"The Poseidon Adventure" - a review on video
Lenona
(I posted this earlier, but I was in such a rush I didn't think of how
best to phrase all this. I also got it confused with something else -
jeez.)
http://www.wcatv.org/vod?task=viewvideo&video_id=102
By a friend of mine. The other two reviews are the 1966 "Manos the
Hands of Fate" (also once reviewed by MST3K) at 4:29, followed, I
should warn you, by a potentially controversial "Jib Jab"-style clip
of Queen Elizabeth, and, at 10:48, the 2006 NBC series "The Book of
Daniel." (However, the review itself starts at 18:30. You'll see why.)
Enjoy!
Lenona.
Jack Teehan
Thanks! This show was great. I do believe that it was the
product of divine intervention. I also believe the CIA is monitoring
my speech through my back fillings, and that Elvis is alive and
well and living in Utah.
Can anyone tell me what a "Jib-Jab" style is?
The Poseidon Adventure review was the best, followed by the other
ones.
Again, thank you.
Lenona
>
> Can anyone tell me what a "Jib-Jab" style is?
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=jib+jab&search_type=&aq=f
(Quite popular just before elections.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JibJab
It began in 1999.
> The Poseidon Adventure review was the best, followed by the other
> ones.
>
> Again, thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Lenona.
David Oberman
>Glad you enjoyed it!
Did we ever solve the riddle of the tsunami vs. rogue wave?
____
When Charlie Parker came to Paris in 1949, he marked the occasion
by incorporating the first notes of the "Rite" into his solo on
"Salt Peanuts." Two years later, playing Birdland in New York, the
bebop master spotted Stravinsky at one of the tables & immediately
incorporated a motif from "Firebird" into "Koko," causing the composer
to spill his scotch in ecstasy.
-- Alex Ross
Michael O'Connor
is correct, in that it was a tsunami type wave caused by a nearby
underwater earthquake:
That evening, New Year's Eve, everybody gathers in the dining room to
celebrate. Captain Harrison is called back to the bridge because of an
emergency report of an undersea earthquake near Crete. Harrison
receives word from the lookout that there is a huge wave heading
towards them. He immediately issues a mayday, but it is already too
late. The wave hits the bridge, drowning Harrison, Linarcos and other
ship's officers. The ship rolls over, killing and injuring most of the
people on board.
David Oberman
That's how the Paul Gallico novel presents it. But it's science
fiction. A quake-generated gravity water wave -- a tsunami -- has an
enormous wavelength & period, its energy feeling the sea floor. It
cannot sink an ocean liner at sea because it does not shoal in deep
water, where it has a swell height of no more than a few feet & an
extremely high velocity (a function of the sea depth). The idea of a
single deep-sea wave rearing up 20 or more meters & smacking a ship
describes a rogue wave, not a tsunami. Gallico & Irwin Allen & Co.
make hash of wave physics. I'm mad as hell, & I'm not going to take it
any more.
Michael O'Connor
> "Michael O'Connor" <mpoconn...@aol.com> wrote:
> >I watched The Poseidon Adventure last night. The IMDB synopsis below
> >is correct, in that it was a tsunami type wave caused by a nearby
> >underwater earthquake:
>
> >That evening, New Year's Eve, everybody gathers in the dining room to
> >celebrate. Captain Harrison is called back to the bridge because of an
> >emergency report of an undersea earthquake near Crete. Harrison
> >receives word from the lookout that there is a huge wave heading
> >towards them. He immediately issues a mayday, but it is already too
> >late. The wave hits the bridge, drowning Harrison, Linarcos and other
> >ship's officers. The ship rolls over, killing and injuring most of the
> >people on board.
>
> That's how the Paul Gallico novel presents it. But it's science
> fiction. A quake-generated gravity water wave -- a tsunami -- has an
> enormous wavelength & period, its energy feeling the sea floor. It
> cannot sink an ocean liner at sea because it does not shoal in deep
> water, where it has a swell height of no more than a few feet & an
> extremely high velocity (a function of the sea depth). The idea of a
> single deep-sea wave rearing up 20 or more meters & smacking a ship
> describes a rogue wave, not a tsunami. Gallico & Irwin Allen & Co.
> make hash of wave physics. I'm mad as hell, & I'm not going to take it
> any more.
>
Irwin Allen was one who liked to play it fast and loose with the
science in his disaster films. In The Towering Inferno, it was kinda
ridiculous that there would be enough water stored in tanks on top of
the building to completely extinguish the fire throughout the entire
building; I've worked on the design of office buildings and the weight
of that much water (tens of thousands of gallons) would be dangerous
to have at the top of the building. In The Swarm you had the scene
where the bees flew into a nuclear power plant and caused it to
explode and they were not incinerated in the blast (or harmed by the
radiation), but if there was a mishap it would not turn into a
mushroom cloud like in the movie but would melt down like Chernobyl.
You have to ignore the bad science when watching Irwin Allen movies
and just enjoy the cheesy melodrama and cool special effects..