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Can we discuss the film Titanic?

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KindergartenKop · 22/10/2018 20:01

I've just found it on an obscure movie channel. Do you like it? As a teenager I loved it but recently it occurred to me that it's a bit weird to set an entirely fictional and unlikely romance against the backdrop of a real and horrific accident. You'd not find anyone making a 9/11 romance, so why is it ok to do this? Maybe this should be in aibu?!

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BloodyDraculcasonthis · 22/10/2018 20:04

It still baffles me why it was so damn popular when it came out. I thought it sucked balls.

mycatplotsdeath · 22/10/2018 20:07

There was room on that door for both of them!!!

I've actually never seen it

PawneeParksDept · 22/10/2018 20:09

It was released when I was 16 and huge among girls in my sixth form.

Twenty years later there are aspects of it that are extremely stupid and some dreadful dialogue and yes inserting fictional people in is somewhat insulting and smacks of lack of research

It happened in a minor way on one of the 9/11 films

There was a former soldier called The Angel Of 9/11 who pulled loads of people out alive he shunned publicity afterwards, a white actor was cast as they didn't know The Angel Of 9/11 was black. The assumption he was white is definitely cringe. ( or something like that it's a while back I might not be accurate )

Whatififall · 22/10/2018 20:09

There was definitely room on the door for both of them!
I think if they’d both been on the door though their joint weight would have made it sink

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KindergartenKop · 22/10/2018 20:10

There was loads of room on the door.
I saw it aged 12 and thought it was (delightfully) FILTHY. The 'paint me like one of your French girls' scene obviously got past the certification board but I definitely knew it was not just about art!

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NannyR · 22/10/2018 20:11

I thought exactly the same when I saw an advert for "titanic- the musical" a couple of months ago.
1500 people died in awful circumstances, mainly because someone decided to cut costs and not fit enough lifeboats. Is it because it was so long ago that its acceptable?
Will we see movies and musicals based on tragedies that are happening now in a a hundred years?

Figgygal · 22/10/2018 20:11

God I remember going to the cinema to see it 3 times and I cried every time as soon as the plinky tune fires up. I had every bit of memorabilia going and cried over it for years.

Totally mortified now of course because it is pretty shite isn't it .....my poor parents having to put up with all that

Kate winslets hair was beautiful though

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KindergartenKop · 22/10/2018 20:16

I don't see the appeal of Jack either. He's not that fit. Nice that she managed to live an awesome life afterwards though.

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DoYouLikeBasghetti · 22/10/2018 20:17

I hated it. Avoided it until I was forced to watch it, then hated it more than I thought I would. Yes to it sucked balls. It sucked humongous donkey balls. And the worst bit was, when they hit the iceberg and you think it's finally going to end, it doesn't! There's about 18 billion more hours of the shite. Bah!

PawneeParksDept · 22/10/2018 20:17

@NannyR

Well there's already one (musical) about the French Rev AND the US War Of Independence - and isn't there one about WW1 ?

I agree though about Titanic : The Musical. My friend went and I was 🙈

Very poor taste.

DishranawaywiththeSpoon · 22/10/2018 20:18

The thing that always annoyed me is rose had a place on the lifeboat! If she'd just not jumped off then Jack could have had the door and they would have both been alive. If your going to make those gestures you have to be the one who dies. That was also a valuable lifeboat space that went empty.

AngeloMysterioso · 22/10/2018 20:18

You can’t really compare the Titanic sinking, which was an accident, to 9/11, which was terrorism.

PawneeParksDept · 22/10/2018 20:24

@AngeloMysterioso

I don't know, if you'd asked Brits or Americans at the time whether in 100 years a musical about it would be appropriate

They would have told you that the notion was grossly obscene I'm sure

YouCantBeSadHoldingACupcake · 22/10/2018 20:26

It really annoys me, at the end when rose dies she goes back to titanic and jack. She knew him for 3 days!!! She had a whole life with her husband and should have been with him after she died

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KindergartenKop · 22/10/2018 20:26

It's not about why they died Angelo, it's that they did die, in their thousands.

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skyesayshi · 22/10/2018 20:27

I watched this again the other day. One of my favourite films but I’ve been obsessed with the Titanic story since I was a child. I’ve got several books on it.

It was a terrible tragedy and if it happened now we would be appalled like 9/11 but I suppose time takes away the shock element of it.

As for the film, I’ve always hated the bit where Rose is spitting. I love the bit where the band is playing and the lower class passenger says “music to drown by, now I know I’m in first class”

PiggeryPorcombe · 22/10/2018 20:30

I was just coming on to say the same as @YouCantBeSadHoldingACupcake.

MsOliphant · 22/10/2018 20:31

It annoys me when she lobs that diamond over the side at the end with a funny little carefree ‘oh!’

Your granddaughter does a lot for you Rose. Couldn’t you have seen her right by leaving her the massive inheritance of that chunky bit of rock?! Selfish.

And she let her mum think she was dead. I mean her mum wasn’t very nice, but still.

haverhill · 22/10/2018 20:31

In many ways it’s absolute dross, but the sinking scene is jaw-dropping. I hated the spitting and the cringey characterisation of the ‘third class’ Irish passengers.

ClashCityRocker · 22/10/2018 20:31

Yeah, to be fair it is a bit shit on the husband and kids Rose subsequently had at the end.. .. Like soz, I'm shanning you off for a holiday fling that ended in tragedy.

Actually, surely after going through something so traumatic, being back aboard the titanic in heaven wouldn't be so great, would it?

southnownorth · 22/10/2018 20:34

I quite enjoy the film. The music always gets to me and the staircase scene at the end where Jack is waiting. Have watched it many times over the years.

I have been obsessed with The Titanic since I was a child.

I went to the Titanic Expedition in Vegas this year and I found it fantastic. Going to museum in Tennessee next year.

kalidasa · 22/10/2018 20:35

It's one of the only films in the cinema I've ever walked out of. I thought it was in such poor taste for exactly the reasons you say.

LetsGoFlyAKiteee · 22/10/2018 20:35

I thought the door would sink if they both were on it rather then enough space. Also don't get the fuss over her letting him go.. She didn't mean it literally considering the speech he had just given.

Don't get the ending.. All the people just waiting and clapping away. Her poor hustband

The sinking.. The mum telling her children a story.. The band though :-(

AaahhwoooooOOOOooOOOOo1 · 22/10/2018 20:39

You'd not find anyone making a 9/11 romance

Titanic happened eighty years before the film. I’ll bet there are plenty of 9/11 romance movies around in 2085.

Djnoun · 22/10/2018 20:39

@YouCantBeSadHoldingACupcake

She doesn't die at the end. She's asleep and dreaming. Hence the song lyrics, every night in my dreams I see you, I feel you

I bloody love Titanic and it's one of my favourite films ever ever.

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