Episode #759: Poseidon (with Justin J. Case)
Added 2024-09-24 04:00:02 +0000 UTC“You don’t know why anyone is on this boat!” - Steve, on the bad script
On this week’s show, the guys welcome back their good bud, and official WHM Disaster Movie Expert™️, Justin J. Case to chat about the grimmer-than-average disaster flick, Poseidon! How brutal are all these kills? Is there any other movie that’s this aggressively 2006? Couldn’t they have tried to make any of these characters three-dimensional? And credit where credit’s due, the sequence of the boat tipping over is exquisite! PLUS: Turns out installing elevators in Mortal Kombat’s Outworld is pretty involved!
Poseidon stars Josh Lucas, Kurt Russell, Jacinda Barrett, Richard Dreyfuss, Emmy Rossum, Mía Maestro, Mike Vogel, Kevin Dillon, Freddy Rodríguez, Jimmy Bennett, Andre Brauer, and Fergie as Gloria; directed by Wolfgang Peterson.
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Original cover art by Felipe Sobreiro.
Comments
I watched this movie with my dad as a kid when I was about 10, and when he explained that it was a remake, it was the first time I understood what that actually meant, and I got so irrationally angry at the concept.
John Beckmann
2025-03-22 02:42:54 +0000 UTCI can't believe no one is commenting on how Justin sounds, speaks, and jokes exactly like Eric. I'm convinced this is a long con.
zancakes
2024-09-30 20:16:18 +0000 UTCHang up on him!
Matt
2024-09-30 13:34:55 +0000 UTCYou need to fuck all the way off, jabroni.
FiddlersGreenDay
2024-09-30 00:58:27 +0000 UTCWe used to cut them out and people complained that they never heard we were going to be in their town and missed us. There are no paid advertisements on the Patreon feed. We have to tell people what we are doing. That is not us promoting an advertiser.
We Hate Movies
2024-09-29 14:35:00 +0000 UTCI took a classics course in fall 2006 in college, and the professor could NOT stop complaining about how that movie got the Iliad so totally wrong. I found it v amusing.
Rose Esposito
2024-09-28 18:24:27 +0000 UTCWhy do I pay money for you to advertise your fucking shows? An advertisment is an advertisment. It doesn't matter if its Coke or your shows. What am I paying for?
Wil Brown
2024-09-27 19:40:12 +0000 UTCMasquerade is impervious to criticism.
FiddlersGreenDay
2024-09-27 11:03:42 +0000 UTCI wanted a Kevin Dillon redemption death. I would be in tears for Drama. This movie is a spiritual successor to entourage.
Tristan
2024-09-27 01:17:55 +0000 UTCExcited about the Spooktacular Four announcement! Does that mean we are getting an episode of our favorite little green fictional monster in SPAAAACE?!
Dan sulin
2024-09-26 13:35:08 +0000 UTCSpooktacu-four?
Matthew Kennedy
2024-09-26 12:52:30 +0000 UTCI guess if we had Spooktwocular, this would be Spookfourcular?
Emil Svensson
2024-09-26 12:51:37 +0000 UTCSpooktacular?!? 4, four, four, 4, four, 4!
Matthew Kennedy
2024-09-26 12:15:08 +0000 UTCAs long as we're talking about Josh Lucas movies, I'm going to throw out a nod to Session 9. That's a good one.
profondo robbo
2024-09-26 10:17:57 +0000 UTCListening to this the night Eric Adams got indicted, wooo!
Aaron Dowler
2024-09-26 03:37:56 +0000 UTCPhantom of the Opera movie stans aren't gonna like you not putting respect on Emmy Rossum's name 😬
Emily Thompson
2024-09-26 00:44:10 +0000 UTCMy god, I never even thought about goggles. That never makes sense in movies, everyone can see like fish
Smaug
2024-09-25 20:58:06 +0000 UTCThe trailer for that looked ABYSMAL. - Andrew
We Hate Movies
2024-09-25 19:58:49 +0000 UTCWould watch him in a LSL picture! - Andrew
We Hate Movies
2024-09-25 19:58:19 +0000 UTCOh wow, that's super-weird. London was way early on! - Andrew
We Hate Movies
2024-09-25 19:57:27 +0000 UTCJacinda Barrett was also a cast member of the Real World London season (I believe it was 4). It was the most BORING season of the 12 I watched (I finally stopped at 11).
Shylina
2024-09-25 18:34:08 +0000 UTCI love this movie. But I also love the original
Arthur martinez
2024-09-25 17:08:15 +0000 UTCRichard Dreyfus was a VHS God.
