Titanic came out 22 years ago. For those who remember, how many times did you see it?

Never have seen it. Never will.

God, Leonardo was so hot in that movie. My first big onscreen crush. I wish I could fuck that version of him.

Also, damn, I'm getting old.

In theaters, 2 or 3 times as I was a kid. But I’ve probably seen it on TV, VHS, DVD, Blu-Ray, clips from YouTube 200 times. A lot of people just don’t realize how historically accurate the recreation of the ship was. Besides the video game Titanic: Honor and Glory, Cameron’s film is the closest thing to going back in time and being there.

The scene where they steamed up the car was so sexy at the time.

A friend of mine was 7 when it came out. He was 6 times at the theatre. We both bond over our love of titanic.

Once and only on video because a co worker got sick of me slamming the movie without seeing it. Never will see it again. I HATED the movie and it started what will be a lifetime dislike if DiCrapio.

I was warned OFF it.

It embarrasses me to think how much I loved this movie in 1997.

I saw it on Christmas Eve (1997) because I knew there would be barely anybody at the cinema and I could avoid the crowds.

[quote]Never have seen it. Never will.

Wow, we don't wanna get mixed up with a guy like you. You're a loner, a rebel.

Not even once.

Vile through and through.

Went along with friends with quite limited expectations ("maybe the sets will be interesting?") and felt shortchanged.

I never liked diCaprio but hated him after. Watching him act is like watching an ugly man and terrible actor pretend to take a difficult shit for 2 hours and 74 minutes. And he wasn't even the worst of it.

I've told this story many times here. I was a teenager working at a theater in a suburb of LA. They screened the film at the place I worked at and Leo was there. He was tall and lanky and awkward. Totally unaware of what he was about to endure. Always had a fondness for him since.

I did like the film then, but can't imagine watching it now.

Never saw it. Before my time. I was four.

R3 200+ times! You get the prize no doubt. I have the movie on 3D Blu-ray, Blu-ray, DVD. The re-release in IMAX 3D in theaters in 2012 was awesome. They stretched the image for IMAX. The things Cameron goes through with his babies.

R12 LOL. I am sure your mother experienced shatting you out as taking a shit as well. She should have flushed.

Never have seen it

Me neither. Any good?

Terrifically entertaining, then tragic as they recreate what 2000 people actually endured.

R15, r3 here. I’m much more a fan of the ship than the story between Jack and Rose.

R13 was he as sexy in person?

Never. I think DiCaprio is repellent.

R18 Spoilers. The ship sinks.

Saw it with a group of friends. The movie was soooo long and boring,we all took turns sneaking out of the emergency exit for smoke breaks.

The theme song was so horrific that to this day I would rather be trapped in an elevator playing every known cover version of “I Write the Songs” on an endless loop.

I actually love the theme song now that I am older (50's). I have never seen the film, I love movies but not really into romantic tragedies. I have never seen the appeal of Leonardo DiCaprio but I did like him in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

I have only seen dribs and drabs over the years, never to entire movie. Wasn't impressed with what I saw.

Watch [italic]A Night to Remember[/italic] and skip this bloated monstrosity.

Leo’s best work (and some of Johnny Depp’s) was in [italic]What‘s Eating Gilbert Grape[/italic]. When he tries to play a character without severe mental problems, he falls flat. That’s also why [italic]The Aviator[/italic] was better than the disjointed Miramess that was [italic]Gangs of New York[/italic].

R20 say what you will about Cameron he knows how to appeal to wide audiences. Whilst with Titanic teenage girls were seeing the movie 20 to 30 times because they loved the Jack-Rose love story, often dragging their friends and boyfriends along. Men loved the Titanic sinking and the technical aspects of the stories. In all the theaters I saw it in, men would always laugh at that guy who fell from the sinking ship and got cut in half from the propellers. I am sure Cameron knew what he was doing with that hilarious scene. He did it again with Avatar. Females loved the love story, while men loved the technology and military aspects of the fighting and shit exploding.

I haven’t seen it. Zero interest.

Spoiler alert: He dies and she lives.

[quote] [R20] say what you will about Cameron he knows how to appeal to wide audiences.

Yeah, it figures he would be one of the defining filmmakers of the most obese era in human history. Seriously, when they look back at this era they are going to call it The Fat Ages.

