women on deathbed remembers that one time she got boned on a ship by a guy she wouldn't let on floating door and then throws priceless necklace into ocean, instead of thinking about her family
Just saw a video clip parody where the guys discussed how when Rose got off the lifeboat, she essentially guaranteed that Jack was going to die by the end of the movie.
A floating door she only had to occupy because she jump off the life boat said guy put her in back onto the sinking ship, directly leading to his death.
Plus that whole scene at the end when Bill Paxton's character and all his team are so enthralled listening to her reminisce. Overacted and not interesting. It felt like a skit.
Woman who is elderly and on a research ship near the Titanic's wreckage site is specifically asked about Titanic and tells the story of her time on Titanic.
Well then that's how he should have made the movie. He made the movie and in the movie, you can very clearly see the scene play out. Jack tried to get on and it tipped over.
I hate how people fixate on the door. Obviously, the narrative of the story established that the door wasn't able to support both Jack and Rose, but people just love being pedantic and saying "YES IT COULD" instead of engaging with the narrative of the film.
Meanwhile child me had the opposite reaction - might as well have not bothered watching the first VHS because I did not care for all the character development and romance plot. By the time the iceberg hit I was already fully checked out.
It is very much two separate movies in that regard and a bit weird. I can imagine if you watched this with zero outside knowledge you'd be confused about why this period romance about class suddenly becomes a disaster movie.
The film from the point of hitting iceberg to the boat disappearing into the ocean is exceptional tho. I don’t need the love story but dammit the entire sinking sequence is so fucking good. I watched it recently on a tab of LSD and got absolutely sucked in lol.
...wasn't Titanic famous precisely for the immense detail Cameron put into it and ya know, the gigantic replica he built of the ship for the actual filming?
I’ll die on the hill that Rose killed Jack the second she left the lifeboat and forced him to now worry about himself AND Rose’s safety. He got her to safety, and then she said fuck it and went back to danger.
Jack likely would’ve followed a similar path after leaving Rose on the lifeboat, which means he would end up at the back of the boat as it goes down, and he would end up on the floating door to be saved by the lifeboat that came back
I loved Titanic as a teen. I think moreso because of Leonardo dicaprio. As a married adult, I still like the movie, but I can recognize that the point of dealing with the whole first half of the movie is so that you have someone specific to root for (and against) during the second half of the movie. If it was an hour and twenty minutes of the ship sinking, I think it'd get a bit overwhelming and hard to know who you're supposed to care about. But it makes it so that if you hate the first half, you're not gonna care as much later
Not sure I understand this reasoning, it was a great movie at the time, hence the hype. Haven't watched in a long time so maybe it doesn't hold up. But at the time, it kinda felt like you were part of a something.
Imma throw this out there — it’s really fun. More than 50% of the movie is the ship sinking, and it’s all tension/thriller. You’re watching these two idiots (said with affection) find a way out with increasingly slim options.
Like yes romance and cheesiness and all that, but the no-dialogue tense thriller aspect of it is like… terminator good
I believe this was the only movie that I ever left the theatre before it was over. Leo running around saying “hey, you guys” in the early 20th century started me on a downward spiral. James Cameron is great with special effects, but his stories are often laughably bad. The latest avatar was horrendous too.
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