Path: eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Ian J. Ball" Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-03-13 (Wednesday) Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2024 15:02:19 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 81 Message-ID: References: <677137472.732116100.532788.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2024 22:02:19 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="0caad40194b90114d407371dfda11941"; logging-data="1969740"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/qoX+S6SdPKAt08O7iHfG9" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:Gdtlzzy/EI+nJaZ6qTDpzrot9BU= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: <677137472.732116100.532788.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> On 3/14/24 6:56 AM, anim8rfsk wrote: > Ubiquitous wrote: > >> I watched: >> >> What did you watch? > > Hey, thanks for asking! > > I watched. > > THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE > > No, not the 1972 classic. > > No, not the 2006 Kurt Russell remake. > > Did you know that there’s a really substandard Hallmark version from 2005? > I didn’t. > > The guy who wrote it, switched up things as much as he could, and added all > sorts of really stupid plot devices. This time the ship flips over because > terrorists blow a hole in it. But first they turn off all its electronics > and then kill themselves so that nobody will ever know what happened. The > Poseidon just vanished from the radar and was never heard from again. What > the hell kind of stupid statement are the terrorists trying to make? > > it has just a few people you’ve heard of at the top of the credits and then > I think they picked up everybody else in South Africa where it was filmed. > > Adam Baldwin plays Ernest Borgnine, repurposed as a sea Marshall. Stella > Stevens stayed home. > > Rutger Hauer plays Gene Hackman. Pretty much the same character. > > Steve Guttenberg plays Pamela Sue Martin‘s father, a new character > > Bryan Brown Plays Carol Lynley’s boyfriend, the movie producer > > Peter Weller plays Leslie Nielsen, the ships captain > > Alex Kingston plays a new character some sort of CIA spook back at > headquarters > > Alexa Hamilton plays Pamela Sue Martin‘s, mother, a new character > > Sylvia Sims plays Shelley Winters, whose husband died before the movie > began > > Amber Sainsbury please Pamela Sue Martin. You may remember Amber as the > Cordelia Chase character in Hex. I remember her. And I also remember her pretty much disappearing soon after "Hex"... > Nathalie Boltt plays the ships whore who Steve Gutenberg is fooling around > with. > > Tinarie van Wyk Loots plays Carol Lynley She seems to be attractive... And she's still working! > The dreadful script hits most of the points you remember from the original. > They spent way too much time trying to explain how the ship flipped over > and stayed flipped over and they keep saying that it’s taking on water > through the whole blown in the bottom of the hole but it’s upside down and > the hole is way the hell out of the water so… > > The ship goes down at the end with everybody else still aboard her so there > won’t be a sequel. Wait! - So everybody dies in the end?!! If so, this is very un-Hallmark Channel-like!! Ian (What's also interesting is that I have no recollection of this ever having been made, or aired, despite it being from c.2005(?))