I only saw it once and the entire time I was imagining how Carol Burnett would have a fun time mocking it. I thought it was a terrible movie - couldn't wait for them to drown and shut them up.

R28 Miramess. That's good. Are you in the biz

[quote] Never. I think DiCaprio is repellent.

Never forget that Kirk Cameron gave him his start as a result of how his fat-shaming almost drove Tracey Gold to an early grave.

I was 16 and I thought the movie seemed like is was five hours long. And that song? Eeeggh.

I found the ending was insulting to the granddaughter and husband of the 90-year old Rose character.

At the end of the movie, she tells her granddaughter that Jack was the love of her life. I guess the granddaughter's supposed to be thrilled that her grandfather was Rose's third choice?

What does it matter to any grandchild if a grandparent had another love? I'd be thrilled and titillated and will want to know the t

It’s like the most expensive [italic]Love Boat[/italic] episode ever. No Carol Channing, but plenty of corn.

I got to see it on the Paramount lot on their preview screen. Once was enough in public, but I've watched the DVD about 3 times since.

I saw it at least 4 times at the cinemas. Annoyed the shit out of my family lol.

[quote] They screened the film at the place I worked at

Oh, dear!

One of my favorite movies of all time. Still waiting and hoping it comes out in 4K Blu-Ray.

Twice.

How was that an Oh Dear, R41. I wasn't writing prose, but it seems to be spelled correctly? I think?

They screened the film at the place in which I worked?

I was in high school when it came out and as much as I’d hate to admit it, I saw it seven times throughout it’s theatrical run. I had done a big project on the Titanic for school a few years earlier, and was very interested in the technical aspect of what happened. So naturally I was interested when the movie came out, and I actually kinda fell in love with the cheesy Jack and Rose star crossed lovers story.

I thought it was pretty lame except for the sequence showing the people trapped in steerage, which was very well done.

R44 Always ignore the O dear trolls, like any sane person gives a fuck what they think. All language is acceptable.

Once was more than enough. Years later, I developed a friendship with one of the drowning extras. He wouldn't shut up about it, ensuring even further that I never saw it again.

I was 28 when it was released and saw it 11 times. I was a Titanic buff since I was 7 or 8 and I received the paperback illustrated edition of Walter Lord's A Night to Remember. Saw it again when it was released in 3D and then when Fathom Events showed it for the 20th anniversary. Have seen it probably 4 more times on DVD.

James Cameron excels at the technical aspects of film making even though he had absolutely no training whatsoever but he has always sucked at screenwriting. You can always tell when he writes as it is clumsy and not sophisticated at all.

r50, he has the ability to concoct a great story, but has absolutely no ability with dialogue whatsoever. He should have just written the story outline, then handed it to somebody like Richard Lagravenese to write the script.

I saw it 4X.

I saw it twice during its original release - the weekend after it came out and again in April (when it amazingly was still in theaters).

Then I saw it on cable about a year later.

Then I saw the remarkable 3-D version Cameron released a few years ago.

R52 nothing amazing about that. It was in theaters from December 1997 until end of July 1998.

R53 - It's not normal for a film to still be shown in theaters 7 months after it's released

"Forbidden Broadway" got a double dose of material to make fun of with the Tony Winning (and totally overrated) musical that came out the same year. After the first song which spoofed the Broadway show, they basically said, "Let's go to the other side of the boat where they are filming a movie!" There was also a two part TV movie with George C. Scott as the captain and Tim Curry as a villainous purser that came out the same year.

I'll stick with 1953's version w/Stanwyck & Webb......

I still can’t believe both of them couldn’t fit into that huge wood paneling... ruined the movie.

C'mon, Titanic is the quintessential box office popcorn movie. It was a perfect "event" flick. The finale where the ship goes down was done perfectly if you ask me. My biggest beef was how often the leads kept yelling "Jack" and "Rose" every other word.

I saw it on my 1st date with a guy 3 years after my husband of 12 years had died . Needless to say,I wept copiously . Having watched it twice in theaters and several times on tv,it really has to be experienced on a big screen . Ive had a lifelong love of Titanic but the guy only lasted about 6 months.

It's embarrassing, but I love Titanic. I had just started college when it came out and everybody I knew went to see it at least once.

Revolutionary Road was like a sequel to Titanic. It showed what would have happened had Jack and Rose gotten married. They woulda ended up screaming at each other all the time. He'd have slapped her around and she'd have used a coat hanger to have an abortion. These things never end well.

