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<blockquote data-quote="Crimson" data-source="post: 346531" data-attributes="member: 5079">I will grant you that past-her-prime, blowsy character actress Ava Gardner is always a plus, but not enough for me to ever sit through EARTHQUAKE! or THE CASSANDRA CROSSING again.Rewatching INFERNO, that was my biggest takeaway: neither the writers nor the actors invested much.&nbsp; Newman must have blown his back out carrying the whole damn movie, because everyone else looked kind of bored.&nbsp; Characters were either Noble or Sinister, but with no real personality.&nbsp; I was more worried about the cat than any of the people.The actors in POSEIDON really knew what they were doing.&nbsp; I wouldn&#039;t argue it&#039;s a great drama or character study, but the actors brought some&nbsp; personality to their roles : Stella Steven&#039;s tartness, Ernest Borgnine&#039;s obnoxiousness, or just Shelly Winters literally croaking when she croaks.Plus the characters behave the way I expect people would in a disaster: desperate, bickering, selfish -- but with a few moments of nobility rising above.&nbsp; In INFERNO, everyone kind of passively mills around, waiting to burn to death.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Crimson, post: 346531, member: 5079"] I will grant you that past-her-prime, blowsy character actress Ava Gardner is always a plus, but not enough for me to ever sit through EARTHQUAKE! or THE CASSANDRA CROSSING again. Rewatching INFERNO, that was my biggest takeaway: neither the writers nor the actors invested much. Newman must have blown his back out carrying the whole damn movie, because everyone else looked kind of bored. Characters were either Noble or Sinister, but with no real personality. I was more worried about the cat than any of the people. The actors in POSEIDON really knew what they were doing. I wouldn't argue it's a great drama or character study, but the actors brought some personality to their roles : Stella Steven's tartness, Ernest Borgnine's obnoxiousness, or just Shelly Winters literally croaking when she croaks. Plus the characters behave the way I expect people would in a disaster: desperate, bickering, selfish -- but with a few moments of nobility rising above. In INFERNO, everyone kind of passively mills around, waiting to burn to death. [/QUOTE]

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