You're forgetting the part where on her deathbed, she doesn't think about her husband she spent decades with, or her children, or her family at all. She thinks about a random homeless guy she fucked as a rebellious teen.
Absolute cinema.
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My friend convinced a 45 yr old pharmacist to divorce her husband and leave her family. He dumped her right after.
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At least she throws a priceless diamond necklace into the sea to honour all the poor people that died
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Technically, he froze to death.
Technical there was room for two on that door
Everyone is all "actually it would be impossible" like this bitch did math before telling the guy to go fuck himself.
Only if they both had the knowledge and frame of mind to engi her flotation devices from the life vest rose was wearing. Otherwise the door would have sunk enough for them to freeze to death before rescue came. Provides they knew rescue was coming after a certain time.
Considering one was a socialite, and the other a freelance artist, and both had just almost been killed multiple times... no, I don't think they would have had the foresight to come up with the exact scenario that would have saved them both.
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Titanic was the story of a manic pixie dream boy fixing a rich woman with his penis.
I also wasted an entire ship’s manhours and fuel to look for something I had in my pocket all along.
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If you watch Titanic in reverse it's about a sad lady floating on a door who idly fishes a cute boy out of the ocean and brings him onto a big fancy steamship that has conveniently sprouted up over by an iceberg, where they have steamy no-strings vacation sex until they split up because they each find new boyfriends on the ship they'd rather go to Europe with.
A much better movie!
I saw that movie with my dad, who spent years reading about the Titanic because he took an interest in it for some reason.
I'm not sure which one of us hated that movie more.
I'm glad that people are looking back on it these days and realizing it was just not a good movie.
If you want to see a good Titanic movie, check out A Night to Remember, made in the UK in 1958. Sure, it won't have the dazzling special effects. It also doesn't have a stupid as fuck plot.
I don't understand how either of you would be upset watching the movie. The rich girl slept with a homeless guy, and then she let him drown.
It's movie magic
That, and I have a memory of my father saying something along the lines of, "why were we supposed to care about those two fictional people when there were real people on the Titanic?" I do not disagree.
The entire movie was a build up to the guy hitting the propellers.
I wonder if you could edit Jack and Rose out of the movie and make it good?
That's an interesting idea. I'd like to know the result, too.
Gotta keep all of Billy Zanes scenes though.
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If you want to see a good Titanic movie, check out A Night to Remember, made in the UK in 1958. Sure, it won’t have the dazzling special effects. It also doesn’t have a stupid as fuck plot.
Did it have a dude bouncing off a propeller while emitting the Wilhelm Scream? I didn't think so.
If you take out the Jack/Rose love story and add some of the Californian's scenes and a bit in the wireless room, you could edit Cameron's Titanic down to a pretty good remake of A Night to Remember. He was clearly influenced by it, some scenes are lifted straight from the ANtR narrative even though they are known to be inaccurate (Andrews in the first class smoking room, Smith on the bridge as the ship goes down come to mind).
I like the Cameron Titanic, actually. The love story notwithstanding, it's well worth watching for his attention to detail. The reconstruction of the ship was meticulous, and with a few notable exceptions for dramatic license, the account of the sinking is quite accurate (for the information we had at the time - we now know the breakup is incorrect, but at the time it was the best theory) and contains quite a few easter eggs for Titanic nerds. (like me)
That said... I love A Night to Remember and watch it every year on the anniversary of the sinking. The book is well worth reading, too. Walter Lord assembled his narrative based on correspondence with as many survivors as he could reach - often verbatim as they told it, and it's really a riveting read.
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Being a huge nerd on certain topics tend to ruin the fun of watching movies.
True, but I was not a nerd on the topic. I just thought it was stupid to shoehorn a boring forbidden love subplot into a movie about the most famous fucking ship sinking of all time as if that alone wasn't dramatic enough.
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The titanic is far better as an engineering failure story.
I prefer it as a "lol, as if" hubris from someone that read "The wreck of the Titan, or: Futility"
I mean, if I was gonna drown, I wouldn't mind hooking up beforehand. Just saying.
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So romantic!
Context?
The movie Titanic by James Cameron. It was very highly regarded, but the plot is a woman in her deathbed recounting how she is spending her final moments thinking about a random homeless dude she fucked as a teen and then let drown, instead of her children or husband or...literally anything else.
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Did we watch the same movie? He tries to get on but it can't hold both of them. That happens in the movie.
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If Jack had survived, they would never have worked anyways. You can't just pick up a homeless guy and make him your husband in high society, and she never would have survived being poor with him. They would have just ended up fat and old together, living in a shitty tenement building, eating boiled cabbages and yelling at each other while their 20 kids run around the ones bedroom apartment
They came from a time where they weren't as likely to end up fat.
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Genuinely thought this was going to be a political meme about Jill Stein until I clicked
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