To think there's no way in hell this could ever be remade

[GoldfishParade]

It's been 23 years since Titanic 😱 It was all so perfect... Leo (my first crush), Kate Winslet (who was amazing in this). The two actors were perfectly chosen... The theme music... The pace...

Was watching it the other day and thought it had barely aged. Still made me cry. Love this scene here with the boat being hoisted down!

AIBU to think nobody would ever be crazy enough to ever try and remake this film?

I’m still cross with Winslet for not hutching up and letting Leo on her raft.

@LST
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I just love him. I never fancied another celebrity; it's strange. Titanic then got me watching his other films and I realised he's actually a great actor irrespective of his looks. Gilbert Grape, This Boys Life.

He does a really good job with these big character parts, now my lust for him has faded but I still watch and love all the films he does even when the premise wouldnt normally appeal to me (like Wolf of wall street). Just think hes pretty unbeatable for on screen charisma and I like that hes fairly low profile.

There's an excellent novel by Beryl Bainbrige "Every Man For Himself" about Titanic which won the Whitbread Prize

They shouldn't remake you're right. Another one that should never be remade is Home Alone. The Annie remake I quite liked.

@RelaisBlu
What makes it an extraordinary achievement in film making?

@EleanorRigbyWasReal
I thought that too!!! Or at least swap every half an hour or something?!

@HeyGirlHeyBoy
There was no need for a Little Women remake either

@MaryLeeOnHigh

A Night to Remember was much better. The plot of this, with pantomime villains and all, was just so ridiculous - especially the number of times Kate Winslet got back on the sodding boat having escaped.

Not to mention her wooden acting and terrible American accent.

There are two excellent books which I recommend about the Titanic.
Violet Jessop memoirs of a stewardess on the ship, and another called And The Band Played on about the one of the members of the ship’s orchestra. Both are very interesting and would make great films with more heart and accuracy.

Oh didn't see either but heard newest one OK, no? I do hate all the boring revisionist comments on old films, bad parenting in home alone etc. Yes not great but just suspend belief and enjoy it fgs plus guess what, people are not perfect and things that shouldn't happen happen all the time.

PhoebeSnow they sound good.. My dad could not watch the film, found the sinking of the ship to difficult to watch.

Wasn't a huge fan of it- too schmaltzy, sickly sweet, cliched.

Not for me.

@Snally82

God I hated this film!

Me too. Husband and DD's love it so it's been on in the background many times and I think it's dire.

Urgh. Two things:

1. I’ll never let go Jack (lets go) Byeee, loser!
2. There was room for two on that door.

It's too long and the script is cringeworthy in places

Pretty much sums up most James Cameron films.

I hated the film - it was laughable in parts and the acting was dreadful. I was a little older than 12 when I watched it though!

There are certain films I won’t watch now as an adult as I’m sure my memory of them is very different to the reality - Dead Poet Society is the main one.

@Judashascomeintosomemoney
😂 I agree. Also: "You're so stupid Rose". Wow, thanks?

Jack... come back... come back... Jack... Jack...

The only good thing that came out of that film was the pattern for my wedding dress.

My SIL was aghast that I'd never seen it so one wet Saturday afternoon she brought me round the dvd and took dh off. She tucked me up on the sofa with a blanket and snacks and left me to it.

That was an afternoon I'll never get back (although bless her). Jack and Rose were the least interesting people in the whole thing, it was comically over acted and all that rushing around in the wet. She should have just got in a lifeboat and married Billy Zane.

I'll never know why Jack could not have stayed on that door or whatever it is Rose was floating on.

I didn't like it much. Real disappointment. I think they could do a better version.

Oh no, what would be the problem with Dead Poet's?!

Pile of over emotional shite. And I just can’t get past that bloody door at the end; wtf didn’t she let him join her?! True love my arse.

HeyGirl they are , especially the one about how the families of the crew were treated afterwards.
ITV made a mini series to mark the hundred year anniversary of the sinking which was a wasted opportunity imo as the stories of the two people featured in those books would have been an interesting angle.

I have never seen it. What happens at the end?

The mum tucking her kids in to bed. Cannot watch it!