Poseidon Might Be Too Hard and Graphic for Some Audiences

As director Wolfgang Petersen admitted after seeing the two-minute trailer of his upcoming Poseidon action thriller that, besides the trappings of a typical summer blockbuster: explosions, fires, buff heroes delivering dramatic lines, there are also certain things that might not go well with the more sensitive audiences.

Some were rather shocked by the last seconds of the trailer that sees the screen going black and leaving only the muffled gasps and screams of people drowning.

"The movie, a remake of the 1972 classic Poseidon Adventure, is pure Hollywood spectacle. Poseidon boasts a $150 million budget, hundreds of computer-generated effects and stars Josh Lucas, Kurt Russell and Emmy Rossum," representatives of the studio say.
Yet some viewers might not enjoy the dramatic realistic drowning sequences that seem to bring back the memory of the Katrina disaster.

"I expect that there will be some people who walk out of the theaters," says Petersen, who also directed the water disaster films The Perfect Storm and Das Boot. "But I wasn't going to do a disaster movie like a spoof. I wanted to show the kind of terror people might go through when they really face something like this."