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?)
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 
Sure!! Going out and not seeing movies is one of my favorite things! 
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!
Yes, I know, but it was filmed in a dream sequence kind of way, so that’s the way I described it.
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.
I hear ya Jack. I’ve never seen it, but she does have a movie called Hideous Kinky. Maybe she goes down in that. Anybody know? Because I would have to rent that one if she does.
You had to go and spoil it for me. I thought hers were all natural. <sigh> I supposed next you’ll ruin Skyscraper for my by telling me that Anna Nicole Smith’s… NOOOOOOOOOO!!!
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! <slaps forehead> 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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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…
spritle:
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:
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.
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.)
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?
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.
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.
Almost forgot to post this, the Ultra-Condensed version of Titanic.