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James Cameron's TITANIC |OT| Collide With Destiny
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DrForester
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So there's two Titanic historical twitter accounts going and they both seem to be off on their timing. One is about 2 hours away, one just hit it 30 minutes ago....
Screwing my iceberg twitter clock up.
Screwing my iceberg twitter clock up.
That RealTime one is way early. Follow @RMS_Titanic_Inc
DrForester
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I had to improvise the script notes I had ready for the Real Time one, and and going to just do time warp shenanigans for the RMS Titanic one
Cjdamon042
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Yeah I was following TitanicRealTime and I was kind of annoyed that they were doing it based on BST time here in the UK which is considerably early. I mean, according to them it sank 26 minutes ago yet realistically the Titanic wouldn't of even hit the iceberg yet.
BBC Radio 2 was also doing a minute-by-minute account of everything, playing music that was played on the ship in the same order (thereabouts) with details about what was going on and when, and who. But again, they did it based on BST. It was interesting, especially since it lined up with the real time Twitter, but it's totally wrong time wise.
But at the same time, it did mean I could "experience" it "as it happened" as I'll very much be going to bed whilst it's happening. It's a shame that's the case, but ah well.
DrForester, love your Iceberg account though haha. Sucks that the different Twitter accounts have screwed things up for you
BBC Radio 2 was also doing a minute-by-minute account of everything, playing music that was played on the ship in the same order (thereabouts) with details about what was going on and when, and who. But again, they did it based on BST. It was interesting, especially since it lined up with the real time Twitter, but it's totally wrong time wise.
But at the same time, it did mean I could "experience" it "as it happened" as I'll very much be going to bed whilst it's happening. It's a shame that's the case, but ah well.
DrForester, love your Iceberg account though haha. Sucks that the different Twitter accounts have screwed things up for you
Cjdamon042
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Was exactly the tweet I wanted to see haha when I first discovered the Iceberg Twitter. It's perfect xD
Perfect! :lol
Just got back from seeing it with the wife and kids. I wanted to take the wife on a date, but we couldn't find a babysitter, so we just hauled them along for a second showing; neither protested.
I love this movie so much. But I think this was my last theatrical viewing; 20th time overall (17 on the initial run, 3 on the re-release), and on the anniversary of the sinking.
I'm also done watching movies in this fucking town (Saint Helens, Oregon). On both of my last viewings there were people just over my right shoulder who would not shut the fuck up for anything. Action scene? They're talking. Quiet scene? They're talking. Jack's dying? They're living it up. Last time it was a couple of kids, this time a pair of senile old ladies I very nearly got up and yelled at; my wife was holding onto my arm to keep me from getting up and confronting them. No amount of shushing did squat. Fuck you people for using theaters as your personal living room. [/rant]
17 times initially? Wow... I only saw it once in 1997, but I was 11 at the time so getting to the theater was a bit difficult. I've seen it 3 times in the rerelease already. Might try and go two more times
Oh yes, DrForester... @HistoryChannel is doing the live tweet too.
Oh yes, DrForester... @HistoryChannel is doing the live tweet too.
17 times initially? Wow... I only saw it once in 1997, but I was 11 at the time so getting to the theater was a bit difficult. I've seen it 3 times in the rerelease already. Might try and go two more times
Oh yes, DrForester... @HistoryChannel is doing the live tweet too.
Yeah. It came out at just the right time for me. I was out of high school one year, just starting to recover from my first break up, on my own and had money and time on hand. The film clicked with me hard and I went basically once a week for nearly the duration of its run in my town; opening night, its final showing, and in between.
I regret nothing.
DrForester
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17 times initially? Wow... I only saw it once in 1997, but I was 11 at the time so getting to the theater was a bit difficult. I've seen it 3 times in the rerelease already. Might try and go two more times
Oh yes, DrForester... @HistoryChannel is doing the live tweet too.
OK who's correct on the timing? I know the 11:40 was ship time. I was surprised when that first one hit, being it was the most popular one and got a lot of press, figured they'd be on top of it. The RMS Titanic one was pretty close, right?
RMS_Titanic_Inc should be the closest.
DrForester
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Really... How can that be, they're on eastern time right now. Titanic wasn't on New York time when she was hit, was she?
Hmm, you're right. Then History Channel one is correct.
DrForester
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AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
DrForester
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Now I'm just tempted to ask "How many assholes we got in this ocean anyways"
XDD oh god
The TitanicIceberg account has been so damn funny. Picked up 300 followers too; it was at 250 just a few hours ago.
bwahahaha do it
bwahahaha do it
DrForester
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I did it...
And yeah, the followers has doubled in the past few hours, it's been neat.
faceless007
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So apparently there's a 4-part TV miniseries drama about Titanic airing tonight. Watching it now. Seems to be playing up the class differences with as much subtlety as Cameron and focusing more on the servants (but this is only 20 minutes in).
VeryGooster
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The Julian Fellowes miniseries. Apparently it got mixed reviews. I may just snag the Blu-ray because of my love for Downton Abbey.
