That is the exact same thing I thought when seeing this movie in theaters. I have always liked Richard Dreyfus and his character in this film is fine, but it was stupid for the writers to have him even start to commit suicide then change his mind just because he witnesses a giant, rouge wave approaching. The only justification I could think of is that his character would rather not be crushed to death by the force of the wave pinning him against the outside of the ship, but I would think that a faster death than slowly drowning. Suddenly, his character wants to live and struggles to survive the experience of getting out of the ship when just moments before he was throwing in the towel? A blight on an otherwise enjoyable film. 😄
Inyourlap I mean, I guess it's like being buried alive because you have no easy means of escape, but that was a weird way of saying they were stuck in a ship lol.
That happened in MV Dona Paz when the ship was at the middle of the sea a tanker crashed at them and also another bad luck the water is infested with sharks only few survivea
2:39 I absolutely love the detail of the windows of the indoor pool shattering as all of the pool water floods out. You can even hear one of the people screaming and can even slightly see the silhouettes of the people.
And that a part of the movie is the only the ship 🚢 it’s self has a ballroom also the disco 🪩 room as well. 2:08- 1:48 Also kitchen also known as the galley. 2:21 And there’s the regular pool 🏊🏾♂️ as well. 1:56
Eryn Almond stuff like this rarely happens. I’ve been on a cruise and nothing happened to me. Plus this this a fictional story. The Poseidon isn’t even a real ship. Though I wish she was because she seems like a very beautiful ship.
Eryn Almond lol. Don’t expect the Titanic disaster to repeat itself anytime soon. If it wasn’t for Titanic, ships today wouldn’t be as safe as they are.
Cruise ships are built very large for many reasons, rogue waves being one of them, bigger ship harder to capsize. This can still happen to tankers and fishing vessels, and smaller passenger ships, but big cruise ships can most likely handle a wave like that. However yes rogue waves are real, very real, they can and do get that high - sometimes even higher than that, they’re unpredictable, and can appear randomly in calm seas, but you’re pretty safe on a large cruise ship.
lol same after i wactched Titanic i was like nope to any other tickets to cruise id be like NOPE even to the most beautiful cruise in the world ;o and this was posted the day before my 3rd birthday ;p
Anyone notice how the Poseidon tried to right itself after being toppled? But a large air pocket was exploded, and thus the Poseidon lost what buoyancy it had left, leaving it to fall back upside down.
I don't understand why so many people hated this movie. I actually quite enjoyed it. Yeah it's your typical Hollywood remake but this version gets your adrenaline going. Wolfgang Petersen is great with making these types of water movies, Das Boot, The Perfect Storm.
I loved it too. I might not watch it as much now like I did a few years ago, when I watched the crap out of this movie. And it was one of those movies where it surprised me that there are so many people who hate it.
People give this movie a lot of hate, but it is totally undeserved. On its own it is a great survival/disaster flick. The performances are strong, the acting is believable, and the cinematography is an excellent sign of the time it was made. All in all, an excellent movie. It deserves more respect.
@@marcusbaker830 Most of the hate is because it barely resembles the original The Poseidon Adventure. I personally loved it when I first watched it, and still do.
This movie is so underrated! I keep re-watching various scenes. This one happens to be my favorite! Also the actors’ acting, especially Emmy Rossum’s, is phenomenal.
In my experience, many of the films on the "worst movies ever" are actually quite enjoyable. I have found that listening to the critics is no indication of a film's impact. Films that the critics adore are often slow, boring, woke, preachy, and otherwise so full of themselves they get bloated on their own self-importance. If the critics hate a movie chances are good its worth watching.
Thank you so much for making this scene available. Over 1 million separate CGI elements were used in this sequence. Did you know that Paul Gallico, author of the novel "The Poseidon Adventure" was inspired to write the book after being on the Queen Mary when it was hit by a rogue wave during World War 2, and tilted at a 52 degree angle as a result? It almost capsized for real. The 1972 film was actually partially filmed on the Queen Mary and all sets were based on the actual ship.
Harvester Commander Dude, every fucking crew member on a ship that has something that’s going to hit their left side are gonna say that. It’s been in a ton of movies before Titanic and after Titanic. Do some research sometime.
Why are people hating this film so much? Oh, wait, lemme guess. It's a remake of a 70's film? I watched this film several times and enjoyed it very much. It's a very good film. People need to stop living in 1972.
Yoko Yakamori Actually, it came out in 2005. But nonetheless, yes, I'm talking about that film. It had the same name as the original, but had terrible effects, terrible acting, and overall, it was cheesy, just like every other television movie. And it's sad to see some people probably prefer that piece of shit over the 2006 film. People don't know good films anymore.
Michael Young I had waves that big in pool on the nw dawn it was fun as hell but out at sea it was not dangerous cus there was storm going back on port like having a wave pool on cruse
Actually, the movie was based off of a real life experience on the Queen Victoria 2. A wave impacted so hard, it made the ship fall towards her side, but she rearranged herself, and continued on.
