99CR 65: The Poseidon Adventure
A look at Irwin Allen’s capsized boat disasterpiece
99 Cent Rental Podcast
Episode 65: The Poseidon Adventure
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99 Cent Rental is a comedy podcast revisiting the low-budget action, comedy, and science fiction films that clogged video store shelves throughout the 1980s and early 90s.
Every other week, hosts Bryan and Dave White, hosts of the Bring Me The Axe! horror podcast, dive deep into the nearly forgotten world of ninjas, breakdancers, skateboarders, action hero knockoffs, and Cold War paranoia that embodied the excess and over-the-top attitude of the 1980s and celebrate them for everything they were and weren’t.
This week we’re diving in (get it?) to one of the most successful and well-known of the disaster epics of the 1970s, Irwin Allen’s first disaster feature: the Poseidon Adventure.
Taking place on New Year’s Eve, an old cruise ship is on its last voyage to port in Athens when a sudden rogue wave hits the ship and capsizes it, sending most of the passengers and crew to their deaths. A ballroom full of passengers manage to survive and make a plan to climb the ship and reach the thinnest part of the hull in hopes of being rescued but each one of them brings their own complications to make this the adventure of a lifetime.
Starring an ensemble cast with Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Red Buttons, and more, this movie took the model set by 1970’s Airport and expands the scope and ambition for a truly suspenseful but clunky story with maybe too many characters for its own good.
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