tazmin
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Post by tazmin on May 13, 2017 17:03:55 GMT -4
chonies, I could never bring myself to see it either. I may have had different reasons, though. I mean, we know how it ends. . . almost everybody dies!  I hate getting attached to people only to have them killed off. And to me, it has always been such a sad story that I decided to save myself the pain. I thought I was the only person on the planet who didn’t see it so it’s nice to know I’m not alone, even if your reasons are different than mine.
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Post by chonies on May 13, 2017 17:55:54 GMT -4
*offers secret handshake*
I don't even know if I had reasons! It was probably 90% pretentiousness--I had just discovered Jim Jarmusch and Tod Browning and the back catalog of Merchant Ivory, after all. What could Titanic have possibly offered me? (eyeroll) I did have a nice conversation with an Irish guy who briefly mentioned the plight of the Belfast shipbuilders and questioned why we must romanticize a disaster, so that was a nice cover story, but really, it was probably just attitude.
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Post by Ginger on May 13, 2017 21:57:18 GMT -4
I'm a recent devotee to Titanic so even though "My Heart Will Go On" irritated the crap out of me in the 90s, I'm into it now. It fit perfectly with the movie. This is somewhat off-topic, but could you elaborate on this? What got you into it? It came out when I was in college and I managed to have a reasonably successful life without ever having seen it, but a shocking amount of my students are really, really into it. Is there a new surge in popularity, or is it a sustained thing? signed, baffled but earnest. My cynical college-aged self who was into independent films hated Titanic. I refused to see it. I saw clips here and there and thought it was corny and mostly about the special effects. But I was in Vegas last year and my friend wanted to see the Titanic exhibit at the Luxor, and it was really interesting. (I refused to pose for a picture with her on the recreated staircase, which she was very disappointed about.) When I got home, I read "A Night to Remember" by Walter Lord. So at this point, how could I *not* get the DVD out of the library? As it turns out, my 39-year-old self is a lot less cynical than my 20-year-old self and I allowed myself to go with the cheesy romance angle and I was really into the whole thing, from the flute music to Billy Zane being a moustache-twirly villain. From a historical perspective, it was fictionalized, but the movie did an excellent job of representing everything that happened. I can completely understand now why the movie was so popular. Romantic epics like that aren't made very often. |
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Gigiree
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Post by Gigiree on May 14, 2017 2:20:51 GMT -4
I never watched Titanic for many of the same reasons listed above, but really, it was also because Leonardo DiCaprio annoyed the piss out of me with his performance in Romeo + Juliet and his gigantic head creeped me out.
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Post by gremlin45 on May 14, 2017 12:00:08 GMT -4
As it turns out, my 39-year-old self is a lot less cynical than my 20-year-old self and I allowed myself to go with the cheesy romance angle and I was really into the whole thing, from the flute music to Billy Zane being a moustache-twirly villain. From a historical perspective, it was fictionalized, but the movie did an excellent job of representing everything that happened. I can completely understand now why the movie was so popular. Romantic epics like that aren't made very often. Almost everything. The officer who supposedly panicked and shot himself was never actually identified. IIRC, James Cameron apologised for depicting William Murdoch that way as there's no proof it was Murdoch. I've seen the film. The ship is beautifully recreated and, if you're interested in the Titanic's history, I'd say you'd probably enjoy it. I was far more interested in the real people who formed the background to Rose and Jack's romance than in Rose and Jack themselves. |
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Post by Ginger on May 14, 2017 12:07:22 GMT -4
Almost everything. The officer who supposedly panicked and shot himself was a hero kept calm and got people onto lifeboats. He, like so many of his fellow officers, drowned. IIRC, James Cameron apologised for depicting the officer that way. The other inaccuracy I believe is that nobody ever tried to forcibly keep the steerage passengers below decks. They may as well have, but nobody locked gates like they did in the movie. |
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Post by Brookie on May 14, 2017 14:42:07 GMT -4
As it turns out, my 39-year-old self is a lot less cynical than my 20-year-old self and I allowed myself to go with the cheesy romance angle and I was really into the whole thing, from the flute music to Billy Zane being a moustache-twirly villain. From a historical perspective, it was fictionalized, but the movie did an excellent job of representing everything that happened. I can completely understand now why the movie was so popular. Romantic epics like that aren't made very often. Almost everything. The officer who supposedly panicked and shot himself was never actually identified. IIRC, James Cameron apologised for depicting William Murdoch that way as there's no proof it was Murdoch. I've seen the film. The ship is beautifully recreated and, if you're interested in the Titanic's history, I'd say you'd probably enjoy it. I was far more interested in the real people who formed the background to Rose and Jack's romance than in Rose and Jack themselves. When I was still at Ford, I participated in off-road motorsports, which meant trips to places like Vegas, Arizona, Cali and Mexico. We were heading down the Baja Peninsula one trip when we come up on.... the Titanic. It was half of a down-sized replica of the ship in a little town called Rosarito. Which explains all the background mistakes where you can see the Baja desert and shoreline. It was pretty cool to see it. |
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Post by Atreides on May 14, 2017 16:23:28 GMT -4
I remember seeing Titanic on opening night. I was about 18 or so at the time. I can still remember hearing all the sobs and sniffles in the theatre during the last half hour or so (I think it starts when Rose is being lowered into the lifeboat and is being separated from Jack). I remember waiting for my girlfriend outside of the washroom afterwards. Every time the door swung open, all I could see were women bawling their eyes out in front of the mirrors. No movie since then has even come close to eliciting that raw emotion from so many people.
It's a testament to its popularity that it is still the 2nd highest grossing movie of all time worldwide when most box office records seem to get broken every few months.
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2017 16:59:44 GMT -4
Titanic even made my dad cry. The only other times he'd cried before that, according to my mom, was when my brother and I were born. What got to him was Rose blowing on the whistle to try to get the lifeboat to come back for her.
I've been a bit obsessed with the whole story of the Titanic since I was fairly young. As a result, I was probably the only teenage girl in my town who saw it only to watch the ship go down. I did not and still don't care about the "love" story. I do like the song though, and I've liked Celine Dion unironically for a long time.
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Post by kateln on May 15, 2017 7:43:14 GMT -4
I never watched Titanic for many of the same reasons listed above, but really, it was also because Leonardo DiCaprio annoyed the piss out of me with his performance in Romeo + Juliet and his gigantic head creeped me out. My friends can only get me to see films of his if they promise he dies in the end. |
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I hate getting attached to people only to have them killed off. And to me, it has always been such a sad story that I decided to save myself the pain. I thought I was the only person on the planet who didn’t see it so it’s nice to know I’m not alone, even if your reasons are different than mine.