@@bradtruscott1510 I remember lots of laughs too. I think it's because of how ridiculous/over the top this whole scene is. It's comparable to final destination
I remember watching this as a kid over and over, I'm a teenager now and technically still a kid but, this scene always holds nostalgia in me and ever since this and those Earthquake movies ( where California breaks off and a train is swallowed whole and a cruise ship gets capsized etc.. ) got me into a state of always enjoying the destruction of cruiseliners.
3:11 the elevator falls and shifts to the left as the ship is still rolling. AND the lady is moving left as well. 2:40 the water in the pool room is still falling 3:04 the stairs fall and that's how they started their escape. But not only that when the ship is on its side right here 3:26 the stairs fall the OTHER way and it's on the other side. Look at how its on the left. If you keep watching it ends up on the right 4:20 you can see the raft floating on the water and that's how the movie ends. THE DETAIL IN THIS MOVIE IS AMAZING
I noticed all of those details in my many viewings, too. Especially the staircase in the ballroom. I love this movie. Did you notice the collapsing stairway in the lobby on the left, though?
You can also see people falling out of the pool, Furniture floating in the water, The staircase in the atrium collapse (which is seen fully collapsed once they enter the atrium after the capsize), Fergie falling for like the 30th time, and a few other things, My favourite being a man who get's hit by a table right after standing up
@@1975markb Yep. Also, by Atrium, do you mean the main lobby? Because there is a collapsed staircase there in there. The lady who hits the upside down glass dome falls off of those collapsing stairs.
Easily the best iteration of the capsizing sequence ever put on film (and that's coming from someone who prefers the 1972 movie). I mean, the music, sound design, visual effects and editing. Its stellar across the board here.
Imagine that instead of the explosions pushing the ship back into being capsized, the ship just goes back into its original position. Damn that would be one tramatic experience if you survived the situation.
Actually this is based on true events. A wave did almost knock a ship over, I believe in the 50's and a book was written about it and they made a dramatised film out of it.
Warmessage it’s really not likely however not impossible. Rogue waves are very real, they happen every day. And if you’re in a smaller cruise ship in the North Atlantic (not unlike this one) a wave like that could take your ship down.
I'm waiting for some elder people on youtube to reply and be like "your generations can't live without technology" and stuff just to reply with "then what could we do? save people?"
Watching this scene while looking at an ad for Costa Cruises (they own that infamous Concordia ship, which partially sank off Italy)... Is this ironic or what? 😆👍
The Costa Concordia hit a small island thingy thanks to the captain, it was sinking but the drunk captain drove towards land, then he hit shallow water and the ship got wrecked there.
+random potato vidios Actually we now know that's not true. The Captain hit the rock by the island and lost control of the ship. The ship drifted for an hour before the Captain gave the first abandon ship order. It's a miracle that the wind pushed the ship towards shore and not out into deeper water where the death toll probably would have skyrocketed. It capsized onto its side and sank. Had it done that in deep water the death toll would be in the thousands probably.
I ACTUALLY worked on "The Pride of Aloha" cruise ship for Norwegian Cruise Lines in Hawaii in 2007 and believe me this movie crossed my mind quite a few times while working for them!!!!
This is probably because Cameron’s 1997 sinking sequence is circumstantially based from the actual sinking of the White Star Line’s _Titanic_ in 1912. Peterson’s ’06 film is a remake of Allen’s ’72 classic, which is a loose portrayal of Gallico’s ’69 novel. It was written based from the events that occurred during WWII on the morning of December 7, 1942; when the Cunard Line’s _Queen Mary_ was struck by a rogue wave and nearly capsized with over 16,000 soldiers aboard. This is a modernized remake of an original storyline which was materialized from a written novel depicting nonfictional events, making this scene just as realistic as its original counterpart based from those very same nonfictional events.
I beg to differ because of the 9-year difference in visual FX and CGI technology between 1997-2006, but to each their own. You are welcome for the information.
Christopher R. My God...you respond to comments on a video you posted over two years ago...I've never seen this before! I must document this! **takes screenshot** **posts on Facebook**
Watched all versions of Posiedon - love the original, not that keen on the 2005 miniseries, and this one has its ups and downs, mostly the script. But the one saving grace is the effects. The attention to detail that went into the design of the ship and the capsizing itself is amazing. Love how at the end of the sequence we see the liferaft that the survivors will use float to the surface alongside the upturned hull.
It may have stunk as a movie, but it also ended up in the Guinness Book of World Records. ILM's model of the Poseidon was the most detailed CGI model to date, and they later used the same techniques that created the rogue wave for "Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Man's Chest" and "Avatar."
Definitely the best scene in the movie. I like how you can hear faint screams coming from the ship in some of the shots after it completely rolls over. I'm guessing the lady falling out of the elevator onto the clock was meant to reference the scene from The Poseidon Adventure where the guy fell into the skylight.
