The Poseidon Adventure (1972) Movie REACTION!
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- For Film Friday #77, Madison watches The Poseidon Adventure for the first time.
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Back in the day lead characters, even heroes of stories, often died and did not just come back to please the audience. That is an overused trope in modern movies. The gravity of the story is often sacrificed by miraculous survival for the sake of pleasing the audience, and sequels - let's face it. I admire films from that period for not treating the audience like children.
Actually it's not modern, older movies were the same way. It's the 70s (and late 60s, and early 80s) that was the exception to the rule....thankfully! I was just saying how the motto must have been "Leave 'em haunted!". You knew how great a movie was by how depressed you were! lol. "Deer Hunter"? GREAT movie! lol. "Lenny"? "All That Jazz"? "Midnight Cowboy", "Cuckoo's Nest"? 🤣"Dog Day Afternoon"? "Network"? "Chinatown"? "Easy Rider"? "Carnal Knowledge"? lol LOVE that era of movies!!!!
@@TTM9691 nice list, there were some "depressing" 50's/60'a era movies, Patterns, Failsafe, Night and the City, Paths of Glory, A Tree Grows in Brooklynn, The Misfits, Manchuran Candidate, but ya, the 70's era was generally the best overall IMO.
@@gaffo7836 Absolutely. Oh there are lots of depressing movies before the late 60s. You ever see "Make Way For Tomorrow" from 1937? One of the most depressing movies you'll ever see. But the "vogue" for downbeat endings (in American movies) ramped up in the late 60s. "Paths Of Glory" was depressing but it wasn't the norm. In the 70s, it was almost mandatory!
@@TTM9691 Make way for Tomorrow - no, not heard of it, but I've made a mental note of it and will check it out! Thanks for Reply Sir!
I make a distinction between Depressing and Nighalistic, I love the former, for I'm kinda the same mentally depressant melecoly bent by constitution - but loathe Nihalism (today's TV/movies are of the latter, not the former), they are different. One affirms the human condition/humans matter, life matters, things matter/etc - my cat matters (lol), the other is nothing matters - so lets just put a bullet to the head. Nihalism is just a rejection of life and even a rejection of a "code' - i..e honour/striving to be good/etc. Depressing is affirming "the code" and striving for it, but maybe failing - i.e. stuff outside of oneself does matter vs nothing matters even yourself.
BTW 2 excellent top 10 movies of all time - both fully depressant (but not nighalistc in the least) - with each viewing will remove your lifespan by 2 weeks - but worth it IMO - worth that 4 weeks of life.
both "new" movies 2008 or so - City of Life and Death (this i thiink might still be here in full on YT - it was a few years ago (i bought the Bluray of after seeing it via Netflix a decade ago) Its about ww2 and Japanese invasion of Nanking (filmed in Black and white - its a Chines movie, subtitles).
the other one is Ausie (in color and no subtitles), Snowtown, about true events about the "bodies in the barrel" in the early 90's.
thanks for reply Sir!
Today is Shelly Winters birthday, so I'm watching this movie.
The entire cast in this movie are legends.
If they weren't before, they sure as hell were after.
Bit of an overstatement...there were some very big names, Borgnine, Hackman, Winters, McDowell and Buttons. Neilson would probably get bigger afterwards because of the takeoffs of these disaster flicks, though he was fairly well known.
Very few have reviewed this classic. It was great watching you react. What sets this Disaster film apart from others, in my opinion, is the characters. It’s not just about people being killed. We actually care about them.
Watching a loving grandmother die right after saving basically everyone, was heartbreaking. Having the main character who led them to safety sacrifice himself just before their rescue was devastating. This classic film really pulls at the heartstrings.
Exactly!!! The remake sucked, I could care les but the newer CGI special effects were great.
Yeah, is the journey to survive, and every time you lost someone new you fell bad,
If I was there, I would have tried CPR on Mrs Rosen.
@@dennisclouser3458 it sucked because it had the totally opposite message of the original, which was 'let's work together'
The pop song that was performed during the party "There's Got To Be A Morning After" actually became a minor Top 40 hit on AM radio.
I sat in the movie theater with my parents watching this amazing movie. I was 15 years old. I am now 66, and it is still my favorite film. You made my evening, watching your expressions and your passion for the characters! So happy you enjoyed!