I just saw this tweeted by the NY Daily News:
"Human remains possibly found in Titanic shipwreck"
They're images from 2004 but apparently made public for the first time. The funny thing is I came across it as I was reading Lifeboat No. 8. $2 for Kindle for the curious.
http://amzn.to/ICv7dQ
I'm not far in, but there is an interesting look at the relationships of the wireless operators in the beginning.
DrForester
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Andrews was probably my favorite performance in the film. Guy was just great.
The Julian Fellowes miniseries. Apparently it got mixed reviews. I may just snag the Blu-ray because of my love for Downton Abbey.
I just saw this tweeted by the NY Daily News:
"Human remains possibly found in Titanic shipwreck"
They're images from 2004 but apparently made public for the first time. The funny thing is I came across it as I was reading Lifeboat No. 8. $2 for Kindle for the curious.
http://amzn.to/ICv7dQ
I'm not far in, but there is an interesting look at the relationships of the wireless operators in the beginning.
I think it's very obvious those are where a human body fell to the ocean floor. The outline of the coat and shoes make that clear. This isn't the first either... there are other published images of shoes in a "human" position found lying on the bottom.
cloud_sleep
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So Cameron now has 2 movies in the $2billion club? Must be lonely in there.
Saw the 3d version of this a couple of days ago. The 3D was pretty amazing for a conversion, although I thought the only parts that added anything worthwhile to the film were the hallway shots during the sinking, the increased depth adding the foreboding atmosphere.
It was about 10 years since I had seen the film so I had forgotten large chunks of it so ti was great to rediscover it on the big screen. I still really love this movie. The drama of the sinking is still so good that I can easily forgive the clumsy dialogue in the 1st half. I think it's brilliant how Cameron uses Jack and Rose to take the audience on a tour of the ship as it goes down. Also, the new sky was pretty cool. Wonder if Tyson has seen it?
Saw the 3d version of this a couple of days ago. The 3D was pretty amazing for a conversion, although I thought the only parts that added anything worthwhile to the film were the hallway shots during the sinking, the increased depth adding the foreboding atmosphere.
It was about 10 years since I had seen the film so I had forgotten large chunks of it so ti was great to rediscover it on the big screen. I still really love this movie. The drama of the sinking is still so good that I can easily forgive the clumsy dialogue in the 1st half. I think it's brilliant how Cameron uses Jack and Rose to take the audience on a tour of the ship as it goes down. Also, the new sky was pretty cool. Wonder if Tyson has seen it?
There was a show in History International last night about the Nazi propaganda Titanic movie. Apparently, they reused a few scenes from the Nazi movie for A Night to Remember. It was an interesting special.
The Anti-Monitor
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Watched it again on the cinema, I didn't think I liked it as much.
DiCaprio <3
DiCaprio <3
That's just terrible.
I think one of the most intense facts I know about the titanic was that it sunk in less than three hours.
It takes me at least one bottle of wine, and several glasses of Gin, drunk slowly.
That probably takes me 2 hrs, of drinking. Then I have to make sure the girl I love has had a proper shower, then I do.
But when I do go down, it's so musky. And I gag.
It takes me at least one bottle of wine, and several glasses of Gin, drunk slowly.
That probably takes me 2 hrs, of drinking. Then I have to make sure the girl I love has had a proper shower, then I do.
But when I do go down, it's so musky. And I gag.
What the fuck?
Just got in from seeing it. Had purposely held off until the anniversary of the sinking before seeing it. Before the movie started, an usher actually walked to the front and informed those not in the know that today was the 100th anniversary, which was kind of neat. I hadn't watched the movie since a few years after it's release. Probably around 2000 was the last time I saw it, so in many ways, this was a fresh experience for me.
Great movie. All of it. I don't subscribe to this tale-of-two-halfs stuff going around. Like all Cameron movies, the dialogue is pretty basic and cliche, but I still feel he does a great job carving out characters. I loved the smaller love story in the first half and was blown away by the spectacle in the second half. There are some incredibly emotionally affecting scenes in this movie that blow away anything Cameron has done before or since. His direction was really in top form here. By the time it got to that final scene with the applause, I felt like I had run the gauntlet of emotion from awe to funny to touching to sad to uplifting. I definitely loved it a lot more than I did when I first saw it 15 years ago.
Great movie. All of it. I don't subscribe to this tale-of-two-halfs stuff going around. Like all Cameron movies, the dialogue is pretty basic and cliche, but I still feel he does a great job carving out characters. I loved the smaller love story in the first half and was blown away by the spectacle in the second half. There are some incredibly emotionally affecting scenes in this movie that blow away anything Cameron has done before or since. His direction was really in top form here. By the time it got to that final scene with the applause, I felt like I had run the gauntlet of emotion from awe to funny to touching to sad to uplifting. I definitely loved it a lot more than I did when I first saw it 15 years ago.
SCULLIBUNDO
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SCULLIBUNDO
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So my IMAX held a 100th Anniversary Event Screening.
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