original.
"The Salvation Army band played | And the children drunk lemonade | And the morning lasted all day | All day"
Yeah, cheap on effects....and L.B. Abbott wasn't 'on board' (sorry for the pun) to add his excellent hand to the project. There should have been a matte shot used whenever the hull was shown in conjunction with the surface to 'hide' the end of the set piece.
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