I saw the "Poseidon" remake yesterday and it was a disaster film all right. Somebody somewhere along the line forgot that that it helps if we care about the characters.
Here we have people who look and act like they stepped right out of the 70's-- Kurt Russell as an overly protective father who objects to his daughter (who looks to be 25...) sitting and talking to her boyfriend alone, and Kevin Dillon playing a bizarre character called Lucky Larry, who is like a parody of a 70's male chauvenist (notice the ruffled shirt). Naturally he tells everybody how lucky he is just as he steps onto a precarious catwalk--no prizes for guessing what happens next.
There is also a complete absence of conflict. Just one peril after another to be overcome, like the levels of a video game. Therefore, there's no emotional involvement.
There are lots of indications that scenes that were about characters may have been cut, so I'm not sure we should blame the writer. So often, a bad picture doesn't start out being nearly as bad a script. But it's astonishing that nobody noticed that the final product is dull, dull, dull except for the glug glug glug.