Seen this with my parents at age 7. This remains my favorite movie
As kids during the summer we would play the Poseidon Adventure in our pool. We would put obstacles in the pool and have to hold our breath and make it 2 times around the pool back to the ladder to get to the engine room. Which was our deck. Such a great movie a classic for sure.
The Poseidon Adventure was the second highest grossing movie in 1972 right behind The Godfather. It was also nominated for best Picture. I was 8 and my buddies and I rode our bikes to the theatre on a Saturday afternoon to watch The Poseidon Adventure. The theatre was packed.
That is a BEAUTIFUL memory. I can see it in my mind's eye. I was only a few years younger than you.
@@TTM9691 Thanks. I can make it better. We are watching the movie and my one buddy is out at the snack bar. The Tidal-wave is about to hit! I thought He can't miss this! So I ran out to the Lobby! The snack bar had like 50 kids around it. I yelled "TIDAL WAVE!" And 50 kids turned and ran back into the theatre! We went back the next week to see it again.
@@reesebn38 HA! You DID make it even better! They could put that scene in a movie! Someone call Richard Linklater! (PS: Hey, speaking of which: did you see his last movie? Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Odyssey? It's about being 10 in 1969 and it will really jog your memories! )
@@TTM9691 I was 5 and my memory was seeing Kurt Russell in "The Computer Whore Tennis Shoes". Kurt became my life long hero at that moment. I haven't seen that movie. But I will check it out. I like his movies. I do remember being woke up early to watch the Apollo Landing.
@@reesebn38 Oh wow, then you're REALLY going to get something out of the movie, because it all leads up to him and his family watching it on TV (and he's kinda in and out of sleep during it). Really cool about Kurt! Ha! He grew up to marry Goldie Hawn! The crush of 1969! lol.
You could see Gene Hakman playing an interesting high school basketball up against the odds set in 1952 Indiana in "Hoosiers" Dennis Hopper also plays the town drunk & father of one of the players. Fun film.
I also came to the comments to recommend Hoosiers. 😀👍👍🏀
Yes, a great film, highly worth watching. 🏀
I love that film, is cool to see him making a good person, a normal person, I love his Lex Luthor, but I like that on the best
On paper, it looked like a run-of-the-mill sports movie but if you add Gene, Dennis and Barbara, it becomes something else.
Fantastic choice! Thank your mother from us, LOL! This is the greatest disaster film ever made, with such amazing writing and acting that you care about every single character and feel devastated when each one dies, and the practical effects are amazing -- look at how the actors did so many of their own stunts. In fact, Shelley Winters did all of that underwater swimming and diving herself and that's probably why she got the nomination. Great reaction!
Thank you so much!! I will tell her! Glad you enjoyed the reaction😊
The '70's and the Disaster Movies --- The Towering Inferno, the "Airport" movies, Earthquake...
This movie still gets me a bit emotional watching each character trying their best to survive, and then seeing some get so close but not close enough, even though I watched it back when it first came out. Seeing it on the big screen, with people all around you, really put you into the movie like you were on the adventure with them.
Gene Hackman is one of my favorite actors of all time. I think he always chose multifaceted characters to portray. That's what makes him so fantastic. Definitely check out The French Connection, Mississippi Burning and Hoosiers. Another early movie to see is Bonnie and Clyde. He played Clyde Barrow's brother, Buck, in it. I've probably seen most of his movies. He is a truly talented actor.
I had just started the 7th grade in 1972.
The Poseidon Adventure was a big hit at the time.
The Morning After sung by Maureen McGovern was perfect for the ending of this movie.
Good one, Madison! What an AllStar cast in this movie. There were a slew of disaster movies in the '70's, most of them based off books, and most of them a lot of fun. Great popcorn movies. Towering Inferno and Earthquake were two more I remember enjoying in the theater. 🙂 Some theaters even installed special vibrating seats for Earthquake, LOL!
I remember reading the book this movie was based on, and in it they were able to rescue people from the bow.
"The Morning After" is the theme song of the movie; and it won the 1972 Academy Award for Best Original Song. After the movie came out it was recorded by Maureen McGovern and became a hit single for her in 1973. It was a No. 1 hit in the US for two weeks during August 1973, and became a Gold record; and her biggest hit.
