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SINK OR SWIM.(Poseidon)(Movie review)
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Wolfgang Petersen, the director of "Das Boot" and "The Perfect Storm," is back in the water. In "Poseidon," a remake of "The Poseidon Adventure," the German-born Petersen swamps a ship, sends rivets popping, and washes away furniture, crockery, and corpses in a foamy digital flood. What is it with this guy and the sea? Something prenatal, perhaps. I don't know that anyone was longing for a new version of the campy disaster "classic" from 1972. Real disasters have recently taken hold of our imagination--and of our movies, too. After you've seen "United 93," it's hard to regard "Poseidon" as anything more than an extremely ...
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