Once. That was enough. Saw some glimpses of De Caprios body which was nice. The sets were damn good. OK movie otherwise. Meh

I was a big fanboy of Cameron back in the 90s and Titanic was a hot mess of a production. The internet was just blossoming and I followed all the production gossip on corona.bc.ca. A lot of people in the industry were rooting for the movie to fail, for Cameron to fall hard on his face. No one was anticipating how popular it would be with teenage girls. I know Cameron intended the love story to help sell it, but I seriously doubt the man thought he was capable of producing something that would appeal *that* much to a demographic he's obviously indifferent to. So I was emotionally invested in Cameron's success, went and saw the movie on opening day. Enjoyed it. Was still surprised when it took off the way it did, but didn't feel like it needed any more of my support.

I haven't watched it since. Nor have I seen Avatar. I am, however, possibly the only person on earth who thought Cameron was endearing when he proclaimed himself King of the World at the Oscars. I just saw the dorky kid who succeeded at his passion project, not the raging egomaniac.

I’ve never seen it.

SPOILERS: The old hag throws the diamond into the ocean instead of anonymously donating it to charity and helping to feed thousands of starving Darfur orphans with it.

Ending the movie with Old Rose dying in her bed and being reunited with Jack in heaven was really sweet.

Right after this came out, Gloria Stuart was hired by "General Hospital" for a cameo as an elderly woman who has a flashback just like Rose did to explain part of a mob story plot line. It was a total "Titanic" rip-off. I believe her character got murdered by her granddaughter, Faith Roscoe.

"Draw me like one of your French girls!"

The dialogue was risible.

[quote]Ending the movie with Old Rose dying in her bed and being reunited with Jack in heaven was really sweet.

What are you talking about? She didn't die. She dreams of Jack every night. That's what the song was about. And reunited with Jack? This ain't a ghost story.

I saw it once and that was enough. It bored me like no other movie. Endless scenes of running through different hallways being chased by water. It wasn't even as interesting as the disaster movies of the 1970s. Would it have killed them to have a Shelley Winters scene? Kathy Bates yelling, "I'm a swimming champ!" and then taking a dive into the ocean?

I will say, seeing the movie at eleven years old really set me up for unrealistic romantic expectations.

A gals heart is as deep as the ocean. I'll never let go. 463 times.

TThe CGI that was so impresisve then looks so terribvle now--the little animated people walking on the deck of the ship look exactly like clumsy CGI.

The best thing the film had going for it was that it was the last gasp of Billy Zane's hotness. He always loioked like he would be such a freak in bef. of course the character he played was pure evil--James Cameron is incapable of subtlety.

"freak in bed" not "freak in bef"

Things to cherish in the movie:

*Billy Zane's character being proven awful by his distaste for the Post-Impressionist paintings Rose has bought

*The hugeness of the big blue diamond, which looks to be larger than the Star of Africa and would be completely impractical to wear. Also, the fact that the diamond is named "The Heart of the Ocean," which means you know exactly where it's going to end up--FORESHADOWING! FORESHADOWING!

*Frances Fisher snarling like a rabid demon when she sees Rose has run off with Jack

*The satisfying "thud!" when the extra falls off the rising poop deck when the ship is sinking and he hits the giant propeller

R68 Of course she died, climbing the stairs was a metaphor for heaven. Plus the fact everyone who died on the ship was there. Duh!

Yeah, I interpreted it as her having died as well -- she completed her promise to Jack and finally told her story, she died peacefully in bed (Jack tells her she'll do this, I believe) and is reunited with Jack and all the others who died in the disaster.

I don't think she died. That would be too sad. And what would it do to her granddaughter? She would think she killed her for dragging her onto a submarine.

R77 You're a moron, dear. Do you think every single movie has real world implications. None of it is real. Fuck the grand daughter. Old Rose was like 150 years old. She was ready to let go of the ring and join the love of her life in heaven.

[quote] I never liked diCaprio but hated him after. Watching him act is like watching an ugly man and terrible actor pretend to take a difficult shit for 2 hours and 74 minutes

That’s nearly 3 hours and 14 minutes! 😱

[quote] SPOILERS: The old hag throws the diamond into the ocean instead of anonymously donating it to charity and helping to feed thousands of starving Darfur orphans with it.