If you haven’t seen it already, Producer Irwin Allen, fresh off this smash hit, followed up with an even more ambitious disaster epic, “The Towering Inferno” (based on two different but similar books) that was so big, it prompted a then unprecedented collaboration between 20th Century-Fox and Warner Bros. - with even bigger stars Paul Newman, Steve McQueen, and Faye Dunaway, headlining an all-star cast.
Well, you also saw Gene Hackman as likeable villain Buck Barrow in "Bonnie And Clyde". He also portrayed the blind hermit in "Young Frankenstein".
I subscribed after watching this with you. I'm 56, and every other "first time watching " channels are all , to me, newer movies. Which is fine, but you do the classics! I checked your channel, and I must say you are now my favorite!
A Personal Benefit I received by watching this movie for the first time when I was 10-years old:
When I starting swimming, then lifeguard, training I was driven to be able to hold my breath as long as I could under water. I could actually swim underwater at 11-yrs old, but not on the surface until a couple of years later. I starting Lifeguard training at 16 as a Boy Scout trying to earn my Eagle Scout rank (which I did a year later), then I went on to complete the Lifeguard training. When I was done with that training I could hold my breath for 2mins, 35secs. When I next watched this movie I timed how long it took those people to swim underwater and it was 2mins and 10secs. I won the award for longest breath hold during the final Lifeguard test. My Lifeguard instructor told me that having started so young swimming a LOT underwater, that I built up the vessel connected to my lungs which led to that accomplishment a few years later.
So I accomplished a 'Life Skill' that I made sure I passed to my four children, which they all accomplished by the time they were 18. I used the Reverend Scott in me to make sure they were ready to survive 🙂
Thanks for the great reaction video.
The 1970s was the decade of the disaster movie. The Poseidon film dieector, Irwin Allen, was nicknamed The Master of Disaster. Check out his other blockbuster, The Towering Inferno. Also, check out Airport and Airport 1975.
The Poseidon Adventure, the Towering Inferno, Earthquake, Meteor, Gray Lady Down, The China Syndrome, Avalanche, Airport 75/77/79, The Andromeda Strain, The Hindenburg, City on Fire, The Swarm! Ensemble casts, pro athlete cameos, an everyman saving the day. "Airplane" is still funny today, but it's even funnier if you know the tropes of the source material.
Linda's death always gets me...they were so close! That's the genius of The Poseidon Adventure...everytime I watch it I think Linda might make it out this time! My favorite movie of all time. First movie I saw in a movie theater when I was 7 years old.
Terrific reaction! I saw this movie over twenty times. I was 12 upon its released and saw it repeatedly throughtout my life. The whole cast was astonishing and was one of those movies that stays with you. Please thank your mom for the awesome recommendation. It brought back great memories and took me back in time when I enjoyed such great films.
There were 5 winners of Acting Oscars in this: Gene Hackman, Shelly Winters, Ernest Borgnine, Red Buttons and Jack Albertson. And of course, Oscar winners John Williams and screenwriter Stirling Silliphant who had won for " In the Heat of the Night."
Possibly others in the tech categories, I dont know.
Ah AD Flowers, special effects.
They did a remake of this movie titled '"Poseidon" in 2006. The characters are pretty much the the same, but played by different actors. Kurt Russel stars along with Josh Lucas and Emmy Rossum. Worth watching just to see differences 25 years later.
That was 35 years later.
@@putnam-he2swThe CGI especially of the people falling etc was terrible in the remake. The characters were flat and it was just bad overall. I remember saying to my Mom as we were leaving the theater that the original was better and older people in the audience agreed. Sure the ship looked better as the wave struck but that's it.
I don’t see why people see the need to bash remakes. The remake isn’t that bad and is different enough that one can appreciate both films.
Rare pick for a reaction. Film still holds up due to Hackman and the rest of the casts' performance. Great reaction! (Leslie Nielsen cameo as the captain). Hackman plays 'good' guy' roles in "Hoosiers', a comedic 'bad' guy in 'Superman'(1978), 'The Royal Tenenbaums' was good, too.
I was a year old when this movie came out and I first saw it when I was five or six. It was the first movie I saw Gene Hackman in and he has been one of my favorite actors ever since. The Poseidon Adventure is also my second favorite disaster film after The Towering Inferno from 1974. It's from the same people who made The Poseidon Adventure and has Paul Newman, Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Fred Astaire, Robert Wagner, Jennifer Jones and my favorite actor, Steve McQueen, as a battalion chief in the San Francisco Fire Department. And John Williams also composed the music for The Towering Inferno.
