Titanic Box Set

[Del Murder]

I consider it one of my greatest accomplishments that I have never seen this movie.

[Calliope]

Does the boxed set come with an ice cube tray?

[Azure Chrysanthemum]

I too have never seen the movie, it never really appealed to me.

I too, count this as a great achievement.

[ThroneofDravaris]

I ran my ship into an iceberg once. Talk about terrible places to get frost bight!


…yeah, I’m done.

[Necron]

This seems unlikely as the entire movie is her retelling the story.

I wouldn't say it was retelling the whole story. Only the ending really.

[edczxcvbnm]

Alternate ending? SNL did that.

"So...where is the jewel?"
Old bitch: "Well there was a lot of chaos and"
People: "SHUT UP! We listened to your boring ass story for over 3 hours and the whole point was so you could tell what happened to the jewel. NO WHERE IS IT?!"
*Old bitch starts to talk about the tradgity again*
*People beat her ass to death*

[Captain Maxx Power]

Me watching Titanic involved three distinct phases. The first primary phase was sheer annoyance at the film. The second was sheer disgust at the thought of that weedy DiCaprio getting jiggy with the uber-lardish Winslet. The third was my overaptuous joy watching the immigrants drowning and seeing the passangers falling off the side of the ship onto the fans below. I am SO going to Hell now. Thanks a lot Cameroon!

[Rainecloud]

I like it. Especially the ending.

(Note: I'm referring to DiCaprio, not the untimely demise of the passengers).

[eestlinc]

I pissed off my friends in the theater because I couldn't stop laughing because the movie was so ridiculous.

[Winter Nights]

I should note that I'm a guy whose a sucker for a good romance. And I don't mind long, drawn-out movies.

That said, this movie bored the farking hell out of me. It started decently enough, but the movie never picked up. The pacing was horrible. The story pulls generic plot points from a bunch of other romance movies, very few of which did the plot any better: Unhappy rich girls falls for a poor boy, to the dismay of her rich boyfriend, who (of course) is evil.. Through very little time with the poor boy, she comes to the conclusion that she fits in his world and must be with him always, despite only seeing the good things about him and the world of the less fortunate. Like most movies of it's type, it depicts poor people as fun, flamboyent people and rarely touches on the harder side of their reality, aside from the rich folk snubbing their noses toward them.

Despite flaws with such a plot, other movies have managed to make decent movies out of it. Titanic's biggest flaw is it's pacing. As I said, long movies don't bother me. If paced right, you won't even notice the time slip by. However, Titanic is just horribly slow. It's very loose and and feels like James Cameron was just taking his time with the story. Problem is the story has too many obvious flaws to be epic. It spends way too much time trying to bash it in our heads that they belong together, as if Cameron couldn't trust that DiCaprio and Winslet to convey it properly themselves. When the ship finally hits the iceburg, you find yourself brieving a sigh of relief.. Something that should not happen in a movie of this type. Instead of feeling a sense of loss in the tragedy, you find yourself glad something is happening. After having to wade through so much crap, you become apathetic to the true story that inspired the movie. A great tragedy is reduced to a plot point to shake things up for our "heroes". Then, there's the death scene. It was inevitable, of course. To let them be together would be to actually state that they COULD work as a couple when, despite the film beating it into your head that they could, realistically you know they would never fit into each other's worlds. While that move did make sense to me, it's beyond me how treating a fictional character's death as more tragic than a ship full of real people sinking to their deaths sounded like a good idea on paper.

Overall, the film takes a really generic plot and pretends that it's an epic, creating an overy drawn out film that's just full of itself. Honestly, if Cameron had editted really tightly, it may have made a decent flick. Fantasy romances are what Disney has built an empire on. It sounds dreamy and, if paced right, could possibly suck you into the illusion. Unfortunately for Titanic, Cameron gave it alot more time than it deserved, giving the viewer plenty of time to realize how insanely ridiculous it is.

As for the alternate ending..

On Disc Two is Alternate Ending: "Brock's Epiphany" (9:15) which was actually the original ending of the film. As explained by Cameron in the optional commentary, he was trying to wrap up everything for all the characters and in doing so, told too much. Not only is it inferior to ending we know, it's so schmaltzy that it gives a horrifying glimpse of what it may've looked like if Steven Spielberg had directed this film.

http://dvd.ign.com/articles/660/660963p2.html

[CaZ!]

titanic = all plus lots of tears
i hope the alternate ending involves kate winslet dying and not leo lol
*jives to elvis* :strut:

[Winter Nights]

titanic = all plus lots of tears
i hope the alternate ending involves kate winslet dying and not leo lol
*jives to elvis* :strut:

Read the post directly above you.

[Miriel]

titanic = all plus lots of tears
i hope the alternate ending involves kate winslet dying and not leo lol
*jives to elvis* :strut:

Why would you want Kate Winslet to die? She's an amazing actress and from what I hear a wonderful person all around. And besides, I think having an actress die for the purposes of a film would qualify as murder.

It's also a pet peeve of mine when people can't disgtinguish between an actor and the character being portrayed by an actor.

[Wuggly Blight]

James himself seems to be a good director, he did years of research before and after, examining the wreck and remained a figure in the Titanic circles for a while voicing his views on the constant "artifact retreval." I got bored of the romance plots along time ago, moreso Jack could never actually go passed third class for health and and safety laws. With the research James did I would of thought he would of used more facts then rumors, Titanic was never claimed to be unsinkable by White star nor Harland and Wolffe, someone on the project once said with all the safety features it was PRACTIALLY unsinkable, and nobody actually belived it was unsinkable anyway.

The films pacing was a bit slow, The more intresting characters was not well looked into or put aside, molly brown was never called Molly until after the sinking, and she was a well spoken women fulent in 5 languages. wow... I'm a nerd...

The sets was impressive, they didn't take the cheep way out and it really shows during the film. It personally seems abit to Americanised, but thats just me.

[Rusty]

I love this film, it's my favourite. So, I'll be buying the box set when it comes out over here. Kate Winslet is an amazing actress.