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What they did for $14,000,000 is amazing!

posted 18 years ago by sundance7490
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What Silverstar Limited and Larry Levinson Productions have done with such a small amount of money to make this remake is incredible. Watching the film, I can't help but wonder how they did so much and got such known actors like Adam Baldwin, Steve Guttenberg, Rutger Hauer, and C. Thomas Howell and still have money to pay the hundreds of other actors and make the great sets they had for production.

We all know Poseidon was filmed on $160,000,000 which you can do everything with of course. The original Poseidon Adventure was filmed on $5,000,000 which is the equivilent to $22,000,000 today, so if you look at it, Silverstar really had peanuts to work with. $14,000,000 is considerably low, especially for a disaster film of this mass and scale. The effects aren't exactly ILM, but definitely are very good and even awesome at certain times. Anyone else agree?

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[–] jtrumpwd 18 years ago

Adam Baldwin isn't exactly a "known" actor, people think he's known because his lastname is Baldwin and assumes he's a Baldwin brother.

[–] Isaac5855 18 years ago

Wasn't it funny seeing Rutger Hauer and C. Thomas Howell onscreen together again, for the first time since THE HITCHER?

[–] Banjo_oz 18 years ago

I agree. Although I found many elements of this remake rather cringe-worthy, the effects were really not one of them. Only the flaming engine room, the ballroom flooding and - very oddly - a moment when Rogo loses his gun down a stairwell, looked a bit "fake" to me. The rest I felt was very well done considering they had such a small budget (and a large cast that mustn't have been too cheap).

On the other hand, I felt there was a LOT of places they could have saved money and used it better elsewhere (eg. by totally cutting the annyoing and tension-destroying cut-aways to the "rescue attempt", and the rubbish "terrorist backstory" action scenes at the start).