Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979) movie review - Sneak Previews with Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel

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This is the original review of Beyond the Poseidon Adventure by Siskel & Ebert on "Sneak Previews" in 1979. All of the segments pertaining to the movie have been included.

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@dmacmillion 4 жыл бұрын

Even though he is now a treasured elder statesman, back in the 70's and 80's Michael Caine was willing to appear in ANYTHING if the money was right.

@CaptainSpalding72 4 жыл бұрын

He was in 5 movies several years in the 80s.

@jmjfanss 3 жыл бұрын

@@CaptainSpalding72 one of them is the great hanna and her sisters.

@acholl980 3 жыл бұрын

@@jmjfanss ...and instead of going to the Oscars he worked on Jaws the Revenge.

@oldfashionedguy1368 5 жыл бұрын

I would have to strongly disagree with Gene saying that the original Poseidon Adventure from 1972 wouldn't hold up after a second viewing, I would watch that film every Christmas or New Year whenever it's on TV, the sequel not so much.

@Blaqjaqshellaq 4 жыл бұрын

"...and he's dead, and that's it--or do you want to make something more of it?" The quintessential disaster movie line!

@oldfashionedguy1368 4 жыл бұрын

@Konga 5000 No, it's not an insult, it's just that the original film is much, much better and the sequel isn't really worth my interest. (Gene would nominate the sequel as the Dog of 1979, btw).

@heatwave 3 жыл бұрын

I agree with you 100%. Part of the reason the movie was the biggest money-maker of 1973, was that so many people (myself included) saw it more than once.

@alanrogs3990 Жыл бұрын

I loved PBS back in the 1980's. On Sunday afternoons I'd watch this and Matinee at the Bijou.

@RandomDudeFromSomewhere 4 жыл бұрын

i love Roger's reactions to this.

@jessecoffey4737 5 жыл бұрын

Gene Siskel picked this as the worst film of 1979.

@gallery7596 4 жыл бұрын

I think Gene is correct calling out Roger for saying if you liked the original, you'll like the sequel. Ronald Neame's "The Poseidon Adventure" is far better made than the Irwin Allen directed sequel. Ebert also may have thought she was cute in her role, but Sally Field said this was the worst movie she ever made, and I agree. "The Poseidon Adventure" kicks the sequel's butt.

@michaelglenn367 4 жыл бұрын

Sally Field was given the role. She made a lot of money. It was her job to give a good performace...no matter what she thought of the script. A great actor or actress can rise above the material. Other actors in this film rose above the material. Shirly Jones in my opinion was gave the most unconvincing performance. Its strange...she was actually a better actress in The Partridge Family.

@jmfitz619 4 жыл бұрын

One simple reason this film was a bust compared to the original....the characters. In the original, the survivors were a group we got to know, to like, to care for, and to root for their survival. They worked together far better ( who didn't cheer on Belle Rosen when she dove in the water and saved the Reverend?). This one? Sorry, they were flat, uninteresting, just didn't do it....

@CaptainSpalding72 4 жыл бұрын

Field has said, "Smokey and the Bandit II," was the worst. I'm sure this is close, but not nearly as inept.

@CaptainSpalding72 4 жыл бұрын

@@michaelglenn367 the problem is she didnt. She was light weight and unconvincing. Michael Cain was even more ridiculous.

@gallery7596 4 жыл бұрын

@@CaptainSpalding72 Caine seemed to do so many movies back then just to pay for mansion renovations- including his other Allen directed bomb, "The Swarm." And re: *"Field has said, "Smokey and the Bandit II," was the worst,"* she told Andy Cohen "BTPA" was the bottom of the heap, but she may have re-considered.

@k1productions87 2 ай бұрын

Oh my goodness, Sally Field? I never even HEARD of this movie before (and I had seen all three other versions) yet how did I miss that Sally Field was in a sequel?

@kurtboyer299 4 жыл бұрын

Any time you get Michael Caine around water the movie is going to suck.

@connorbrennan4233 4 жыл бұрын

Would you say this or Jaws: The Revenge is worse?

@kurtboyer299 4 жыл бұрын

@@connorbrennan4233 Hard to say. Even the original Poseidon Adventure was based on a dumb premise (tidal waves aren't water mountains) but nothing is as dumb as a shark w/ a family grudge who migrates 7 biomes south to attack a lady.

@maskedmarvyl4774 3 жыл бұрын

I had the misfortune to watch part of this movie on cable. The Only thing I remember about it is a scene where Slim Pickens, who plays a character who is a wine expert (!!), finds a rare bottle of wine among the death and destruction of the ship, and says "it's a beautiful bottle of wine! It's a BEAUTIFUL BOTTLE OF WINE!!" That's his most dramatic moment. Never has an actor strained so hard to make a stupid line mean something. You don't believe for an instant that this hayseed is a wine expert, and if he really thinks this is the only thing that is important in a sinking ship full of dead people where he himself and the few others who are still alive may be about to die, he's a completely demented nutcase, and deserves to drown. The fact that I can't remember anything else about this picture tells you how forgettable it is. The fact that it was produced by Irwin Allen, the laziest producer of schlock in the 60s and 70s, isn't surprising....

