# Guys who liked Titanic **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 8, 2000, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-who-liked-titanic/44662 "2000-12-08T18:39:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Spritle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Spritle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spritle)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2000, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-who-liked-titanic/44662/21 "2000-12-08T19:53:21Z")
not a change of heart, just a bit of thawing. I will see Titanic, IFF it’s on MST3K! (does that make me sound like a geek?) ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2000, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-who-liked-titanic/44662/22 "2000-12-08T19:53:33Z")
I liked it. The love story part was a bit trite, but it kept it from being nothing more than another disaster film in the tradition of The Towering Inferno. In this case, everyone knew what is going to happen to the Titanic before they get to the movie. So the individual story lines sneaks into your attention while you are poised waiting for the ship to crunch the iceberg and go down, and you end up caring enough about that that when its iceberg time, it has the drama of something interrupting actual lives (story lines). I loved the sound effects of the structure of the ocean liner creaking and groaning as the water rushed in. Oh, and I thought Leo DiCaprio was kinda cute for a guy 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2000, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-who-liked-titanic/44662/23 "2000-12-08T19:56:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by spritle \* > **FairyChatMom** wanna go out and not see a movie sometime 🙂 Sure!! Going out and not seeing movies is one of my favorite things! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2000, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-who-liked-titanic/44662/24 "2000-12-08T20:13:18Z")
Ah, Crunchy, come on you can take it. Just a little ribbing, like when you give your buddy a noogie or something. Just consider this thread a verbal wedgie. If it’s any consolation, I’d be willing to front money for a bounty on Celine Dion’s head. To be honest, yes, I bought the hype. And I’ve always been a Titanic/disasters-in-general buff, so I was very interested to get a realistic looking version of the ship going down. I wouldn’t have minded seeing Kate Winslet going down either, but that would be a different movie. Now, to those who I’ve seemingly convinced that I’m a big cream-puff… I hate chic fliks as a general rule, I am a devotee of Tarantino, Woo, Kevin Smith, Kubrick to name a few. I love alternative and 70’s rock and roll. I drink beer. I smoke cigarettes. I am a man, dammit! > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by xizor \* > \*\* > She was not dreaming, she was dead. I had an argument with the girl I went to see the movie with over this point. \*\* Yes, I know, but it was filmed in a dream sequence kind of way, so that’s the way I described it. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2000, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-who-liked-titanic/44662/25 "2000-12-08T21:10:42Z")
Aw, _Titanic_ was okay, although highly clichéd. The first half is a chick flick, developing the Jack/Rose relationship. The second half, after the boat hits the iceberg, is a guy movie, with stuff breaking, blowing up, people dying, getting shot at, loud noises…so you see, something for everyone! I own it on DVD too, but in my defense it cost me about $6 net. ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2000, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-who-liked-titanic/44662/26 "2000-12-08T21:32:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jack Batty \* > \*\*I wouldn’t have minded seeing Kate Winslet going down either, but that would be a different movie. > \*\* I hear ya Jack. I’ve never seen it, but she does have a movie called [Hideous Kinky](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0136244). Maybe she goes down in that. Anybody know? Because I would have to rent that one if she does. ---
**Author:** ![Padeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@Padeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Padeye)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2000, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-who-liked-titanic/44662/27 "2000-12-08T21:39:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Johnny L.A. \* > I liked **Kate Winslet’s breasts**. > > The sf/x were nicely done. You had to go and spoil it for me. I thought hers were all natural. \ I supposed next you’ll ruin [_Skyscraper_](http://us.imdb.com/Details?0114467) for my by telling me that Anna Nicole Smith’s… NOOOOOOOOOO!!! ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Teeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Dr.Teeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Teeth)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2000, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-who-liked-titanic/44662/28 "2000-12-08T21:47:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Milossarian \* > > The dialogue throughout the sinking was nothing more than “Jack!” “Rose!” “Jack!” “Rose!” Yes, almost. You forgot “Be careful!” How did this phrase become the chopped hog anuses that round out the hotdog of badly-dialogued action movies? “I’m going to close my eyes and aimlessly wander around belowdecks in a sinking ship, maybe whistling a tuneless tune.” “Jack! Be careful!” “Oh, yeah! \ I guess this IS a potentially dangerous situation. I suppose I’ll at least keep my eyes open. Thanks for the reminder.” Anyway, yeah. Pretty good movie, apart from the dialogue and the painfully-obviously-typed characters. ---
**Author:** ![Deacons\_Trucked](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d78d45/32.png) [@Deacons\_Trucked](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deacons_Trucked)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2000, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-who-liked-titanic/44662/29 "2000-12-08T23:45:22Z")
Well I still dont see what is so damned great about LA Confidential!!! And didnt Kim Basinger win the Oscar for that??? Why? She wasnt spectacular at all to me…Russell Crowe on the other hand, WOO-HOO! Loved “Titanic”, didnt think the acting was that great (even Kate Winslet OR her breasts), I cried…but I love those mushy movies anyway. Couldnt leave the theater for 10 minutes after “Ghost” because I was such a mess. Besides, nancy-boys are SUPPOSED to cry at sappy movies. ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2000, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-who-liked-titanic/44662/30 "2000-12-08T23:49:40Z")
Yes, I liked Titanic. Nautical history has always been one of my passions. The recreation of the ship was fantastic with great attention to detail like the signs on the stern railing “Warning This Vessel Has Triple Screws.” I remember when the movie first came out Larry King had Cameron on with Bob Ballard who liked the picture, you can’t get a better recommendation than that. Did anyone not have at least a little tear in the eye at the final scene? ---
**Author:** ![porcupine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ac91a4/32.png) [@porcupine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/porcupine)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2000, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-who-liked-titanic/44662/31 "2000-12-08T23:53:05Z")
I gotta go with **Crunchy** on this one. The only thing I really liked about this movie was the special effects. I didn’t really care what happened to any of the characters. ---
**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2000, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-who-liked-titanic/44662/32 "2000-12-08T23:54:32Z")
I think my husband liked it, but he gets a hall pass on that because he’s a computer graphics guy. I hate to say this, but I think he may have paid full price to see it twice. I don’t think he bawled, however. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2000, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-who-liked-titanic/44662/33 "2000-12-09T00:54:13Z")
Blech. The acting was laughably bad. I was wincing. It was like watching a high school play. I did like the blowing up and dying and bodies bouncing off the furniture and the freezing to death. That was cool. But then they’d go back to the damn characters and I’d suffer until they showed stuff getting destroyed again. ---
**Author:** ![Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Speaker_for_the_Dead)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2000, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-who-liked-titanic/44662/34 "2000-12-09T00:57:36Z")
I cried only at one part–all the people who went down without a fight. The old couple clinging in one last embrace as the cold hand of death climbed to their bed. The mother telling a story to her children to put them into a warm comfortable sleep before they took the final step… Oh no, I’m tearing up… ---
**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2000, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-who-liked-titanic/44662/35 "2000-12-09T00:59:02Z")
**spritle** : > [@](#): > > And you think, therefore, that I should see this because… > Is this some sort of “If I had to suffer through it then so should everyman” kinda thing? Read that post again, I said do NOT go see _Titanic_. I’m trying to save you some pain, my friend. **Jack Batty** : I know you’re playing. I laughed when I saw the OP. No hard feelings here. _Titanic_ still sucks though. **Deacons Trucked** : > [@](#): > > Well I still dont see what is so damned great about LA Confidential!!! And didnt Kim Basinger win the Oscar for that??? Why? She wasnt spectacular at all to me…Russell Crowe on the other hand, WOO-HOO! What’s so great about _LA Confidential_? I complex, involving plot that keeps you thinking. Tightly