I really don’t want to sound like I’m picking on you or trying to invalidate your opinions, and it’s always hard to tell how serious people are on the internet, but… why all the hate? The world would be a better place if Leonardo Di Caprio (who is generally regarded as one of the finest actors of his generation) had died? Celine Dion (who sings a song only in the end credits) has basically zero impact on the quality of the movie. And you have to recognize that there are a large number of sober intelligent adult people, not screaming teenage girls, who regard Titanic as an incredibly moving, well-made movie. It also won a zillion academy awards, including best picture, something which you’ll note signally did NOT happen to some movies that teenage girls love (ie, Twilight). Doesn’t it seem worth at least considering the possibility that it is, in fact, a genuinely entertaining movie?
It’s been showing in Bangkok for a couple of weeks now. We never did get all the Titanic hate that has emerged over the years. It really was a good movie, we thought.
However, it was good to see once. Plus we hate 3D. So no, we’re not seeing it.
No April Fools for me. If I could only see one movie for the rest of my life, it would be Titanic. Gone With the Wind would be a close second. I would call Titanic the Mona Lisa of cinematic achievement but I don’t want to damn it with faint praise.
Lol, OK. I stand corrected. 
You probably weren’t talking to me, but I just thought the love story was boring, is all. The sinky bits were well-made, though.
Sure, fine, no problem. I have no disagreement with someone who didn’t like Titanic. I liked it, a lot of other people did too, but tastes vary. That’s not at all the reaction I was addressing…
Here are the IMDB user ratings for Titanic. Fully 5% of the respondents rated it 1/10, the lowest possible rating.
Really? REALLY? Come on…
This is how I feel… but I don’t remind people of Rose quite as much. 
Oh yeah: I got to see this movie in an advance screening at the Paramount Pictures lot and found the experience extra special. Also bartended the studio’s Oscar party (but it was a bit of a letdown).
Ok, I got home from seeing the advance screening exactly 24 hours ago, so it’s about time I posted something, I guess. I will never forget this screening, because just moments before the movie started my son called to say his wife is pregnant with Baby #2…but the whole 3D/Titanic experience was sort of a letdown. It was my first 3D film, and I was underwhelmed by the effect. I thought the popcorn trailer with the roller-coaster was more exciting…that thing makes me dizzy in 2D, so 3D was fun. But the combination of odd things popping into the extreme foreground and stuff being out of focus in the background made me feel I was viewing it on a Viewmaster. I ran to the bathroom (and to call my daughter about the impending baby) during the naked sketch scene and the sex in the car scene, so I don’t know if those were enhanced by 3D at all. All in all, it’s a nice enough movie, but I’m glad I didn’t pay to go see it.
I was hoping somebody would do a comedy based pon the Titanic-with the Three Stooges blended in.
It wold lighten things up.
I’ve never been a fan of this movie…it’s too bleh for my tastes. But given that HusbandMan is a HUGE fan, he’ll probably drag me to go see it.
S’only fair, though. A few summers ago, I made him sit through the Toy Story/Toy Story 2 3-D double feature with me.
Ralph–I know the other day I saw a trailer on TV for a new 3 Stooges movie. HusbandMan went “What the fuck?” and I went “Oh we are SO going to go see that!”.
Nyack nyack nyack!
I was wavering between “definitely” and “I’d see it for the ship not the plot”. I never saw it when it first came out, not so much because of the hype but because the love story part didn’t interest me. Now i’ve seen it dozens of times on DVD and have kicked myself over the years that I missed the opportunity to see it on a large screen, so I’m pretty excited and would see it even if it wasn’t in 3D. I want to see Billy Zane’s waxed eyebrows comin’ right at me!
The dialogue made my teeth hurt.
Only if this is the edited version. 
I’ll probably never think 3D as it’s used in movies is worth it completely (I say in movies since I’m sure a valid use in virtual reality games could be worth it). That said, Titanic in 3D is better than in 2D. I used to hate 3D, but then I really watched one movie in 3D and started accepting it. It’s more expensive, yes, but it gives them more tools than they’d have otherwise, it doesn’t have to be something evil.
