Unsinkable

[bobthemole]

There's still a bit of stigma attached to admitting that one likes Titanic. Leonardo DiCaprio entire career has been built on establishing himself as a Serious Thespian instead of the Justin Beiber of the mid-90s. No one sings "My Heart Will Go On" except under the most ironic of circumstances.

But for one moment in timeTitanic was the biggest

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[cal_turner]

I'm not ashamed to admit that Titanic is still one of my favourite movies of all time, even though I recognise its flaws, and Leonardo DiCaprio now looks like a little boy to me, rather than the swoon-worthy heartthrob I thought he was at the time. Lol! It's still one of the only movies I've gone to the cinema to see twice, and the only movie I've actually queued up in a shop to buy on VHS (the queues were miles long!).

I don't know why it affected me as much as it did when I first watched it, or why even now the memory of seeing Jack sink to the bottom of the ocean brings a lump to my throat. It's been years since I saw it, and I'm undecided whether to see it in 3D or not, as I don't want my memory of it to be tainted. All I do know is that it awakened in me an interest in the Titanic disaster that I've never been able to shake. The history behind it fascinates me, as do the personal stories of the people who sailed on her.

But the movie still cast a deeper spell on me today than anything I've watched in recent memoryYes, that's

[bobthemole]

Thank you :)

I'm normally not the biggest 3D fan, but I can honestly say there was not a single frame of this film that I thought was diminished by the treatment. It was pretty subtle. There's the scene at the beginning where the Titanic launches and we get all the cinematography that screams BIG FRICKIN' SHIP, and that really pops with the 3D. But for the rest of the movie I barely noticed it.

Go see it. In IMAX if you can. The regular screen was too small for me, even from the front row.

[snickfic]

My first-ever moment of "Wow, I'm getting old" was in grad school, when I worked up this really cool example about inflation for the class I was teaching: I demonstrated that when inflation was accounted for, the original Star Wars movie actually made more than Titanic. And then I asked how many people had actually seen Titanic, and fewer than half the students raised their hands. And I thought, Oh.

[bobthemole]

That's exactly the reaction I had yesterday. I'm officially old now that my nostalgia is being catered to.

"Let's go watch Titanic," I said to my Toastmasters buddies. And the people above 25 said "OMG YES!" while the undergrads were all, "I'd rather do my homework". Philistines.

[gryfndor_godess]

I appreciated this post and kept forgetting to comment on it, and I actually saw Titanic later that same day. I still love it, and I don't think it deserves the criticism it gets.

hoping Please, God, let them miss the iceberg this time and the collision shook me along with everyone else.

Me, too. I kept thinking, "Please get on a lifeboat, please get on a lifeboat," and then, "Please don't die, Jack, please don't die." I was joking with my mother that it would have been hilarious and wonderful if, without telling the media, Cameron had changed the end of the movie so that Jack survived. They were rescued in time enough for Jack to live, and then the movie fast-forwarded 15 years to new footage of Jack and Rose happily living their life together. Imagine Kate and Leo returning to the roles, briefly, and showing us All Grown Up Jack and Rose. Titanic would have become a sensation all over again, with even Titanic-haters flocking to the theater to goggle at the happy ending. I would have been so ridiculously pleased.