Titanic is such a sad movie!

:D


I personally never found the Jack/Rose story sad, but I'm not into fictional romances :o

However, I agree that the movie is extremely sad, just thinking about all those families and children losing their lives. The Irish family in particular, who try to get through a gate but go back to their room to wait for death :( And then there's the third-class woman carrying a baby, asking the Captain where she should go, and getting ignored. :(

Not to mention the frozen mother and child found in the water :(

As I mentioned in another thread, the shots of those frozen, dead people near the end, after the final plunge, are horrifying :(
 
People always seem to enjoy bashing successful films. Titanic is outstanding. The acting is excellent and the set magnificent. A superb film. All this pap on here means nothing in my book. It's perfect.
 
It's got nothing to do with bashing a successful film but a film which I find to be substandard in almost every way other than the special effects which did indeed merit all the parise heaped on it.

But doesn't it trouble you at all that we are distracted from the actual tragedy of the Titanic in order to focus on a story which never actually took place. While hundreRAB of people who actually existed are drowning and dying of the cold, we're supposed to focus on a clich
 
The reason for the love story between Jack and Rose is to give the audience two passengers to focus on and invest emotionally in, so that the sinking is that more poignant and tragic. It is a trick done with any disaster movie, have all this destruction and death in the background, but play the story out with a very small group of main characters (who are usually a stereotypical representation of groups within society) Otherwise, you may as well just watch a documentary.
 
It's only just dawned on you it's about that

Oh come on. Even i knew that when i five.

Oh well, i suppose some of us are slow in some ways.:)
 
The special effects of Titanic are visually stunning, no doubt about it.

But why I don't like the film is because I really don't like the central character of Rose. Even as an old lady she is selfish to the core. Chucking that valuable pendant overboard! What a cow! And as a young woman she is self centred and feels SO sorry for herself. What a pampered little so-and-so - Billy Zane was well rid!

The love story is a nonsense. There is no way those two would have ever crossed paths on the real Titanic. The Jack character was nice and it's a moot point whether he was luckier going glug! glug! at the end rather than ending up with the dreaded Rose.

The Titanic disaster is a fascinating and awesome story. I agree with the above though - A Night To Remember is superior in every way except it's in black and white.
 
Thirded. Why on earth they felt the need to make the film in the first place boggles the mind but since they did there was absolutely no need to invent such a tiresome storyline based around several incredibly obnoxious people that didn't even exist. Instead of being a film about a tragic real life event it became a film about and incredibly cliched mismatch love story with the sinking of the Titanic being almost incidental, it could have been set anywhere with any disaster splitting up the couple.

The film is basically all about the cgi with a wafer thin, absolutely awful script. A Night to Remember is a vastly superior film and even French and Saunders had a better stab at it than Cameron.
 
Oh get over yourself! It's a fictional love story set in the backdrop of a factual, historical event; it was never meant to be a documentary. The movie was made for the box office not the Discovery Channel or National Geographic.
 
At the end when she goes to heaven or her dreams (whatever they are) she goes to Jack and not her dead husband, which we know she must have had as there is the grandaughter. I bet he's like "Thanks love(!)"
I think the Billy Zane guy (Cal Hockley?) should have married Rose's mum, since she loved him enough herself.

I did read years ago theres meant to be a sequel since Jack sank and didn't float as dead bodies do? So much for that lol.
 
I find parts of it sad. The clip of the mum on the bed telling her children that it will be over soon is heartbreaking, mainly because most people can understand how awful it would be.

I love Di Caprio but I think he was mis cast here. Or Winslet was. I haven't quite decided but as a couple they dont work. She seems years older than him in both years and life experience. I found myself not caring about either of them.
 
My point is that such a substandard and cliched story could have been set anywhere at any time and it was completely unnecessary. There are plenty of stories about those on board the Titanic which would have made just as compelling films, why invent a story? All that nonsense about jewellery and paintings, why? It was absolutely pointless and ridiculous to put it in there, as if it wasn't already packed with story, they shoehorn that load of nonsense in.

And maybe you should get over yourself, one of the best celluloid love stories ever told - oh please.
 
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