I rented this terrible movie by accident, thinking this was the recent blockbuster. I'm exceedingly angry, and I think that this was a ploy to get people to buy THIS DVD instead of the new blockbuster. This movie is terrible, and I am glad I didn't pay money for this rental.
shareWe rented it tonight too by accident! We should have looked closer at the box. I guess technically it is a "new release" and was in the new releases section, so we just thought it was the new one. Ugh!
shareWe did too. It's quite unfortunate, really, because I was looking forward to the new one...
sharea friend of mine had bought it too, ACCIDENTALLY!!!
He actually thought it was the posiedon that was released this summer, and i thought it was the posiedon released on 1972. It was complete bloddy mess!
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Oi. If you guys visit imdb regularly you should all know there's a big difference between the two versions of "The Poseidon Adventure" and "Poseidon" not to mention a big name change. Don't you guys even look at the DVD boxes anymore? I always read them wondering if I'm getting one of the millions of remakes out there of any movie or the original.
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Sorry to burst your bubble but the one released in 2006 wasn't a 'blockbuster' by any stretch of the imagination. It's just a theatre release compared to a mini-series. The Wolfgang Peterson film wasn't that good, though I'll give it credit for having one really cool underwater shot.
shareI came very close to renting it but spotted the other version at the last second. Still, I was not suitibly impressed by the so-called 'blockbuster'.
shareYeah i rented this by accident too....i think its not our fault that we all got it wrong cos both titles are similar...at a glance, plus i didnt know who acted in the Wolfgang movie....oh what the hell....
shareme too!! I was like, thats not the new one!
shareI actually bought this for $6 on DVD, purely because I had no idea there was another remake of the movie besides Poseidon and - since I love the original - was curious to see what they did in this one.
While it is by no means anywhere as good as the original 70's version in practically any way, I actually found it a lot better than the bigger-budget Poseidon, which to me had a cast of characters I intensely disliked for the most part (I can't think of another disaster movie where I WANTED several supposedly-sympathetic characters to die!), and for me played mostly like a black comedy more than a serious disaster movie (with every cliche in the book!).
So, if you got the TV movie instead of Poseidon, I'd say don't be too upset. If you got it instead of the original movie, however, I'm sorry to hear it.
Still, if you're a fan of any version (book or any of the films), it was interesting to see another "take" on the concept, and - let's face it - a remake can never destroy the originals, no matter how good or bad.
Oh, and one other thing I like about remakes... they usually cause a re-release of the original (this certainly happened here in Australia, with a feature-packed original Poseidon Adventure re-release replacing the previous "bare bones" one, thanks to Poseidon's release).
I rented if for free at the library just to see how bad it was! LOL! It was bad, but sorta ok in a campy "B" movie kind of way. It is really easy to pick up the wrong film the way the looks so similar in the displays and how they are often marketed.
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