History Film / Poseidon

''Poseidon'' is a 2006 remake of ''ThePoseidonAdventure'', and is the third film adaptation of the original novel.

* AirVentPassageway: Handled a bit more realistically than most examples of this trope; they're wide enough to crawl through without very much effort, but one character does get stuck in a compressed section and has to be helped out, another one suffers from claustrophobia, and the heroes nearly drown due to the rising water because it takes a ''lot'' of effort to get the panel on the other side open.

* CanYouHearMeNow: Super CellPhone variety. Richard has a cell phone signal ''out in the middle of the ocean''. Possibly justified; equipping a cruise ship with a "pico-cell"[[hottip:*:basically a small and very short-range cellphone mast linked to the ship's main radio antenna]] is quite possible with current technology. His roaming charges were probably astronomical, though.

* NoOshaCompliance: Averted in that there are plenty of maps on the walls which the characters find very useful - though a little ''too'' averted when even in upside-down rooms the maps are at eye-level.

* OldShame: Perhaps an ''inversion'', seeing as [[WolfgangPetersen the director]] hasn't made any films since this one.

** The crowning example was what happened to [[spoiler:Robert. Swimming on a one way trip to turn off the bow thrusters, he finds the emergency-stop destroyed. In his last, dying moments, he manages to ''reverse'' them instead, allowing the survivors to throw debris into the props to destroy them.]]

* MadeOfExplodium: A particularly egregious example: The survivors toss a canister of inert nitrogen into the electric bow thruster motor. The gas tank ''explodes''.

* DiabolusExMachina: The entire ship becomes one after it capsizes, but the crowning example has to be what happens to [[spoiler:Lucky Larry]], as the ship [[DroppedABridgeOnHim drops an]] ''[[DroppedABridgeOnHim engine]]'' on him.

* DiabolusExMachina: The entire ship becomes one after it capsizes, but the crowning example has to be what happens to [[spoiler:Lucky Larry]], as the ship [[DroppedABridgeOnHim drops an ''engine'']] on him.

* BuryYourGays: Subverted in the 2006 movie; despite preparing to commit suicide just before the wave hits (he's despondent over the end of his relationship), the lone gay character, played by Richard Dreyfuss, is one of the final survivors.

* FamousLastWords: [[spoiler: Valentin]] "I got this, you go."

* CanYouHearMeNow: Super CellPhone variety. Richard has a cell phone signal ''out in the middle of the ocean''.

** Averted in InRealLife - the cast often dealt with infections from spending so much time in the water even though the water ''was'' pretty clean.

* CreatorKiller: For WolfgangPetersen. He hasn't directed anything since despite his track record before it.
* CPRCleanPrettyReliable: Averted.

* CanYouHearMeNow: Richard has a signal ''out in the middle of the ocean''.

** Actually, monitor at 5th fleet command center indicates Indian Ocean.

Starring KurtRussell, Josh Lucas and Richard Dreyfuss, the film was nominated for an AcademyAward for visual effects (lost to ''[[PiratesOfTheCaribbean Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest'', though), and was mentioned in the Guiness Book of World Records for having the most detailed CGI model - the ship.

Starring KurtRussell, Josh Lucas and Richard Dreyfuss, the film was nominated for an AcademyAward for visual effects (lost to ''PiratesOfTheCaribbean Dead Man's Chest'', though), and was mentioned in the Guiness Book of World Records for having the most detailed CGI model - the ship.

* ActorAllusion: In the remake, KurtRussell tells the kid to jump into a curtain so they can catch him. He tells the mother not to worry that he used to be a fireman. Russell played a fireman in ''{{Backdraft}}'' (1991).

* AirVentPassageway: Used as a means of navigation in the remake. Handled a bit more realistically than most examples of this trope; they're wide enough to crawl through without very much effort, but one character does get stuck in a compressed section and has to be helped out, another one suffers from claustrophobia, and the heroes nearly drown due to the rising water because it takes a ''lot'' of effort to get the panel on the other side open.

* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Everyone else gets thuroughly soaked several times before Emmy Rossum's hair ''finally'' stays matted down like it should. After that, everyone's a mess.

* CreatorKiller: The remake was this for WolfgangPetersen. He hasn't directed anything since despite his track record before it.