Titanic is such a sad movie!

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I mean, i know it always was but after watching it again tonight, I fully understood it.

The thought of not being with the person you love and being seperated like that is awfully sad, and has happened/happens.

It's a gripping movie though!
 
Although I usually find myself watching the re-runs, I absolutely agree with all your points.

Some historic events have so much real-life drama in them, that to attempt to re-tell the original stories is quite valid enough (e.g. Zulu and Zulu Dawn to name but 2, despite the fact that recently, I read about how the defences at Rorke's Drift were easier to create and defend than were made out because part of them were raised up to make a natural wall on top of which the soldiers could add mealy bags - 'At least, I've sorted that out, old boy').

In fact, although creative freedom, designed to sell to a particular market etc. and other aims are all part of numerous reasons why people make films in the first place, although this was not meant to be a documentary, why mess with it?

And some of the detail was rediculous; at the end, anyone who knows a smidgen about how such a ship would sink, would know that they would not have survived the final sinking, but been sucked down into the mess below.

Still, at least the film made me find some books on it, to try to find out what really happened and why, questions which are still being asked.
 
I love this movie! It seems "fashionable" to hate it even 13 years on (I don't know why). It's one of the best celluloid love stories ever told imo.

Plus, it's spectacular to watch.
 
I love it tbh.

Although I'm still guilty of doing the same thing when it comes on TV as I did when it first did - forwarding it to the scene where Kate Winslet gets naked and just watching from there :o
 
I never fell out of love with Titanic like everyone else seemed to. I think it's sad the way people mock it, like they're automatically cool for doing so, especially people within the media industry who aren't nearly as funny or clever as they think they are.

It's still visually stunning, the special effects still hold up very well and I have never had a problem with the Jack and Rose love story. I think it's overall a very beautiful movie, with a bit of a dodgy script but still not at all deserving of the bashing it gets. Glad to see there are still some people who respect the film, however few we might be.
 
It's technically amazing. The big practical ship exterior is one of the greatest sets ever built IMO, and all the interiors of the ship are absolutely perfect too, you believe 100% this is the Titanic they're on and it's a fully functional vessel!

Then you've got CGI being used exactly as it always should be, nothing too over-the-top. Yeah they could do the effects shots better now but they would also be too tempted to throw in a lot more, just because they could, and that would have ruined it.

All the cast are fine, there isn't a bad performance. Leonardo DiCaprio does a good job. Jim Cameron's script is typically him with the cheesy lines all over but somehow it works pretty well. Kate Winslet's breasts do a fine job of keeping you awake during certain duller scenes...(watching some of it tonight I noticed in the part where she's hanging off the back of the ship they obviously deliberately shot it so we aren't looking right down her dress, even though her (ample) cleavage is doing its best to escape!).

Celine Dion's song did a lot to get people 'hating' the movie. Every time the theme crops up you're like 'oh god...' in a way it's just too memorable and such a 'romance' song that it gives everything that slushy feel.
 
I agree entirely. I loathed the movie at the cinema, but bought it on DVD for my wife. It's one film I refuse to watch again with her..and there are dozens of others that I merely dislike, and don't mind sitting through again.
I think it's because it was so popular and highly praised. To me, Titanic and Forrest Gump were the two most over-rated movies ever in terms of awarRAB etc.
 
I hate the movie. I don't find it at all sad. But I have watched it more than once, so I guess I did like it in a way, it has it's charm. But it certainly never made me cry... Every scene that was suppose to make you cry was over done to the point of making me laugh.

It's one of those movies that is supposed to make you cry, but doesn't do it for me. And I cry at Harry potter :o, toy story :o and the Lion king.

I'm sorry but Titanic may be about a sad subject, but it's god awful. it's far too up it's own arse to be actualy sad.

I was like, he's dead, thank god the movie has finaly ended. It actualy amuses me. And people really find the movie heart wrenching.

I would have had them both killed for crimes against being human, becuase they didn't seem like characters one could relate to. No chemestry. completly unrealistic.

Infact it's that bad, that if Rose had died, it would have been the icing on the cake. k W is not a bad actress. There's just something about her that does not make me feel for her.
 
I've never disliked Titanic as much as some people do. It's not exactly a work of art as far as the screenplay is concerned but it does a good job of retelling events against a bog-standard love story plot.

And there was no way that Kate/Leo were going to walk off happily ever after at the end. You can't have a happy ending to a historical story which is so tragic. It wouldn't make sense. Anyway, most of the famous romantic stories keep the couple apart at the end.

I do wonder what happened to James Cameron though. In the eighties & early nineties he was young(ish) and making thrilling, dynamic films like Terminator1&2 and Aliens. And then he goes and starts making technically impressive but comparatively bland fare like True Lies, Titanic and Avatar.
 
I also don't like it, apart from the odd parts that bear any likeness to the real event. But then I can't stand romantic, slushy films of any kind.
 
I like Titanic. The pace keeps you hooked and isn't boring. The missus loves it from a love story point of view. As another poster mentioned not for a minute do you not believe you are on the ship. The set is amazing, and for the time it was made the CGI was very good. Cameron did say a few years back that he wanted to do so much more, and believe if it wasn't made until now, the special effects would have been even better.

I'm not one for sobbing through films, it's not me. It didn't bother me when DeCrappio went under water to his icy death. I was tempted to lift his hand off the float to help him along.

The thing that struck me was towarRAB the end when the boats came back and wading through all the dead bodies. It's then when it hits you that this actually happened way back in 1912. Over 1500 people went overboard, and not many bodies were recovered. Now that gave me a lump in the throat remembering back how many peoples lives perished.
 
I agree that, for the time (and even now?) it's technically a good film. However, I hate the film quite a lot mainly because I despise lovey-dovey films like this :p Oh, and the fact that that god awful Celine Dion song is heavily associated with the film makes it even worse!

The only part which had an impression on me was where the old couple were laid on the bed together.
 
The outstanding bit (as in horribly memorable, not enjoyable) for me in the film, is where the unfortunate passengers start falling when the ship is sinking, and they hit things on the way down.

Agree about the awful, awful song.
 
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