# "Titanic -- By the visionary director of Avatar" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 26, 2012, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/titanic-by-the-visionary-director-of-avatar/616828 "2012-03-26T09:02:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Kozmik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8dc957/32.png) [@Kozmik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kozmik)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/titanic-by-the-visionary-director-of-avatar/616828/61 "2012-03-27T02:13:08Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > It’s always fun seeing twenty-somethings experience that generational disconnect for the first time. That moment when they mention something and a teenager gives them a blank look and they realize that there’s now a generation behind them that thinks they’re old. Finding Nemo. The joke will work when you’re older. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/titanic-by-the-visionary-director-of-avatar/616828/62 "2012-03-27T02:54:25Z")
I had to explain what Voltron was to one of the other grad students, the other day. ---
**Author:** ![Leiko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Leiko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leiko)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/titanic-by-the-visionary-director-of-avatar/616828/63 "2012-03-27T04:47:59Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > I was taking to a 24-year-old girl the other day who a) didn’t know Titanic 3D was a rerelease, and b) didn’t know it was based on a true story. You are not the target of the marketing. That is so weird- I’m not quite 24 and I was the last person in my whole school (at least, from 4th graders up, maybe the little kids didn’t watch it but the big kids sure did!) to see Titanic because my parents made me wait until it was on VHS and we could borrow it from our cousins for free. Glossy books about Leo (and non-fiction about the Titanic) were all over the book orders for months after Titanic came out. And this was at a tiny conservative Christian school. ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/titanic-by-the-visionary-director-of-avatar/616828/64 "2012-03-27T05:15:19Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Yes, I was watching _Tangled_ last night. They had a little feature about how _Tangled_ was Disney’s 50th animated feature and they showed a clip from all 49 of the previous ones. _The Little Mermaid_ was #28 - in other words, Disney has made almost as many movies since _The Little Mermaid_ as they made before it. There are a few clarifications we need here. You started talking aobut “animated features” but then you switch over to “movies”. Also, does pixar count as “animated features” ? Because you say Little Mermaid and Disney Animation, that sends me down Beuaty and the Beast, Pocahontas, Mulan and Hercules path. Not so much the Woody, Buzz, Tow Mater, Wall-E, and Doug [Squirrel!] path. ---
**Author:** ![obfusciatrist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4af34b/32.png) [@obfusciatrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obfusciatrist)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/titanic-by-the-visionary-director-of-avatar/616828/65 "2012-03-27T12:39:16Z")
Tangled was the 50th theatrical animated feature produced by Walt Disney Animation (or its predecessors). Does not include Pixar, Toon Studios or any of the straight to video stuff. You can see the list [here](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Disney_theatrical_animated_features). Once Disney really got into live action in the '50s the production of animated features really slowed down, from at least annual to one every few years on average (only 3 in the '60s). Since the success of The Little Mermaid, they been back on an at least annual (and sometimes twice a year) schedule. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/titanic-by-the-visionary-director-of-avatar/616828/66 "2012-03-27T14:27:14Z")
> [@bienville](#): > > there are better movies I can watch to see Kate Winslet’s breasts. As my friend Joe said, "She puts the “_Tit_” in “_Tit_anic!” ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/titanic-by-the-visionary-director-of-avatar/616828/67 "2012-03-27T19:18:47Z")
Wanna have your peers look at you like they’re going to smack you? Next time you you want to mention something from 15 years ago, refer to it as “…back in the 1900’s…”. ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2012, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/titanic-by-the-visionary-director-of-avatar/616828/68 "2012-03-28T03:24:28Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > The problem with James Cameron is he’s an artist (literally - with a pencil and paints and all that. He did the sketch of naked Rose himself), and is able to do most things involved in a movie himself, and do them really well; everything short of the music score. That, and act. Bill Paxton mentioned this on the commentary for _Aliens_. He said that since acting was basically the only job Cameron couldn’t also do himself (like lighting, props, F/X etc.) the actors are the only ones on set that have any kind of advantage over him (check out his lackluster scene in Albert Brooks’ _The Muse_). Also \*Titanic \*& \*Avatar \*are the only two of his films were a nuclear bomb/explosion isn’t a major plot point (though I’ll bet early drafts of \*Avatar \*may have featured one…) ---
**Author:** ![Telperion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telperion/32/509_2.png) [@Telperion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperion)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2012, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/titanic-by-the-visionary-director-of-avatar/616828/69 "2012-03-28T17:08:25Z")
> [@Hal\_Briston](#): > > Wanna have your peers look at you like they’re going to smack you? Next time you you want to mention something from 15 years ago, refer to it as “…back in the 1900’s…”. We have a brochure at work refer to a church renovation as having taken place “at the turn of the century”. I think pretty much everyone visiting the office has to read that a couple of times before getting that they mean the year 2000. ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2012, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/titanic-by-the-visionary-director-of-avatar/616828/70 "2012-03-28T17:16:39Z")
I’d like to see “Titanic-The Sequel”-Rose(asa 99 year old hag) channels Jack Dawson-Jack decides he’d rather not. A catfight ensues. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2012, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/titanic-by-the-visionary-director-of-avatar/616828/71 "2012-03-28T21:49:14Z")
> [@ralph124c](#): > > I’d like to see “Titanic-The Sequel” [Titanic II](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1640571/) ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2012, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/titanic-by-the-visionary-director-of-avatar/616828/72 "2012-03-28T22:55:50Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > [Titanic II](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1640571/) I’d rather see [this one](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vD4OnHCRd_4). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/titanic-by-the-visionary-director-of-avatar/616828.md?page=3)