#2006 POSEIDON MOVIE#
#2006 POSEIDON FREE#

For a moment I'm wondering if they kill the kid? This would be a first. Nice moment of mother and son interaction. They milk this scene for the emotional drama - my God, will he die? Josh Lucas says he can't find a way in. For example, the kid isn't caught in this cage-thing for 10 minutes while they search around for tools to cut it open and then try and try to cut it open and then, oops, the water is so high, can we make it out? No. Drama or not, it still was slow going at times - even for me.

Titanic seemed to want to show us things in real time, like long tiring walks through water. When the other ship went down, you know, the Titanic, I wanted to cut some stuff out (especially the interruption with old Rose, call me shallow). Awesome spectacle and the score (thanks to theater for revving that up, too) worked well with it. I felt like I got to see where every single one of those 160 million bucks went. For me, OTOH, Poseidon was exciting on that level. Perhaps some of those experts have seen this or that already. Of course I'm no expert on films where lots of stuff blows up. It doesn't suddently occur to me - oops! - now that I'm fully conscious I realize that I'm in pain? Or did he only make a pained face but wasn't in real pain, only scared b/c stuck? Later he seemed to be fine. BTW: That bit, where he comes to and then realizes he's stuck and looks as if he's in pain - that flew by under the radar of the Bad Acting Police, didn't it? Hint: I can be half unconscious and still feel pain.

#2006 POSEIDON FREE#

Say, they could've managed to free Vogel's character. Here's a thought: Why couldn't Emmy's char be in the swim team and thus perform the task Mike Vogel's char did? (Hire Jessica Alba, if weak-looking Emmy can't do it.) Would be nice if their roles would reflect reality more, if they could play more active parts in groups like this one. Doubt the men's courage/decisions but only for half a sec. But they didn't get to do or say much during what I saw. Perhaps they all did astonishing and awesome and 21st century things in the beginning that I missed. Put them in a Victorian novel and they wouldn't stick out. Mia Maestro - stowaway, Catholic, designated scaredy cat Jacinda Barrett - mother and love-interest for five seconds or so.Д®mmy Rossum - daughter (of Russell's char) and fiancГЁe (of Mike Vogel's char) And they sport oddly washed-out colors to boot. Yeah, weird, ain't it? Lucas holds Dreyfuss' hand - no Rodriguez, no view of how deep they would fall. ET in the closet among other toys? Backdraft-y-Kurt Russell with the fire-extinguisher, Josh Lucas next to him doing - hey, what exactly? That's the trouble with all the Poseidon action stills - the source of danger isn't in the pictures.

Especially the one where the cast stands looking at something. I've seen stills in three different mags - lackluster, boring, godawfully bad.

#2006 POSEIDON MOVIE#

If not, you're cheating yourself out of the experience.ДЇirst, the bad: Poseidon movie stills. Well, if you got a movie-theater-size screen at home, go for it. What's there was enough for me and I even missed the first couple of minutes.Д«ut it's all about blowing up stuff - and that's all it is! There are a lot of people who will give me strange looks when they hear me talk excitedly about Poseidon (despite it being sexist. Okay, perhaps some notes on what to avoid when writing a script. Nope, I came out of the theater with a big grin on my face. Having a crappy day or even a crappy week? Watch a movie where stuff gets blown up and people have to run, jump, crawl, climb, swim, dive or kill an innocent nice guy in order to survive.

2006 poseidon