There are many movies about ocean-going disasters, from depictions of the sinking of the legendary Titanic to Irwin Allen’s disaster classic The Poseidon Adventure, but in 1981 a made-for-television production tried to make a “Prime Time Event” about an ocean liner that was sunk during WWII and the surprising events surrounding the wreck’s discovery in…
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Poseidon (2006) – Review
When it comes to remakes the danger of incurring the wrath of fans of the original is ever-present and in the case of Irwin Allen’s The Poseidon Adventure, a beloved classic of the disaster genre, the danger was even greater, so director Wolfgang Petersen took the basic premise of “A ship hit by a rogue…