05-16-2006, 04:20 PM
Just wondering: Why? Why did they make it?
For the money, of course. It had to be. Some mighty-ups sat around snorting coke and debating how to pay for the next round, and thus was born a Poseidon retread.
But who did the math? Was the calculation based on how well "A Perfect Storm" did? Have there been other recent litmus tests?
If I had a couple hundred million bucks to invest in a movie for the purpose of profit, Poseidon wouldn't be in the top 1000.
I just don't feel the appeal. Not one bit.
Now, I do know enough about animation to know that water effects are easy to do and extremely convincing. In fact, ripples and waves in some animations are so real-like as to become distracting. Anyway, maybe some bigwig caught wind of this and thought, "Hey, let's do a whole movie of animated water effects that look real!" Okay, I'm reaching here...
It's become a cliche to ridicule the idiocy of hollywood high-ups. I don't mean to do that here. I'm really struggling to understand how people with money who want to make more money make a decision like this...
--cranefly
For the money, of course. It had to be. Some mighty-ups sat around snorting coke and debating how to pay for the next round, and thus was born a Poseidon retread.
But who did the math? Was the calculation based on how well "A Perfect Storm" did? Have there been other recent litmus tests?
If I had a couple hundred million bucks to invest in a movie for the purpose of profit, Poseidon wouldn't be in the top 1000.
I just don't feel the appeal. Not one bit.
Now, I do know enough about animation to know that water effects are easy to do and extremely convincing. In fact, ripples and waves in some animations are so real-like as to become distracting. Anyway, maybe some bigwig caught wind of this and thought, "Hey, let's do a whole movie of animated water effects that look real!" Okay, I'm reaching here...
It's become a cliche to ridicule the idiocy of hollywood high-ups. I don't mean to do that here. I'm really struggling to understand how people with money who want to make more money make a decision like this...
--cranefly
I'm nobody's pony.