Titanic (1997) | Extended YouTube Edit
Definitely one of those times where I truly regret not watching a movie before now. Amazing film, beautifully told, and fantastically performed. It's easy to see why this became such a phenomenon when it was released and I'm pretty sure this one made me cry more than any single reaction prior to.
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I still this flim so heartbreaking but a apic and incredible watch plus Kate and Leo r incredible with the acting 馃槩馃槩馃憣
Agreed! This movie is really incredible.
I didn't see anyone mention it, sorry if they did, but that is James Cameron's hands drawing Rose's sketch. I assume he drew all the other ones in the sketchbook. Also, during filming. The cast and crew ate PCP laced clam chowder and overran the local hospital's ER. They never found who did it.
The stories from this film are among the wildest I've ever seen. The PCP laced clam chowder is absolutely crazy! I wish they'd found the culprit.
I'm so amused as I'm working to get this cleared for copyright I have decided to (almost certainly) release this as 2 parts and I am SO thrilled with how I'm ending and starting the two parts. 馃槅
Like most 3+ hour movies, the VHS release was split across two tapes. The split was at the line "You may get your headlines, Mr. Ismay."
One kind of unfortunate historical note: some survivors reported that an officer killed himself like Murdoch does in the film, but none of them knew who it was, and his descendants were furious that he was put in the role on no evidence. Cameron felt terrible when he learned about their reaction and admitted he'd been "thinking like a screenwriter" without considering the effect on a real person's reputation, and ever since he's done a lot to get Murdoch's true story out.
I love that he cared. I feel like a lot of people would have continued thinking like a screen writer never having any regard for the families of the real people.
Awesome reaction, Chris! I don't care for Titanic much, but I really enjoyed your reaction. Even got a lil teary eyed with ya. But, as many have pointed out before - theres room for Jack on the plank. Plenty of room, Rose! Jumpin Jesus on a pogo stick. Coulda easily snuggled him alive.
Thanks for braving the reaction even though. you don't love the film! Appreciate ya!
Spicer Lovejoy, Billy Zane's british thug, is my favorite actor - David Warner. I mentioned to you a long time ago that he dies on screen (probably) more than *anyone* else. 45+ times. Chris, you've seen him "die" in Tron and Time After Time. Ironically I don't remember if he goes down with the ship here. Anyone know?
Is it wrong I'm rooting for it?
(oh and apparently this issue has continued right up until today -- when the submersible Titan went missing there was a *huge* influx of social media posts from people going 'I thought it was just a movie LOL?")
That makes me lose hope for humanity.
I, like so many other people, had this interaction while waiting in line to get in to see the movie on opening day: Me and my friends: talking about what we knew about the Titanic disaster, including who was on it, how long it took to sink, the theories about how it broke in half and how the discovery of the wreckage proved it did, what they might or might not have put in the movie, etc. People in line with us: YOU JUST RUINED THE MOVIE WHY WOULD YOU TALK ABOUT THE ENDING OF THE MOVIE ON OPENING DAY HOW DID YOU GET TO SEE IT BEFORE TODAY YOU ALL SUCK!!!!!!!!! Me and my friends: ... it actually happened... the Titanic is real... we learned about it in history classes and from documentaries and books... they found the wreckage over 10 years ago... People in line with us: WHAT As for which characters were fictional and which real historical figures, this page will give you photos of the real people and the actors who portrayed them, along with a little bit of history about them: https://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/titanic-characters-based-real-people-gallery-1.3056669
That is so wild that in 1997 people didn't know it was real! I stumbled upon several comments like that in the last week do to Titan and my mind was blown then. 馃槼 Thanks for the link!
I recently learned about Charles Joughin, the head baker on the Titanic. He managed to order his bakers to bring bread to the lifeboats, help women and children into lifeboats and throw around 50 deck chairs into the water to act as flotation devices. He then rode the topmost part of the ship into the water as it sank. He survived and his only complaint was swollen feet.
And he was drunk off his ass the whole time, which saved him from hypothermia.
Charles Lightoller had his career destroyed when word got out that he refused to let any men in the lifeboats, and launched some of them half-full. But he achieved some measure of redemption decades later at the evacuation of Dunkirk, where he successfully rescued over a hundred soldiers in a boat designed for a maximum of two dozen. One of the main characters in Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk is loosely based on him, and the movie even uses his actual boat.
It's so crazy how he found himself in the center of two such central historic events. Thankful he was heroic in Dunkirk.
I'm selfishly so happy that you didn't watch this movie earlier because I really enjoyed your reaction. I know that your life was very involved in the church, but since there are kinds that don't sing traditional hymns, I couldn't tell if you recognized "Nearer My God to Thee" being played as the last song. According to many survivor's reports, this actually happened. I know very little about Titanic trivia except that at the time, this movie very accurately portrayed how it was thought that the Titanic went down. I believe that there are new ideas about that now. By the way, You look so much more comfortable in your new setup! Love the Spidey accents.
It probably wasn't this version of Nearer My God To Thee, which had just recently been written and not many were familiar with it yet. A Night To Remember, based directly on survivors' accounts, shows them playing the older version.