That bitch.

[quote] She would think she killed her for dragging her onto a submarine.

Rose never went on a submarine.

Saw it when it came out just once in the theater, LOVED the set design, costumes, and for the most part good casting (loved Billy Zanes character but I tend to like a villain). But Leo looked ridiculous cast opposite Winslet. Because of the ending I haven't rewatched the movie in its entirety since, but I love the beginning and in the face of imminent tragedy the old guard going out with a brandy!

She didn't die and meet the ghost of Leonardo DiCaprio. This isn't a sci fi film. Ghosts don't exist in this movie.

This vid was crazy funny. Loved it. The chicken leg as Rose's hand in coitus!

I always loved when the band finally decided to call it quits and the music transitioned from calm to an ominous, booming score. Then the good shit really started to happen.

It’s odd about the CGI. The shots of the ship sailing along and the little people walking around the decks and so forth looked pretty convincing on a theater screen, but look so fake on TV.

R86 in the making of features Cameron explained that they had no money for good CGI. He knows the CGI was absolute crap. Cameron wasn't even paid for directing the movie. He had to negotiate to get more money to finish the movie. Paramount was convinced the movie would bankrupt them they had so little faith.

I've always thought it was a damn shame that Bette Davis wasn't alive to play Old Rose. She would've been absolutely perfect. Kate Winslet even had a bit of a resemblance to a young Bette.

R1 I was going to write the exact same thing. I have never seen this movie and have no desire to.

Davis had been dead for eight years when it came out, so it's a moot point. She was quite old when she died, so it's not like she died young or was taken away from us unexpectedly.

Also, by the end her face was so gnarled and hideous (especially with those horrible hand-drawn eyebrows) that no one would have wanted to watch her.

Well it could have been worse.

I watched it yesterday, coincidentally.

To the poster above who said he wants to fuck that version of DiCaprio, he looks 15 years old in this movie.

Rose's mom was totally a datalounger.

R92 STFU, troll. I am sure everyone on the fucking planet looks 15 to you, psychotic piece of pedo garbage.

Leo and Kate had much more of a fag/hag chemistry than any kind of romantic chemistry. I just couldn't buy that they had sexual feelings for each other.

I've never seen it, except for tuning into the ending when it was first aired on cable to see the special effects of the ship going down ( I love the original Poseidon Adventure) and thought the effects were great.

I think I'll watch the whole thing this weekend, since it's been 22 years.

I expected more Negros.

I’ve never seen it. Even when I was 15 and it came out I knew the difference between good films and bad ones.

I managed to get through an hour but couldn't take any more. I have no idea why so many bottoms were obsessed with it.

99 posts and no one has honored the Queen that made the movie a bigger hit.

R95 Sexual chemistry ? Cough.

Seriously r101! Leo and Danny Nucci really had some chemistry going on.

Saw it many years after its release- and It was as awful as I imagined it would be.

I always tear up at this scene.

Backstage is shit.

I thought Billy Zane was so freaking hot in this movie; he's so hot period.

Leo may have been the fantasy of zillions of girls who went and saw it over and over, but to me, he looks like a woman.

I just didn't buy swashbuckling Jack.

Loved the Julianne Moore SNL sketch where she played Kate Winslet imitation she did; "James kept saying, 'More water! We need more water!'"

Rose you're so STUPID!

Never saw it. Never saw any Star Wars movies either.

Leo never looked lovelier

Troppo bello

Cal was a flaming chicken hawk.

I'd rather be his whore than your drowned husband.

R101 Every character Cameron draws is stereotypical and neutrino thin. Leo the homeless drifter with the heart of gold with the illiterate Wop? Hilarious.

I agree about Billy Zane, he was smoking hot back then. Leo D. looked like a teenaged lesbian.

Yes, Billy Zane is hot.

But, of course, he was even hotter in that other ship movie... Dead Calm.

Too funny.

For all the haters, this has some epic shade.

Someone tell her ( Celine Dion) to stop it. The boat sank; let it go!“

I more or less ignored the actors and focused entirely on the sets. For years I was enamoured of the Olympic Class liners, esp. Titanic. Just the sight of the public rooms I'd imprinted on my mind except for visual detail, and the staterooms, and lots of other minor, incidental set material, blew me away. I only noticed three minor flubs, none of wh. I can remember now.

