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?

@StCharlotte

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

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

That’s lovely! What dress did you base it on ?

@ClarasZoo

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

Jack and Rose both get off the ship, squeeze onto the door, survive and sell the necklace to start their new life.

They definitely should have made the door smaller.

Also it was only when the camera panned over her lying on the door that I realised she had been running down corridors and wading through water in heavy flapping gown and coat and....heels. fair play to her!

It was an awful film. KW looked way to old to be involved with LDC. She has one of those faces that will always look 35 regardless of whether she's 20 or 50

@BigPlanes
Yes! And when the Italian (?) father drowns in the corridor with his son. And the young blonde woman at the stern who rose sees

@SycamoreGap I agree the dead poets society. I think I was about 13 when we saw it and my best mates and I thought it was this beautiful moving insightful film that really understood what it was like to be young. And Ethan Hawk and Robert Sean Leonard were beautiful. If only we had an inspirational teacher like that.

Bless us.

I am just grateful that my brother didn't catch us watching it. At 3 years older and a very high ability get the balance between scathing and amusing just right, he punctured much of my adolescent idealism by making laugh like a drain at anything pompous.

Claraszoo - Leo drowns whilst she watches.

I thought it was terrible. Bad acting, bad accents and I laughed more than I should have. Maybe it’s an age thing but it is up there with the truly shite films I’ve ever seen. I like shite films occasionally but this was over my limit.

Fuck. They already did!

www.dailymotion.com/video/x3511a4

If anyone actually watches titanic expecting it to be historically accurate, apart from the fact about the ship sinking, they are idiots. Its a drama, nothing more, nothing less. Do we now need to put at the start of every film 'parts of this story may not be real' just to avoid confusion? We really are stepping into idiocracy if we do.

Apparently the drawing that Jack sketches of Rose was actually done by the director James Cameron.

It's an awful film. The only sad part is the old couple in steerage on the bed.

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

First proper laugh of the day, thanks @ClarasZoo (yes, I got it)

I hope not. I couldn't watch it even once.

Night to remember was a much accurate film - the non-fiction book it was based on by Walter Lord was written at the time when he was able to interview the survivors - especially the ship's crew/officers who survived.

PhoebeSnow

This one although not in that colour and I don't think that exact dress was actually in the film.

I've said YABU because they will remake everything. I can't believe how many times they "reboot" Spiderman and batman!!

They made a proper model of the Titanic in Mexico and sank it. If it was made now it would be done by CGI instead.

@iklboo The couple are actually in first class I think - sure they are wearing evening dress and it is in a posh cabin!

Just to Wade in - never seen it but never been inclined to either.... (the original Poseidon adventure was enough to put me off boat stories)

However I take HUGE umbridge about the “remake” of Little Women. Like a play LW has been interpreted by different people over the years (similar to a star is born) and as someone who loved the book (and sequel books) the most recent adaptation is the most superior and true to the book.

That one with Winona was just pure and utter shit and disappointment.

It was only ever made because it was a passion / vanity project (depending on your perspective) for James Cameron, so unless another director came along with the same clout and funding then no, it will never be remade.

Physics central worked out (as accurately as possible from stills and internet sleuthing) the buoyant force of the ice water and the combined weight of the door, Jack and Rose. If the door was oak which is probable then only one would be able to float. But pine would have supported them.

If it was me I wouldn’t have even been able to pull myself onto the door tbf, especially with Kate Winslet’s soaking wet layers, she must have been doing weights.

I never did see it. Such an appalling real-life tragedy was always too sad for the likes of me to watch.

But however perfect you think a film (or TV adaptation) may be, there will always be someone, sometime, who will think they can do it better. And very likely muck about with the story - or the facts - as the case may be.

I saw the second half recently for the first time in years and was struck all over again by what a big, bloated, generic ragbag it is, how it doesn’t trust its own material —like the sinking of the boat isn’t ‘enough’, it needs an implausible cross-class romance, a suicidal UC heroine sold to a pantomime villain, an evil henchman, endless chase scenes, unjust imprisonment, sweaty teenage car sex, the jewel as McGuffin etc etc.

And even my eight year old, who hadn’t seen it, wondered how Rose, arriving in NY as a penniless, friendless teenager with only the clothes on her back, a markedly UC accent and zero street smarts (unable to sell or even pawn a necklace she would have had to have stolen) managed to nonetheless have the glamorous, obviously wealthy, high-profile and successful life documented in the photos Old Rose, not to mention doing so while remaining unrecognised as supposedly dead Rose DeWitt.

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

Can't possible tell you. Someone is bound to complain about spoilers.

The serialisation of 'a night to remember' on the radio was better, much more appropriate.

That's just brought back memories of me walking into he living room and asking my mum, "Hasn't that bloody ship sunk yet?"

The only reason the film was made was because James Cameron wanted to see the wreck and needed an excuse.

I remember watching this at the cinema, going into the toilets at the end to find lots of teenage girls crying because Leo's fictional character had died. Not because hundreds of real life people had. All a bit strange.

To be fair a lot of teenage girls didn't know it was a real ship.

@PhoebeSnow there is a documentary about the band members (mainly Wallace Hartley) and the final music played, "nearer my god to thee" it's quite good as long as you ignore Suggs calling Colne, Koln (it's pronounced cone).