Poseidon Adventure was one of the first adult movies I saw as a child. I was about 10 years old when it came out. One of those "disaster" movie blockbusters, along with Earthquake, Airport, Towering Inferno and a few others I can't remember. I also remember a movie on killer bees. All of them rather cheesy when watched today.
I would love to see MST3K do some riffs on them but I guess they can't afford to buy the rights.
Anyway, the 1979 "Airplane" movie did a great job satirizing that whole disaster movie phenomenon from the mid 1970s.
They weren’t as cheesy as the 50’s horror pictures such as The Creature From the Black Lagoon or the giant spiders. Surprisingly I watched the original Dracula from the early 30’s and it wasn’t bad.