It's amazing that Gene Hackman made this the same year as The French Connection for which he won best actor, and before those two he never had a big lead role.
Saw this movie as a kid, and I never forgot the scene of the guy falling from the table through the glass ceiling. That was an excellent stunt done in the days before CGI. Thanks for reminding me of this film and all those disaster films that were so popular when I was young. I don't know about anyone else, but for me they still hold up pretty well.
Have you seen Gene Hackman in Superman I and II as Lex Luthor. He's clearly having a good time, and he's a lot of fun in those films.
Thanks for watching this movie, I watched it as a teenager and it made such an impression on me, it first introduced me to life and death, the cast were extraordinary, great movie.
Thank you for the thoughtful allegory.
So many notable stars in this absolute classic. A perfect choice for a reaction video.
Ha! Gene Hackman usually played good guys. Not always, but often. He actually makes a hilarious bad guy in the original "Superman" from 1978, he's so good in that. DEFINITELY put "The Conversation" from 1974 on your list, that is one of his absolute greatest performances/movies. Directed by Francis Ford Coppolla.....the same year he directed Godfather Part 2. Both got nominated for Best Picture! (Godfather Part 2 won). Definitely recommend that one, I think you would do an amazing reaction to that one. And of course, the movie that brought him to fame: "Bonnie And Clyde", another must-see. (he's a supporting character in that one, it stars Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway). Amazingly there are no reactions to "Bonnie And Clyde" yet, and only one or two for "The Conversation". Please right this wrong!!!!
Loved your review of one of my all time favorite movies!
Seen it at a drive in with my dad when I was a kid! It's still got that Rush 🎉🎉
We were all about disaster movies in the 70's. Airport was a huge one, then Airport 75, Airport 77, Airport 79/The Concorde. Fires, floods, earthquakes. Good times!
The first "Airport" was about the people, from a novel by someone who had done his research. When a movie makes you care about the "mad bomber." you know you are on to something.
Irwin Allen ... the disaster king. I can't remember if this or the Towering Inferno came first, but that one had Paul Newman and Steve McQueen.
The production staff took the actual ship plans for the RMS Queen Mary for making the upside-down sets.
Shelley Winters had recently lost quite a lot of weight, and was disappointed when producer/director Irwin Allen told her that she needed to regain that weight for the role.
Don't miss the opportunity to read the book that was adapted into the movie. Paul Gallico is the author.
Gene Hackman, The French Connection, absolutely The French Connection. Ernest Borgnine, The Wild Bunch!
This one and the towering inferno were favorites of mine from this time for disaster movies. Oh, and earthquake but that might be 1980, don't remember.
He usually does play the villain, a good Gene Hackman movie where he's not a bad guy is "Mississippi Burning" and also "The French Connection" they are both excellent movies. And another good movie that takes place on the water is "The Perfect Storm" "Don't worry, Mrs. Rosen, I once helped my dad pull in a 600-pound swordfish in Hawaii" Like they say "Kids Say the Darndest Things" but the lady Linda Rogo is old enough to know better, just because you're scared doesn't mean, you have to be cruel. In every situation you have that one group of people that believe drinking the Kool-Aid is the right thing to do.
So funny when you pulled up the blanket. All my favorite reactors have their blankets at the ready when times get tough!!! :)
Gene Hackman's most famous role is"Popeye Doyle" in the movie"French connection"which he won an Oscar for. Gene Hackman has 5 academy awards
I was so lucky to have parents which took us to so many movies from the mid-60's onwards. I was 14 when this released so I was in that 'phase' and thought Stella Stevens is amazing.
It's also hard to watch this with Leslie Nielsen at the beginning and take it seriously after his later string of comedic endeavors.
I saw this movie in a theatre when it came out. The full title on the posters was "The Poseidon Adventure, Hell Upside down." They gave a way a lot in the title.
I seem to remember that the movie poster said something like, "Who will survive?" So, you spend the whole movie trying to guess who's not going to make it.
Yet ANOTHER reason why John Williams BELONGS in the Smithsonian!!! Yes, the guy who composed the Jaws/Superman/Jurassic Park (and SO many others) theme, composed the score for THIS film too!
