Titanic (1997)

[diablocody]

Yeah, my husband and I were channel-surfing last week and the ship-sinking part had just begun. We snarked at first, but curiously wound up watching the whole thing. That part is really well done.

[laconicchick]

I don't get the bad CGI comments.

I agree. They use a lot of models, so it's not like the ship is computer-generated. As has been said before, it's held up pretty well for a movie that's almost 10 years old.

However, I still think the sinking is the most boring part. It just goes on and on and on and on and *yawn*. Way too action-y for my taste.

[RabbitEars]

maddiemoo said:

When this comes on cable, my husband intones, "Do you want to go back to Titanic?" Works every time. We just sit around and crack on the CGI (which looked fake even back when it was released in theaters), the dialogue, and the fact that it has Bill Pullman.

Bill Paxton, woman! Bill Paxton! But that is honkin' hilarious.

ROTFLMAO! I always mix them up. Just like Homer Simpson.

I saw this in a theater about six months after getting dumped by A Major Love. The movie inspired me to write him a letter explaining how tender my feelings were for him. I never heard back. Stupid fucking movie, why'da make me do that?!

[Deleted]

I feel like I might have said this before, maybe in another thread, but here is the Story of Why Noelie Hates This Movie.
I was flying from London to Boston for a weekend to pack up everything I owned and store it in my friends' garage, having given up my apartment in order to save money for a lawsuit over my mom's estate; when my 3 months of living in the Holiday Inn at Victoria Station were over I would be moving into my friends' basement. So the reason for the trip was not especially joyful.
Then, I accidentally got on the Connex South Central LOCAL from Horsham to London, instead of the express. I was about 2 hours behind when I got on the tube to go to the airport, and by the time I got to Heathrow, I had finished both books I'd packed for the flight and I was seriously, seriously late to check in. By the time I made it to Security I was running (luckily this was before 9/11) and I had to pee so badly I couldn't think. They were holding the plane so I couldn't stop.
When I got to my window seat I had to climb over a roly poly man and a ridiculously tall Norwegian whose knees were tucked under his chin. Then I had to wait until the seatbelt sign went off and climb back over them to hit the bathroom. I was exhausted, stressed, guilty and without any reading material.
And the movie was Titanic. "Jack!" "Rose!" "Jack!" "Rose!". Jiminy crickets, just die already!
And later that year, back in my normal life, all the girls in my pointe class were obsessed with the soundtrack, so the agony of bourreeing up and down the barre will forever be linked with that horrible, horrible song.
I love Kate. I love Victor. I love A Night to Remember. I hated this movie.

[Brookie]

laconicchick said:

I don't get the bad CGI comments.

I agree. They use a lot of models, so it's not like the ship is computer-generated. As has been said before, it's held up pretty well for a movie that's almost 10 years old.

However, I still think the sinking is the most boring part. It just goes on and on and on and on and *yawn*. Way too action-y for my taste.

A nearly full scale model was built for the movie - but only one half of the ship (lengthwise). Before filming started, I was on a trip down the Baja peninsula with some pals and we passed the city of Rosarita, and there's this hyooge model of the Titanic (I'm enough of a Titanic geek to have recognized it). When the film was put together, they just "cut and pasted" one half of the ship to the other. I thought they did a pretty good job of that.

[lpatrice]

I think the movie was overrated, definitely should not have won Best Picture. Hello, L.A. Confidential! But alas, while being overrated, it is still a pretty good movie. Of course, that miht be my Victor Garber/Kate Winslet love. Ahhh, Victor Garber. I don't own the movie, and I don't go out of my way to watch it, but if it's on, I'll usually catch a least a little bit of it.

[OnyxRose]

laconicchick said:

I don't get the bad CGI comments.

I agree. They use a lot of models, so it's not like the ship is computer-generated. As has been said before, it's held up pretty well for a movie that's almost 10 years old.

However, I still think the sinking is the most boring part. It just goes on and on and on and on and *yawn*. Way too action-y for my taste.

I can hardly watch the first half of the movie but I have repeated viewings of the sinking. I think it's awesome.

[ladymadonna]

Chiming in again to say: I feel the same way about Titanic as I do about Pearl Harbor: The love story stuff SUCKED, but once you get to the doomsday action stuff it gets much more interesting. (Although I still want to sue someone for my $8.00 that I spent seeing Pearl Harbor in the theater, plus compensation for pain and suffering because I sat through the whole thing. Hubby and I seriously rolled our eyes at each other and audibly groaned; "Is this piece of shit EVER going to end?")

I guess I'm not much for love stories.

[laconicchick]

I can hardly watch the first half of the movie but I have repeated viewings of the sinking. I think it's awesome.

Yeah, I know. I think I'm the only one who likes the first half better. But it's just so pretty! I really don't care that much about the love story, but the clothes, the scenery, the reproduction of the ship... Ahhh.

[tralala]

Are Rose and Cal sleeping together before she gets together with Jack? I just watched the part where they're having breakfast the morning after she goes to the steerage party. Cal says something like "I thought you would come to me last night" and Rose answers "I was tired." He also calls her his "wife in practice if not yet by law." For some reason I always missed this and thought they had a fairly prim, proper, non-physical relationship (until his rage issues come out, of course). Now that I think about it, though, he does give her the Heart of the Ocean in her bedroom while she's kind of in her underwear.