Towards the end the words HURRY THE FUCK UP AND DIE figured prominently in my focus. The part where the stern of the ship is vertical and moving into the water has a chorus of human voices mixed in with the music. Just watching that, and imagining what it was like to witness it, was gripping.

What I find offensive in the absolute extreme is sick fucks who whip up these 'memorial last dinner on the Titanic' evenings and dress up and take on the personality of a passenger. Maybe my imagination just doesn't extend out that far but I find myself placing it in the same categories as cutting, piercing and other aberrant sexual practices. At least those sexual practices aren't in bad taste.

Titanic is just a movie about an old lady recounting getting some good dick on a cruise.

Change my mind.

So many of you seem to have never been in love (or touched either) . I didnt like Leo then and I dont now,but this was a tragic romantic movie that made a zillion dollars . I will say its best seen in a theater to really enjoy it .

Saw it when it was re -released in 3D. The ship sinking was impressive as were Kate's areolas.

Crazy how such a tiny woman birthed such a monster of a woman in rose, her father must have been huge. Don't know how the poor woman survived child birth.

R104 The Straus's reminded me of the elderly couple, Baucis and Philemon, in Greek mythology whom Zeus and Hermes turned into trees rather than allowing them to die separately so they would never be apart. They had showed the strangers to the land hospitality rather than dismiss them like others in Tyana turned them away.

I always think of the Straus's after that moment, hoping that they had quick heart attacks and didn't suffer. It was beautifully done. The story should be remade through their eyes. There wouldn't be a dry eye in the theater after it was over.

One of the most annoying parts is when Jack asks that one guy, "can I bum a smoke?" I can guarantee you that that combination of words was never spoken in 1912.

"Bum" for "to obtain by begging, to cadge" is cited in the OED2 back to the 1860s, and "a smoke" to mean a cigar or cigarette back to the 1880s (still earlier for "smoke" as a mass noun meaning tobacco).

[quote] Titanic came out 22 years ago

I had no idea it was even gay.

Vogue Patterns got into the act....

[quote]I always think of the Straus's after that moment, hoping that they had quick heart attacks and didn't suffer.

They didn't and did.

I saw it in a movie theater because I wanted to see the special effects. I sure as hell didn't go to see it to swoon over the 'love story" between Jack and Rose, which was probably the most dismal aspect of the movie. DiCaprio and Winslet were truly an odd couple; she was bigger than he was. And Rose is one of the most dislikable movie heroines in film history. She tells her mother to "shut up!", cheats on her fiance and spits in his face and punches a guy who's trying to help her. Even when she's an old lady she's still bitchy ("do you want to hear this or not?"). Stupid love story, mediocre dialogue...aside from the special effects it was pretty crummy. I did like Victor Garber's performance, though. And people have always posed this question; what the hell kind of sex position was Rose in when her hand is seen against the steamed up window of the car?

Jack was probably eating her out from behind.

So Rose dies and reunites with Jack in heaven. She’d rather spend eternity with a fling she had when she was young instead of her husband?

"So Rose dies and reunites with Jack in heaven. She’d rather spend eternity with a fling she had when she was young instead of her husband?"

The movie would have you believe that Jack was her One True Love and that her husband, the father of her children, was just kind of a way station until she reunited with Jack in heaven. Blech.

[quote]She’d rather spend eternity with a fling she had when she was young instead of her husband?

I suspect a lot of people are like that.

Has no one died for you, R133?

"I'll never let go."

Then the bitch lets him sink into the ocean.

"Has no one died for you, [R133]?"

No, I don't believe anyone has. I suspect no one had died for you, either. Life isn't like the movies, hon.

If Rose hadn't been such a fatass, Jack could've fit on that floating piece of wood with her.

I loved this SNL parody when Bill Paxton hosted.

I hated Gloria Stuart's character. She was so obnoxious.

How about none

I was shocked that Jack was a ghost the whole time.

Well, R137, that would be incorrect.

But thanks for playing. Bless your little, retarded, heart.

I saw it once in a theater, a preview on a daytime before the premiere. It was fucking boring and I fell asleep a few times. I've since watched it maybe 2 or 3 times at home and I do appreciate the film now. It's not a perfect film by any means and all the romance stuff doesn't move me that much but the sinking is such a massive thing to witness you can't help but be awed. The special effects are extremely well made. You only have to see Wolfgang Petersen's 2006 cheap-looking remake of Poseidon to understand how top notch the effects in Titanic were.

