Could you really kick a person to their death?

I agree, I hate this movie for that scene alone. The coward didn't hesitate to basically murder someone to save his own pathetic life. What's worse is that he never gets his comeuppance either. I could understand if he was the villain because we've already established that he's selfish and evil, but this is one of the protagonists, someone we're supposed to be rooting for. This, I think, is one of the reasons this movie didn't do well: you have to have likeable characters that, you know, don't do terrible things. The new "Noah" movie had the same problem (among others).

Pretty much the scene I loathe too.
And I love Josh Lucas, and it's also because I've like Freddy since Ugly Betty haha.
Ah. Conflicting with the actors, but the scene is horrible! It was different though.

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I disagree and honestly question anyone here who thinks they would be "the hero" in this exact situation. Sure, it's easy to say you would be but dying a horrible death to save some nobody waiter on a cruise ship you don't even know? GTFOH!

I think this is a very thought provocing scene and if it brought out heavy emotions in you, then it did it's job. I actually pondered if I would do the same thing as Dreyfus and you know, I probably would. Think about when everyone was clawing their way up the Tree in the 72 version, how important is YOUR life to you??? How bad do YOU want to survive?


Oh I travel, a sort of licenced troubleshooter.

You couldn't kick someone to their death to save your life. Once a person senses how high up they are they will hold on with a death grip to any hand hold they can get, including you! You break their grip, they find some other grip instantly. A team of mules could not get them to let go.

I don't know if I would be successful or not but I certainly do hope I would try.

Easy to think it would be doable to give up your own life until you're truly in that situation.

No, it doesn't happen in real life.

In virtually all instances in real life, there is every attempt to save everyone possible.

There's a 1950s movie starring Tyrone Power called Abandon Ship, remade in the '70s with Martin Sheen, that 'touches' on people being cast adrift from an overcrowded lifeboat, but it's bunk.

Perhaps one of the greatest moments in reality, the overturned lifeboat from the Titanic, would be picked up by another lifeboat, making 70 people, standing room only and the boat was so low in the water, they appeared as tho they were walking on water by other lifeboats drawing near.

For anyone who wants to say the overturned lifeboat did turn people, such as the captain (an urban legend), the overturned lifeboat allowed all on it could several times, until it sank beneath them.

But in this instance in this movie, no one would have been kicked off like that. It's not the human conditioning to throw a life away like that. That's Hollywood drama (see Platoon).

I liked the original Poseidon Adventure, even read the book, and even liked the '79 sequel, as bad as it was, but this was the first time I've seen this Josh Lucas and I don't think I have ever seen as bad a performance as he gave in this. It was terrible.

The movie would have been better having the waiter sacrifice himself and letting go, rather than having it decided to kick him off.

I agree. That scene made my jaw drop. Watching an innocent man, screaming in fear of dying, being kicked off a ledge and down a fiery pit only to be crushed by a racing elevator? That's awful! On top of that, the film portrayed him as being the most courageous, heroic, and down-to-earth man in the film, as well as the best and most likable, yet he gets one of the worst deaths I've ever seen in a movie (both in the sense that his death was tragic and that his death was written terribly). To make matters worse, nobody even gives a *beep* afterwards, they're just like "sucks...okay, next level!" Hell, they aren't even like "sucks", they just immediately ignore the fact that a loving guy not only died, but was murdered!