@rmurphy440m 3 жыл бұрын

Running "broad" jump....LOL!

@cliffordshafran9250 5 жыл бұрын

Well, the public had enough of disaster flicks by 1979. Both Airport '79 and Beyond the Poseidon Adventure were box office flops, along with 1980's When Time Ran Out. The special effects that dazzled moviegoers in Star Wars and Close Encounters also helped kill the disaster movie genre. And why does Michael Caine appear in these awful sequels (He was also in Jaws: The Revenge)? He's too good an actor for this junk!

@patrickshields5251 5 жыл бұрын

Because Caine needed to collect a paycheck, like any good actor in a bad film.

@rubenreyna2198 5 жыл бұрын

Caine also stated that he got free vacations to exotic places whenever a screenplay had a location no matter how bad the film was such as Jaws 4 & The Island.

@Blaqjaqshellaq 4 жыл бұрын

@@rubenreyna2198 Vincent Canby's NEW YORK TIMES review of THE ISLAND said, "The noise you hear at your local theater is Peter Benchley scraping the bottom of the barrel.... THE ISLAND is mean and clumsy and brutal."

@rubenreyna2198 4 жыл бұрын

James Matthews LoL. Its funny as well though it wasnt meant to be!

@Norvo82 4 жыл бұрын

Well, like Michael Caine said about Jaws: The Revenge and acting in bad pictures in general: ""I have never seen it, but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific"

@CaptainSpalding72 4 жыл бұрын

Sally Field did not fit here, she played it too light... this was the was same year as her Oscar performance in NORMA RAE.

@jessecoffey4737 4 жыл бұрын

No one at the Academy was going to mistake one of her performances that year for the other, that's for sure.

@CaptainSpalding72 4 жыл бұрын

@Konga 5000 we know. The movie sucks.

@CaptainSpalding72 4 жыл бұрын

Field later said, "the money was so good, it would have been offensive not to do it."

@CaptainSpalding72 4 жыл бұрын

@Konga 5000 gene was gene. I gently disagree, but hes still a good kid.

@tentcater4710 3 жыл бұрын

Field: “ oh brother” lol

@LannieLord 11 ай бұрын

Just to set the scene for younger people in here : 1979 was BLASTING with DISCO songs. The big hits are ALIEN and Dawn of the Dead . And Phantasm ! But Beyond the Poseidon Adventure was something NOBODY asked for .

@mikesilva3868 8 ай бұрын

😊❤😊😊😊😊🎉terrible sequel

@CaptainSpalding72 4 жыл бұрын

Nah, Roger is wrong, this is mindless junk. The original is fun, well-made and acted.... this is junk.

@jimmyl324 4 жыл бұрын

Rented it on iTunes.

@jimmyl324 2 жыл бұрын

Dreadful

@rubenreyna2198 5 жыл бұрын

I also didn't like this. I loved the 1st so much in fact it's my favorite disaster film, but this Beyond was dull from the get go. Slim Pickens didn't even lighten things up. I disagree w/Roger. I think Michael Caine & Sally Field both horribly overacted here.

@bassliveevil 4 жыл бұрын

This was released the same year as the dreadfully bad Raise the Titanic

@Blaqjaqshellaq 4 жыл бұрын

I thought RAISE THE TITANIC came out the next year.

@johnclossick7034 4 жыл бұрын

@@Blaqjaqshellaq You're right! It made no sense to release two bad sunken ship films in the same year.

@tur74d56 3 жыл бұрын

Raise the titanic was a fabulous film , it flopped as people couldn’t believe in a fantasy of raising the titanic

@timmartin7664 Жыл бұрын

@@tur74d56 Maybe because it's impossible? IDK

@captainharris8980 Жыл бұрын

I saw the last twenty minutes of the first one. I never saw any of this one. Both seemed to be over hyped disaster films.

@eargasm1072 3 жыл бұрын

Another mess-terpiece fr Irwin Allen lol

@leandromv170 2 жыл бұрын

There's so much that's wrong about what these critics say... - They are not the same movie! - If you liked The Poseidon Adventure of course you're going to like Beyond... What? No! You might be interested, but you're gonna lose interest after two minutes. - Michael Cane and all the cast SUCK, as the direction does. Each one is acting in a different movie, with a different style. - The original movie DOES HOLD UP for a second and multiple viewings. It's 2021 and it's still great.

@digmacdiggydoo 4 жыл бұрын

It is a bad movie.

@donnamiller5222 3 жыл бұрын

This movie stank

@ekop1778 3 жыл бұрын

DID POOR AT THE THEATRES TOO BARELY MADE THE BUDGET TOO

@kenernestnation 4 жыл бұрын

Can’t believe just how bad these men were at what they did. Whether you liked the original or not, no one would like this film.

@CaptainSpalding72 4 жыл бұрын

Who is bad? Siskel and Ebert were/are awesome... they actually KNOW films, unlike you.

@stardaddyo9 2 жыл бұрын

This movie was absolute dogshit!!!!! Michael Cain knew it was absolute dogshit but he saw the size of the paycheck and agree to wallow in the aforementioned dogshit.