James Cameron's Abyss is one of my all time favorite films, I've seen it probably 20 times. And I love Terminator 2 as well. The reason I disliked Titanic so much at first was purely being disappointed seeing him turn into a total mainstream Hollywood director. Avatar is still a film I seriously dislike. I tried watching it many times but always fell asleep because I hated the aliens and the story itself. All these years Cameron might've made gorgeous scifi films like Abyss and T2 and yet he chose to spend his time on Avatars...

I agree r144. I love The Abyss. Very underrated film and sadly, still not available on Blu-Ray.

I guess you think you're very clever, R143. But you're just very lame, hon, bless your simple-minded soul.

R146 The cunts will never let go. Close Thread.

True dat.

Considering the avg age of a DLer, I'd prefer to hear about their impressions when they saw the real thing.

Ooooooooo a yo mama is so old joke........ Savage.

"The Abyss" is my favorite movie up until the cheesy ending. Poor Ed Harris went through hell making it. Michael Biehn was crazy and gorgeous. God I loved him

[quote]Ending the movie with Old Rose dying in her bed and being reunited with Jack in heaven was really sweet.

My nutty self involved friend at the time thought she just went batty. LOL I had to explain she died.

I worked for the digital effects company in Venice that did the film. Some back stage production gossip:

The name of the company was Digital Domain and the CEO was Scott Ross. He was a big a-hole account that wanted to be famous producer. I think he worked for ILM before that as an accountant. Of course he never wrote a scripts, went to film school or touched a 3D program in his life. So he convinced two other big names at the time, James Cameron and Stan Winston to become partners in his company as the creatives driving it forward. Titanic was the first joint venture for the three. At the time, its was considered the hottest digital effects house in Hollywood. When I wore a hat with the logo, total strangers would ask me if I could get them a job there.

It all went down hill form there. Massive over runs, 400 digital artists working 80 hours a week, location shots, model makers and a life size portion of the ship built in Rosarito Mexico complete with real people on the decks as it starts to sink. That was really not crazy for Hollywood, but the CEO being an accountant was not having it. He tried to cut the budget in half and he and James got into a bitter fight. To add insult to injury, he tried to charge Jame Cameron millions of dollars for the digital effects even though he was a partner in the very same company. They weren't even speaking to each other by the time the filming ended. But happy endings for the investors, actors, James Cameron, it made a ton of money.

As for Digital Domain, they suffered big time for that because the CEO was so short sided burning his bridges on the very first movie. He tried to make one of his own called A Thousand Cranes and while we got weekly updates on how well the script was coming along, it never got off the ground. They made a few movies after that mostly focused on digital effects but no one really wanted to work with him after that. Scott Ross never became the famous producer he dreamed of. He eventually got pushed out by the investors and the company got sold off to a Chinese company for pennies on the dollar. They still maintain a studio in LA but just a shell of their former glory.

Moral of the story, Accountants ruin everything.

R153 is why I still love DL.

R152 Yes. Many reviewers and YT vids argued for why Rose died at the end. Being reunited with her DEAD lover from Titanic and ALL the people who DIED on the Titanic is a big clue. Plus didn't Jack literally say: You're gonna die an OLD WOMAN warm in your bed.

The problem with that last scene is that even the morally-bankrupt rich people were in heaven - that's bullshit!

The one thing I will never ever forget about this movie is that bitch of a queen Rex Reed referring to the love scene as looking like a chihuahua mounting a golden retriever

I remember when it was playing in New York City, countless men were kicked out of theaters for wanking their meat during the painting scene. Kate's nips drove men to a self-partnering frenzy. Think of all the seats coated in their jizz. Yikes.

So many dumb things about this movie. Throughout the second half Jack and Rose are wading and running through freezing cold water (the ship hasn't even sunk yet) ; all she's wearing is a filmy garment that looks like a nightgown. In reality anyone in freezing water would be incapacitated quickly. And the scene where he's floating in freezing water and giving his "never let go" speech...what crap! Anyone up to their neck in freezing water wouldn't be able to talk, much less make a farewell speech. And here's an example of the brilliant dialogue: "Jack! Jack! Jack!" More brilliant dialogue: "Rose! Rose! Rose!" JA

The ending was IIRC meant to be ambiguous whether it was a dream or "heaven". You can believe whichever works for you.