@@The._official._Asher21 Yea right? I liked the movie since it came out, and always thought its the lady who gets thrown out of the elevator, but after recently rewatching it, you can see its a guy in there. You can actually also see that women flying past, and two men in the background clinging to the railings, until that part of the stairs crashes down all the way.
If there is one thing this movie showed really well, it was how dangerous Rogue Waves are in real life. They are responsible for sinking and disappearing a large number of ships even today, including some very famous ones. There is no technology that can ever help one survive that.
To those curious about the wave (and its called a wave/sea, not a fucking Tsunami): waves this height can certainly happen. 100-150ft waves happen very frequently in the ocean, but what this movie isnt showing accurately is that those waves dont form on a calm sea like in this scene. They occur in severe storms, as the energy of several waves collide and morph into a wave 3-4 times the height of the regular seas. You need a Cat 1 cyclone before rogue waves of 100ft or so start to occur, they don't just form in calm seas and turn up in a long straight line.
I had a dream last night that i was on deck on a cruiser and i saw a wave just like that approach. The cruiser made 3 full spins when the wave rolled over and i somehow survived it all lol. I remember i watched this movie as a kid so i decided to check this scene again and the wave in this movie is just like the one in the dream :D Only in my dream it was daytime ^^
If Kuzco and Pacha were the crew on Poseidon: Pacha: Uh oh! Kuzco: Don’t tell me, there’s a gigantic rouge wave coming straight towards the starboard side of the ship? Pacha: Yep! Kuzco: Gonna slam into the ship, completely capsize it, and cause horrific and gruesome death and destruction? Pacha: Most likely Kuzco:.............Bring it on!
Interestingly, just as the Poseidon from 1972 is based on the RMS Queen Mary, (this is an adaptation of a book based on the author's account of the QM getting hit by a wave) this version of Poseidon is based on the Queen Mary 2.
As a kid I have an obsessive season watching this scene, now as an adult I can understand why... Such a fine filmmaking disaster piece scene, really. It takes from time to time your breath away a few seconds, then recover it, and then stop, and so on.
Qantas747400 Of infinite flight You're wrong about the impossibility of the wave height. There are waves in recorded meteorological history that have struck ships with sustained heights of over 70 ft., which is easily attributable to the one shown in this particular scene.
Hey, don't worry about that, the movie has misleading you that much, if that really happen there. the captain wouldn't have depart on the port and cruising on the sea in such a condition like that. High technologies can be detected that.
I love the Poseidon 2006 Movie and I love the original The Poseidon Adventure as well. I think both films are amazing adaptions of the book by Paul Gallico. I think Poseidon 2006 does a better job with the capsizing scene. It shows what Rouge Waves are able to do to ships. The History Channel aired a documentary called, Rouge Waves which deals with these monsters, and discusses the accuracy of the movie itself. The 150-foot wave shown in the film was created by digital effects company ILM. They closely studied the behavior of water in order to develop new special effects software with the help of scientists from the Stanford University.
If that was a real event and I was a survivor of it, then I would NEVER go on a cruise or transatlantic voyage ever again. I know this is not a real ship nor event, but this makes me never want to go on a cruise.
Yeah a ship can now basically turn in own radius thanks to bow thrusters (the things inside the ship that spins, spoiler alert, if you watch the movie it's the thing they jump out of at the end of the movie) and ezipods (things that hang below the ship and move independently, the captain can rotate them 360 degrees round)
One wonders how this would play out with a modern cruise-ship/ocean-liner. I mean with an older, rudder-steered ship, this would most likely be the outcome, but with a modern ship with bowthrusters & azipods, stablisers etc...I'd like to think it could turn much faster and stay more stable.
This movie did do a fairly poor job with the technical details. This is why I liked the 1972 movie's ship better. She was an old, tired ship, way past her prime and needing to be put to pasture. I can understand such a ship getting rocked by a rogue wave and not being able to see the wave and turn to pierce it. But this Poseidon, with all of her state of the art gear? She should have been able to survive this. Battered and shaken around, maybe. But I doubt a vessel of 2006 Poseidon's ilk would get completely toppled over.
Defender Helton one, you don’t know what a joke is. Two, that’s offensive to people with different beliefs than you. And three, there is no real proof that any god exists so saying it’s ‘fake and Jesus is real’ is an invalid opinion.
@@khannahnails9155 you are correct but there is not such thing as an "invalid opinion", only "an invalid statement". having an invalid opinion is equivalent to just being a little unscrewed in the head
Colonel Grande imagine being on a cruise and you see it, and be like, oh shit. Just jump ship. Better chance of survival instead of staying in that death trap haha
No large cruise ships or ocean liners have been sunk by rogue waves as far as my knowledge serves. It is believed that the well known wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, a large Great Lakes cargo ship which sank in 1975 was due to a rogue wave in a storm.
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