Monday, November 21, 2005

The Poseidon Adventure (2005) was dreadful. Sadly, when I remembered that it was on last night, I flipped over to the channel (because I couldn’t help myself), but I had missed the first hour. Most importantly, I missed the capsizing of the ship, which was probably the best things about the TV movie.

Nothing can hold a candle to the original disaster flick. Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Red Buttons, Shelley Winters, et al.

In this edition, the ship was capsized by a terrorist bomb. *sigh* Wasn’t the original ship turned over by a tidal wave?

Anyhoo, the casting was a flashback to the 1980s - Steve Guttenburg, Bryan Brown, Rutger Hauer (who is not aging well, imho), and C. Thomas Howell. Wow. The best casting was Adam Baldwin aka Jayne in Firefly/Serenity. Hmmm, I see that Peter Weller played the captain, whom I missed since by the time I clicked over he was long dead and gone. And with the terrorism element, there was a CIA element and so Alex Kingston was present as MI-6 in Bahrain or something like that.

Very, very bad television.