The look on your face is priceless. I was 8 years old. I remember there were screams inside the theater when the man falls onto the over head light. Funny thing, they showed the man falling in every preview and TV spot. We all knew it was coming, but, that stunt was a HUGE first. The original capsizing of The Poseidon 72' cannot be beat. It is a simple trick, but convincing. Especially on the big screen. I bugged my parents for weeks and saw this in Original Dome Theater with the 70MM curved screen. The Poseidon Adventure changed my life and I would love to see this back on the big screen.
OOOOOH I am so happy to see you react to this one pretty lady!! Its such an underrated gem of a movie! Aw Mrs Rosen's death scene always makes me cry.
Shelley Winters was nominated for a best supporting actress Oscar for The Poseidon Adventure. Here's an interesting story about Winters that has been around for decades. She had an audition with the casting director of a film but was told to bring a photo and resume. She showed up and put a copy of a photo of her accepting an Oscar on the casting director's desk. "Here's my photo!" Then she pulled out the two Oscar awards she had won previously for The Diary of Anne Frank and A Patch of Blue. "And here's my resume!"
Love this fantastic movie when it came out
Seeing all of the actors I followed through their acting careers was great, Marty would be a great movie for reaction
Hackman in Coppola's The Conversation. Borgnine in the anti hero western, The Wild Bunch. Shelley Winters in the Night of the Hunter.
The French Connection is one of Hackman's best roles. Great movie too, same director as the Excorsist.
Gene Hackman was the Blind Man in YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN. But that was well after he played uber-tuff cop Popeye Doyle in THE FRENCH CONNECTION. Earlier, he was The Bad Brother in BONNIE & CLYDE, then he did some fascinating films. THE CONVERSATION is one of the best mystery films - in modern times, folks might consider this an M. Night-calibre mystery. He was with Al Pacino in SCARECROW and, along with NIGHT MOVES, he's got some of the best mysteries in his catalog. He's got some decent comedies - with Dan Aykroyd in LOOSE CANNONS (1990, cop-buddy comedy) and 2001's HEARTBREAKERS vs. gold-digger Sigourney Weaver.
Great Reaction! I really enjoyed your take and comments all throughout! Especially your empathy. :) This film is underrated. So amazed you watched! I haven't seen anyone else react to the film. Great acting and story, and surprising throughout.
“I object!” Agreed.
One of the many things associated with summer is baseball so here are a few suggestions. 42 with Chadwick Boseman portraying Jackie Robinson & Harrison Ford as Branch Rickey. Major League if you want a comedy. A League of Their Own with Geena Davis, Tom Hanks, & Madonna about the women's baseball league that was formed during WWII. Finally Pride of the Yankees with Gary Cooper as Lou Gehrig & which he won an Oscar for. Also with the underrated Teresa Brewer as Lou Gehrig's wife Eleanor Gehrig & was nominated for best supporting actress for this movie
I loved your reaction. This is indeed a great classic movie !!! Many thanks for your review !!!
A real classic movie one of my favourites.
The tsunami scene was loosely based off a real life incident involving the queen Mary during ww2 she was carrying some 16,000 soldiers and crew and was hit by a rouge wave it's been said had she listed over just a few more degrees she would have rolled over and most certainly would have become the worst maritime disaster in history.
If it's any consolation, Madison, Gene Hackman is one of the few actors in that film who's still alive.
Love your reaction. I saw the movie in the 'drive-in' as a toddler. In fact, it was a double feature. The "Towering Inferno" was the second feature. Can you imagine my nightmares for fifty years?! Water or fire. Dwoning or burning. It's probably why I joined the US Army as a Combat Medical Specialist instead of becoming a US Navy Firefighter.
By the way, Shelly Winters insisted she perform her stunts in the movie. "The lady had guts."
By the way, have you ever watched the obscure westerns "Buck and the Preacher," "Sgt Rutledge," and the modern Western "Way of the Gun"?
The hidden theme of the movie is Dante's Inferno. The unworthy "preacher" is leading worthy souls from Hell.
This movie still holds up today.
