Why are they doing this ?

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Agreed on the money and to also give actors with no career prospects (C. Thomas Howell for example) a cahnce to further throw themselves into career obscurity.

"I outrank you." Brad Chase
"And I'm such a slut for authority." Alan Shore

The Original was made in the 70's during the disater film time. For a movie made during that time it was a good movie. I did not enjoy this movie at all, it took away from the original, and altho I have not read the book the movie is based on I am sure the book is better then both movies.

actually if they wanted money, they would have created a decent remake. But alas... according to the studio brief here on imdb, ratings sank for the "expensive" remake. I'm guessing they may lose money on this one.

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you are the biggest loser. If you like this movie please do society a favor and just kill yourself because you offer nothing of purpose to anyone.

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Okay, I am of the younger generation and for the record I am not a fan of black and white movies. That having been said, the original Poseidon Adventure was amazing. Gene Hackman was brilliant. This remake was pathetic and I agree that the jumping back and fourth from the rescue team to the people on the boat completely killed the suspense. Hollywood does remakes because they believe they are a proven commodity and guaranteed to make money. There are a ton of original scripts out there but Hollywood is too afraid to take a chance on anything. Cowards.

I'm not one to say that all remakes are bad. For example, I rather liked the newer version of War of the Worlds, which to be fair has been remade at least four times in some fashion (two movies, a musical, a radio play... two radio plays, actually.). I'm looking forward to the King Kong remake, if just because I have a feeling that it's in the hands of a talented group of people who love the material and are looking to add to it, not milk it.

I also think some remakes are trash, and invariably will be compared to what came before. Just because you can remake something doesn't mean that it's a good idea to do so. I think this version of The Posedion Adventure is a good example. It's a story that, at its core, shoulnd't be that hard to remake. But it suffered because it felt like they had taken the original, run it though a shredder and remixed all the chunks, then filled in the blanks.

I also doubt that it's that Hollywood is running out of ideas. There are probebly thousands, if not tens of thousands, of rejects screenplays in Hollywood every year. Only a tiny fraction will ever be written. What is more likely is that the people with the money don't want to take risks since they lose their shirts when they do. So they take an idea that has a track record or built in fan base and run with it. It doesn't always work, but frankly how many completely original pictures come out of Hollywood as shlock? A lot...

wbelac88, You might want to consider editing your post and putting the word SPOILERS prominently at the beginning of it because not everyone will have seen the remake yet and it is different in some ways, as you mentioned, from the original movie and from the book.

I agree with your opinion that this remake was a disaster--a major disappointment. Did anyone feel anything for any of the characters during any part of the movie? The acting just wasn't convincing. I barely cared when someone died (and I'm the sensitive type) and could care less that anyone survived. To this day, when I watch the original, I weep because of the emotional portrayals and situations in the film. I think the script and director are more to blame for the failure of this remake than the actors. There were some fine actors on board but even they couldn't rescue this mess.

Maybe I'm a masochist, but I'm going to wait a while and watch my taped copy of the remake again and see if my opinion improves a second time around. Perhaps my memories of the original Poseidon Adventure got in the way of giving a fair evaluation.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed for next year's theater release Poseidon to be worthy of the name.