Actually R146, his name was Randy. We met Halloween night 1994, the day after the doctor's told him he had three months to live. We took the plunge and began dating, taking each day as it came. In May of 1996, we were sitting in the movie theater when Randy turned to me and told me he needed to move back home to just outside Portland OR to "tie up loose ends."

Without a moment's hesitation, I agreed to his decision and the additional request that I not be there the day of departure because he didn't think he could handle it. We spoke by phone weekly, always ending our conversations with "I love you." We made plans for me to come up for Thanksgiving, but he died on October 15th after a week in the hospital. We spoke for the last time the day before he was admitted. He made his sister promise not to call me until after he passed. I went up for the funeral and helped spread his ashes.

Later, in talking with his sister, she told me they had discussed if Randy had gotten to do everything he wanted in life. He told her that he was able to reconcile with his father and he got to experience true love. When I told her that in his lifetime, he'd been in love with two people, her reply was "He didn't mention anyone else."

So, R146, I hope one day you experience what I was blessed to.

Perhaps then you won't be so jaded. Green isn't a pretty color on you.

My younger brother had just turned 30 and blew his brains out in July of that year. Titanic was a welcome diversion however the words of that song "you're here in my heart and my heart will go on and on." Rang in my ears on and on. . . if you will.

Sarah Mclachian's "Arms Of The Angels" also helped intensify the grief. I really tried to stay away from regular radio.

R162 hahaha. Hilarious story. You and 161 made me laugh so hard with your pathetic stories. Thinking anyone would give a shit.

r163 = Cal

R164 worst fake victim/martyr ever. Horrible EST.

I was brought up watching Titanic movies, and so this one was singularly lacking in any sense of the reality of Titanic. It was a boring love story about a whore who has nothing like a heart of gold.

Well I guess you put me in my place R163. Your witty retorts are so refreshingly original and cutting edge. I'm still bleeding. Here I've been enjoying Woollcott, Parker, Mankiewicz, Stewart, Loos and Fitzgerald, when all I really had to do was come to DL for your pearls.

TIT-AH-NIK

"Old Rose" was offered to Jane Wyatt of "Father Knows Best." When she refused to come out of retirement, Gloria Stuart was cast.

Titanic was a garbage movie with a basic and uninteresting plot. It was a complete waste of time

Thank you, OP and whomever revived this thread. Christmas here doesn’t end after presents are opened, but all the gifts are now broken in, guests gone, and we’ve watched almost every Christmas movie we’d want to. This is a welcome departure, kids know enough to be interested (saw the exhibit a few years ago, too). And I appreciate the nostalgia of when it debuted. Thanks, again!

And while I only scanned the end of this thread, love and hugs to R161. Best wishes to all in 2020.

It's Citizen Kane compared to Avatar

On AMC now.

Poor Bill Paxton's character has searched years for the necklace and the old bitch doesn't tell him she has it and throws in the ocean.

Cunt.

And so, I said get off my fucking piece of drift wood you pauper, oh, um I mean I said " I'll never let you go, never let you go." - Rose

Okay. While this film was still the hottest ticket at the box-office, a friend sent me an Academy screener on VHS (takes you back, doesn't it?). At the time I was teaching 7th grade, and we had a major event which involved months of preparation and an all-day clean-up afterward. I drew a short straw, and so I got to house all the students not involved in the cleanup operations. "Show a movie," my colleagues said. So, showing off, I edited the sex and nudity from the film, and brought it in to show the kiddies. When I announced the title, they hooted and laughed and said, "Yeah, right..." Several knew the video release date was still months and months away. But once the film started, they freaked out and stared at the tiny TV screen, rapt. Every now and then, one of the students had to go to the bathroom, but they always came right back. When the double period was over and I turned the lights back on, I discovered I had more that twenty extra students in the room! Word got out that I was showing Titanic, and kids started ditching their classes to see it. It was my one and only day of being The Cool Teacher.

R173, SPOILER ALERT please.

R176 fuck you, if you haven't seen the movie. The ship sinks, everybody dies.