5 Oscar winners (for acting) among the main group: Hackman, Winters, Albertson, Borgnine and Buttons.
I remember when this first came out,,,,it was GREAT. I've watched it many times,,,,it's a classic. Good review and reaction,,,,👍👍👍😎
The Mad magazine parody was "The Poopside Down Adventure" LOL
Yet another fantastic and thoughtful reaction. Poseidon is a true classic in the disaster movie genre. I always thought Reverend Scott’s attitude was a rather extreme version of “faith without works is dead”. I was always impressed by the fantastic production design as well. Anyhow, I highly recommend Irwin Allen’s follow up two years later that turned out to be the highest grossing film of 1974: The Towering Inferno. Fantastic cast led by Paul Newman and Steve McQueen.
Thanks mom!
See "Hoosiers" if you want to root for Gene Hackman again.
Thanks for reacting to this classic 70's disaster flick. Not many people have. I first saw this on video in the mid 90's and being incredibly entertained
You're watching one of my most favorite movies, ever. But if you watch this, the other must see is The Towering Inferno. They were the original epic action movies. Irwin Allen was dubbed The Master Of Disaster, back in the 70s. He is the original Michael Bay action. The Towering Inferno next please.
Two more super great ones from 1972 that I think you would do fantastic jobs with: "Deliverance"......and "Sleuth".
I didn't see this movie until it was on TV (what with all the cursing in it). Speaking of TV, I don't think anyone mentioned it, but besides Gene Hackman (from Superman), the person I know the best is the teenage girl (I know she has 3 names professionally, but I forget them at the moment) She played Nancy Drew on the Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew show until she decided to be indecent and pose for playboy. Her replacement wasn't very good in that character. Also, the old man was the Uncle in the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory movie (I'm pretty sure at least)
They made a sequel that not many like, although I actually liked that one better growing up. It has Sally Field, Michael Caine, and the guy who played Kojak (he's Greek, and I don't want to mess up his name)
Funny enough, this is the movie that I like Gene Hackman the least (I only saw him in Superman, and the movie where he was a coach)
Great reaction, this is one of my two fav disaster movies, the other is The Towering Inferno.
Another fantastic reaction Madison. 👍
Gene Hackman was the "it" character and lead actor for a number of years. He had a long "A" movie career. One of his last roles was Heartbreakers starring Sigourney aweaver and Jennifer Love Hewitt. Underrated movie and just a sidenote, JLH is smoking hot in it.
Of all the Playboy Playmates who went into movies, the late Stella Stevens (1938-2023) was the best actress, and the most successful. She was a wife and mother at age sixteen. She was Miss January 1960.
Man-Trap
The Nutty Professor
The Silencers
The Ballad Of Cable Hogue
She's also in The Courtship of Eddie's Father where she has another scene set on NYE, making her celluloid's unofficial Queen of New Year's Eve!
Classic disaster movie and one of my favorites since I was a kid. So glad you liked it, even if it was a little hard on you! If you are looking for another movie with Gene Hackman as the protagonist, there is the great Francis Ford Coppola thriller, The Conversation, made just after the Godfather movies. Understated but taught storytelling.
Great reaction as always!!
Most people didn't like the fact that Gene hackman's character diet. They talked about bringing him back in the movie sequel. ✌️❤️
The Morning After song won the Academy Award for best movie song of the year. The version by Maureen McGovern is the better one, was a big hit. From then on Maureen sung many movie themes for movies like Superman [Can You Read My Mind, and the Towering Inferno [We May Never Love Like This Again], many others. Mad Magazine parodied this movie calling it the "Poopsidedown Adventure. "
I read that.. My dad had a dozen old Mad magazines in a box in the attic, and I loved reading them as a kid. They were all of this era.
The sequel which did have a few moments starts actually before this one but you see the helicopter flying overhead later.
Me too! No open water, heck no! I'm a fish out of water in a pool but not on the beach!
Leslie Nielsen from Naked Gun.
The chick from Diamonds are Forever.
Shelley Winters, Ernest Borgnin
Saw this in the theater at age 10 and instantly became a Gene Hackman fan.
Great choice and great reaction. Tell your mom she gave you a good one to watch.
Hi and Thank You Madison Thames! Since you are such a Gene Hackman fan, you should probably react to The French Connection, as well as the sequel to The French Connection. In The French Connection, Hackman plays a cop, and the story of the movie somewhat follows true events, both good and bad. The sequel is more fictional, but very realistic and provides some closure.
