Talk:The Poseidon Adventure (2005 film)

2006/2005 films

This article is wrong, I watched it last night and the ship is hit by a freak wave that turns it over, which then leads to it sinking due to water pressure breaking the panels of the upper floors (now underground) and flooding the whole ship. A group of people decide to not wait for reinforcements but find their own way out the bottom of the ship (now at the surface).

Could it be possible that you were watching the 1972 film? Andy120290 16:41, 4 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The one with Fergy from the Black Eyed Peas as Gloria? That one is definitely the 2005 one.

Maybe it was the 2006 re-make titled Poseidon. Andy120290 16:36, 12 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

To the person who is not signing their comments, what you're refering to is indeed the 2006 remake. Fergy is in that film, if you check the article for it. You simply have your facts wrong. Andrewnuva199 (talk) 00:56, 30 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

"bow first"

Two editors, one an IP and one registered, are going back and forth on whether to add that the ship sunk "bow first". The IP editor keeps adding it, and it is being removed with edit summaries questioning its relevance.

I only saw this film once, when it was in the theater in 2005, and don't have a substantive answer on its relevance, but I think it may be something along these lines: in the original 1972 film, it was a major plot point that the survivors of the impact being led by Reverend Scott were seeking to exit from the stern; while those led by the ship's purser was sending people to the bow. At the end of the film, it's made apparent that the ship was sinking bow first (it did not complete sinking even by the time the credits rolled), and that everyone who did not follow Scott perished. (In the book, as I recall, there was a small throwaway line that another rescue operation was going on at the bow, getting people out there, too; implying that Scott's more difficult route to the stern was ultimately pointless; because that's the way Gallico rolled.)

I suspect the IP is going somewhere around this kind of point; or maybe he's thinking of the 1972 film. But whether in the 2005 film that point was made, I can no longer recollect. Hopefully, though, this can kick off some discussion instead of edit wars. TJRC (talk) 23:09, 27 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

If that's the IP's argument then they need to say so rather than simply restoring the text. In any event, even if the ship had sunk stern first after the survivors had escaped, the point is that the ship sunk, not which part of it sunk first. At least, that's how I see it currently. DonIago (talk) 04:35, 28 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]