Poseidon (2006) Engine Room Explosion

[waverleyjournalise]

The sound design of this movie is awesome.

[OwlEye]

0:09 I always loved this shot because of how haunting it is.

It's further chaos erupting in this section of the ship with no music accenting it. If anything, the sound effects make up for that with how rhythmic and echoey the explosions and metallic groans sound.

That being said, I've always what could possibly be in that section of the ship that could be explosive, let alone make a looping chain of them that doesn't shatter the dome?

[silvereagle]

Kurt Russell's drowning scene really got to me. It's hard to watch.

[peterfranks]

Very good and effect laden BUT you can't beat Gene Hackman in the original 1972 classic ❤

[connorpusey]

This is not what would happen in reality. First the explosions would have to rip through _dozens_ of steal decking in order for it to blow a hole through what would be the _top_ of the stern (if the ship were right side up), but it would most likely impact the very bottom of the ship which is now _above_ the surface. Also, the actual engines would be closer to the center of the ship rather than at the very back like shown in the movie, as that is where the propellers/pods would be. Even if explosions were able to blow through submerged sections of ship, it wouldn’t make the opposite end magically rise up. That stern would just start plummeting and the bow would largely stay in place since it’s already filled with water. The ships sinking angle would even out and sink like a bolder, killing this entire group of survivors….