why two films? - The Poseidon Adventure (2005) Discussion

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[–] betorlando35 19 years ago

Oh please, the Hallmark version of Titanic was quite good and the real life passengers and ship crew were not wooden 2-D characters like in Cameron's adaptation. George C. Scott, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Peter Gallagher leads an all-star cast. I am a huge Cameron fan but the only fleshed out characters were Rose and Jack and they were not actually real life people. The mini-series, while obviously lower budget, kept consistent with the actual events of Titanic whereas Cameron took many dramatic licenses. Both are worth watching on their own merits.

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[–] zedsgrl 19 years ago

At least Entebbe, Amy Fisher and Titanic are true stories. Here we have two rival film versions of a fictional story!

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[–] titanrd1 19 years ago

It's true you know... the hallmark version is unbelieveably bad.

"You jump, I jump Right?" "Never Let go" - "TITANIC" (1997)

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[–] S.L.Fake 19 years ago

"Oh please, the Hallmark version of Titanic was quite good and the real life passengers and ship crew were not wooden 2-D characters like in Cameron's adaptation."

I'll agree with that. I can find only two real faults with the CBS (or Halmark... I always thought it was CBS)
1) No Thomas Andrews (His part seemed split between the Captain and Ismay in this version)
2) Suffered from a TV movie budget... though they did the best they could with what they had to work with.

Personally, I would take this version over Cameron's "Romeo and Juliet go boating" version.

As for Poseidon...

Only thing that I can say good about this version... at least the "kid brother" wasn't quite as annoying as "Robin Shelby" (how much I wanted to hear Ernest Borgnine's "Mike Rogo" say... "Come on Preacher... you grab his his shoulders, I'll grab his ankles and we can use the little bastard's head as a battering ram to bust through the hull.")
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[–] Hackintosh 19 years ago

Two words: November Sweeps! This is what some addle-brained ninny in charge of programming green-lighted. And you know what? It'll probably crack the top 10 Nielson ratings for each viewing. Never underestimate the need for people to reconnect with the Edgar Rice Burroughs-themed movies from the '70s. Remember, s**t rises to the top in hollywood, and they just gave America a bowl and spoon and said, "Come 'n get it!" And we keep eating at the trough. Mmmmm.....trough......

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[–] ecarle 19 years ago

What I'd like to know is how two separate entities managed to get the same rights to remake "The Poseidon Adventure."

I'm assuming that somebody bought the rights to the original Paul Gallico novel, and somebody else bought the rights to remake the original Irwin Allen movie. But usually, those rights are one and the same.

This NBC version used some of the same character names (Rogo, Mrs. Rosen) from the 1972 movie.

This seems to me to be a fascinating "movie business story" if somebody will write up what happened.

As for the TV version: awful. Wolfgang Peterson's "Poseidon" has nowhere to float but up.

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[–] psychotronicbeatnik 19 years ago

"Never underestimate the need for people to reconnect with the Edgar Rice Burroughs-themed movies from the '70s."

Bostmass, I have no idea why you brought Burroughs into this. This is based on a novel by Paul Gallico, not Burroughs, and none of the 70s era disaster films had anything to do with novels by Burroughs. ERB wrote primarily early science fiction/fantasy adventure novels about Tarzan, John Carter of Mars and lost worlds at the center of the earth. He even wrote a few westerns but he was never part of the disaster craze.

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[–] Hackintosh 19 years ago

I wrote "Edgar Rice Burroughs-themed movies" and I meant Irwin Allen! My apologies. You are quite correct. For some reason ERB just stuck in my head as the disaster movie guy. Thanks for pointing it out. ;)

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[–] psychotronicbeatnik 19 years ago

bostmass - No worries. ;-)

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[–] hodgewoodrow 19 years ago

Why do they do this at all? I could understand in some cases, but true classics like "The Poseidon Adventure" do not need to be remade. The orignial was good enough, and should not be tampered with. And the thought that not one, but two remakes were made is heartbreaking. People now a days need to watch channels like Turner Classic Movies, AMC, & Fox Movie Channel to see the classics that are still worth watching. There were movies made before "Grease" people!!!! Sometimes I think people just look over films that they consider to be old, and out dated. This is totally WRONG!!! When I'm 40 they'll probably remake excellent movies like "Titanic", "Gone With the Wind", and "The Wizard of Oz". WHEN WILL THIS END!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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[–] S.L.Fake 19 years ago

"When I'm 40 they'll probably remake excellent movies like "Titanic", "Gone With the Wind", and "The Wizard of Oz"."

And there in lies the problem. You cry about people making movies that do not need re-made... But then you cite "TITANIC" as one of those movies? "TITANIC" was the last in a line of many movies about that event...
"TITANIC" (1953), "A Night To Remember" (1958), "SOS TITANIC" (TV 1979) being the three most well known.

Anyone remembering those three movies (especially the excellent "A Night To Remember") was asking the same thing when Cameron made his magnum opus... "WHY?"

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