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.
That RealTime one is way early. Follow @RMS_Titanic_Inc
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.
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.
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.
Now I'm just tempted to ask "How many assholes we got in this ocean anyways"
Now I'm just tempted to ask "How many assholes we got in this ocean anyways"
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
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).
There's a lot of duplicate scenes between A Night to Remember and 1997's Titanic... probably the one that gets me the most is "Aren't you willing to make a try for it, Mr. Andrews?"
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.
A Night to Remember is on TCM right now.
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.
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.