Sprint to the Oscars - Poseidon

The Sneaky Cheetah continues his quest to see every nominated film before the Academy Awards!

Poseidon
Nominated for Best Visual Effects

This is not a typo. Poseidon is actually nominated for Best Visual Effects. The film that gave us such classic dialog as "I'm an architect. This boat was not designed to float upside-down." And "That's a pressurized hatch. It'll only open under tremendous pressure!" This movie is such total crap, it sullies the Oscars just to have to say "Poseidon" on Oscar night. You must suspend disbelief for a film like this, but this pushes your disbelief to the limits time and again.
As for the viz effects, their OK. Not spectacular. The first few minutes of the film is a fly by of the Poseidon (the ship) that's total CGI and looks good. But the sinking of the ship is weak. You never get a sense of humongousness of the ship rolling over like you did on Titanic. And the rogue wave that swamps the ship is nowhere as impressive as the one on The Perfect Storm (ironically delivered by the same director, Wolfgang Petersen). No chance this takes an Oscar home. D

This is the seventh nomination for visual effects genius John Frazier, who won in 2005 for Spider-Man 2 and was nominated for Twister, Armageddon, The Perfect Storm, Pearl Harbor and Spider-Man. He shares the nomination with first time honorees Boyd Shermis, Kim Libreri, and Chas Jarrett.