History Film / Poseidon

* StraightGay: Richard. Not until he reveals to his friends that "''he''" met someone else" do we get any indication that he's homosexual.

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: Lucky Larry. He completely ostracizes Robert in front of the others before he takes his turn to cross the fallen elevator track, and is crushed underneath an ''entire falling engine''.]]

* BuryYourGays: Subverted; 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.

* CoolClearWater: Let's not even get started on how disgusting and murky that water inside the ship should be, having filtered through rooms and rooms full of god-knows-what.

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:As below, the entire ship during and after its capsizing. Valentin is a standout, though - ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice, then an ''elevator'' drops on him.]]

-->[[spoiler:'''Valentin''']]: "I got this, you go."

* HaveIMentionedIAmGay: The lone gay character announces his breakup with another man.
* HeroicBSOD: Dylan, when he realizes the ship's tiliting the other way than he thought it was.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Robert]]

* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler: Valentin]]
* InfantImmortality: Subverted. Connor survives, of course. But he couldn't possibly have been the only child on the ship.
* {{Irony}}: Early in the film there is a depressed old man who wants to kill himself. [[spoiler: Guess who is one of the six survivors at the end...]]
* KillEmAll: [[spoiler: Averted. There are ''are'' six survivors out of a manifest of ''thousands'' - but pay no mind to all the deaths, some of the protagonists survived!]]

* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:Robert.]]

* SoftWater: When they leap off the side of the ship.

* {{ChekhovsGun}}: When the ship turns over, a lone little life raft pops to the surface as testiment to the completeness of the disaster. When the survivors make it out of the ship, that lone life raft is there, waiting for them to wait in until help arrives.

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

Starring Creator/KurtRussell, Josh Lucas and Richard Dreyfuss, the film was nominated for an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward for visual effects (lost to ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest'', though), and was mentioned in the Guiness Book of World Records for having the most detailed CGI model - the ship.

* ShoutOut: The eerie shot of the ship sinking beneath the waves, disappearing into the gloomy depths of the ocean, is very similar to the final shot of the ''Andrea Gail'' in ''Film/ThePerfectStorm''

* BlatantLies: "Kick him off! He won't die!" (Not that anyone was buying it, most especially the victim, [[spoiler:Valentin]]).
** Possibly averted, if the line was "Kick him off! You'll both die!"; it's pretty hard to make out what they're saying.

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

* HaveIMentionedIAmGay - The lone gay character announces his breakup with another man.

** Actually, a monitor at Diego Garcia naval base indicates Indian Ocean.

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

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

Starring Creator/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.

* MauveShirt: [[spoiler:Valentin]], [[spoiler:Lucky Larry]], and [[spoiler:Captain Harrison]], who all get some sufficient dialogue and character traits before being killed off.

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Mr. Ramsey]]

* KillEmAll: [[spoiler: Averted. There are ''are'' five or six survivors out of a manifest of ''thousands'' - but pay no mind to all the deaths, some of the protagonists survived!]]

* ActorAllusion: Creator/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).

* ConvectionSchmonvection: Very much so. At the very least the door which is hot enough Dylan can throw water onto and it boils - Conor probably didn't need the demonstration if the door was that hot. Also the room where the diesel fuel falls from the ceiling and ignites.

** Actually, monitor at Diego Garcia naval base indicates Indian Ocean. And presumably it's ''not'' the tropics, as the breath of the handful who make it out is visible as mist, suggesting it's a pretty cold night.

** Actually, monitor at Diego Garcia naval base 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.

* ActorAllusion: 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).

* HotMom: Maggie

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