Specifically, it gives you the ability to better focus on an area of the screen, it’s for eye drawing. That’s why I said it’ll never really be worth it, by itself it’s a rather lame tool to charge four extra dollars per person for, but I think it’s better, even if not by much.
On an aside, I thought Titanic was more or less perfect, there were about two instances where I hated the dialogue, and those were mostly when people were cracking historical in-jokes.
ETA: Also, Kate Winslet with wet hair, and especially Kate Winslet with wet hair and hypothermia looks disturbingly like the actress who plays Bella Swan in Twilight.
Absolutely! Through my resident Titanic authority I have learned so much about so many real life people who were on that ship. Some elements were borrowed for the movie. Besides Molly Brown, I love the story of Ida Strauss, an owner of Macy’s, who refused to get in a lifeboat and leave her husband. She said “we have been living together for many years. Where you go, I go.” And the seventeen-year-old who refused to be saved on a lifeboat because he told his mother he would “stay with the men.” Or the man who was travelling under an assumed name with his two sons whom he had kidnapped from their mother. He passed the babies into the last lifeboat.
What annoys me about the movie is how after the boat sank we are lead to worry expressly about Rose and Jack there in the cold water. But in reality it was a horrifying half an hour as people in the water wailed and screamed and the people who were in the lifeboats got to sit and listen to the screams of their loved ones. Then the absence of screams of their loved ones. The movie just didn’t do that part justice IMO.
Oh I don’t doubt that it is.
Let me try to explain… no, there is too much. Let me sum up.
First off, please note that all opinions as stated are those of who I was at the time. At this point, I recognize that Leo is a damn fine actor. I still don’t find him in the least attractive, but that’s beside the point of someone with talent. I have gone to and enjoyed quite a few of the films he’s acted in.
At the time, however, I was surrounded by screaming teenyboppers who gushed about how hot he was everytime the topic came up. At the time, a great part of my identity was wrapped up in not being anything like any of the (in my opinion) totally vapid and unintelligent girls at the school I attended. (also, as noted, I really didn’t think he was attractive in the least, and was quite confused that people thought he was.)
As for Celine and the film itself, at that time I was very recently (as in less than three months) coming off of a staggering realization that my mother and my religion had spent my entire life thus far using my tendencies towards emotional sensitivity to control and manipulate me and my choices through codependency, guilt-trips, and “spiritual” experiences.
I was therefore less than tolerant of any overt ploy to get under my skin and *make *me care about something through what I then considered cheap tricks - which is pretty damn much exactly what the singing and the love-story were all about. It REEKED of emotional manipulation to me, and I simply wasn’t having any of it.
Now… well, there’s sort of a weird pride in being able to still say after all this time that I’ve never seen it. I know it is a good film, I have long-since gotten over my insult at the way theatre exploits emotions in viewers (I was a theatre major, and do volunteer work as a makeup and costume artist), but between that weird pride and simple inertia, I’m happy to let things stand as they are. And I do still dislike Celine - nothing personal - I just don’t like her style of music. Not having seen the film, how was I to know that she wasn’t singing all the way through?
Really? You think that Kate Winslet looked like this? That’s near to approximately how Kristin Stewart looked when Titanic came out, though Kristin was a couple of years younger, I just couldn’t find any pictures. That’s her with Jodie Foster and David Fincher during the filming of Panic Room.
If you mean that Kristin is a beautiful girl, just as Kate Winslet was also a beautiful girl at that age (still is) then I agree, though I’m perplexed as to why that’s disturbing.
Because it’s not intended to be a documentary? What do I win?
No I mean in Titanic, at the end when Kate Winslet/Rose has wet hair, and especially when she’s near death, she looks almost identical to modern day Kristen Stewart to my eye (specifically her in several scenes of the Snow White vs the Huntsman trailer). And “disturbing” is a bit strong, but it always weirds me out when people look that similar.
I hope the 3-D version includes more shots of china falling on the floor, serving carts moving on the tilted floors, champagne bottles smashing, etc.
I also like how the electric lights stayed on, even though they were all under salt water. Were there any shots of the electric generators shorting out/blowing up?