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

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GoldfishParade · 30/12/2020 08:08

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?

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Ticklemynickel · 30/12/2020 10:59

As a teenage girl with a huge crush on LDC: cried my eyes out
As a grown up with a huge crush on LDC: what a terrible film, everything about it is awful

Give me Romeo & Juliet as Peak young Leo any day.

ChippyChickenChips · 30/12/2020 11:00

It's not her, it's him, he literally looks 12

This is what I came on to say. A remake could absolutely be better because the lead players were imo so badly cast.

ZooKeeper19 · 30/12/2020 11:03

@GoldfishParade I'm totally with you. When the movie came out (and I am pretty sure! it could not have been 23 years ago, thank you very much) I went to see it in cinema 6 times. It was crazy.

Anyways. I still watch it every now and then it is an amazing movie to look at and I like all of it. No need to remake what was done right the first time around.

Plonque · 30/12/2020 11:06

I just love him. I never fancied another celebrity

I hate to be that person but surely you've outgrown fancying LDC?
I mean, I get it - I was 15 when it came out, everyone my age was going soft on him but look what he's turned into!?
Surely once he turned 30 and was still chasing 19 year old predictable blondes ... maybe even now he's pushing 50 and still chasing them. Seemingly never really having meaningful long term relationships? I really can't see the appeal, sorry.

Davros · 30/12/2020 11:08

Terrible film. We went to see it at the cinema and the audience (including us) laughed when Billy Zane trod on the end-of-bannister pineapple he had just shot off and when people let go of what they were clinging onto and fell with (in our minds) their legs either side of one of those things you wrap rope round. The original Titanic film with Clifton Webb and Barbara Stanwych or A Night to Remember with Kenneth More are infinitely better

olivebranchess · 30/12/2020 11:08

I loved this film because young Leo was one of my few celeb crushes. (Him in Romeo and Juliet too).

SemperIdem · 30/12/2020 11:09

@Fallsballs he doesn’t drown. He dies of hypothermia. Very much a block of ice when she shoves him off the door.

SycamoreGap · 30/12/2020 11:12

@MakeWorkYourNewFavourite

Isn't it known as being a pile of shit? That's what it's famous for.
Yes! I remember getting absolutely flamed on here a while ago (under a different name) when an OP asked if her 8 year was too young to watch Titanic, and I asked why she would inflict it on her!
nosswith · 30/12/2020 11:12

I get the OPs point but someone will try at some time, perhaps many years into the future.

The main song was a blot on Celine Dion's career, a pity as she has a fine singing voice.

Davros · 30/12/2020 11:13

I really hated that old hag in it too

chomalungma · 30/12/2020 11:14

For a film that people think is terrible , it sure won a lot of awards including 11 Oscars.

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GoldfishParade · 30/12/2020 11:14

@Plonque
Yes obviously I've outgrown actually fancying him. But I still get a pang of nostalgia. And I still think he was really goodlooking! Although I liked him more as he came into his 30s

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ChinookPilotsGoVertical · 30/12/2020 11:16

Those who have said it's too long, the length is exactly the length of time between the striking and the sinking. Cameron is a Titanic obsessive and the details of the ship & the sinking are as accurate as possible. Plot & dialogue, not so much...

RHTawneyonabus · 30/12/2020 11:17

I watched it as a teenager in a freezing cinema in North Wales. I had a friend each side who were both weeping and clutching my hand I was thinking I must basically be dead inside because it was doing nothing for me.

When we got to the ‘a woman’s heart is a deep ocean of mystery’ line a man in the back row shouted ‘bollocks!’ really loudly and the entire cinema fell about laughing. No one could take it very seriously after that.

Porcupineintherough · 30/12/2020 11:20

Bloody awful film. No idea why it's so admired.

ArmsClary · 30/12/2020 11:22

Surely Jack would've died on the door anyway. He was wearing a bloody shirt.

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GoldfishParade · 30/12/2020 11:33

@ArmsClary
I was wondering whether wearing clothes in that context would actually be worse than being naked. Surely heavy layers of freezing soaking clothes are of zero help?

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Candlesticking · 30/12/2020 11:35

@ChinookPilotsGoVertical

Those who have said it's too long, the length is exactly the length of time between the striking and the sinking. Cameron is a Titanic obsessive and the details of the ship & the sinking are as accurate as possible. Plot & dialogue, not so much...
And that might have been interesting if the film was some kind of cinema verité thing, starting with the moment the iceberg struck and recounting its sinking in real time, but it just doesn’t work at all for a film that’s trying to be Romeo and Juliet crossed with a disaster movie crossed with heavy-handed class commentary and about forty other things.

The bit where Rose tells the ship’s designer there aren’t enough lifeboats got a laugh in the cinema where I saw it.

ArmsClary · 30/12/2020 11:35

Possibly. I also wonder what would've been worse - freezing cold air or ice cold water. I would assume water, given that Rose survived, but I'm sure someone more scientifically minded will be able to explain Grin

Shaniac · 30/12/2020 11:46

I love it it came out when i was 6 or 7.

But i hate when people complain about 2 things:

1.he never got on the floating door

  1. I'll never let go jack.

The door he tried to get onto it flipped and he didnt have the energy the climb back up, she didnt deny him a place.

I'll never let go was in reference to when she wanted to secumb to the cold and die and he told her "dont let go your gonna die an old lady warm in her bed after a long life. Once he died she reiterated her promise not to let go and die herself.

52andblue · 30/12/2020 11:48

Dreadful film.
So inaccurate it's almost offensively so given it's about a real life tragedy. As another poster said upthread - was that not enough that they then chucked in a load of cliched plot devices too?
LdeC I have always thought a poor actor. His only film i've liked has been the Airport one where he plays a conman - he's good in that.
KW is a good actress but not great in this film.
And, it's about 2 hours too long.
'A Night to Remember' covered this story far better in a film genre.

LetsGoFlyAKiteee · 30/12/2020 11:49

I dont get the whole door thing. Wouldnt it have sunk with both of them on it? Or water still would've come on so just slowly froze anyway.
The scenes that you know must have happened are sad such as the old couple and the mum putting her children to bed..the shooting however very bad taste and glad the family complained!

The costumes are so pretty!!!

Do love the French and Saunders version though..

horizontilting · 30/12/2020 12:05
  1. If she hadn't leapt back on a sinking ship from a lifeboat, he could have had that door to himself.
  1. The original ending they shot is indescribably bad. Sweet Lord. Lord.inews.co.uk/culture/film/titanic-original-ending-104727
horizontilting · 30/12/2020 12:05

inews.co.uk/culture/film/titanic-original-ending-104727

TheVanguardSix · 30/12/2020 12:08

Never saw it.
Don't want to. It'll ruin Clementine Kruczynski and Jordan Belfort for me if I do watch it. Grin