written, no extraneous scenes. Brilliant performances by Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe (who should’ve gotten an Oscar nomination for that!), and the guy who played Ed Exley (don’t know his real name). I agree in that I don’t see what was so great about Bassinger’s performance either. If you see it, don’t miss any of the scenes - it’s almost as if every line of dialogue progresses the plot. **Icerigger** asks, “Did anyone not have at least a little tear in the eye at the final scene?” Right here, Sparky. The only reason that may have moved me to tears was the fact that I shelled out $7 and lost 3 hours of my life that I will never get back. I just wanna make something clear though. I don’t hate Titanic for being a bad film. It didn’t suck outright. But it is the most over-praised film I can recall. IMHO, it is not deserving of the Best Picture Oscar or the accolades bestowed upon it by so many critics and fans. Yes, the effects were great. The technical accuracies missing from other Titanic movies was good (although there were no Picassos on board, as Rose says in the beginning). The writing sucked, the acting was passable but nothing spectacular, the storyline itself was unimaginative and cliche. BTW, I also have a problem with _Shakespeare in Love_ beating out _Saving Private Ryan_ for Best Picture, although I can name flaws for both of those films. ---
**Author:** ![Bluesman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/97f17d/32.png) [@Bluesman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bluesman)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2000, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-who-liked-titanic/44662/36 "2000-12-09T01:03:28Z")
C’mon, fellas, you didn’t LIKE “Titanic”? I mean, I laughed my ass off! One of the best dam’ comedies ever made! Who can honestly say they didn’t just bust a gut when DiCaprio freezes to death, then sinks out of sight? (BTW, that’s like real-life foreshadowing for what passes for his career.) ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2000, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-who-liked-titanic/44662/37 "2000-12-09T01:08:32Z")
I watched it for about half an hour one day when it was on cable, and it was so bad I didn’t bother sticking around for the special effects.Hell, I didn’t even stick around to see Kate Winslet’s breasts! The characters were caricatures, the plot was every stupid cliche from the past 50 years of Hollywood, and the dialogue was so bad I laughed out loud (Leonardo to Kate: I’m just a tumbleweed, tumbling along…"). That Leo, what a rebel! Jack, I’ve met you and you seemed like a nice, intelligent guy, so I won’t hold this against you. Everybody’s got their guilty pleasures. But Jesus Christ, man, why don’t you pick a guilty pleasure that doesn’t waste 3 whole hours of your life, like an N\*Sync song? I know some of you have got to be putting us on, just to make CrunchyFrog wince. Right? RIGHT? ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Teeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Dr.Teeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Teeth)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2000, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-who-liked-titanic/44662/38 "2000-12-09T01:53:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Speaker for the Dead \* > \*\*I cried only at one part–all the people who went down without a fight. The old couple clinging in one last embrace as the cold hand of death climbed to their bed. The mother telling a story to her children to put them into a warm comfortable sleep before they took the final step… > Oh no, I’m tearing up… \*\* I hate to reveal my heart of stone, here, but when I saw the Mom-and-kids scene I thought, “Wait a second. Won’t the kids wake up when that ice water creeps up around 'em?” I know I would. And then I’d be freaked out and start screaming for Mommy. What a crappy way to die. She should have put something in their cocoa. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2000, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-who-liked-titanic/44662/39 "2000-12-09T02:10:01Z")
I loved it. Billy and Kate, Victor, Frances, all of them. Leo wasn’t his best (I still think he was terrific in Gilbert Grape, but this was kind of bland.) I even like Celine. I have two Titanic dolls, and I just got a shawl that looks like one from the Flying scene. I plan on someday having a seamstress make me copies of the flying dress and the sinking dress. THAT would rock. But then, I’m a girl, and a girly girl at that. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2000, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-who-liked-titanic/44662/40 "2000-12-09T02:30:26Z")
Almost forgot to post [this](http://www.rinkworks.com/movieaminute/m/titanic.shtml), the Ultra-Condensed version of Titanic. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-who-liked-titanic/44662.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-who-liked-titanic/44662.md?page=3)