The Poseidon Adventure (1972) poster
1972 · disaster · adventure · blockbuster · ensemble

The Poseidon Adventure

Directed by Ronald Neame1h 57m1972
ElsewhereIMDb7.153kRT82%Metacritic70TMDB7.11k
  • sombre
  • brisk
  • intense
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Sombre, breathless, extreme disaster / adventure, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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When their ocean liner capsizes, a group of passengers struggle to survive and escape.

Our read · The Poseidon Adventure (1972) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded disaster · adventure · blockbuster entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want classic disaster tension as strangers claw upward through a capsized liner.

ends bittersweetit stays with yougrabs you earlygrips by minute 25attention 4/5earns its length
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upgraphic violencechild peril

Skip it tonightYou dislike claustrophobic peril and dated seventies disaster-movie melodrama tonight.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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