Oh, so Kevin Dillon WAS the problem ...
The biggest unintentional guffaw of Poseidon, Wolfgang Petersen's remake of the 1972 disaster flick, came when the captain announced that it was neither bird, nor plane, nor iceberg, but a "rogue wave" that was to be the harbinger of death, destruction, and Act II.
Rogue wave, my ass. At least try to make the movie's galvanizing event sound plausible.
My bad. According to a splashy piece in The New York Times science section yesterday ("Huge, Freakish, but Real, Waves Draw New Study"), rogue waves exist indeed and are suspected of causing many a flip twixt the ship and the slip -- even those watercraft that don't have Kevin Dillon aboard, playing as clueless a character as a screenwriter can dream up on his sofa. ("I'm just lucky," says Lucky Larry, or final words to that effect, before doing a Tarzan from an electrical vine over a cavernous inferno.)