Anyone else looking forward to this film? I think it looks cool


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0409182/

Titanic II: Without the chick-flick crap!!

There is a hilarious interview with Richard Dreyfuss here.

I saw the original when I was a kid and I liked it. This one looks cool with the better special effects.

Is there a trailer to watch ?

The main Yahoo! page shows a teaser, I imagine if you click on it a trailer will become available.

I guess I am the only one who isn't looking forward at all to this and will not see it unless I am being dragged them with promises of "fun" after or during the movie. LOL

But I am also one of those people who thinks Titanic was one of the dumbest movies ever. And it was not good at all. How did it honestly win 11 Oscars? Seriously LORs tied it for 1st place of all time and LORs was about 100x better.

Plot Outline: In this remake of the 1972 disaster classic 'The Poseidon Adventure' (1972) , a luxury ocean liner capsizes from a colossal tidal wave, leaving its survivors to fend for themselves as they find a way out.

I saw this when I was one...j/k...I did see this movie though. I didn't like it too much. Anyway, who cares about the ship...this colossal tidal wave...where did it hit and what was the aftermath?! That would probably make a better movie.

As far as I know, if you are out in the open sea and a tidal wave comes past you, you would hardly notice it. It isn't until the wave gets closer to shore that the rise of the ocean floor makes the wave rise. Maybe there was a huge rock at the bottom of the ocean... I dunno.

True, but on the oceans there are phenomena called rogue waves that can be quite large, waves of over 40 feet high have been reported. Many small ships and boats have been capsized by these rogue waves.

Isn't this one of those movies where the original was very loosely based on actual events? I remember reading about a cruise ship that somehow flipped, and they had to open the bottom (which was above the surface) with welding torches to get people out.

Im looking forward to it. Cant wait I liked Titanic, I just thought it was realllllly sad. Cant stand sad movies but the action part is still good. I almost found myself crying in Titanic

Well, considering Rhus pointed out that these rogue waves can happen and are natural phenomena, my curiosity finally got the better of me and I went and looked it up. I love me some Wikipedia! Can I say that on the air?!

Copied from Wikipedia:
It is common for mid-ocean storm waves to reach 7 metres (23 feet) in height, and in extreme conditions such waves can reach heights of 15 metres (50 feet). However, for centuries maritime lore told of the existence of vastly more massive waves — veritable monsters up to 30 metres (100 feet) in height (approximately the height of a 12-story building) — that could appear without warning in mid-ocean, against the prevailing current and wave direction, and often in perfectly clear weather. Such waves were said to consist of an almost vertical wall of water preceded by a trough so deep that it was referred to as a "hole in the sea"; a ship encountering a wave of such magnitude would be unlikely to survive the tremendous pressures of up to 100 tonnes/m2 (980 kPa) exerted by the weight of the breaking water, and would almost certainly be sunk in a matter of seconds. Usual ship design allows for rounded storm waves up to 15 m and pressures around 15 tonnes/m2 (147 kPa) without damage, and up to twice that if some deformation is allowed for, which is about a wave of twenty metres.

Scientists long dismissed such stories, asserting that mathematical models indicated that ocean waves of greater than 15 metres in height were likely to be rare "once in 10,000 years" events. However, satellite imaging has in recent years confirmed that waves of up to 30 metres in height are much more common than mathematical probability would predict based on a linear model of wave size. In addition, pressure readings from buoys moored in the Gulf of Mexico at the time of Hurricane Katrina also indicate the presence of such large waves at the time of the storm. In fact, they seem to occur in all of the world's oceans many times every year. This has caused a re-examination of the reason for their existence, as well as calling into serious question many long-accepted principles of maritime engineering.

Note: The localized freak waves discussed here are not the same as tsunami, formerly called "tidal waves". Tsunami are displacement waves which travel at high speed and are more or less unnoticeable in deep water; they only become dangerous as they approach the shoreline. In the deep sea, tsunami do not represent a threat to shipping. Freak waves, in contrast, are localized short-lived water phenomena that most frequently occur far out to sea.

For you doubters out there...like me