I like taking movies like this, "The Sound of Music", "The Ten Commandments", "The Wizard of Oz" and others and pretend I'm watching them backwards. This would make the film about a bunch of people stranded in the ocean being rescued, ending up on a ship that miraculously appears from the sea and sails back to Europe. Some old lady is brought out to explain how she was saved from paddling a big board to living in luxury, had an affair with a hot peasant, and ended up engaged to a real jackass who gave her a gift of a valuable piece of jewelry. But at least she got that one good lay in even if the jealous millionaire asshole tried to kill them and ended up being stuck with him anyway.

R178 take your anti-psychotics, moron. That is just retarded.

I saw it once, but that was only after hearing about it for weeks. I recognize TITANIC for the cinematic milestone epic it was, but I heard too much hype (and that song) for so long that ultimately it was a big letdown. I won't see it again.

Incidentally, why didn't Jack wear a hat or some type of cap? It would've been inconceivable for a man/boy/anyone to go bareheaded outdoors, because hats also protected the head/hair from dirt/grime/elements.

Also, his long, flowing hair was anachronistic for the time period, except for when he slicked it back for the dinner party scene. Then, he looked authentic. Otherwise, he looked straight out of a 1990s teen drama!

[quote] Incidentally, why didn't Jack wear a hat or some type of cap?

Very few of the men were depicted wearing hats.

[quote]Also, his long, flowing hair was anachronistic for the time period,

It’s not like he could’ve afforded regular haircuts.

R182 Every man/woman/child boarding the ship or bidding farewell were seen wearing hats, except for Leo. Even his buddies Fabrizio and Tommy wore caps. When they showed Jack and Rose walking outside the ship, everyone else wore hats then, too, but them (I believe Rose only wore a hat during the boarding). People just didn't go bareheaded outdoors in those times, including if they were poor. Even during the Depression twenty years later, the poor/drifters made an effort to cut/style their hair and wear a hat.

It wasn't until the 1940s that young people began eschewing hats because they started viewing the custom as passe. Furthermore, people weren't walking outdoors as much anymore, what with cars being more affordable and plentiful, so they didn't need further protection from the elements. Also, car roofs had also lowered, which made wearing a hat inside one a tight fit. By the '50s, only older people clinging to the custom, businessmen, and women who wanted to be seen as 'fashionable' wore hats. By the mid-'60s, the practice had all but died out.

Re haircuts: Poor people made an effort to look presentable, unless they were mentally ill or batshit crazy. Even if he couldn't get a regular haircut, Jack would've styled his hair similarly to how he wore it for the dinner party, tucked under a hat when outdoors. Remember, 1912 was still considered the Edwardian Era , when toddler boys wore dresses until they were breached (i.e., toilet trained) and young boys were not allowed to wear long pants until they came of age. Similarly, teenage girls would begin wearing long skirts, corsets, and their long hair piled up on their head once they entered womanhood. All of that changed post-WWI (c. 1918).

However, hat-wearing continued for another couple of decades!

No one gives a fuck if anyone wore a hat during that period.

I love hats!!!

Cameron has repeatedly said he made the ending deliberately ambiguous (dead or dreaming)

Yeah right. The fact she walked up stairs at the end and everyone in that scene were dead means she definitely died.

I saw it twice: once in the theater and later on DVD. After Rose dies and just before she reunites with Jack in heaven's version of the ship, the film melted on screen in the packed room I was in.

Too many screenings with the same reel, perhaps? Everyone in the audience groaned. We were all pissed. Of course, they had to replace the reel or people would be demanding refunds.

Leo was boyish and charming in it. He has aged into a bloated mess. I've always thought there was something off every time Kate Winslet did an American accent. At least hers is not as bad as Emma Watson's.

But did y'all hear hoe miss Dion did not want to record my heart will go on forbthe 10000000000000th time?

"Cameron has repeatedly said he made the ending deliberately ambiguous (dead or dreaming."

Of for God's sake, the ending was so fucking obvious. She dies an old lady in bed, just like Jack predicted, after a long and wonderful life. And she wakes up young again, in the afterlife back on the Titanic, and is reunited with all the people who died there, and of course with her true love, young Jack Dawson. Blech!

Should have been a Zero option. Haven't seen it to this day and doubt I ever shall. I 𝒔𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒍𝒚 dislike Leonardo's face His presence in ANY film is an automatic dealbreaker.

R191 Not to mention that in that scene the camera pans to show all the photos of Rose doing all the things she and Jack spoke of doing together (e.g., riding a horse astride, the roller coaster at the Santa Monica pier, riding on an airplane). She had fulfilled everything she had promised.