Getting a discounted cruise on a nice ship is kind of on my bucket list...I just want to eat lobster until I'm sick of the sight of it ;)
I thought this movie was great when I saw it as a kid in the theater in 1972. I liked that they gave the kid credit for his knowledge - at that time I was quite capable in situations. I liked to delve as deep as possible into something interesting to learn all the details I could, including from university libraries and experts/professionals in the field.
I thought the girls were hot, and wished they were not portayed as emotional and helpless as they were.
The story and suspense were great, and had deep meanings and philosophy. Disaster movies that followed got real cheesy and simplistic in their stories. I also liked that they went from the worst deck of the ship to a place to be rescued, and did not listen to the "sit on your ass" crowd or the "let's go lower down to where the water is coming in" blind followers crowd.
I also really loved the song "THE MORNING AFTER", and how it was performed by the "rock" house band that had to soften their sound for the venue and audience they had.
It won the Academy Award for best original song in March 1973.
Fun Fact: The vocals you hear in the movie for "The Morning After" is not the actress Carol Lynley or Maureen McGovern, but singer Renee Armand who recorded a demo for the producers; and they did not go into a recording studio to make an official recording for the movie and soundtrack, but just used her demo vocal. Whether they intended or not(money or art?) it made it more authentic for a live band rehersal and performance on the cruise ship. Maureen McGovern recorded the song and released it in May 1973, and it hit #1 that summer.
Great video!
I had the experience of working on the remake as an extra in 2005. It had some technical innovations, of course, but dramatically it wasn't an improvement over the original. According to Gene Hackman, a proposed sequel would have begun where the first film ended. In the first scene Hackman, as a different character, would ask "did my twin brother survive?" ( And the actual sequel didn't fare too well ).
In actuality, Paul Gallico did write the sequel novel, *Beyond the **_Poseidon_** Adventure,* which does in fact begin where the film leaves off, and I recommend it to lovers of the original film before I'd recommend the sequel movie (which I don't think I will anyway). 🧐
Gene Hackman has made a ton of good guy movies. The Replacements (hilarious) and Hoosiers (bring your tissues) are two of my favs amongst many.
A classic disaster movie! I Luv this movie and the development of the characters! Gene Hackman is great in this! I still get emotional when Mrs Rosen dies right after saving Scott. 😢 Love the all-star cast! Great reaction Madison! I haven't seen this movie in years and it is still Awesome ! Thanks again, your the best!
Thanks for showing this movie : Gives me the chills !
I suggest you watch « Marty » (1955) for which Ernest Borgnine (the policeman) won the main Oscar - also Best Movie and Best Director. Borgnine is very good as an Italian cop in « Pay or Die », too.
Shelley Winters gained an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in « A Patch of Blue » (1965), very good movie starring Sidney Poitier.
I love Red Buttons in « Hatari ! » (1962) starring John Wayne and Elsa Martinelli, directed by Howard Hawks.
Salute from France 🇫🇷
This movie is a metaphor for the human spirit
Speaking of Gene Hackman in great roles. Another good guy role for him is in Mississippi Burning. Excellent movie, if you haven't seen it already.
Gene Hackman:
1. The French Connection
(a classic, police and if I remember correctly one of the first car chases)
Great movie and Gene is “always “ great!!?
Another great film from this era is Towering Inferno.
Congratulations on finishing your book. I just checked Amazon and didn't see that printed versions are available. Will printed versions become available?
Another good Hackman performance is Missippii burning
0:36:30 I was a Christian before I met ODIN and Gene Hackman's sermon sounded like it came from my side of the street ;)
gene hackman is an incredible actor never done a bad film in his life
Oh wow, I have mentioned this movie several times on different movie reaction channels that I subscribe to but to no avail. Thanks, to your mom you are in for a treat. I tend to mention great movies that's not on most people radar (hidden gems). For example, please checkout "Run Away Train" John Voight & Eric Roberts maybe hard to find but an excellent classic movie, acting is top notch.
+1 for "Run Away Train"
You might not know they made a sequel to this in 1979 - Beyond the Poseidon Adventure. Stars Michael Caine, Sally Field, Karl Malden..... Not great but it has its moments (a bit of escapist adventure), a product of its time with an above average cast but a bit far fetched.
It's very entertaining, not as gut-wrenching as this movie but worth a watch and even though it's made several years after the original it takes place right when this one ends. Too bad Fox have given this classic movie a new grading, though.
The only cast members that are left are Gene Hackman , Pamela Sue Martin and Erik Shea .