![]() ![]() I would give positive role models 3/5, since there is another character who is negative and hostile to the people around him, which makes matters worse. I would give positive messages 4/5, since the survival of the main characters depends on positive relationships with one another and fewer people would have survived if they had not worked together and looked out for one another and instead tried to save themselves and only themselves. The man survived and made sure the woman survived as well. ![]() Despite the violence, the movie has positive messages, like determination, perseverance, and loyalty, and positive role models include the reverend, the leader of the crowd, as well as the man who finds a bond with a frightened woman, whose brother dies right after the ship takes damage from the wave. There is some mild language, but nothing over-the-top, and if there’s any drinking, there may be some champagne when New Year’s is being celebrated before the wave strikes the ship. If it’s just one sex reference that should be more like 1/5. However, the only dead body that is shown is the person who had the heart attack for holding her breath too long under water, but nothing graphic is shown when people die by falling into water and fire. The violence is people dying due to the sinking of the ship, including drowning in water, a heart attack, and vanishing in fire. It is still not as good as the 2006 remake “Poseidon”. ![]() I just saw it again tonight and I liked it better. The disaster film was relegated to Hollywood's back burner until CGI arrived a decade or so later to give it new life in such hits as "Independence Day," "Titanic," "The Day After Tomorrow," "The Perfect Storm" and "2012.The first time I saw this movie a few years ago, I did not like it. By then, in the wake of other middling efforts such as "Rollercoaster," two additional "Airport" movies, "Meteor" and Allen’s own ill-conceived sequel, "Beyond the Poseidon Adventure," time had indeed run out for the genre. Allen tried twice more later in the decade, though the critically assailed "The Swarm" and "When Time Ran Out" fizzled at the box office. "Inferno" was one of three disaster films released that year alone, joining "Airport ’75" and "Earthquake," the latter presented with real-feel technology “Sensurround.” All were hits. And its success earned Allen the sobriquet “master of disaster.” In 1974, "Poseidon" producer Irwin Allen – a big-screen veteran most recently associated with high-concept 1960s TV such as "Lost in Space" and "Land of the Giants" – followed up with the skyscraper-in-peril epic "The Towering Inferno." It was nominated alongside "The Conversation," "Chinatown," "Lenny," and eventual winner "The Godfather Part 2" as the year’s best picture. It won two, for Art Direction and Best Original Song (“The Morning After”). ![]() (She lost Best Supporting Actress to Eileen Heckart from "Butterflies Are Free.") Overall, "Poseidon" was nominated for eight Academy Awards, in addition to its special technical-achievement award. The scene – Winters’ character was the rescuer, not the one being rescued – made an imprint: She scored the film’s only Oscar nomination for acting. Many performed their own stunts, notably two-time Oscar winner (and onetime pinup) Winters, then 51, who gained 35 pounds for her portrayal of a zaftig elderly grandmother and who managed an impressive seen-up-close underwater search-and-rescue sequence in a dress, exposed underwear and all. Director Ronald Neame shot in sequence, so the characters’ increasingly dirtied faces, bruised bodies and tattered clothes reflected the actors’ ordeals as well. The cast and crew navigated around fire, through ductwork and shafts, up reversed ladders and stairwells, over twisted steel, and across pools of water – lots of water – as they chronicled the journey towards the hull, the only part of Poseidon that remained above water. Near-exact replicas of some of the Queen Mary’s key areas were created and a hydraulically controlled dining room set was constructed that would tilt as much as 45 degrees for the film’s stroke-of-midnight inversion. (A matching “after” set was also fashioned showing the room’s tables on the ceiling and its massive decorative skylight on what became the floor.) Queen Mary in Long Beach Harbor south of Los Angeles, "Poseidon" relied on massive Fox soundstages for the interior action scenes. Shot partially on location aboard the R.M.S. ![]()
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