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Love at First Sight
Last month, Titanic was screening on demand, so I watched it in bits and pieces, and not in sequential order, over the course of several days. It could be the perfect way to consume the film. I remember seeing Titanic when it first arrived in theaters, and the storyline almost made me throw up. So I can’t explain what drew me in this time, so many years later. But as the second highest grossing movie of all time, I suppose I’m in good company. What’s your Titanic experience?
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I have always enjoyed it. I like drama. Of course, I was only 10 years old when it came out, and all of my classmates were crushing on Leo. It became an obsession (though not one that I shared). I simply liked it then and now for the drama and hubris, and attention to detail. It’s presented like a Greek tragedy.
The production values were amazing. And I’m also a big DiCaprio.
I too saw it in the cinema when it was first released. Did not like it … it was silly. The two of them in the water at the end … that water would have been COLD, it would have killed them … the old films – A Night To Remember and the 1953 Titanic with Clifton Webb & the wonderful Barbara Stanwyck are a much better watch.
I’m with you.
Blech. I can’t stomach it. Leo’s accent juxtaposed with everyone else’s drives me mad. It’s funny too b/c I actually think DiCaprio is a wonderful actor (loved him in Blood Diamond).
I mostly liked the opening sequences with all the opulence.
I was seriously hormonal (we’d only just discovered that my body doesn’t make hormones in the right balance, so I use artificial hormones to correct that, but it was a loooong process of trial and mostly error before we found the right combination and dosage) and so I sobbed my way through the entire film from the moment Kate and Leo came onscreen because their love was just so.damn.beautiful.
My sister didn’t see another film in theatres with me for ten years…
I’m laughing and crying with you right now.
I love Titanic. It’s a good movie and it has one of my favorite shots of all time. Towards the end everything is going crazy on the boat and they’re shooting off fireworks then Cameron pulls away for a long shot and you realize that there’s nothing out there. No one is coming for them. Those people are going to die.
I also didn’t know that most people froze to death and didn’t drown.
I also love that Rose becomes her own person. You can see the falling away of Victorian values and the dawn of a new age.
Cameron is amazing, no doubt about it.