Mark Ibarra
2024-09-25 16:30:57 +0000 UTCThe day may come when I stop laughing at the "stuck in the dryer" jokes, but today is not that day.
Tim O'Connor
2024-09-25 15:52:23 +0000 UTC16-year-old 2004 me is outraged by their disrespect for this unironically incredible motion picture; 36yo me can't wait for the hilarity 🥳
Rose Esposito
2024-09-25 14:43:12 +0000 UTCAre you degens besmirching the good name of my beloved Schumacher Phantom????
FiddlersGreenDay
2024-09-25 11:38:14 +0000 UTC“Every single episode we do will be the 4th entry in some sort of horror franchise” Nothing guarantees a roster of bad movies quite like that.
Excitemike 64
2024-09-25 06:16:56 +0000 UTCI never understood how he could see so well underwater without goggles during that sequence.
Craig
2024-09-25 05:19:29 +0000 UTCHollywood must surely be desperate enough to adapt that by now?
Craig
2024-09-25 05:17:35 +0000 UTCIt's fitting that Richard Dreyfuss is in this because he is the undisputed king of movies that were at least somewhat on the cultural radar upon their initial release, but no longer exist today. Poseidon, Mr. Holland's Opus, Whose Life Is It Anyway?, the Stakeout franchise, Silent Fall, Nuts, Moon Over Parador...if it weren't for Letterboxd and the like, we'd be at a loss.
Z
2024-09-25 04:02:32 +0000 UTCKevin Dillon took this part just to make his audition reel for the never made Leisure Suit Larry movie.
CharlesGrodin'sToupee
2024-09-25 02:09:46 +0000 UTCTroy is a great movie if your a bi teen in the early 2000. This is deff Wolf's worst movie.
Jonathan
2024-09-25 00:17:03 +0000 UTCAnd seven years later the animated mad show on cartoon network would parody it well past the point when anyone whould remember it.
Mark D Myers
2024-09-25 00:07:01 +0000 UTCThat Celine Dion biopic Aline kinda does that Philip Baker Hall thing, putting a middle aged actress' head on a teenager.
Jamie
2024-09-24 23:35:18 +0000 UTCI remember my dad letting out a huge belly laugh when the elevator shaft scene scared me
Eren Keskin
2024-09-24 19:39:05 +0000 UTCRussell Eight Simple Rules
Felipe Sobreiro
2024-09-24 19:06:37 +0000 UTCAhh the dark year of 2006. When Hollywood still tried to shove Josh Lucas as a leading man down our necks.
Dean
2024-09-24 18:59:44 +0000 UTCGuilty as charged.
Dean
2024-09-24 18:58:49 +0000 UTCI cannot wait for nightmare 4...it might be my personal fave. Has a killer intro song and some nice nightmares and action scenes.
Frank Grimes
2024-09-24 17:58:39 +0000 UTCI'm glad that it's brought up that this wave comes without any explanation. Coincidentally, I watched the absolutely awful Asylum movie Titanic II last week (seriously, do not bother watching) and they have a tsunami and they actually do explain why it formed. Inexplicably Titanic II was more concerned with exposition and this big budget disaster movie was not, lmao.
Busiris
2024-09-24 17:01:58 +0000 UTCGreat ep. I think I'm going to show this to my kid who loved Titanic, just to nail down what he actually loved about that movie. I suspect it may be art-related. Great job by Justin, WHM's fifth Beatle.
Mark Ibarra
2024-09-24 15:27:57 +0000 UTCRight here! Almost puked in the theater! - Andrew
We Hate Movies
2024-09-24 13:45:09 +0000 UTCThat drowning still haunts me! - Andrew
We Hate Movies
2024-09-24 13:44:40 +0000 UTCOh I quite enjoy this movie, it's feels like a nice throwback to mid-tier 90s action movies, unconvincing dialogue and dumb characters and all. With a convincing drowning of Kurt Russell to boot
Smaug
2024-09-24 13:30:55 +0000 UTCI saw it in IMAX!
Colby Hoffman
2024-09-24 13:17:37 +0000 UTCJosh Lucas is actually the lead character in Stealth which, not for nothing, is definitely a large part of why that movie does not work AT ALL
Robert Flaxman
2024-09-24 13:12:35 +0000 UTCOne of her many chances 😆
Jaime Lee Ezell
2024-09-24 11:59:06 +0000 UTCWatching it right now and I think it's giving me claustrophobia. I had to go outside during the vent scenes. Also why are their so many bombs on this cruise ship?
Ray
2024-09-24 06:38:13 +0000 UTCWho saw this in theaters like I did?
Papa Taylor
2024-09-24 04:19:56 +0000 UTC
